Interesting idea, there certainly is a bewildering range of reports to choose from :-)
Alternatively, I could dig into writing my own report, I know scheme fairly well, so I guess that should be doable as well. /Christian > Den 21. jan. 2020 kl. 16.47 skrev Christopher Lam <[email protected]>: > > > On Tue, 21 Jan 2020 at 15:39, Christian Lynbech <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > It does seem as if the balance sheet contains all the information I need, > however have I understood it correctly that one only specifies a single date > (as opposed to an interval)? In other words, does the balance sheet always > produce the accumulated result from the beginning of the book to the selected > date? There is another report called Equity Statement that works on periods > and while it has the end result, it lacks all of the individual account > details that the balance sheet has. > > Try the income statement (aka profit and loss) instead. > > Or try the multicolumn balance-sheet (can display balances at several date) > or profit-and-loss instead in the experimental reports menu. Keep exploring ;) > > Somewhat related to this, I am also still struggling to figure out to handle > the equity. On the Balance Sheet, I see the equity sum and the result, but > the two are not combined. Are there any alternative to closing the book or do > some manual transaction to get equity rebalanced? > > Let me try to provide an example. > > In year 1, I put 1000 into the company which is added to the equity > sub-account “Founder Deposit”, the company buys a computer for 100 and does > some work that pays 200. On the Balance Sheet for year 1, this is listed as > equity of 1000 and result (income - expense) of 100. Lets say the company in > year 2 also does work that pays 200, how do I handle that year 2 starts with > equity of 1100, rather than equity of 1000 and a result of 100? I can move > the result to equity by closing the book, but is there any report that takes > this into account without actually doing the close? > > Income statement from the beginning of year 2 to the end of year 2. Income > statements *don't* contain equity items (someone prove me wrong?). _______________________________________________ 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.
