[GNC] How to generate Budget V Actual Report for Profit and Loss

[David Long]

Thanks Adrien for your reply.  I have also been trying to produce a report
showing this year's P&L compared with previous. I tried the multi column
reports, but the descriptions repeat and the rows do not line up.

Reporting Actual V Budget and prior years is pretty standard in an
accounting system, and whilst I love GnuCash, it's an area not covered well.

Should I be asking for an enhancement?

regards

David


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Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2022 20:34:12 -0600

From: Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net>

To: gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org

Subject: Re: [GNC] How to generate Budget V Actual Report for Profit

                and Loss

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You are correct.



The current work-around is to finish off in a spreadhseet to add the
missing Net Income calculation.



Adding the Actual (and Variance) to the Budget Income/P&L version would be
nice. (percentages would be awesome too!)



I'm not sure that it is necessary for the basic Budget Report as that can
also show other types of accounts and in such context, a Net Income might
not be useful or meaningful.



Regards,

Adrien



On 12/23/22 1:51 PM, davidvernonlong at gmail.com wrote:

> I am trying to report an income statement showing actual against budget.

>

> If I select an Income Statement report or a Profit and Loss statement

> report I see the actuals for the period , but not the budget.

>

> If I select Budget Income Statement Report or Budget Profit and Loss

> statement report I see the budget but no actuals.

>

> If I select " budget Report" and then under "options" I select only

> the Income and expense reports, then I see both budges and actuals,

> the Total Expenses and the Total Income, but I cannot find a way of

> see the net income/loss Total on that report ( being total income less
expenses).

>

> At the moment my workaround is to copy paste to Excel