I have access to the Adj column in both companies - as you may see by the screenshot in my post, the Adj checkbox is clickable...

My point is that if I have QBO loaded with both companies, I would expect the out-of-box GL report column structure to be identical and it is not, and I would like to know how it got like that -- like maybe it's a different build of QBO online, or maybe one is a special QBO version for accountants and one is not -- I don't know -- I'm just trying to figure out how two companies, using the same [online] app, with a user with full access to all columns/fields in the QBO company, would have different columns showing on DEFAULT uncustomized out of the box reports.. 

Don't worry about my API question I'm an excellent developer and have no questions about using it -- I was just using it as an example that refutes all the prior "this is how you customize and save a report" non-answers that people were getting annoyed with..