This report can be used to generate the company’s year-end income statement as well as profitability as each money transaction from the bank account gets assigned to a category.
To access this report, go to Reports > Accounting > General Ledger
Report Filters
- Chart of Account: Choose “All” to view all chart of accounts in the report or choose a specific chart of account from the list.
- Account Type: Choose “All” to view all account types or choose a specific account type. (e.g.: If you want to report on all of your expense accounts, choose ‘Expense’ from this list.)
- Accounting: You can generate the General Ledger Report for two types of accounting: cash basis or accrual basis.
For US firms, this setting will default to Cash basis, for Canadian firms, this will default to Accrual basis. You can override your default accounting method under Setup > Firm Settings > Accounting.
- Date Range: The date range options you have are All Dates, Last Month, Last Year, This Month, This Year. You can override the date range via the from/to boxes to the right.
Report Printing Options
Include accounts with zero activity: Checking this option will include those accounts which had no activity in the range selected. This is unchecked by default.
View/Download
Click View to preview the report or to download, select the preferred format (Excel/pdf) and click Download.
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Sample Report
