Starting a new set of accounts from an old one

David Sumbler david at aeolia.co.uk
Wed Mar 23 09:07:11 EDT 2011


On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 08:49 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> David Sumbler <david at aeolia.co.uk> writes:
> 
> > 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!
> 
> Is there any reason you want to lose all your history?

I shan't lose the history: it will still be with the old account.  But I
don't need a history of 2010-11 with my 2011-12 account.

David



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