status of accounting periods support

[Ian Pilcher]

Hendrik Boom wrote:
> 
> Looks like we need a January 0, and a December 32.
> This might be the easiest hack, depending on how dates are stored.
> 

Don't forget that business may have fiscal years that end on dates other
than December 31.

The other approach that I can think of (and I'm not a GnuCash developer)
is to add a "closing transaction" flag and ignore any transactions with
this flag set when calculating income and expense totals for reports.

I don't *think* that anything else would be necessary.

IANAA (I am not an accountant), but the second approach feels more
"right" to me.  (Of course, since I'm neither an accountant nor a
developer, I should probably just shut up!)

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Ian Pilcher                                           pilchman at attbi.com
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