Hi Seng, Welcome to the list. My answers are from the perspective of a long-time user, not a developer.
On Monday, 14 August 2017 16:08:05 BST seng wrote: > Hi, > > I recently let my business's bookkeeping done by Gnucash with the help of an > accountant. She is familiar with Tally (a famous accounting package used > herein India) and new to Gnucash. She feels several key/core functionality > are missing in Gnucash which are found in Tally. I'd like to know whether > they really got missed or she has trouble recognizing those features in > Gnucash. > > 1) When I tried to extract Profit and loss report for 1-4-2017 to 31- 03 > 2017, the end date automatically changes to 02/27/1899 I would note that searching for transactions between today and yesterday is always likely to give some strange results. However, someone else brought up reports defaulting to 1899 a week or two ago. I think she fixed it with a fresh install of gnucash V 2.6.17 - the root cause was never really established, so this may be a bug that needs closer investigation. > > 2)Gnu cash mixes everything in a single page, which is not correct from > accounting point of view. Profit and Loss should be disclosed separately and > Balance sheet should be disclosed separately. > > 3) Profit and loss should show income and expenditure: Balance sheet show > assets and liabilites: Hence Gnu cash is lacking this point, as far as I'm > concerned > My balance sheet and P&L reports are as your accountant suggests they should be - P&L is a report of income & expense; Balance sheet looks at assets & Liabilities, so this may be error somewhere in your report options or account set-up? > 4) If we want to know the profit for any month, we may find it difficult to > arrive at > > I think P&L can run for periods less than a year without trouble - but it sound like you have different trouble at the moment if you are seeing Assets in the P&L report. If you need further help, then reply to the list with more specific info - what does your P&L show. Also GC version and underlying operating system is always useful to know, too. HTH, Maf. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] 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.
