If I had a vote, I’d say keep one and just delete the other entirely. Even a ’see also’ is just clutter.
As to which name to keep, the easiest and likely most discoverable is “Income Statement”. Alternatively, and this would require a RFE, would be to have it named according to the Chart of Accounts created by the First Start Wizard, e.g.—non-profit orgs I believe use “Statement of Financial Performance” and a publicly traded for-profit is more likely to use “Earnings Statement”, though this is likely going to be complicated by locale due to jurisdictional requirements. Perhaps prompting the user for a desired name would work best here, with a sane default like “Income Statement.” Overall, I think the report menu needs some cleanup and re-organization, the Income/P&L issue is definitely some low hanging fruit. Regards, Adrien p.s. — adjusting for inflation from the days of real dollars and cents, your 2¢ is probably more like $1. (or more accurately, 1 bank note with the words “ONE DOLLAR” printed on it) > On Jul 11, 2018, at 7:26 PM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, 12 Jul 2018, Maf. King wrote: > >> AFAIK, it is just historical. GC shipped with a report called "P&L" but >> some people said "That's an income Statement", so it was renamed. Then >> there were howls of "Where's the P&L report gone" so the same report was >> put back in but with 2 names..... yes, they should be identical output. >> >> (Of course, it may be that the Income Statement was the original name, and >> P&L was the rename. Truly can't remember, it was years ago) > > Maf., > > Wikipedia provides a nice definition: > > "An income statement or profit and loss account (also referred to as a > profit and loss statement (P&L), statement of profit or loss, revenue > statement, statement of financial performance, earnings statement, operating > statement, or statement of operations) is one of the financial statements of > a company and shows the company’s revenues and expenses during a particular > period. It indicates how the revenues (money received from the sale of > products and services before expenses are taken out, also known as the “top > line”) are transformed into the net income (the result after all revenues > and expenses have been accounted for, also known as “net profit” or the > “bottom line”). The purpose of the income statement is to show managers and > investors whether the company made or lost money during the period being > reported." > > Perhaps the Report menu could be re-worded so that Profit & Loss entry > reads, "See Income Statement." Just my $0.10 (adjusting for inflation.) > > Thanks for your explanation, > > Rich > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
