How to set up a new year 2012 and to make (print) the Genral ledger?

[Graham Stoddart-Stones]

Wouter: 


Your option 3 will work. Just carry on making entries for 2012 in the same accounts you used for 2011. 


GnuCash does not have a year-end facility - instead, all its reports have the option of setting start and end dates. So if you want to run reports for 2012, go the reports menu, and select the report that you want (as you did for 2011). (Note that the report will run, and produce a result, which may or may not be to your liking, depending upon how the accounting year is set up. Ignore this). Under the Options menu, under the General tab, you will find that you can select the period for which you want the report to cover. The radio button defaults to Period settings, which you can choose if appropriate. Alternatively, you can change the radio buttons to Start and End dates, and select whatever you wish. Click on OK, and the report will run again, this time covering the dates that you want. That should answer your question 4. 


Hope that this helps! 


Graham 


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----- Original Message -----

From: "Wouter A BOS" <w.bos at bosservices.com> 
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org 
Sent: Sunday, 3 February, 2013 10:06:44 AM 
Subject: How to set up a new year 2012 and to make (print) the Genral ledger? 

Hello, 



Thank you for your help. 

I am Dutch and support my wife with her administration. We live in France. 
My wife runs a medical practise in a rural (social) area. 

For the year 2011 I managed to do her administration in GnuCash. I remember 
that I set-up her file with her accounts (I changed the names of the 
accounts to match the French accounting system - hereunder print screen). 

After that I was able to inform her accountant and able to print for the 
accountant the General Ledger in Excel. All was fine and I was proud to have 
done this (I am not a bookkeeper or accountant and as being 62 not so quick 
with all the softwareJ) 



Since 3 hours I am struggling to start again and to do her administration of 
last year (2012). I need some help to get started again. I think my 
questions are as follows: 



1) Can I simply use her same account as I created for 2011 (print 
hereunder). 

2) Should I make a copy of her file and then open each Account i.e.: 70 
RECETTES > Honoraires encaisses > and override every entry of 2011 and with 
these of 2012? 

3) Or could I simply keep using the file of 2011 and write under the 
2011 entries her new 2012 entries. 

4) But if I do that, how can I produce than the General ledger 2012 as 
I did for 2011 (see print screen)? 



As you see, I am really lost. 



Thank you for getting me back again into the procedure. 



With kind regards, 



Wouter 



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