Nice question for a basic and most common need. > You need two reports and the standard report versions will likely do what you require: Balance Sheet, Income Statement
> You might be able to get both [current/previous period] Balance Sheet on one page with the multi report section. I have not tried that. Elsewhere Balance Sheet reports normally report previous/current periods. Has anyone successfully generated this in GnuCash rather than a spreadsheet hack? My take on OP's request is an Itemised Profit and Loss report. (Let's ignore the inconsistencies in report menus, names and headings.) This is something GnuCash can't do because the Transaction Report has a very different engine to the Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss Reports. The Transaction Report generally has more capability, things like filters, which are not available in other reports. iirc the last time I raised using a consistent report engine the developer response was the effort would be better spent completely replacing the reporting module. Open source offerings are limited. I worked through LibreOffice Base with a sqlite connection but unlike the other modules it is very undeveloped and buggy without any development resources. A nice python framework was developed but development stopped as it got to the Base module. Straight SQL might be best. Any thoughts? Alternate user-focused reporting using SQL could be developed without impacting anything currently done by GnuCash developers. Regards _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: 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.
