# Reports And Charts

This section is a work in process all of the material has not been reviewed for V2.0. While it may not be strictly accurate, it is at least a "guide".

Reports and Charts give &app; the ability to present an overview of financial data in various ways. This can range from a simple summary of account totals to an advanced portfolio view. This section will present an explanation of the main &app; reports and how to adjust them.

&app; has classified the main types of reports into four major classes. These are all available under the Reports menu.

## General Reports

The General Reports include the Account Summary Report, Custom Reports, the Tax Schedule Report and TXF Export, and the Transaction Report and also the reports in the Sample & Custom menu.

- Account Summary:

- Tax Schedule Report and TXF Export: The tax schedule report lists all taxable income and deductible expense amounts used in the preparation of US Income Tax returns. The purpose of the report is to provide a complete audit trail for these amounts. The report is intended to be used by a tax payer to manually prepare his or her own tax return, or alternatively, to be provided to a tax preparer for that purpose. The report can also be used to generate an export of all tax related income and expenses to a TXF (Tax eXchange Format) file (this is in addition to exporting to the HTML format that all reports allow). The TXF file can be imported into tax filing programs such as TaxCut or TurboTax. The report should be run, inspected carefully for errors or omissions, and then corrections made to transactions, report settings, currency conversion rates or the account structure as needed. This process should be repeated as often as needed until all the amounts on the report are correct before a final version is used and saved along with the tax returns.

  For accounts specified in the report options (none = all) that are also flagged as Tax-related, all transactions for the time period selected (also in the report options) are included. The report sorts transactions by date within account providing subtotals by account within tax code within Form or Schedule line number. Support is also provided for multiple copies of and for sub-line items for selected Forms/Schedules. Optionally uses special date processing to include federal estimated tax payments after year end.

  All totals are in USD since this is the currency required for filing US Income Tax returns. Non-USD transaction amounts are converted to USD using the transaction conversion rate to USD, if available. If not, a conversion rate from the price database is used (either the date nearest the transaction date or nearest the report date as specified in the report options; if none is available, transaction amounts are converted to zero and the report provides a comment accordingly). A complete audit trail of conversions is provided.

  For this to work, the user has to segregate taxable and non taxable income to different accounts, as well as deductible and non deductible expenses. The Income Tax Information dialog is used for this. To access the Income Tax Information dialog go to Edit Tax Report Options. The user also must set the TXF category of each tax related account. The Income Tax Information dialog is described in the section.

- Transaction Report:

- Welcome Sample Report:

- Custom Multicolumn Report: This report is used to place multiple reports into a single report window to examine a set of financial information at a glance.

- Sample Graphs

- Sample Report with Examples:

## Assets & Liabilities

The Assets & Liabilities reports includes the Balance Sheet report, Investment reports and the Net Worth report.

- Advanced Portfolio:

- Asset Barchart:

  The Asset Barchart report displays bars that present the value of all assets in a &app; file over time. By default, the report shows all accounts in Accounts Receivable, Current Assets, Fixed Assets, Investments and Special Accounts (if they exist) and it displays monthly bars for the current financial period. This report provides a graphic view of the assets in the file over time.

  Like all the generic reports, the user can assign a title and save the report with it's selected options for re-use later.

  The display is in the form of either a stacked barchart or simple barchart with an option to display a table of the values.

  This report calculates and displays a default of 8 bars or up to 24 separate asset accounts value at the end of the day on several dates through a specified time period. The report automatically selects the most significant accounts to display with all other selected accounts summed as Other.

  The report exploits the outline structure of the chart of accounts to allow the user to select top level accounts and sub-accounts down to a user-selectable depth. Selected sub-accounts below the selected depth are automatically summed up into the next level when it is also selected. The default number of sub-account levels is 2, giving a summary view. Increasing the number of sub-levels increases the detail available to display. It is possible to un-select a higher level account and leave sub-accounts selected to force greater detail to appear in the report.

  By default the report includes all asset accounts and sub-accounts, as well as Imbalance and Orphan Special accounts in whatever currencies or commodities may be present. The report's base currency is the default currency of the &app; file but if the file has data for multiple currencies, then it can be changed to another currency.

  Since each account may be individually selected, the report can be designed to focus on a small subset of data such as current assets or investments.

  The overall interval of the report defaults to start at the start of the current accounting period and to end at the end of the current accounting period. Numerous other starting choices and ending choices are available.

  The first bar shows the selected values at the end of the day on the first date chosen. There are a number of choices for step size from day to year with the default being month. Note that if any step date would fall on the 29th, 30th or 31st in a month that does not have such a date the next interval will be 31 days later. For that step only the date will slip up to 3 days into the following month. This is true for releases at least through 2.4.13. Bug 639049 is open in Bugzilla to modify this behavior.

  Currently, there is no option to start the report on the last day of any period. There is also no option to show beginning balances or end of previous step balances. This makes it difficult to correlate this report to business quarterly reports, for example.

  The Net Worth linechart report, Liability barchart report and Net Worth barchart report are similar except for the graphic type and default account groups selected.

  Other features are customizable in a manner similar to other standard reports.

- Asset Piechart:

- Average Balance:

- Balance Sheet: This report summarizes assets, liabilities, and equity. When properly maintained, assets should equal the sum of liabilities and equity. If that is not the case, there is some kind of internal imbalance in the accounts.

- General Journal:

- General Ledger:

- Investment Portfolio: This report summarizes the value of the stocks in the current portfolio.

- Liability Barchart:

- Liability Piechart:

- Net Worth Barchart: Net worth is the difference between the value of assets or liabilities.

- Net Worth Linechart: Net worth plotted over time. Net worth is the difference between the value of assets or liabilities.

- Price Scatterplot:

## Income & Expense

The Income & Expense reports includes the Cash Flow and Income Statement reports.

- Budget Report:

- Cash Flow:

- Equity Statement:

- Expense Barchart:

- Expense Piechart:

- Expense vs Day of Week:

- Income Barchart:

- Income & Expense Chart:

- Income Statement: This report summarizes sources of income and expenditure. (This report was called Profit & Loss in gnucash-1.8.)

- Income Statement:

- Income vs Day of Week:

- Trial Balance: This report summarizes sources of income and expenditure.

## Business Reports

The Business Reports includes Customer and Vendor Reports and Printable Invoices as well as Aging reports.

- Customer Report:

- Easy Invoice:

- Employee Report:

- Fancy Invoice:

- Payable Aging:

- Printable Invoice:

- Receivable Aging:

- Vendor Report:

## Customizing Reports and Graphs

&app; reports have many options for customization. First, run the original report itself. Then, access the report options with the Options button on the toolbar.

Check changed Graphic Engine Options and describe Saving Customized Reports

Many reports share similar sorts of options. Some common ones include:

- Report Name: Set the title of the report. This is also used to print the report for later viewing.

- Date Options: Reports typically specify either a single date, or a date range, for the report. Dates can be specified in two ways, either directly (using the date selector), or by selecting a relative date from the menu. Relative dates allow you to specify dates like Beginning of this year or Today.

- Step Size: This option is used on bar charts to determine the interval which each bar represents. Typical values are daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly.

- Accounts: Select the appropriate accounts for the report. Note that in some reports only certain types of accounts can be selected. For example, an expense piechart only allows expense accounts to be selected.

- Show Long Account Names: This option allows displaying either short account names (for example, Power) or long account names (for example, Utilities:Power).

- Include Subaccounts?: Summary reports typically have an include all subaccounts option, which if selected ensures that all subaccounts are included if the parent account is.

- Depth: This option allows the selection of how many levels the report displays subaccounts. If the subaccounts go deeper than selected, an overall value for all the subaccounts is calculated and included in a total. To make sure every account selected is individually displayed, select All.

- Style Sheet: Select a Style Sheet. Style sheets control how reports are displayed. At the moment, there are four style sheets: Default, Easy, Footer and Technicolor. You can customize each of these from the Edit Style Sheets... menu item. This is described in the Changing Style Sheets section.

- Plot Dimensions: There are width and height options for most graphs, which specify the displayed dimensions (in pixels).

- Report Currency: Select the report currency. Generally, values will be converted to this currency for display.

- Price Source: Select how stock and currency prices are calculated in this report. Choose between a weighted average of prices over all transactions, prices at current values, or prices at the time of the report date.

- Totals: Charts display totals in the chart legend if this option is selected.

- Maximum Slices: Controls the maximum number of slices displayed in a piechart - other accounts will be placed in a slice marked Other.

- Maximum Bars: Controls the maximum number of bars displayed in a barchart.

- Display Columns: Choose columns to show from the register.

## Printing or Exporting Reports and Graphs

Verify !!! How customize printing with Gnome?

&app; is able to print reports and to export the reports to HTML (web) pages. The Print &app; Document dialog is accessed from the Print button on the Toolbar or go to File Print in the menu. To Export a report to a web page (HTML) select the Export button on the Toolbar and type in a file name.

The Print &app; Document dialog is used to select which Printer to send the print job to or to print to a File. It also contains a Preview button to view the document before printing. Press Print to send the job to the selected printer or Cancel to dismiss the Print dialog.

Printing from an open register prints the Account Report, which is also called the Register Report. This lists transactions in the account with a total. Other reports print as viewed in the Report screen.

## Creating Reports and Graphs

This section may need updating !!!

It is possible to write reports if the current ones are not suitable. To do this you will need to know Scheme (a LISP-like programming language), and it is an excellent idea to have a copy of the &app; source code available.

The reporting interface is documented in the source code file `src/report/report-system/doc/report-html.txt`. The file `src/report/utility-reports/hello-world.scm` in the &app; source distribution provides a good example of how reports are developed.

It is also necessary to access data from the engine to get information for your report. This is performed by a set of Scheme wrapper functions that are documented in the file `src/g-wrap/gnc.html`. Examine some of the other reports in src/scm/report for an indication of how they are used.

At present, reports are produced by calling a HTML-generation API, which outputs a dialect of HTML and rendering this with a HTML widget. This has limitations, particularly when trying to align objects precisely, as might be necessary for printing onto pre-printed invoices for example.