year end

[Derek Atkins]

Blair Lowe <gnucash at zedemail.ca> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Thanks again for the response ...
>
> We need to have that accounts receivable matched with our year end AND
> we need to be able to mine data from previous years.
>
> The largest issue is that in January, you cannot see any data from
> December: far less than a year.

Wait, which report are you talking about?  You're talking about the
Receivables Aging Report, right?  That report only shows unpaid
invoices.  If an invoice is paid, it's not shown in the report.  So my
statement still stands -- if you're in December and still have a
January invoice that hasn't been paid you have bigger issues than your
accounting software.

> Also, the accounts receivable account does not go away at year end, in
> fact it is used to roll over debts into the next fiscal year.

Yes, and?

> Tell me how to change that stuff, and I can do it myself, and deliver a
> patch or new report source or something to the group.
>
> What language are those reports written in?

All reports are written in Scheme.

> Blair.

-derek

> On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 11:31, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> 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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