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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"/> [Trial balance](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_balance)
- <a id="bank-reconciliation"/> [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"/> [Chart of accounts](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chart_of_accounts)
-  <a id="cash-disbursements"/> Cash Disbursements Journal
- <a id="income-report"/> Income Report (just a list/sum of all Income accounts for a period)
- <a id="expenses-report"/> 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.
2013-10-25 17:32:03 +00:00			`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.`

Added additional reports that I need. 2013-11-06 13:26:39 +00:00			`The usual reports an NPO is expected to generate, and all of these should be generatable for any given date period:`

Update EvaluationTemplate to have clearer links to each UseCase The idea is to use the evaluation template to fill out for each project codebase evaluation we do, but have an easy link back to the use case it refers to. As I was making this edit, I added a few FIXMEs to things that need clarification and/or completion. 2013-11-14 17:36:04 +00:00			`- <a id="trial-balance"/> [Trial balance](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_balance)`
			`- <a id="bank-reconciliation"/> [Bank Reconciliation Report](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_reconciliation)`
Add link for NP-Complete. 2013-11-13 18:21:03 +00:00			`+ 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.`
Update EvaluationTemplate to have clearer links to each UseCase The idea is to use the evaluation template to fill out for each project codebase evaluation we do, but have an easy link back to the use case it refers to. As I was making this edit, I added a few FIXMEs to things that need clarification and/or completion. 2013-11-14 17:36:04 +00:00			`- <a id="chart-of-accounts"/> [Chart of accounts](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chart_of_accounts)`
			`- <a id="cash-disbursements"/> Cash Disbursements Journal`
			`- <a id="income-report"/> Income Report (just a list/sum of all Income accounts for a period)`
			`- <a id="expenses-report"/> Expenses Report (just a list/sum of all Expenses accounts for a period)`
Added additional reports that I need. 2013-11-06 13:26:39 +00:00			`- [[Fund Report\|UseCases/FundAccounting#FundReport]]`

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