Reporting - Option to add account numbers & zero balances to financial statements
Ability to have to have a check box for "Include Account Numbers" and "Include or Omit Zero balances".
Purpose: Because it demonstrates completeness to show that the balance actually is zero

Hi everyone, as of today the ability to show nil(zero) balance accounts in reports is live to all users!
To confirm, there are 2 ways to turn this on. Either through a blanket selection in the Report preferences, or via a toggle on and off option within the 'More' menu of the following reports;
- Balance Sheet
- Profit & Loss (Income Statement)
- Statement of Cash Flows - Direct Method
- Trial Balance
- Cash Summary
- Movements in Equity
- Blank report
- And, Report templates
As we close out this idea, we want to say a big thank you to everyone that's shared their interest in this with us overtime.
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Mandy Palmer commented
We have a budget outside of Xero becuase of 13 periods and it would be very useful to be able to copy paste the P&L values across when needed. At the moment we have to manually type the values as there is no option to include zero balances.
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Karvan Jayaweera commented
Why hasn't this been addressed? MYOB has this option, come on Xero the time we spent lining reports up because of this is so frustrating.
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Rachel Kilgour commented
Needed for Public Benefit Entity as one of the Charities reporting requirements to show certain items even if they have not had any expenses in this category for the last couple of years.
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Christopher Brown commented
Hugely frustrating that this is not an option. I guess since the original request is from 2014 that it is unlikely to happen.
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Suzanne Platt commented
Please have a tick box to include or omit zero values. When combining different entities or just period to period, having a different number of lines depending on the activity is frustrating. Plus, I'm consolidating more than 1 entity, so this is double frustrating. Balance sheet & P&L please.
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David Collins commented
100% agree to have the option to show zero balances. When I looked at a Balance sheet recently, one of our accounts was zero but my first thoughts were that it was missing. Also I share this report with board members. They asked about the missing account from the report. Thanks