Would you rather have negative amounts on your financial statements indicated with brackets, instead of the minus sign or parenthesis?

With GBN - Print Negative Amounts in Brackets, amounts which would normally be printed with a minus sign or parenthesis, will be printed with brackets. This feature is effective on the Balance Sheet, Income Statement, and Department Income Statement.

Below is an example of how an Income Statement would look after installing GBN - Print Negative Amounts in Brackets:

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|RUN DATE: 07/10/96      Software Professionals Inc.       PAGE   1  |
|RUN TIME: 11:47 AM                                                  |
|                           Income Statement                         |
|                            AS OF 12/31/90                          |
|                                                                    |
|RATIO: INCOME            THIS MONTH   RATIO     12  MONTHS   RATIO  |
|====================================================================|
|INCOME                                                              |
|   Sales                  106,508.31  103.9    4,106,414.17  100.0  |
|   Service                      0.00    0.0      135,328.00    3.3  |
|   Returns & Allowances    <4,078.95>  <3.9>    <170,898.99>  <4.1> |
|   Sales Discount               0.00    0.0      <19,758.92>  <0.4> |
|   Finance Charge Income        0.00    0.0       19,927.99    0.4  |
|   Delivery Fee Income          0.00    0.0       35,056.56    0.8  |
|                        ------------- ------  -------------- ------ |
|   Net Sales              102,429.36  100.0    4,106,068.81  100.0  |
|                                                                    |
|COST OF GOODS SOLD                                                  |
|   Cost of Sales           38,240.78   37.3    2,117,483.17   51.5  |
|   Freight                      0.00    0.0       40,727.94    0.9  |
|   Purchase Discounts           0.00    0.0     <205,733.87>  <5.0> |
|                        ------------- ------  -------------- ------ |
|Total Cost of Goods Sold   38,240.78   37.3    1,952,477.24   47.4  |
|                                                                    |
|                        ------------- ------  -------------- ------ |
|       Gross Profit        64,188.58   62.7    2,153,591.57   52.6  |
|                                                                    |
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After installing this enhancement, the report option for Print Negative Amounts will always default to YES when printing financial statements. This option can be changed to NO for the current print job, but will default to YES for the next report.