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
>> >
>> > --
>> > Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media
>> Laboratory
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