Bump: setting the accounting period

[Karl Auer]

Hi all.

I've seen no reply to this. Even if it's a a silly question, I's
appreciate a pointer to the appropriate FAQ or manual page...

Thanks, K.

-------- Forwarded Message --------
From: Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au>
To: GnuCash Users <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Subject: setting the accounting period
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 00:24:09 +1100

Hi all.

This is probably an embarrassingly simple question but - how do I set up
for an accounting year that runs from 1 July through 30 June?

The options available in Edit->Preferences are:

   today
   start of this month
   start of previous month
   start of this quarter
   start of previous quarter
   start of this year
   start of previous year
   absolute

None of those seem very promising. When I tried an absolute date I
discovered that it applies to ALL sets of accounts. I have one file for
this financial year, another file for the last and so on. If I open my
file for 2010/11 and set the accounting period to 1/7/2010 - 30/6/2011,
then close that, open my file for 2009/10 and set the accounting period
to 1/7/2009 - 30/6/2010, then close that and reopen 2010/11 again, I
find that the accounting period for the 2010/11 file is set to 1/7/2009
- 30/6/2010.

Should I be setting a per-file value somewhere else, and if so where?
It's not under the book options.

Or have I misunderstood the concept of "accounting period"?

Regards, K.

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