Setting financial year

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Unfortunately the Moz license is not source-compatible with GPL, so
I cannot just take Mozilla's code and plonk it into GnuCash.

-derek

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

> 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
>
> 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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>
>

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