GNUCASH: Windows Version - How save Preferences

[Satendra Singh]

Hi All

Thanks.  Yes in Australia dates are always dd/mm/yyyy or dd-mm-yyyy.
I understand that to enter data etc takes time & generating a report could
well be in the middle to late month.
Perhaps my gripe or suggestion is that, once I set a preference for a
reporting period, it will be just fantastic if GnuCash can remember that!
My own 'accounting' period is 01/07/2007 to 30/06/2008.  I always like to
see this full period first & then narrow it down to say 'current' month or
current quarter, etc.

The  Australian taxation period for individuals covers the period 01/07 to
30/06 & indeed companies etc have their own financial year ends.

Anyway, not to worry.  All is fine & I am now used to GnuCash default dates.

Best of Regards
SS




On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 2:44 AM, Charles Day <cedayiv at gmail.com> wrote:

>  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
>