Viewing your Income Statement (aka Profit and Loss)

To view your Income Statement:

  1. Click the Reports tab.

  2. Under Financial Reports, click Income Statement.

  1. From the Date Range drop-down menu, choose the date range you want to see or create your own custom range by entering "From" and "To" dates and clicking "Refresh List." To see all entries from the beginning of your records, leave "From" blank. To see all entries with future dates, leave "To" blank.  More about dates

    About dates in the Income Statement

    To-date means the beginning of that period to the equivalent of today's date in that period.

    Date range:

    What it shows:

    Example (assuming today’s date is August 6 and fiscal year starts January 1)

    This Month-to-date

    From the first day of the current month through today

    August 1 - 6, 2008

    This Quarter-to-date

    From the first day of the current quarter through today

    July 1 - August 6, 2008

    This Fiscal Year-to-date

    From the first day of the current fiscal year through today

    January 1 - August 6, 2008

    Last Month

     

    From the first day through the last day of last month

    July 1 – July 31, 2008

    Last Quarter  

    From the first day through the last day of last quarter

    April 1 – June 30, 2008

    Last Quarter-to-date

    From the first day of last quarter through three months ago today

    April 1 - May 6, 2008

    Last Fiscal Year

    From the first day through the last day of last fiscal year

    Jan 1 – December 31, 2007

    Last Fiscal Year-to-date

    From the first day of last fiscal year through one year ago today

    Jan 1 - August 6, 2007

    Custom

     

     

  2. (Optional) From the Compare Periods drop-down menu, choose a period, if you want to compare periods, within the date range you selected. For example, if you are showing results for the first quarter, you can choose to compare months within the first quarter.

  3. From the Report Format drop down menu, choose the report output option.

  1. Click Run Report.

When you see the report on the screen, you can:

 

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About Income Statements

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