Separating Years

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Wed Mar 30 15:05:58 EST 2005


Quoting Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>:

> On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Josh Sled wrote:
> 
> > Open the exported CoA _as_ your new data-file.
> 
> Josh,
> 
>    I thought that I had tried that, but apparently not. Now it works.
> 
>    Other than the lack of ending/beginning account balance transfers, it's
> functionally the equivalent of closing the books for the year.

Right, it's only exporting the Chart of Accounts..  It's not really a year-end
close feature..  And in fact this option doesn't work if you have any business
objects or scheduled transactions or anything ELSE you want to keep.  File ->
Export Accounts literally exports JUST the account tree.

Good Luck,

-derek

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