Books generates the standard financial reports — Profit & Loss, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow, plus a few travel-agency-specific extras. This guide covers each.
Profit & Loss (P&L)
Also called Income Statement. Shows revenue, expenses, and net income for a period (a month, quarter, year, or custom range).
Revenue at the top (income accounts)
Expenses below (expense accounts)
Net income at the bottom (revenue minus expenses)
P&L is the report you check most often — "did I make money this month?" Group by month, quarter, or year. Compare side-by-side across periods to see trends.
Balance Sheet
A snapshot of what you OWN, OWE, and your EQUITY at a single point in time.
Assets — bank account balances, receivables, equipment
Liabilities — credit card balances, loans, payables
Equity — retained earnings + owner contributions − owner draws
Assets always equal Liabilities + Equity. If they don't, your books have an error somewhere (likely an unbalanced journal entry or a missing opening balance).
Cash Flow Statement
How cash moved through your business in a period, broken into:
Operating — day-to-day income and expenses
Investing — purchases or sales of equipment, investments
Financing — owner contributions/draws, loan payments
Useful for understanding why your bank balance changed even when P&L showed a profit (or loss). Cash flow shows the WHERE; P&L shows the WHY.
Categorized Spending Report
Breaks all your expenses for the period into pie-chart and list views by category. Useful for spotting where money goes and where you can trim.
Payee Reports
How much you spent with each vendor (or earned from each client) in a period. Top 10 chart + full list. Useful for vendor negotiations and identifying your highest-revenue clients.
Transaction Volume
Bar chart of how many transactions you processed per month. Useful for understanding your bookkeeping load and planning capacity (or your plan upgrade).
Saving & Exporting Reports
Every report has a date-range picker at the top. Once you have a view you like:
Export PDF — formatted for printing or emailing to your accountant
Export CSV — for spreadsheets or bringing into another tool
Save view — saves the date range + filters as a named report for one-click re-running later
Comparing Periods
All reports support side-by-side comparison: this month vs. last month, this year vs. last year, this quarter vs. same quarter last year. Use the Compare dropdown at the top.