Fiscal Year on Reports
Tony Nelson
tonyn at openlearning.com
Sat Jul 12 04:28:29 EDT 2008
Hi Guys,
The new file is definitely in place. Below you can see my original
options.scm (now backed up as Desktop/options.scm-). You can also see
the new option.scm file on my Desktop and also
in /usr/share/gnucash/scm. Both are 56574 bytes.
tonyn at ubuntu1:~/Desktop$ ls -l options.scm*
-rw-r--r-- 1 tonyn tonyn 56574 2008-07-11 19:43 options.scm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 56516 2008-07-11 19:44 options.scm-
tonyn at ubuntu1:~/Desktop$ ls -l /usr/share/gnucash/scm/options.scm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 56574 2008-07-11
19:46 /usr/share/gnucash/scm/options.scm
Perhaps I am not setting the report options properly?
>From Edit -> Preferences -> Accounting Period I am setting the correct
fiscal year start and end dates.
Then from the Income Statement itself, I am choosing Options -> General
-> Start Date -> Start of Financial Period
This works, but only for that iteration of the report. If I close the
report and reopen it, the new iteration shows a report dated from the
beginning of the calendar year.
I don't see a global place to set report start and end dates. I would
expect to see it at Edit -> Preferences -> Report, but here I am only
able to set the Default Report Currency or set whether or not a report
opens in a new window.
Regards,
Tony
On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 20:55 -0700, Charles Day wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 7:53 PM, Tony Nelson <tonyn at openlearning.com>
> wrote:
> 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?
>
> Hmm. Not sure what to tell you... for me the report options are set to
> "Start of financial period" and "End of financial period" by default
> now. No matter which file I open with GnuCash, when I run the Income
> Statement I see the custom financial year dates. Did you try Derek's
> suggestion? Double-checked that /usr/share/gnucash/scm/options.scm is
> actually different from your backup? Any other copies of options.scm
> floating around?
>
> -Charles
>
>
>
> --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
> > >
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> > >
> > >
> > > -derek
> > >
> > > --
> > > Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95
> MIT Media
> > Laboratory
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