balance-report

[Maurice de Laat]

Thank you all for the wonderful beancount & fava.

With fava, I can easily get a balance sheet for the end of a year (p.e. 2024).

By selecting the year 2023 I can get the balance sheet for the beginning of that year.

I would really love to get these 2 reports in one: a balance sheet for the beginning of a period & the end of that period.

A bit like this:

Description   1-1-2024  31-12-2024

Assets         1.00           2.00

....

Would that be possible?

Do I need fava dashboards for that?

If so, any pointers in that direction?

Thank you!

[redst...@gmail.com]

I'd try the Balances view inside the journal and play around with the time period to ensure I'm seeing what I truly want, similar to:

http://172.19.83.239:5000/main-accounts/account/Assets/?conversion=USD&time=2024-12-31+-+2025-12-31&r=balances&interval=year

[Maurice de Laat]

Thank you for your reply.

I am sorry I wasn't clear enough. I am looking for a report like @ the url /balance_sheet with for each journal in a row, a column for year x and a column for year x-1.

Op dinsdag 16 december 2025 om 10:58:32 UTC+1 schreef redst...@gmail.com:

[redst...@gmail.com]

Yep, that's what I understood. You can’t get exactly that, but the link I posted earlier gets you close: you’ll have to do Assets and Liabilities separately. See below. Please post a mock-up if that's not it.

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[Maurice de Laat]

Thank you.

No matter what I try, I can't get any values in the previous year column like in your example. See attached screenshot. What am I missing?

Op zondag 21 december 2025 om 10:24:41 UTC+1 schreef redst...@gmail.com:

[redst...@gmail.com]

I’m not sure what’s going on at your end, but to debug it, this fava pythonanywhere demo works. I’d start there and replicate it at your end.

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