Strategies for closing the books (or not) and carrying customers forward

[Derek Atkins]

Right now there isn't a good way to do this with the business
features.  Book closing is being actively pursued in CVS, but
it probably wont be finished (and released) before the end of the
calendar year (at best).

The reports should be sufficient to _mostly_ give you the answers you
want/need.  You may need to fudge a bit at the tail ends to convert
from accrual to cash accounting models.

-derek

Adrian Simmons <adrinux at ntlworld.com> writes:

> Hello,
> 
> I've not managed to find anything recent in the list archives about
> this, but my apologies if this re-treads previous discussions.
> 
> I'm wondering how people currently deal with closing the books at the
> end of a year. Do you copy over the old files, rename them and then
> delete all the transactions?
> 
> I'm particularly wondering about the business features, and how to
> make sure customers vendors etc get transfered to the new year.
> 
> Alternatively I'm thinking of not closing out the books (they aren't
> very complicated and don't have many entries) and just using the
> report features to generate the info I need for my (UK) tax return.
> 
> How do you, dear gnucash users, deal with this?
> 
> 
> FYI I'm using Gnucash 1.8.5 installed on OSX 10.2 using Fink.
> 
> Adrian
> 
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