Setting financial year

[Brian Dolbec]

On Wed, 2005-18-05 at 07:27 +0100, Ashley Kitson wrote:
> Morning Derek
> 
> I know I can maually set the dates.  It's what I do now.  Hopefully the 
> next release will allow us to set financial years properly.
> 
> For type-ahead, look at the mozilla project 
> http://www.mozilla.org/access/type-ahead/
> 
> You can get the source from http://www.mozilla.org/source.html
> 
> Don't know what it's written in and unfortunately (or fortunately 
> depending on your viewpoint :-) ,) I haven't touched C in years.  Even 
> if this is no good to you, can I suggest that you allow user to type in 
> the vendor etc name rather than have to go through the process of 
> searching for it every time, then simply validate it on textbox exit to 
> ensure it matches (start of word) an existing entry.  This will speed up 
> data entry enormously.
> 
> Looking forward to the next release.  I'll buy that one too. :-)
> 
> Regards
> Ashley

I second that :D
> 
> Derek Atkins wrote:
> > 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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