RFC: A "book-close dialog" to help auto-zeroize all Inc/Exp accounts

[Phil Longstaff]

Derek Atkins wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I decided to spend some time this weekend on a simple dialog to
> help you zero-ize your income and expense accounts.  I've come
> up with a dialog that effective looks like this (please excuse the
> ASCII Art but I don't want to have to write the code to actually
> fill in the dialog yet):
>
>   +---------------------------------------------+
>   |                                             |
>   |                +------------------------+   |
>   | Close Date:    | 12/31/2007            <|   |
>   |                +------------------------+   |
>   |                +------------------------+   |
>   | Income Total:  | Equity:Retained E| New |   |
>   |                +------------------------+   |
>   |                +------------------------+   |
>   | Expense Total: | Equity:Retained E| New |   |
>   |                +------------------------+   |
>   |                                             |
>   | +--------+              +--------+  +----+  |
>   | |  Help  |              | Cancel |  | OK |  |
>   | +--------+              +--------+  +----+  |
>   +---------------------------------------------
>
> Is there anything else needed for this?
>
> The idea is that it would iterate over all Income accounts and put the
> account balance summary as of [Date] as a single transaction to the
> [Income Total] account..  Repeat the process for Expense accounts and
> put it into the [Expense Total] account.
>
> Any quick feedback would be useful.  Please follow-up to
> gnucash-devel (I've set up the headers so that direct replies
> to this message SHOULD go there)
The Income Statement report has an option allowing you to specify the 
closing entries pattern.  You may want to allow the transaction 
description to be set in your dialog box so that it can match any 
currently existing closing transactions.

Phil