I don't think anyone is disputing the purpose of those reports in
standard financial accounting and why they are constructed in a
particular fashion.
The use case here appears to be something in the realm of Managerial
Accounting where you look at similarly styled reports using a subset of
transactions for the purposes of evaluating performance of a particular
'job' or 'department/subsidiary/cost-revenue enter'.
The OPs specific case is wanting to see if for each club meeting, their
expenses are staying within their dues collected for it. There are of
course other ways to determine this than a P&L/Income Statement.
The filterable P&L is likely the one most needed for a small business.
There have been many a thread on this list discussing these use cases.
A subset-style Balance Sheet would really only be usable for a more
complicated larger business entity that should more than likely be using
other software. (and/or dividing the sub-entities into their own books)
Regards,
Adrien
On 7/27/26 6:10 PM, David Cousens wrote:
The whole purpose of a Balance sheet ( a standard accounting report) is
to present the balance state of the specified accounts at a specific
point in time.
Of necessity they include the sums of all debit and credit transactions
from when the books were opened until the selected date for all Asset
Liability and Equity accounts excepting the temporary Income and
Expense accounts. They also include any subaccounts although subaccount
results may not necessarily be shown depending on the level selected
for display in the preferences.
Any filtering of transactions will invalidate the purpose of that
report.
Similarly the P&L report is a standard accounting report. It also
necessarily includes all transactions to all income and expense
accounts for the entity. Changing that could invalidate its use in
statutory reporting.
If you need something else then create a custom report.
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