If the reports are getting some attention now, I'll note that there are a number of minor bugs in Bugzilla regarding reports that could use attention. I put in 773168, 773169, 773198, 773199, and 773200, which are all pretty superficial, IMHO, and might be despatched by someone with any skill set all (I am unfortunately not that person).
David On January 10, 2019, at 7:33 AM, Christopher Lam <christopher....@gmail.com> wrote: Thanks for the interest in reports. I'd like to take opportunity to explain current state of code. Examples of duplication: - html-barchart, html-linechart, html-scatter, html-pie have a lot of duplicated code; there's a pending work for merging the charting infrastructure into a universal one, and also upgrading from jqplot to chartjs (responsive and animated). this is not frozen yet. Pending work - transaction.scm may receive a CSV export function. see last commit at https://github.com/christopherlam/gnucash/commits/maint-export-csv/gnucash/report/standard-reports/transaction.scm for anyone wishing to experiment. - multicolumn balsheet is still pending and requires cleanup Future work - if reconciliation report gets a lot of attention and refinements it may be spun off into a separate file like income-gst-statement.scm. - a header for reconciliation report is not difficult, but the determination of 'starting and ending balance' for the header is *difficult* - I'd like to mimic the formal reconciliation tool but I'm not sure how it calculates the balances. - organising removal of unused old code On Thu, 10 Jan 2019 at 05:53, David Cousens <davidcous...@bigpond.com> wrote: > Steve, > > I would like to add to Adrien's concerns. The reports are for more than an > accountant or a bookkeeper. Many people using GnuCash are managing personal > finances, investments, not for profits, small businesses etc and while they > may need the basic standard accounting reports (balance sheet, income > statement, transaction, cash flow etc.), they also need to have reports > which give them information which is more related to managing those > activities and sometimes they also need to dig deeper into the information. > > We need to remember that the options that are there have grown out of user > requests for reports outside the basic reports and/or the need for more or > different information. > > An additional concern is perhaps that many users have produced customized > reports based on the standardized reports. I don't know to what extent > these > are standalone, but if changes in the underlying report affect the derived > reports then we will hear screams and gnashing of teeth from the user base. > > GnuCash is also widely used in many jurisdictions and reporting > requirements > and standards and practice can vary in more than just language and date > formats. Fortunately there is a strong international push for financial > reporting standards (IFRS) led by the IASB. The FASB in the US is moving > the > GAAP towards agreement/compliance with the IFRS, and is a major participant > in the IASB, but has not yet adopted the IFRS as the basis of its internal > standards. Many European countries and others adopt the IFRS standards with > local variation on top to meet legislative requirements in corporate law, > consumer legislation etc as well as local practices. > > https://www.ifrs.org/use-around-the-world/use-of-ifrs-standards-by-jurisdiction/#analysis > has a comlete breakdown of the current position. > > David Cousens > > > > ----- > David Cousens > -- > Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-Dev-f1435356.html > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
