Starting a new set of accounts from an old one

[David Sumbler]

Thanks for that information.

I have tried your suggestion and it's straightforward enough, though not
as simple as I thought it might be: I had assumed there was probably
some way of acheiving it with GnuCash doing all the work of transferring
the old asset and liability balances to the new accounts.  It seems such
a fundamental thing to want to do that I thought GnuCash would have an
option to do it in one click or so!

David

On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 11:28 -0700, David T. wrote:
> 
> --- On Tue, 3/22/11, David Sumbler <david at aeolia.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > From: David Sumbler <david at aeolia.co.uk>
> > Subject: Starting a new set of accounts from an old one
> > To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> > Date: Tuesday, March 22, 2011, 6:54 AM
> > At the end of my 2010-11 accounting
> > year I shall want to start a new set
> > of GNUcash files for the year 2011-12, using the same
> > account hierarchy
> > as my 2010-11 accounts, and with opening balances equal to
> > the closing
> > balances of the earlier accounts.
> > 
> > I am sure there must be an easy way to do this, but I can't
> > find it.
> > Can somebody point me in the right direction, please?
> > 
> 
> As I understand it (I don't close my own books, so my understanding is based on what I've read), your path is:
> 
> 1) Use the File->Export->Export Accounts option to export an empty Chart of Accounts to a new file
> 2) Generate a report of current balances
> 3) Open new file and enter the opening balances.
> 
> HTH,
> David
> 
> 
> > David
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