Setting financial year

[Derek Atkins]

Just set the reports and leave them open.  I.e., when you quit from
gnucash, leave the report tabs open.  Next time you start gnucash it
will re-run the reports and your settings will be saved.

-derek

Thomas Spahni <tsp at lawbiz.ch> writes:

> 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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