Fiscal Year on Reports

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Fri Jul 11 23:02:43 EDT 2008


Go into the report options and choose "Financial Year"

-derek

Quoting Tony Nelson <tonyn at openlearning.com>:

> Hi Charles,
>
> I shut down GnuCash, backed up a copy
> of /usr/share/gnucash/scm/options.scm, copied your new file on top
> of /usr/share/gnucash/scm/options.scm.
>
> Next, I started GnuCAsh and doubled checked to make sure the accounting
> period was still set to 10/1 through 9/30.  Then I ran an Income
> Statement.  It still defaulted to 1/1/08 through the current date.
>
> Any suggestions?
> --tony
>
> On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 17:07 -0700, Charles Day wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 4:59 PM, Tony Nelson <tonyn at openlearning.com>
>> wrote:
>>         Hi Charles,
>>
>>         Thanks, this is great news.
>>
>>         One question: do I need to wait for next point release to get
>>         this bug
>>         fix or is there an easy way to obtain the fix ahead of 2.2.6?
>>
>> You're in luck. For this particular fix, just make a backup of your
>> existing version of options.scm (search for it) then replace it with
>> this one:
>>
>> http://svn.gnucash.org/trac/browser/gnucash/trunk/src/app-utils/options.scm?rev=17295&format=txt
>>
>> -Charles
>>
>>
>>
>>         Either way is fine.
>>         Regards,
>>         Tony
>>
>>
>>         On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 14:12 -0700, Charles Day wrote:
>>         > 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
>>         >
>>         >         > Please remember to CC this list on all your
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>>         >
>>         >
>>         >         -derek
>>         >
>>         >         --
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