Starting a new set of accounts from an old one

[Derek Atkins]

David Sumbler <david at aeolia.co.uk> writes:

> 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.

Sure, but you can't easily do a side-by-side history comparrison; you
would need to have two copies of GnuCash open to do so.

Is there some technical reason you want to start from scratch?  Or is it
a perception that it would be easier to start from scratch?  (Keep in
mind that the Export Accounts feature also loses all business state).

> David

-derek

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