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Profit and Loss report - Detailed Profit and Loss to show all transactions

To show all expenses in the profit and loss report.

Purpose: To make it easier for a user to see all the expenses in the report rather than having to individually open each expense

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  • Anne Price commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is a critical need! Please make this type of report easily available!

  • Gina Woodman commented  ·   ·  Report

    Definite a must have, seems like a no-brainer! I did get a work-around from Xero - run the Account Transactions report and filter by (select) Account, and export to Excel to sort if necessary. If you play around with it, it definitely works and is sooo much faster and easier than exporting each line item into Excel, which is how I've been doing it!

  • Pam Shaw-Buffin commented  ·   ·  Report

    Okay what am I missing here??? There was a time when pulling a Profit and Loss detailed report was easy..... now it's just missing????

    Vital is an understatement. We NEED the details so that we can provide a better experience to our clients. I am SHOCKED that nobody in Xero gets this. And I'm completely baffled as to why the report is no longer available. Are we still doing "beautiful accounting" or not? I'm totally lost! Please fix this!

  • Duane Dobbs commented  ·   ·  Report

    this is a must have, have to manually do in spread sheet now..

  • John Jones commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is vital. Profit and Loss report - Detailed Profit and Loss to show all transactions
    To show all expenses in the profit and loss report.

    Purpose: To make it easier for a user to see all the expenses in the report rather than having to individually open each expens

  • John Jones commented  ·   ·  Report

    As a bookkeeper, this feature is a make or break for our firm.

  • Peter Vibert commented  ·   ·  Report

    My monthly reports to my committee need to show ALL transactions for the previous period.
    Previously I was using Reckon.

  • Kenyon Del Valle commented  ·   ·  Report

    I used to provide a client with an annual P&L Detail spreadsheet each year and have just realized that since we moved them to Xero this report doesn't seem to be available, closest I see is Account Transactions reports that don't total up the Sales/COGS/Net Income balances. I would love having a P&L Detail report as it is very helpful!

  • Brandon Smith commented  ·   ·  Report

    As a long standing Xero partner, hugely disappointed that Xero has not yet developed this. So basic!

  • Ed Oakley commented  ·   ·  Report

    It's disappointing to see that this has been an unaddressed issue for so long. A detailed P&L statement is standard for all accounting software. I hope this gets fixed as soon as possible. I hate the thoughts of moving to another software.

  • Antony Harrison commented  ·   ·  Report

    I second all of the comments below: It is incomprehensible that Xero still doesn't have a Detailed P&L report. There are so many aspects of Xero reporting that lag behind functionality standard in QuickBooks and Sage decades ago. It is almost like no one in Xero has ever worked in a real business.

  • Donna Lawrence commented  ·   ·  Report

    If Quick books can supply this report I'm brain boggled as to why Xero can't. It would cut done the time to run this report for every single business that has a BAS to do just for starters. You should be able to run a profit & Loss then run all the transactions that make up this report without going to another window, selecting Account Transactions, then selecting the date period, then selecting all the accounts involved in the Profit & Loss just so you can check that all the items have been allocated correctly. When doing BAS's or end of year taxes this is an essential report to save time.

  • Meagan Hungerford commented  ·   ·  Report

    I'm amazed that the first post about this issue was back in 2022. It's unbelievable that generating a detailed Profit and Loss report still isn't possible. Given the cost of this software, this feature is an absolute must.

  • Victor Tey commented  ·   ·  Report

    You have got to be kidding me. How has Xero existed for this long and yet the most basic of line data report isn't possible... this is so disappointing.

  • Federico Ferrante commented  ·   ·  Report

    ahahah just realised a detail pnl is not available on this software, is this a joke? why would you guys not make such an important report available?

  • Heather Mohieddeen commented  ·   ·  Report

    I'd LOVE to be able to run a detailed Profit and Loss for a particular tracking category rather than exporting a P&L to Excel, then multiple transaction reports to Excel and fiddling about with them for reporting to interested parties.

  • Wayne Buck commented  ·   ·  Report

    I think you need accountants within Xero who liaise with the software developers.
    It seems there is interpreting the need rather than people who understand it. Look, there are many different types of accountants. Xero needs people on the inside who have actually done the hard yards inside a commercial business. This is not someone who graduated from university and spent time with the big four firms, no disrespect. That is not commercial accounting, sorry. We should not have to explain this need to you. Make it happen or you will be surpassed by someone who listens to their clients.

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