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The Profit & Loss report makes it easy to review your business performance. You can see what's contributing the most to your bottom line, and the areas of your business that could be performing better.
You can also compare this year's results to the previous year, to see if there are any improvements. And if you've set up a budget, you can see if you've achieved what you expected.
What’s with the tag? Any feature that has a Beta tag simply means we’ll continue building upon and improving your experience, based on your feedback. So let us know what you like and dislike, or what would make the new profit & loss report awesome for your business.
View the profit & loss report
Go to the Reports page and click Profit & Loss.
In the From and To fields, enter the period you want to review.
From the Breakdown field, select whether you want to view the results for each month, quarter (if the report spans more than 3 months) or year (if the period spans more than 12 months), or the total results for the period you selected. In the example, below the Quarterly option has been selected. As the report covers two quarters, these are shown separately, and the Total column shows the combined values for the two quarters.
You can customise the report to show more information. You can:
compare this year's results to last year by clicking the Last Year checkbox. The report will show the variance with last year, in both dollar and percentage terms.
compare your results to a budget that's for the period you're reviewing, click the Budget checkbox and then select the budget you want to compare from the drop-down list. The report will show the variance in both dollar and percentage terms.
display the report as a bar or line graph by clicking the bar graph or line graph buttons. See the section below for more information about the charts.
Chart the profit & loss report
Sometimes it's easier to review the profit & loss report when viewed as a chart. You can choose to display the report as a bar graph or a line graph.
Follow the steps in the procedure above to display the profit & loss report.
Choose the chart you want to display (depending on what you've selected in the Breakdown menu, the report will display different levels of detail).
Bar graph: Use this option when you want to compare figures for each month, quarter, year or the total.
Line graph: Use this option when you want to see how a category has changed over time.
By default, the graph will display the Total Income results. You can change this to a different category, or click the + Add item button to add up to two more categories to compare side by side, such as Total Expenses and Net Profit.
Hover over the bars, or line points to see the dollar value.
if you want to see how the cumulative effect of your results over time, click the Cumulative option. (Note that depending on the Breakdown you selected and the period range this might not have any effect on the chart).
In the example below, you can see how selecting the cumulative option changes the information that's presented. The first chart shows that there was no income generated in June 2016, while the cumulative graph, shows that by June 2016 the income generated for the reported period was $23,000.
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