Books includes 11 standard reports grouped into Financial Statements, Detail Reports, Summary Reports, Management Reports, and Review Reports. Each one supports date-range filtering and can be exported as PDF or Excel. There's also an "Accountant Package" that bundles the seven accountant-flagged reports for any calendar year into a single ZIP download.
Available reports
Profit and Loss — Financial Statements. Revenue, expenses, and net income for the selected period.
Balance Sheet — Financial Statements. Assets, liabilities, and equity at a point in time.
Statement of Owner's Equity — Financial Statements. Changes to equity over the period.
Trial Balance — Financial Statements. All account balances at a date, debits vs. credits.
Statement of Cash Flows — Financial Statements. Operating, investing, and financing cash movements.
General Ledger — Detail Reports. Every posting in chronological order, filterable by account.
Transaction Detail — Detail Reports. Line-by-line transaction list with payee and category, filterable by account or COA.
Account Summary — Summary Reports. Balance and activity summary per account.
Expenses by Category — Management Reports. Spending grouped by chart of account.
Income by Category — Management Reports. Revenue grouped by chart of account.
Uncategorized Transactions — Review Reports. Anything posted without a category — a cleanup list.
Date-range filtering
Every report supports the same date-range presets: All Dates, Today, This Week / Month / Quarter / Year, Month-to-Date, Quarter-to-Date, Year-to-Date, Last Month / Quarter / Year, and Custom Range (pick your own from/to dates).
If you open a report without setting filters, it defaults to Year-to-Date.
Exports
Each report has three export buttons: Print, PDF, and Excel. Print opens a print-optimized HTML view in a new tab. PDF generates a PDF via headless Chrome. Excel downloads an XLSX file.
Filenames follow the pattern: "{Company} - {Report} - {YYYY-MM-DD}.{ext}". Every export is logged in the audit system — user, report, filters, IP, and timestamp.
The Accountant Package
For year-end work or sharing with your accountant, the Reports section has an Accountant Package link. Pick a calendar year and click download — you'll get a ZIP containing all seven accountant-flagged reports for that year as individual PDFs. Saves clicking through and exporting each one separately.
Filters on individual reports
General Ledger and Transaction Detail can be filtered by specific accounts and chart-of-account lines. Other reports use the date range only.
What reports do not do
There is no "Spending by Payee" or "1099 Payee" report. Payees are tracked on transactions but reports aggregate by category, not by payee.
There is no Transaction Volume chart report (monthly bar chart of transaction counts).
There is no period-comparison feature (e.g., "this month vs. last month"). To compare, run the same report twice with different date ranges.
There is no saved report view feature. Filters reset between visits — re-enter them each time, or re-use the export filenames as a record.
There is no scheduled report delivery (e.g., monthly P&L email).
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I compare this year to last year?
Run the same report twice — once with This Year, once with Last Year — and compare the exports side by side. There's no built-in compare mode.
Why don't I see a 1099 report?
1099 vendor tracking isn't built into Books. Payees are stored on transactions but there's no 1099-specific report or tax-form generation.
Can I save my report filters?
Not within Books. Re-enter the date range each time, or save the exported file as your record of how that report was built.
What's in the Accountant Package ZIP?
Seven reports as PDFs: P&L, Balance Sheet, Statement of Owner's Equity, Trial Balance, Statement of Cash Flows, General Ledger, and Transaction Detail — all for the selected calendar year.
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