Closing out a year

[Paul Lussier]

Hi all,

How can I close out a year.  I've been going through and converting 
all my stuff to GnuCash.  I've recently finished with 2000 and have 
begun on 2001.  I started this year off in a new file.  However, one 
thing I realized is that my monthly bank statements don't cover nice 
neat periods like a calenday month.  My statements are from the 23rd 
of each month to the 22nd of the next month.

Though I find this quite annoying, I don't see that there's much I 
can do about it.  So now I find that though I've finished with the 
year 2000 as far as dated bank statements are concerned, I still have 
transactions listed in in year 2000 which showed up on Jan 2001's 
statement.

How do I handle this?  Do I just assume that my "fiscal" year runs 
from Dec. 23 - Dec 22?  If so, this will make dealing with tax 
reporting a major pain, since I have several transactions in that 
last week which affect my tax reporting (last paycheck, charitable 
contributions, IRA contributions, etc.).

Can GnuCash load 2 files simultaneously and allow you to run reports 
on a date range which overlaps the 2 files?  That would make life 
easier.

Also, it might be nice to be able to maintain a separate file which 
is the totality of all data.  In otherwords, I'd like to be able to 
import other GnuCash data files into a single file at the end of the 
year.  This would allow me to easily run date range comparison 
reports on date ranges spanning several years.

Thanks,


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Seeya,
Paul
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