Reporting view
Whether a profit-and-loss report counts revenue and expenses on cash or accrual timing. It changes how the report reads, never what the books contain.
In Solo Superstars
Profit-and-loss reports follow the workspace’s default reporting basis, set by an owner or accountant under Settings › Workspace. Where a report shows a Cash / Accrual switch, flipping it changes only that report, not the workspace default.
Three settings are easy to mix up. They are independent on purpose:
| Setting | What it controls | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Book basis | How entries are recorded. Always one accrual ledger. | Fixed |
| Default reporting basis | Which view profit-and-loss reports open in. | Settings › Workspace |
| Tax method | What you file your tax return on. | Settings › Tax profile |
A business can file on cash and still prefer to read reports on accrual, or the reverse. Changing one never changes the others, and switching a view never reposts or redates an entry.
The Balance sheet, Trial balance and General ledger always show the book basis. AR and AP aging, the Cash activity report, bank reconciliation and sales tax have no view switch because they already measure one specific thing.
Example
Harbor Lane Coffee invoices a hotel $3,000 on December 20 and is paid January 10. The December Income statement shows $3,000 of revenue on the Accrual view and $0 on the Cash view; the January Cash view picks it up.
The owner files taxes on cash, so the tax profile says cash. Their accountant reviews monthly performance on accrual, so the workspace default says accrual. Both are correct and both read the same entries.
Codes shown are the defaults a new workspace starts with. Yours may be renamed or renumbered — check Accounting › Chart of accounts. See the full default chart.
Also called
- reporting basis
- default reporting basis
- cash vs accrual view
Related
- Book basis — How the books themselves are recorded. Solo Superstars keeps one double-entry ledger on accrual; cash reports are calculated from it rather than kept as a second set of books.
- Cash basis — Counting revenue when money lands and expense when you actually pay. Simpler, and what most sole proprietors file on.
- Accrual basis — Counting revenue when you send the invoice and expense when you receive the bill, whether or not money has moved. The alternative is cash basis.
- Accounting method — Cash or accrual: the basis your business files its tax return on. Set in the tax profile, separately from how reports open by default.
- Income statement — Revenue, costs and expenses over a period, ending in net income. The report that says whether you made money.