Setting financial year

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Note that you can always manually set the start/end dates in the reports.  Is
this a bit cumbersome?  Sure, but it means you can still get the functionality
you want.  It's just a bit more work than setting a global financial year
setting.

As for the business search functionality, give me a C implementation of a phrase
wheel widget and I'll gladly plug it in.  Unfortunately no such widget exists. 
Someone sent my python code about two years ago and I've been asking on this
list (and the -devel list) since then for someone to translate it to C.  Still,
nobody has done that.  So it's not for lack of understanding that the code is
written the way it is; it's for lack of supported widgets to do the work for us
(and the lack of time to actually write one ourselves).

Also keep in mind that 1.8 is the FIRST release with any business support.  But
I promise you that if you're not completely satisfied with GnuCash I'll
personally refund your purchase price times three!  :)

-derek

Quoting Ashley Kitson <akitson at bbcb.co.uk>:

> David (and also Josh who replied in the same vein)
> 
> Thanks for the info;  I have no inclination to get morassed in coding 
> the program.  I do enough of that in the open source Xoops CMS world. 
> (in fact I'm writing a simple accounting module called SACC amongst 
> other things.)
> 
> Having recently upgraded to 1.8 I was hoping that the business 
> functionality might be a bit more useful.  Obviously I am to be let down 
> on this occasion.
> 
> It strikes me that perhaps the developers are not versed in simple (and 
> I do mean simple) business accounting.  Hard coding a financial year end 
> is absurd.  There appears to be some big holes in the business 
> functionality (the vendor/customer/ selection process is extraordinary 
> for instance [no one heard of type-ahead?], no bulk post etc etc.) But 
> hey ho, I can always go and use Sage I suppose. Shame really as I've 
> been using gnucash for a couple of years.
> 
> Regards
> Ashley
> 
> David Harrison wrote:
> > On 5/17/05, Ashley Kitson <akitson at bbcb.co.uk> wrote:
> > 
> >>I've looked everywhere and although there is an option to choose the
> >>current and previous financial year in some reports, where do actually
> >>set the dates for your business?
> >>
> >>Regards
> >>Ashley
> > 
> > 
> > According to the documentation at the wiki, you can't.  
> > See
>
http://gnomesupport.org/wiki/index.php/GnuCashFaq#Q:_The_fiscal_year_is_July_1-June_30.2C_how_can_I_change_that.3F
> > 
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