Can I set a start date 25th?

[Liz]

On Sat, 5 Nov 2011 13:00:59 -0700
Alex Aycinena <alex.aycinena at gmail.com> wrote:

> It's the same thing with all accounting rules or policies in general:
> the fact that a taxing authority may impose a given rule or policy
> does not require you to use it for your own private accounting
> purposes. You simply need to be able to convert from yours to theirs
> and back again. with an 'audit trail'.
> 
> Sometimes, based on the comments made on the list, I think people
> loose track of this distinction.

I think that there are some philosophical matters.
As the users of Gnucash increase in number, they also increase in
diversity. I see more emails from people struggling to write in
English, and I see more people who have not been trained in the
opensource way of development. 
They meet up here with native English speakers who understand the
opensource development method.

Each of these people makes their own assumptions about what the program
is intended to do, and how they are going to make the program do what
they would like it to do.

A business owner like me does think about annual, monthly and quarterly
reports.
The OP thinks about being paid monthly, and having to be sure the money
reaches to the next pay day.
Neither of these are 'wrong', and neither is the whole story. 
Would a person paid weekly or fortnightly want a report frequency to
correspond?

Back to the OP's request.
In the opensource development model, this is a "feature request". This
maybe discussed with others on irc, or on a mailing list, then added to
a website which is used to keep track of these requests (see
http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Bugzilla for more information). The
developers know that's where they look for these sort of requests.

For someone who has more understanding of closed-source software, there
is no public place to record requests, bugs and they often find this
mailing list through the forum interface provided at
http://www.nabble.com/ .
They don't find the FAQs or the wiki first, and the query comes here.

OP = original poster  so no-one has to guess or search 

Liz