Comments about closing books (was: Re: [Gnucash-changes] r13417 - gnucash/trunk - Bug#332802: fix Export Accounts; remove `price_lookup` and `export` functions from GncFileBackend.)

[Conrad Canterford]

On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 12:54 -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
> FWIW, I'd personally like to see a way to "close the books" without
> saving off old data into another file -- e.g. I'd like to see a
> function that just created the balancing splits from Income and
> Expenses into an Equity Account.

I think both are useful. I don't mind having several years worth of old
data - especially if old (now obsolete) accounts are able to be hidden
from the normal view. Having something to automatically do what I
currently have to do manually would be nice. Having it work so that it
automatically happened at the last point of the relevant day (so I don't
have to fudge it by putting my balancing splits on 1 July and putting
all 1 July transactions in 2 July with an explanatory note) would be
even nicer.

After a certain period of time though, it would be nice to be able to
"archive" old data into another file.

Conrad.