New Person Questions

[Robert Uhl <ruhl@4dv.net>]

Aaron Goldblatt <lists-gnucash@goldblatt.net> writes:
> 
> How can I set up an accounting period so that accounts that should
> be zeroed (like expense accounts) or accounts that shouldn't be
> zeroed (like bank checking accounts) can have older transactions
> hidden from immediate view?  Archival of past balances and
> multi-period reporting would also be most helpful.  Does such
> functionality exist, and if so, what is it called so I can RTFM
> about it?

It doesn't exist yet, but I believe that it's planned.  For now, what
I do is every year move my current account from finances.gnucash to
finances.gnucash-$YEAR.  I then open that file and export the accounts
to finances.gnucash.  Then I go through and set all my assets and
liabilities, drawing from a carryover account.

Yes, this is a fair amount of pain.  And yes, it'd make a lot more
sense for GnuCash to handle this--then one could see a monthly, yearly
or even by-decade view of one's finances.  Like budgeting and
recurring transactions, it's one of those things which _really_ needs
working on.  I'd work on it, except I've so little time--I'm busy on
my own project.

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Robert Uhl <ruhl@4dv.net>
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