accounting period

[Derek Atkins]

Tarlika Elisabeth Schmitz <gnucash at numerixtechnology.de> writes:

> The UK tax year starts on 6th April.
>
> In Preferences->Accounting Period I can either enter a generic date
> (e.g. start of year) or a specific date, which I have to amend
> at the beginning of every tax year.
>
> Is this the way to set my accountingperiod from 6th April to 5th April?

Yes.  Unfortunately you cannot just specify "April 6 - April 5"; you
need to change it every year.  I believe there is an open bug for this,
but obviously nobody has written code to solve it.

-derek

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