If you look at any of the reports with the word Chart in their name you will find that they chart values over time, which is what you want. You get a pretty chart as a bonus. Depending on your account structure it may be easy or not to include the accounts that you want.
On Sun, Sep 3, 2023 at 2:34 PM Michael or Penny Novack < stepbystepf...@comcast.net> wrote: > On 9/3/2023 2:43 PM, Paras Desai wrote: > > Hi Ken > > > > Thanks for your kind reply and efforts in explaining a way. > > > > Apparently, it appears that there is no alternative but to run reports > on two dates and compare or do some analysis. > > > > Any reports comparing two period is a desirable thing in finance and > accounting, may it be personal accounting. > > > > Thanks > > > > Paras > > You are quite correct, comparing two periods is desirable. > > What perhaps is confusing you is "a report" vs "comparing two runs of > that report". Yes of course, there COULD be a report Y that compared two > X reports. But there are some good reasons where that might best be done > "outside". There might quite possibly be the need for some human > decision making. I'll give a different report as an example (but one > where "as of date A" is commonly compared to "as of date B") > > Consider the Balance Sheet report. We are suggesting that to produce a > report comparing "as of date A" with "as of date B" you rut the two > reports, export, bring into a spreadsheet or something else you can > edit, and there produce the final report. Why? Why not an automatically > generated report? Well IF there is a one to one correspondence of > accounts "as of date A" vs "as of date B" this would be simple << you > can imagine a new report in gnucash called "Compare Balance Sheets" to > which you would supply two dates >> But what if the CoA "as of date A" > does NOT correspond 1:1 to the CoA "as of date B"? Accounts could have > been added, accounts could have been deleted, accounts could have > changed names, etc. You expect a computer (even with a pretty good AI > application) to be able to figure out what has happened and to line > things up properly? > > Situation 1: Account A present at date 1, absent at date 2, while > account B present at date 2 not present at date 2. > > Situation 2: No actual change except account A was renamed account B > > As a human bookkeeper, you know which happened (hopefully you remember) > > Michael D Novack > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > -- David Carlson _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
