Multiple books in file backend?

Matthew Vanecek mevanecek at yahoo.com
Tue Aug 5 08:25:39 CDT 2003


Posting the gnucash-devel for the record...

On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 19:35, Phil wrote:
> On 03 Aug 2003 21:10:38 -0400, Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote:
> 
> >
> > Ok, what "date-range" would a "13th period" get tied to?
> >
> > What I really mean is that just because a transaction is dated, say,
> > 2002-12-20 does not mean it belongs in the period ending 2002-12-31.
> >
> > -derek
> 
> Transportation companies traditionally have a 13 period year.  I'll look at 
> my work calender to see what those dates are.  Always starts on the first 
> sunday or monday of the fiscal year.  I'll check.
> 

That's how my company works.

> I used to work in the acctg dept of a non-profit and we had a 13th period 
> for all the year-end cleanup.  IIRC it was limited to balance sheet acct 
> activity only to handle auditor adjustments.  pnl didn't change.  Mmmm.  
> Fund Accounting. ;)
> 
> Phil

Different accounting preferences, it sounds like.  Any accountants care
to chime in?

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