Sorry guys, I'm struggling with Quickbooks terminology.   If "Active" Accounts are those with transactions associated with them, but "Inactive" refers to accounts that are essentially invisible that you no longer use, what do you call accounts that are NOT inactive but DON'T have transactions associated with them? 

As an example, let's say I have a chart of accounts with 50 accounts I want to use, but only 30 of them have transactions in them.  And I also have 20 accounts I've made inactive because I no longer want them.  When I run a PNL, my only two options are to generate a PNL with only the 30 accounts with transactions in them (aka "active) or a PNL with all 70 accounts, including the 20 I made invisible, which I no longer wanted to see.  

What I'm trying to figure out is how I run a PNL that is JUST the 50 accounts that make up my current chart of accounts.  I want this because I have multiple companies with this chart of accounts but each company may have a different set of "active" accounts.  Every time I consolidate them, it's a mind melting exercise in excel of scanning and adding rows missing rows, copying and pasting, etc.  If I could export exactly the 50 accounts that comprise what I'm calling my "current" chart of accounts, the PNL's would line up precisely right out my quickbooks export and it would be a piece of cake to consolidate. 

If this isn't possible, are there any other methods that make consolidation possible without taking years off your life?  

Thanks for the help!

Barak