retiring old transations?

[Michael T. Garrison Stuber]

On Saturday 06 September 2003 02:00 pm, reriding at xmission.com wrote:
> Well, I simply save the year's data in ~/gnucash/<year>, clone the
> account structure, and use the year-end balances as opening balances via
> the equity account, then save again as ~/gnucash/<new_year>.  Thus I
> have only one year's transactions at a time in any file, but can easily
> reload the old transactions by opening the year they are from.

This works for most things, but is problematic when it comes to investments 
where you want to track specific lots for tax purposes.  Glad to hear that 
the end of year close out feature is coming RSN.