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bkuhn

They aren't possible, but maybe are necessary.

I agree that all the items listed in here aren't possible given the time
allotted for development, and I haven't tried to integrate any of them
into the main feature set to avoid feature creep. However, some of them
are going to be necessary, and early users may need to realize that some
out-of-band workarounds will be necessary in the first version, because
the features listed here were, well, necessary. :)

As an US-based NPO I need a way to *generate reports* in order to:

- Send the reports to an auditor
- Forward them to organization members.

The usual reports an NPO is expected to generate, and all of these should be generatable for any given date period:

- <a id="trial-balance"></a>[Trial balance](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_balance)
- <a id="bank-reconciliation"></a> [Bank Reconciliation Report](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_reconciliation)
    + This report often needs to be generated with input from the user, since [the subset sum problem](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subset_sum_problem) is [NP-complete](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NP-complete), human intervention is often needed to identify the specific transactions to show on this report.
-  <a id="chart-of-accounts"></a> [Chart of accounts](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chart_of_accounts)
-  <a id="cash-disbursements"></a>Cash Disbursements Journal
- <a id="income-report"></a>Income Report (just a list/sum of all Income accounts for a period)
- <a id="expenses-report"></a>Expenses Report  (just a list/sum of all Expenses accounts for a period)
- [[Fund Report|UseCases/FundAccounting#FundReport]]

Also, To handle [[UseCases/FundAccounting]] all of these reports should be generatable narrowed to specific funds.