[GNC] Gnucash Reports - Comparative Income Statement

[Bill Dika]

Hi David:

You might explore creating several 2 x 2 multi column reports with the
> individual reports embedded


Thanks. I think I already tried that but its been a while so, I think I'll
try again.

Bill

On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 1:02 AM D <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Bill,
>
> You might explore creating several 2 x 2 multi column reports with the
> individual reports embedded--one for each of your entities, with each row
> putting current and previous year in a column.  Although the multi column
> report can be picky and slow at times, it might meet your needs in this
> case.
> <
> br>
> David T.
> On Jan 9, 2020, at 10:45, Bill Dika <billdika at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Christopher Lam:
>>
>> I think this has been fixed in 3.8
>>
>>
>> Not possible with this report I'm afraid.
>>
>>
>> Thanks for the clarifications.
>>
>> Adrienne Monteleone:
>>
>> There is a comparison transaction report floating around the list from a
>>
>>>  couple of years ago.
>>
>>
>>
>> I think I have seen and tried it but could not get it to work. I am not a
>> programmer, so am unable to fix it.
>>
>>
>>  I’ll try to dig it up and test it out again.
>>>
>>
>>
>> I'd appreciate knowing if you make any progress on it.
>>
>> Budget Report as it has YTD facilities, but you’d still have to run the two
>>
>>>  periods separately and move to spreadsheet to see them together.
>>>
>>
>>
>> The traditional multi-column report might be of some utility
>>
>>
>> Good ideas, but going to a spreadsheet is not an option. I am doing monthly
>> financial statements for 5 entities and need a quick ad hoc comparison of
>> how each entity is doing from month to month and YTD this year compared to
>> YTD last year and full year this year compared to full year last year.
>> Choosing comparison start and end dates for this year and last year for the
>> report would be ideal and give me the flexibility that I am looking for.
>>
>> Michael D Novack:
>>
>>
>>  run the report ten times (once for each year) and export/print.
>>
>>
>>
>> This is way too time consuming.
>>
>> Thanks to all.
>>
>> Bill Dika CPA,CA Retired
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 10:57 AM Michael or Penny Novack <
>> stepbystepfarm at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>>  On 1/6/2020 8:16 PM, Bill Dika wrote:
>>>
>>>  michael d novack
>>>
>>>  Thanks for the reply. I agree with everything you said but I am not
>>>  looking for presentation Financial Statements. I am looking to make quick
>>>  year to year comparisons with the reporting facility in Gnucash. Having ten
>>>  years of financial data, I would like to make quick comparisons of YTD
>>>  (year to date) of this year with last year (for various years), without
>>>  exporting and massaging the presentation.
>>>
>>>  If you have NO "presentation requirements" just want to see the
>>>  data/comparison, run the report ten times (once for each year) and
>>>  export/print. Run the eleven Balance sheets and do the same. Then in each
>>>  case, you lay one sheet of paper next to the other (for that year's
>>>  comparison) and then set aside the oldest, slide sheets over, and lay in
>>>  place the next year's.
>>>
>>>
>>>  Michael D Novack
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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