Perl script for "closing the books" in a GnuCash file

David T. sunfish62 at yahoo.com
Mon Apr 5 14:41:16 EDT 2010


There isn't a lot of documentation on this feature, but there have been numerous discussions over the last year or so about this.

--- On Sun, 4/4/10, John R. Carter, Sr. <john at jrcarter.com> wrote:

> From: John R. Carter, Sr. <john at jrcarter.com>
> Subject: Re: Perl script for "closing the books" in a GnuCash file
> To: "David T." <sunfish62 at yahoo.com>
> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Date: Sunday, April 4, 2010, 9:12 PM
> Thanks. For the first time, I see
> that it truncates transactions on and before the date given.
> Couldn't find the documentation for Tools->Close Books,
> so flying by the seat of my pants.
> 
> On Apr 4, 2010, at 8:02 PM, David T. wrote:
> 
> > John-- 
> > 
> > Before you engage in this script, try looking under
> the Tools menu. There's a Close books option that has been
> integrated into Gnucash proper.
> > 
> > David
> > 
> > --- On Sun, 4/4/10, John R. Carter, Sr. <john at jrcarter.com>
> wrote:
> > 
> >> From: John R. Carter, Sr. <john at jrcarter.com>
> >> Subject: Perl script for "closing the books" in a
> GnuCash file
> >> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> >> Date: Sunday, April 4, 2010, 3:29 PM
> >> Hi Jonathan. I just came across your
> >> perl script for closing the books on GnuCash
> (posted Jan 31,
> >> 2005 at
> >>
> lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2005-January/012817.html).
> >> Nice! However, it doesn't run on my Mac (OSX
> 10.6.2) due to
> >> "Can't locate XML/DOM.pm", and probably more. My
> perl is
> >> either 5.10.0 or 5.8.9, whichever one I want to
> access. That
> >> script might not work on the latest version of
> GnuCash
> >> anyway (2.2.9 for the Mac).
> >> 
> >> Maybe you have an update on that script?
> >> 
> 
> John Carter
> 


      


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