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

[Derek Atkins]

Conrad,

Quoting Conrad Canterford <conrad at mail.watersprite.com.au>:

> 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.

Yes, sorry, I wasn't clear.  I do want to be able to archive OLD old data,
but not necessarily be forced to archive "last year's" data in order to
"close the books".  I think I'd like to have a user-defined number of
periods to keep in the same data file and then you can archive older
periods.

> Conrad.

-derek

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