Fiscal Year on Reports

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Thu Jul 10 13:40:36 EDT 2008


Hi,

Tony Nelson <tonyn at openlearning.com> writes:

> Hi All,
>
> I have set GnuCash to conform to our fiscal year (Edit -> Preferences ->
> Accounting Period) which runs from 10/1 to 9/30 each year.  After doing
> so I expected reports to default to our fiscal year but they don't.

Sorry, no, they don't.

> For example if I run an Income Statement report it automatically uses
> the calendar year rather than my accounting period.  Of course, I can
> manually change the Income Statement starting and ending dates.  But I'm
> wondering if there is a way to have my reports automatically use the
> accounting period by default?

Yeah, that feature was never quite finished.  The reports don't
use the global setting yet.

> If not, please consider this a low low low priority feature request.

If it's not already in Bugzilla, please put it there so we don't
forget.

> Regards,
> Tony

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-derek

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