Setting financial year

[Thomas Spahni]

Hi Derek,

I am one of those users who start with a new file each year. That means
with my file 'acc05' I want all reports from start date 2005-01-01 to end
date 2005-12-31. All the time. I don't mind to enter this manually once
for each report, but it would be perfect if this could become the default
value from then on. Could the reporting period be saved as a default value
on a per file basis? That is high on my wish list.

Besides this I am very happy with gnucash.

Thomas Spahni, Zurich / Switzerland


On Tue, 17 May 2005, 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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