Cash Flow Report
Mike or Penny Novack
stepbystepfarm at mtdata.com
Sun Oct 5 18:14:17 EDT 2014
> and when I use the P&L report for a prior year
>I have to date it from 1/1/?? to 12/30/?? because of the way GnuCash closes
>out Income & Expense categories. If I date it all the way to 12/31/?? I
>get nothing but zeros.
>
OK, I can help you with this one. You are using "close the books" and
having a problem with the fact that there is no "date that is not a
date" between the years on which to do the close operation. Here is what
to do <<year end processing >>
1) When you have all transactions for the current year entered but
BEFORE you do the "close the books" copy the file giving it a name like
"precloseYYYY" and also copy that to backup.
2) Now run "close the books" and make a backup copy "postcloseYYYY"
Whenever you wan to (re)run the P&L ("Income Statement" for YYYY)
specify that you want gnucash to open "precloseYYYY". However if you
have once run it (say before having closed the books) and exported it
and saved a copy to backup you shouldn't have to rerun it.
Understand? Your apparent problem is just not having a reasonable backup
procedure in place. Backups are necessary. It isn't a matter of if your
machine will die but when.
Michael
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