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Go to Reports -> General Ledger -> Profit/Loss Report.

This option prints a profit and loss report. Many different options are available depending on your company set-up and chart of accounts.

Period End Date:
Enter the period end date. The general ledger must be updated for this period. See GENERAL LEDGER UPDATE.

Department:
This option only appears if you have multiple departments defined. See Utilities - Departments.
Select the departments to report on. The default is "All Departments".

Branch:
This option only appears if you have multiple brances defined. See Utilities - Branches.
Select the branches to report on. The default is "All Branches".

Report Columns:
Select the report columns you want, either MTD/YTD only or MTD/YTD with LYTD or you can print a spreadsheet type report, showing one set of columns for each month.

Print Budgets?:
You can include budget figures on your report, you can also produce a report showing budget figures only. When budget and actual figures are reported the system automatically includes the variance and percentage achieved columns.

Print Subtypes?:
This option only appears if you have account subtypes defined. See Utilities - Codes.
Select "Yes" to show subtype headings.
Select "Summary" to show subtype totals while suppressing individual accounts.
Subtypes don't print by default.

Print Departments?:
This option only appears if you have departments defined.
Select "Separate P&L's" to have the system produce a separate report for each department. Each department will automatically start on a new page.
Select "Totals Only" to have the system produce a report showing one line only per department, ie: profit & loss for each department is reported on a single line.
The default (Normal) produces a report including all departments reported together under their relevant income/expense headings.

Print Branches?:
This option only appears if you have branches defined.
Select "Separate P&L's" to have the system produce a separate report for each branch. Each branch will automatically start on a new page.
Select "Totals Only" to have the system produce a report showing one line only per branch, ie: profit & loss for each branch is reported on a single line.
The default (Normal) produces a report including all branches reported together under their relevant income/expense headings.

Consolidate Accounts?:
By default all accounts are reported separately.
Your system may be configured with sub and master accounts. See GL Account Maintenance (GL Account Details) for details about setting up master accounts.

Master accounts are usually structured one of two different ways.
You may have sub-accounts defined like Wages where you have multiple wages accounts and specify one of them as the master account. When you consolidate accounts the wages will show as one figure.
Alternatively you may have sub-accounts defined for various departments/cost-centres so that when the consolidated report is run the system produces one figure for each cost-centre rather than individual department.

Include Zeros:
Enter "Yes" to include zero balances, these are suppressed by default.

Output Device:
Select the output device for the report. See Creating Reports - General Comments for details.

Run Report.

General Ledger balances are not updated from subsidiary modules until the GENERAL LEDGER UPDATE has been processed for the selected period.
Profit/Loss and Retained Earnings figures are updated via Year End Processing.

This report includes the Saved Reports feature.