Different accounting periods for different files?

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Thu Aug 12 16:17:59 EDT 2010


Alan Munn <amunn at gmx.com> writes:

> Hi, I've just started to use gnuCash, but I couldn't find any mention
> of this in the documentation or archive.  There is a general
> preference for setting the accounting period, but I have different
> sets of accounts, some which use July 1 as the beginning of the fiscal
> year, and others, Jan 1.  Is there a way to set the accounting period
> for a file as opposed to the application itself?

Unfortunately, no.  This is an oft-requested feature.  The issue is that
there are three types of "preferences" but only two places where stuff
is currently stored..  And the actual preferences aren't necessarily in
the correct place (as you've found with the Period prefs).

Right now the easiest way to do what you want would be to set up
multiple home directories which could (potentially) contain different
sets of config files.  But I don't know if GConf would support that.
E.g.:

env HOME=/home/<me>/Acct1 gnucash /home/<me>/Acct1/GnuCash/data
env HOME=/home/<me>/Acct2 gnucash /home/<me>/Acct2/GnuCash/data
...

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-derek

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