Starting a new year

[Derek Atkins]

hi,

Quoting Manfred Jung <mjung at ccm.org.za>:

> Hi I'm new to GnuCash, yet I have entered one financial year worth of
> transactions in the program. Now I have to start the new year. I
> seareche for documentation all afternoon but seem not to find what I need.
>
> Some how it must produce a new file with the old balances but without
> the transactions. How to do that. I tried to export the accounts but
> then there are no opening balances. I have tried to "close book" but
> then the old transacctions are still there.

Why do you feel you need this?  GnuCash is perfectly happy to report
purely on the year, so unless you have a specific reason there's no
cause to start a new file every year.  You are correct that the current
book closing is just a simple helper to zero-ize the Income and Expense
accounts, but it does not remove the transaction history.

> Can someone please point me to the right way of doing this.

If you REALLY want to start a new file you can File -> Export Accounts
and then reset the balances manually.  But this only exports accounts.
Nothing else.

> Any help is much appreciated.

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-derek

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