On 1/5/2020 1:46 PM, Bill Dika wrote:
What would it cost for someone to create a comparative income statement report
comparing this period to the corresponding period last year?
I am willing to pay if it is not too much. The report could be included in
Gnucash and released under the GPL v3 or later.
If this is not the correct list to ask for this, please direct me to where I
might find someone willing to prepare this.
Thanks.
Bill Dika
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It is the right place to ask, but let me first give the advice I
received when I first took over as treasurer for a 501(c)3 << it is
NORMAL for the "Statement of Revenue and Expenses"* of a non-profit to
be presented that way, at least the annual one >>
At the time a recently retired very senior systems analyst, able to at
least read LISP (scheme is a LISP dialect) I asked the lawyer/accountant
if I should code those special reports. He said "Don't bother Mike. Just
run the raw reports, export them, and then bring that data in under
control of your favorite full power editor. It's what any experienced
accountant would choose to do. That's because you will STILL have
editing to do" << add fixed text, add notations, deal with accounts not
entirely corresponding in the two periods, deal with "pretty printing",
etc. >> In other words, because STILL going to be doing editing, might
as well do that in one place, and where you have the power of a real
editor.
Try looking at the annual statements of a non-profit or two and you will
quickly see that this is what must have been done. That the report
presented matches everything else (fonts, etc.) and not the direct
output of some accounting software.
Understand? I am the sort of person who could have done this coding,
but following this advice chose not to.,
Michael D Novack
* The "Income Statement" report -- that's what a non-profit calls the
"Profit and Loss" statement (in gnucash, "Income Statement". But the
same in parallel is wanted for the Balance Statement.
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