Close book + new file

[Mark]

I am trying to work out the same issue, though I have some additional
requirements of my own to keep gnucash usable for myself.

There is a close-books.pl perl script that looks promising, though I
think it will get me about 80% of what I am looking for.  Look through
the list archives and you will find it has been reposted recently.  I am
currently thinking through exactly what it would take to make it work
for me -- though I think my needs are non-standard.

The issue I have with the script is that it does not handle non-currency
transactions.  I.e: stocks.  I also use gnucash in a less-than-proper
accounting manner in that I always have all assets on the books,
regardless of when they were purchased.  My interest in purging is
getting rid of non-interesting transactions.  In other words, the exact
amount I paid for my electricity bill in January of 1995 is really no
longer interesting to me, but the price I paid for a share of stock in
1995 is still interesting to me and the price I paid for all utilities
over the past 5 years is still interesting.

Roberto Hernandez wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I'm in the process of closing the books for 2008. As far as I know,
> the Tools -> Close Book only creates transactions that zero the Income
> and Expense accounts. This approach is fine, but the system becomes
> slower because all transactions from the previous year remain in the
> data file.
> 
> Therefore, in order to avoid the performance hit, I believe the only
> solution is to start a new data file for 2009. It's either that or
> changing to a database backend instead of XML ;-) (any plans for
> that?)
> 
> I was just wondering whether there is any tool that automates the
> process of creating the starting balance transactions as described in
> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_Is_there_book-closing_support.2C_yet.3F
> 
> TIA
> 
> Roberto
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