GNUCASH: Windows Version - How save Preferences

[Charles Day]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Mike or Penny Novack <
stepbystepfarm at mtdata.com> wrote:

>
> > Hi Derek
> >
> > Thanks. I think you have answered my query that in GnuCash we cannot
> > preset
> > any date period & then GnuCash keeps that and uses that to generate
> > reports
> > etc.
> >
> > You see, when I generate say the Income Statement, it defaults to
> > (01-01-2008), but this is one place I want to fix my reporting period. In
> > Australia, Individual Accounting period is from 01-07-2008 to
> > 30-06-2008 NOT
> > 01-01-YYYY. Right now I generate the report, the via Options, reset the
> > Start Date as the Drop Down menus do not translate to Australian
> > Accounting
> > period. Perhaps we will see in future.
> >
> > Anyway, an excellent product by any standards.
> >
> > Thanks for you time.
> >
> > Regards.
>
> Satendra,
>
>     This isn't precisely a GnuCash issue. There isn't ANY particular
> range of dates for which GnuCash can assume financial reports must be
> run and in many jurisdictions one can SELECT to report by "fiscal date"
> (not necessarily coinciding with some particular calendar dates). In
> fact it is not terribly unusual for a business to have some calendar
> date which is NOT included in the fiscal year -- a date where the
> computer programs run just to do "year end" processing but no EXTERNAL
> financials take place.
>
>    In other words, in general you have to specify the dates for which
> you want reports generated. All GnuCash is doing here is selecting YTD
> (year to date) as representing the most likely value SINGLE possibility
> for the default. But given all the possibilities, being more probable
> than any other single possibility doesn't mean many people will be able
> to use it "as is". The START date might be OK, but how many of us run
> our reports immediately as of the end of the period in "real time".
> Usually whoever is doing the books needs at least a little time to get
> all the entries posted and whoops, real time we are now a day or two
> into the next month or the next quarter, etc. So almost all of us have
> to use options to adjust at least the END date.
>
> Michael
>
> PS: I assume that (in Australia) the date range January 1-6 represents
> "days where it is assumed no business takes place", some sort of "bank
> holiday"? Dates you can use for your year end processing?
>

Australia's tax year normally runs from July 1st through June 30th. They
writes dates as DD-MM-YYYY, so 01-07-2008 meant July 1, 2008. -Charles