On 12/28/2022 6:38 AM, David Long wrote:
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?
Best done outside of gnucash (*)
Wearing my old senior business analyst hat (that a s well as senior
systems analyst) I will ask you a question (the client will know the
answer and understand the issue IF asked the right question.
When you say "compare two years' P&L side by side" do you mean "compare
this year's with last years AS LAST YEAR'S WAS DONE (the
"published"data" or do you mean "compare this year's with a rerun last
year's so changes in the CoA won't exist and things will line up
properly."(but this new "last year's" will NOT necessarily match the
original "last year's" when that last year's was the then "this year's")
OK, assume that every year you run a YE P&L report and export it. OR you
could just have saved in gnucash). You want a "something" that could be
told to take two of these and from them produce that side by side
comparison report. Isn't that easier to do with two exported reports and
your favorite editor rather than asking for an editing program to be
written. And no big deal to add to it "and allow me to annotate an
unusual amount" or "add fixed text and company logo to top", etc. etc.
etc. If a program doing the editing you need to request an enhancement
each time. And how to deal with the fact that in b=general will NOT
"line up" perfectly because the CoA and have changed a bit since the
previous year and a human decision how to handle needed for each mismatch.
Michael D Novack
(*) How I was told to do it by an experienced accountant on the board in
spite of the fact that I was a retired professional fluent in many
computer languages including LISP (SCHEME is a LISP dialect)
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