Verdant's avatar
Verdant
Experienced User
1 year ago
Status:
Done

Allow Job P&L Reports Across Financial Years

I regularly work on jobs that span two financial years, and every February–April I run into the same issue: I can't get an accurate Job Profit & Loss report.

For example, a client might pay a deposit in February, then I purchase components over the next few months, and finally issue the sales invoice in April—after the new financial year begins. Because of this, the income and expenses fall into different financial years, making the Job P&L report incomplete and misleading.

The current workaround—exporting reports from each financial year into Excel—is time-consuming, clunky, and frustrating. The data is already in MYOB, so surely there's a better solution.

Please consider enabling Job P&L reports to pull data across multiple financial years. This would save time and reduce errors for so many businesses like mine.

 

Thanks in advance—this would make a huge difference!

18 Comments

  • CarolDuncan's avatar
    CarolDuncan
    Experienced User
    8 months ago

    Good tip Trevor_Harrison​ - I didn't think to look there at all! I used to check reports out in both products but then got lazy. It's a shame both versions don't have the same functionality across the board. 

  • CarolDuncan's avatar
    CarolDuncan
    Experienced User
    8 months ago

    Yes - I'd spotted that. I work in a not-for-profit so the side by side reporting is really helpful. I'm glad to be reminded of the good functionality :-) 

  • Verdant's avatar
    Verdant
    Experienced User
    8 months ago

    Thanks Trevor. I’ll look into the online browser reporting. I don’t ever use it, because it seems only to work well for quoting and invoicing. Not the in between stage where most of my jobs sit, while we make the job after a deposit it paid. 

  • Verdant's avatar
    Verdant
    Experienced User
    8 months ago

    On another side issue to job profit and loss reporting- does anyone know how I could go about adding something along the lines of a billable hours cost and travel costs? 

    We don’t actually charge out by the hour or charge travel costs to the client, as that is built into the pricing, but I need to start tracking the cost of that somehow, in a per job basis. 

  • Completely agree, when building something over multiple financial years before it is sold and not being able to report in a simple way its cost seems like a no brainer

  • Xylon1's avatar
    Xylon1
    Experienced User
    9 days ago

    Are there plans to roll this feature into the desktop version?

  • AmandaMYOB's avatar
    AmandaMYOB
    MYOB Moderator
    8 days ago

    Hey Xylon1​ 

    We don't have any plans in the near future to roll this feature into the desktop version, it's currently only available in the web browser if your AccountRight company file is online.