date check request

[Derek Atkins]

That's bug #106383.

-derek

Blair Lowe <gnucash at zedemail.ca> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I guess my request IS to make gnucash understand periods. You will find
> that most accountants like to have this sort of feature, and this
> request was not suggested by me, but by my accountant.
>
> I suppose that any time a date is entered somewhere, it would be tested
> for this preference existing, and then look at its values (as the start
> and end date period).
>
> Some reports could have a simple "fiscal year" selector so that a report
> could be more easily drawn up, in fact this could even be the default if
> the preference exists.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Blair.
>
> On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 19:19, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> I understand what periods are; gnucash does not.  Until gnucash
>> understands periods, doing something like this makes no sense in a
>> gnucash context.
>> 
>> -derek
>> 
>> Blair Lowe <gnucash at zedemail.ca> writes:
>> 
>> > "In Range" would be the current fiscal being worked on.
>> >
>> > For example, we are finishing the books for the year starting on Feb
>> > 1st, 2004 to Jan 31st, 2005. We never want to enter any transactions
>> > that are out of that date range or it is most likely an error.
>> >
>> > Sometimes after the books are done, we may want to violate that rule,
>> > and change some transaction from the previous year, for example, if our
>> > accountant has found an error in the books for a particular previous
>> > year.
>> >
>> > We may, as well, for example, want to enter an invoice for the new
>> > fiscal year, but not report it in the old fiscal year. I may want to
>> > invoice client X on February 5th, 2005, but we are working on the Feb
>> > 2004 to Jan 2005 period, so we would remove the preference to add the
>> > invoice, then re-add the preference when we are getting back to last
>> > year's books.
>> >
>> > That is our year range. In Canada, this is sometimes less than a year
>> > when a company starts up, but has a year end that is less than a year
>> > away, or when we want to change a year end to a different date, the
>> > fiscal year could be a few days to several months.
>> >
>> > Other accounting packages have this date sensitivity preference, and it
>> > is extremely good at eliminating date related data entry errors.
>> >
>> > TAFN,
>> > Blair.
>> >
>> >
>> >
> -- 
>
>
>

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