[GNC] Wacky idea

[rsbrux]

As an alternative, you could export your reports as HTML.
This will give you better control over the formatting and the resulting reports can be navigated by hyperlinks.  I am not sure hyperlinks work in a PDF export.
Kind Regards, Roger
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Unless your accountant is familiar w/ GnuCash, they usually don't want to
> learn another program.
> However, you mentioned you give then your report on paper. Why not just get
> them a PDF copy? You eliminate the physical copy and they don't have to
> worry about loading GnuCash.
> 
> On Sat, Jan 28, 2023 at 3:38 PM Simon Roberts <
> simon at dancingcloudservices.com> wrote:
> 
>> I'm aware I could work this out for myself, but it could involve a lot of
>> wasted time if the answer is no, and this list might have a quick answer
>> either way.
>> 
>> At some point, I'll need to submit my books to my CPA. They'll take the
>> usual reports (general ledger, trial balance, stuff like that) on paper,
>> but is seems that GNC is not that hard to navigate around, and it might be
>> worth giving them, or offering them at least, a "live" set of books along
>> with GNC to interact with them.
>> 
>> I envisage burning a CDROM with the books, and a Windows distribution of
>> GNC, hopefully so they can simply put the disk in and click to run.
>> Obviously, the books will be read-only in that event, but they'd be
>> navigable.
>> 
>> Has anyone tried this? Is such an installation a possibility? (I'm a Linux
>> user, and it's not unusual to run software that's just "sitting around in a
>> directory tree", but such is not always possible in windows, so that alone
>> might prevent this.).
>> 
>> Anyway, if anyone has thoughts or relevant experience, I'd be pleased to
>> hear from you.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Simon
> 
>> I envisage burning a CDROM with the books, and a Windows distribution
>> of GNC, hopefully so they can simply put the disk in and click to run.
>> Obviously, the books will be read-only in that event, but they'd be
>> navigable.
>> 
>> Has anyone tried this? Is such an installation a possibility? (I'm a
>> Linux user, and it's not unusual to run software that's just "sitting
>> around in a directory tree", but such is not always possible in
>> windows, so that alone might prevent this.).
> 
> 
> I do it, and the year I didn't provide the .exe file I got asked for
> it. That was related to Covid lockdown and sending the files
> electronically, instead of my usual CD-ROM
> 
> 
> Liz
>