year end
Derek Atkins
warlord at MIT.EDU
Thu Jan 6 13:31:57 EST 2005
The receivable report has an end date and looks back 360 days. No,
there's no user-setting to change that. I kind of figured that if you
hadn't been paid in a year then you had bigger trouble than gnucash
failing to report it.
-derek
Blair Lowe <gnucash at zedemail.ca> writes:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for all the info so far: it is greatly appreciated.
>
> OK I looked at the options for the "accounts receivable report". That is
> the problem here. It only has one date that you can set, and if you now
> (in 2005) set it to December 31, 2004, it will not show data in 2004:
> major issue. We need to span years, for example, from 2004/03/01 to
> 2005/02/28.
>
> Is there somewhere else that we can set a start and end date for the
> accounts receivable report, and other year end type reports?
>
> BTW, we are using gnucash rpm version: gnucash-1.8.8-0.9
>
> Thanks,
> Blair.
>
> On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 17:16, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> Tom from Cary <tom0613 at mindspring.com> writes:
>>
>> > I sure don't recommend that you take my word for this, but it's possible
>> > that the answer may be: you can't. I use GnuCash 1.6.6, and it's my
>> > impression that in that release, at least, GnuCash simply has no concept
>> > of a fiscal year.
>>
>> In the various report options you can set the start date and end date
>> of the reports to anything you wish. There is even a "Fiscal Year
>> Start" and "Fiscal Year End" option, but those default to July 1/June
>> 30. There's no way to change that.
>>
>> Gnucash also has no "end of year" processing, so there's no way to
>> "close the books". But that's ok -- the reports all do the right
>> thing and handle data across year boundaries.
>>
>> -derek
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