year end

[Blair Lowe]

On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 12:35, Derek Atkins wrote:
> 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.

No - more sinister than that - October, November or December 2004
invoice that has not been paid in January 2005: nothing from 2004 shows
up even though our year end is not Dec. 31.

> 
> > 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?

It is not even year end, and we now have no idea who owes us money due
to the problem with the receivables aging report.

> 
> > 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.

Hmmm. Never used that. I am sure it is quite simple though: where is the
reference manual?

> 
> > 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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