Is there a way to generate a transaction ledger in
chronological order for a specified period of time, other
than a year, that is not broken down by cash account,
investments, members, etc.? I like to pint of copy of each
month's ledger and staple it to our broker statement. That
makes comparing the transactions in order and the beginning
and ending balances an easy task for our members at each
meeting..
Thanks, Dorothy

Hi, Dorothy!

I feel badly that you have not received an answer to your
question regarding the printing of reports.

I am still a newbie with the bivio format and I don't feel
qualified to answer your question. But, I have reminded the
support team that your question still needs an answer.
Hopefully, someone from the support will post an answer to
your question soon.

From my brief experience with bivio, I can honestly say that
it is extremely unusual for the team to be so slow with
their postings in The Club Cafe!

Happy investing!

Bob Hooper
New Pueblo Investment Club
Tucson, AZ

Dorothy C. Hinz wrote:
> Is there a way to generate a transaction ledger in
> chronological order for a specified period of time, other
> than a year, that is not broken down by cash account,
> investments, members, etc.? I like to pint of copy of each
> month's ledger and staple it to our broker statement. That
> makes comparing the transactions in order and the beginning
> and ending balances an easy task for our members at each
> meeting..
> Thanks, Dorothy

 > I feel badly that you have not received an answer to your
> question regarding the printing of reports.

The BI announcement has brought on a lot of interest from the "other" club
accounting users, and that, combined with tax season, is probably causing
tech support to be inundated with calls.

Shame on the rest of us for not chiming in! If you go to Accounts|Reports
and look under the annual report selections (the 2nd section), there's a
Transaction Ledger report. Once you click on it, you can select whatever
dates you wish to cover. Yes, it has some of the other stuff on it, but
it's across the top, not in vertical sections.

When I first started using bivio 6 years ago, I used to click on Accounts,
then choose my broker or bank account and select transactions from there. I
would click on the spreadsheet button and simply cut and paste the current
information into a running spreadsheet that I kept as a back-up. That's
pretty easy, too.

HOWEVER, over the years, in an ongoing effort to rethink and revise our club
operations, I realized that I didn't need to keep a duplicate transaction
list to attach to my bank statements and broker statements.

Today, we simply make sure the accounts are balanced every single month. If
you check your statements, whether broker or bank, to make sure the share,
investment value and cash balances match up, it's just not necessary to keep
the extra stuff. This goes back to something we had to do with desktop
accounting because we all used to experience computer issues! With online
programming, we can trust that the server won't lose our stuff. Bivio has
more than one back up for us.

Most Club Accounting treasurers coming over from IClub are quickly finding
that bivio's reports differ slightly. Probably the most annoying for me is
the lack of IRR for each stock on the Valuation Statement. It's not the
same program, but in the long run, you will find it's an awesome program!
It's just a matter of playing with all the different reports and finding
what works best for you.

Maybe after tax season, we can entice Rip or Ira to conduct a Reports Class
right here on the Club Cafe board! I'm sure we would all benefit!

Dorothy, I know Rob is on vacation this week, and his crew is busy with tax
stuff. I'm sure you'll be hearing from someone soon. In the meantime, keep
asking questions here. We'll try to answer them from our perspective.

Lynn Ostrem, VP & Education Chair
garbagecop@earthlink.net
Crow River Investment Club
www.bivio.com/crowriver

Dorothy C. Hinz wrote:
> Is there a way to generate a transaction ledger in
> chronological order for a specified period of time, other
> than a year, that is not broken down by cash account,
> investments, members, etc.?

You are much better off using the Accounting > Accounts > Broker
page, because it only contains transactions relevant to a particular
account. You can sort that by clicking on the date column heading.
It has an up triangle by default, and when you click on it with the
date, it will turn into a down triangle indicating chronological
order.

Cheers,
Rob