Carrying over entries to new account

[Linas Vepstas]

On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 08:23:12AM -0400, Derek Atkins was heard to remark:
> Why do you want to do this?

It sounds like an example of book closing.  Many book-keepers like to 
close books monthly. 

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I beleive that there is a menu panel somewhere that can get your
register windows to display unreconciled entries only.  I forget 
where this is in the collection of panels.  I think this will get
you about 80% of the behaviour that you want.

--linas

> bfd <bfd at pcisys.net> writes:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > How can I carry over entries to a new gnucash account?
> >
> > What I want to do for my checking account is, at the end of the month,
> > carry over the ending balance and any outstanding (unreconciled)
> > checks to a new monthly account.
> >
> > In order to do this, I see the following steps:
> >
> >     --- create a template for a monthly account with only the
> >         categories that I need;
> >     --- removing all the reconciled entries;
> >     --- saving the result as a new account OR importing it into a new
> >         account.
> >
> > How can I do this --- I see nothing in gnucash that allows me to
> > select multiple entries for processing nor anything that allows
> > carrying over entries into a new account.

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