How to close an accounting year and open a new accounting year

[Mike or Penny Novack]

>This part is harder.  There is no way to guarantee read-only access to
>the data.  Anyone who says otherwise is selling you snake oil.
>Seriously.  Someone who wants to change the data can.  If nothing else,
>they could rebuild GnuCash without the date-check code in order to
>modify the data.
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>If you want real verification, write your data file to a write-once
>media like a CD-ROM and store it in a safe deposit box.
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For "legal" purposes that could be in the custody of a third party or 
otherwise "sealed". That could be used at some later date to prove 
copies to which there was access had not been modified/replaced, etc.

Michael