Different accounting periods for different files?

Alan Munn amunn at gmx.com
Thu Aug 12 19:21:50 EDT 2010


On Aug 12, 2010, at 4:17 PM, Derek Atkins wrote:

> 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).

Oh well.  Thanks for confirming this.

>
> 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
> ...
>

I see.  I might try that out.

Thanks again.

Alan


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