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It is absolute insanity that this isn't just a basic function. It's like basic database code you already have the information.

I created a report to export to excel. I want to make sure specific accounts are always included so that the layout in excel does not have to be updated everytime. It is also needed so we can see and confirm there was a zero balance.

This is absolutely required to ensure completeness of financials statements.

We need compare reports from xero to other software. WE have matched all our codes, and need to have this function to be able to export and match simply, without having to spend hours tring to findout what codes/accounts are missing.

Other software has this available

This has been a problem with Xero for years and creates additional work for most users. It seems like it should be a relatively simple thing to change.
I'm not sure how to interpret Xero's lack of action. Either making this change is more difficult than it seems of they simply don't care so long as Xero usage continues to rise. They assume it isn't putting users off enough so isn't a priority.
There are only 91 votes here but I don't think there will be a single Xero user that this change wouldn't benefit.

We are trying to consolidate 2 businesses' accounts. We've taken the effort to have them both on the same Chart of Accounts.

Xero doesn't allow consolidation, so you have to do this manually in Excel (or other). The least you could do for us is allow us to export all out account data so we can consolidate them in Excel, without having to manually stitch it together every month.

And for many other purposes, having a full readout every month of all your accounts is key for undertaking analysis, etc...

Dear Xero Team, implement this as soon as possible please? We need this.

its ridiculous that you can't do this .

It also ensures report format stability, so that each time a report is downloaded to excel it has the same account id's in the same excel row.

P&L and Balance Sheets to show all accounts even if $0 balance.

We frequently export these reports to Excel and combine with earlier reports. The reports are basically always inconsistent in length as not all items are relevant for each period.

If the reports had the option to display all accounts it would remove the need to continually manually manipulate the output.

Why does Xero ignore this request? This has been an issue for a long time. It will clearly save users' a lot of time and I can't believe it is a complex thing to implement.
I can only assume so long as people continue to use the system they figure it doesn't really matter?

Yes, can you implement this as soon as possible please?

It is important - by being able to see a zero balance means we can easily look into the account to see why it is a zero balance (especially if we are not expecting it) but also easily allows us to look at transactions in that account.

Appreciate we can now add account number to financial statements

I am begging xero to implement the ability to show/hide nil balances.
The amount of extra work created by this lack of functionality is astounding.
Please implement.

Yes please , there should be an option to include zero balances in the P&L

Xero already has the option to include All accounts, including zero balance for Reports: Account Transactions. Please extend the same feature to Profit and Loss, Trial Balance, and Balance Sheet

It is not making sense by not showing zero balance on the financial statements!!

Also useful when using tracking as the balance may be zero overall but there maybe a balance for some of the individual categories

Important!

Yes, please!!!

Agreed, this would be extremely useful!