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PLEASE give us back the functionality we used to have.
Reporting is taking a lot longer now and many more key strokes.

For example - If we add a new account to our chart of accounts - Why are we being asked to update that EACH of the COMMON FORMATS? And then again in Management reports.
This seems strange given Xero is about simplifying business allowing customers to "do" their business. With a progressive growing business we could be adding a new account(s) quite frequently.
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Reporting layouts are great but very frustrating to have to update multiple versions of a report when a change to account layout/new account is made eg: P&L report with categorised accounts but different views on columns.

It would be great to have a common account layout for the rows and then customised the columns to show required info - meaning that if a new account is added, or new formula etc only one update is needed to the common layout rather than tracking across all required reports.

Has the above suggestion by Kelly Munro been done yet? It would be really helpful to be able to set standard columns that will be selected by default on reports.

Allow importing of a custom report layout into new custom reports. eg. I have a preferred customised layout for my P&L. I would like to replicate that layout in a Budget + Actual report and a Variance report. Currently I have to recustomise each report from scratch. This is highly cumbersome and creates risk of error and inconsistency.

Users: Please also vote for this Idea below to make changes happen! Many thanks

Reporting - Budgets by tracking category to integrate with master overall budget

When customising a profit and loss report, the customisation should remain across the other profit and loss reports, as was the case previously. IF working on Profit and Loss, Budget Variance and Month by month with budget reports, we should not have to redesign the layout 3 times and then amend each of the 3 reports everytime something changes. The way accounts line up in these reports should be consistent.

Yes, please bring back the common formats!
We used the common format option all the time in the old reports. It's a great tool for decision-makers who are not skilled in Xero, and don't want to have to look at a whole range of separate custom reports.
Thanks

We found this very frustrating. Now, our custom report lists are getting longer and messier as we need to have separate reports for each layout just for 1 reporting format. Now, it's also getting very confusing. Seems like the new XERO reporting makes our life harder and not easier.

Enable an advanced setting in Xero to have customised columns Change dependant on client (e.g., GST, Credit, Debit, Date, Reference). With the rollout of new reports its frustrating when generating reports on client's P&L to have to change for every single column.

I found it very useful to be able to apply a custom layout across different formats of reports which cannot be done in the new report.

The new report designer allows you to create reports and add in a footer
The old reports allow company settings to include a footer on published reports. We use this as the place to add our company disclaimer on reports we issue to clients
Without the facitility we are going to have to customise every reportt we generate to manually add the footer
Please could we request a standard footer option in company settings that can be selected when a report is generated?