Fiscal Year on Reports

[Charles Day]

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:

> 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.
>

Fix committed as r17295. Appeared to only need a two-line change. I hope it
is really that easy (it appears to work). I will update the bug (#542472).

-Charles


> > Regards,
> > Tony
>
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