end of year?

[Jason Rennie]

vherried@insight.rr.com said:
> What do folks do after a year or so?  Close the account and open
> another? 

Good question!  I don't see any real down sides to starting a new account
every year.  I've been using GnuCash for 2-3 years and currently have to
wait appx. 15 seconds between the time I launch GnuCash and the time I can
use it.  Also, I've seen cases where a minor error (on my or GnuCash's
part) screwed up an old reconciled entry (which entry was not obvious),
which forced me to re-check *every* transaction so that I could reconcile
against statements again.  I think I'm going to start a new account for
the 2003 year and see how it goes...

Jason D. M. Rennie
MIT AI Lab
jrennie@ai.mit.edu
(617) 253-5339
http://www.ai.mit.edu/~jrennie/