1. Let me try to explain how the Accounting periods work with the Financial Statements, Column Description, Contents Column, Activity Fields (Current, Current -1, Current -2 etc). If you are in Accounting Period 3 which is March 2016 and you want the report starting Jan 2016 in the 1st column, then for the column that represents Jan data highlight Activity, under Time Frame Jan it would be Current -2, the next Activity for Feb would be Current -1 and March would be Current. The data that populated the columns would be correct so you could name column 1 Jan rather than period 1, Feb for period 2, etc. However when you change your accounting period to April, then April would be current, March would be current -1, Feb Current -2 Jan Current -3 and the data in the columns would not line up with the column you named January, Feb etc. You can be clever and set up for all columns Jan - Dec where Jan is current -11, Feb current -10,and hard code the names of the months but you must either change your accounting period to Dec 2016 to run the report as your current period or you may be able to just change the report dates to and from to always be Dec 1 to Dec 31 for the correct year. In this case if you have changed the accounting period to Dec 2016 but your data only goes to Aug 2016, then you can go into the report and uncheck the "Show" line for the months into the future. 2. The report writer is designed to give you YTD Totals in a YTD Column. In design, Column Desc. in the contents column choose Year to Date for one of the columns at the end, make the Qualifer "Net" for "Current Period" Hope you can make it work for you!
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