I've been thinking about how reports are structured and created. I'm not an accountant, but I have worked in a financial office. The accounting package had some interesting features to support report creation, and I'd like to see some of the adopted for gnucash:
1) Row structure was specified separately from column structure. There were two basic row structure domains: asset/balance sheet structures and income/expense/profit structures. The structure allows you to insert headings/subtotals and accounts. 2) To create a report, you take a row structure and then specify columns for different dates. As an example, I can set up how I want my income statement structured as far as what headings/accounts/subtotals there. I can then set up a number of columns (e.g. monthly, quarterly, ...). I can think of reasons for setting up a report row structure differently than just the normal account hierarchy (I might want a report putting certain accounts in non-discretionary and discretionary subtotals which I might not want to include in the hierarchy. Does this fit into the (potential) new report structure of html with embedded scheme? Phil _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
