> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.trycherry.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Generate a financial statement

> A financial statement computed from the live ledger — the exact generator the Cherry app uses, so figures here always match the product. `profit_and_loss` and `cash_flow` cover the `from`..`to` period (both required); `balance_sheet` is a snapshot as of `to` (`from` is ignored). The response shape varies by statement type: revenue/expense breakdowns for P&L, asset/liability/equity sections for the balance sheet, inflow/outflow for cash flow.



## OpenAPI

````yaml /openapi.json get /reports/statements/{type}
openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: Cherry API
  version: 1.0.0
  description: >-
    Cherry's public developer API — programmatic access to a business's books as
    Cherry keeps them: bank transactions with their categorizations, the chart
    of accounts, the double-entry journal, financial statements, legal entities,
    the tax-obligation calendar, and the fiscal health score.


    Authenticate every request with an API key: `Authorization: Bearer
    ck_live_…`. Keys are created in the Cherry app and are scoped to one
    business (tenant) — there is no tenant id in any URL. Keys carry a `read`
    and/or `write` scope; every GET needs `read`, mutations need `write`.


    Conventions: successful responses wrap the payload in `{ "data": … }`; list
    endpoints add `{ "meta": { "pagination": { limit, offset, nextOffset } } }`
    — pass `nextOffset` back as `offset` until it is null. Errors are `{
    "error": string, "reason"?: string }` with conventional status codes. Dates
    are `YYYY-MM-DD`; money amounts are numbers in the row's currency. Requests
    are rate-limited per key with token buckets (429 + `Retry-After` when
    exhausted); report generation has a smaller budget than plain reads.
servers:
  - url: https://api.trycherry.ai/v1
security:
  - bearerAuth: []
tags:
  - name: Transactions
    description: Bank feed rows and their categorizations.
  - name: Accounts
    description: The tenant's chart of accounts.
  - name: Bank accounts
    description: >-
      Connected bank accounts — Plaid-linked and manual. Manual institutions are
      how developers without a Plaid connection bring their own accounts and
      transactions.
  - name: Journal
    description: The double-entry journal (entries and lines).
  - name: Reports
    description: Trial balance and financial statements.
  - name: Entities
    description: Legal entities behind the tenant.
  - name: Obligations
    description: The tax/compliance calendar Cherry tracks.
  - name: Health
    description: Cherry's composite fiscal readiness score.
  - name: Meta
    description: The API's own machine-readable contract.
paths:
  /reports/statements/{type}:
    get:
      tags:
        - Reports
      summary: Generate a financial statement
      description: >-
        A financial statement computed from the live ledger — the exact
        generator the Cherry app uses, so figures here always match the product.
        `profit_and_loss` and `cash_flow` cover the `from`..`to` period (both
        required); `balance_sheet` is a snapshot as of `to` (`from` is ignored).
        The response shape varies by statement type: revenue/expense breakdowns
        for P&L, asset/liability/equity sections for the balance sheet,
        inflow/outflow for cash flow.
      operationId: getFinancialStatement
      parameters:
        - name: type
          in: path
          required: true
          schema:
            type: string
            enum:
              - profit_and_loss
              - balance_sheet
              - cash_flow
        - name: from
          in: query
          required: false
          description: >-
            Period start, YYYY-MM-DD. Required for profit_and_loss and
            cash_flow.
          schema:
            type: string
            format: date
        - name: to
          in: query
          required: true
          description: >-
            Period end, YYYY-MM-DD. For balance_sheet this is the as-of snapshot
            date.
          schema:
            type: string
            format: date
      responses:
        '200':
          description: The generated statement (shape varies by type)
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  data:
                    type: object
        '400':
          description: Error
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
        '401':
          description: Error
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
        '429':
          description: Error
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
components:
  schemas:
    Error:
      type: object
      required:
        - error
      properties:
        error:
          type: string
          description: Stable machine-readable error code.
        reason:
          type: string
          description: Human-readable explanation.
  securitySchemes:
    bearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      bearerFormat: ck_live_…
      description: >-
        Cherry API key, created in the app. Sent as `Authorization: Bearer
        ck_live_…`.

````