Fwd: Re: [GnuCash-user] Re: A simple End-of-Period question

[Phil]

> On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 09:25:37 -0700 (PDT), Chirik 
> <chirik+gnucash at castlefur.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, James Leone wrote:
>>
>>> Gnucash's data files do not take a lot of space, so it seems that
>>> closing the year and separating transactions is more of a problem then
>>> what it is worth.
>>
>> ??? Actually, I'd love to be able to close the year out -
>
> I'd like to close out the year also so I can save off a copy for 
> historical/tax purposes and not have the new year cluttered with prior 
> year data except for balance sheet accounts.  I think I'll be able to do 
> that manually by creating a new file and importing the accounts and 
> setting up opening balances.  The downside to this is vendor history, 
> which is another reason why I'd like to close the books periodically.
>
> Then I'd like to be able to compare prior year to current year numbers!
>
> Then I'd like to budget and compare budget to current year numbers!!
>
>
>> my GNUcash data
>> file is now over 7mb, and it takes GNUcash over a minute to load - half 
>> of
>> while it's sitting there saying 'Loading data...' (Admittedly, my 
>> machine is
>> only a dual celeron 400 and the data file is stored on a NFS mount, but 
>> my
>> local network isn't THAT slow)
>>
>> I'm only using GNUcash to track my personal finances - not business
>> transactions or anything fancy.
>>
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>
>
> Phil



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