Closing Out 2013

[Mike Evans]

On Fri, 3 Jan 2014 04:36:56 +1300
Parker Jones <zoubidoo at hotmail.com> wrote:

> > From: warlord at MIT.EDU
> > Note that there is not requirement that you Close the Books.  Indeed,
> > all this does is zeroize your Income and Expense accounts, rolling them
> > up into Equity.  The reports can do that for you already, so all it
> > really does is fix up the Chart of Accounts for you to show you
> > year-to-date totals.
> > 
> > One thing it does NOT do is prevent you from entering transactions in
> > the past.  
> 
> It has happened several times that I've added a transaction and inadvertently entered the wrong date, somewhere in the past.  Since there is no undo function, I've had to hunt down the transaction which was a waste of time.  Does this only happen to me?
> 
> I wonder whether the ability to lock previous years, prohibiting changes in the past, is a feature anybody else would appreciate?  Or at least, a pop-up saying "You are about to add a transaction to a previous year, are you sure Y/N?"
> 
> P. Jones


If you've reconciled your books up to the close of year, (of course you did), and you haven't disabled warnings then that's exactly what does happen.  The warning pop-up I mean.


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