[GNC] "Comparative" reports?

[NoobAlice]

On 2023-07-19 07:00 PM, Simon Roberts wrote:
> They raised a question; Is there a built in mechanism for "comparative"
> reporting? For example, showing income from Jan 1 to date, alongside income
> over the same months in the previous year?

In GnuCash 5.1 (not sure when feature first showed up, but I think it 
was recent), you can do this for nice divisions such as year, half-year, 
quarter, month, 2-weeks, and week.

Reports > Income & Expense > Income Statement (Multicolumn)
or
Reports > Assets & Liabilities > Balance Sheet (Multicolumn)

In Options > top tab General, choose Period Duration of how you want the 
info split, then choose start and end dates appropriately.

For example, if you choose Half Year with Start Jan 1 2021 and End Dec 
31 2023, it will show you columns for the six months ending on / as of date:
2021 June 30
2021 Dec 31
2022 June 30
2022 Dec 31
2023 June 30
2023 Dec 31 - though this one won't have much activity yet!

It is an excellent pair of reports.

You can of course paste them into a spreadsheet program and remove 
whatever columns you don't find useful :)

If you want some odd period that doesn't line up with your fiscal year 
like February 23 - April 5, then you'll have to run separate reports and 
not use these nice ones.

Enjoy!
NoobAlice