Trouble setting accounting period

[ANTHONY NELSON]

Hi Michael,

I can assure you that I thought about this for more than a moment, and even consulted the documentation before sending my email query.  Obviously I did not find the right place, as I'm sure this is all well documented.

Anyway, I do appreciate the response, it all works as you outlined.  

--Tony


On Feb 5, 2014, at 12:31 PM, Mike or Penny Novack <stepbystepfarm at mtdata.com> wrote:

> ANTHONY NELSON wrote:
> 
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> My CPA wants me to run some reports from last year, which for me ended 9/30/2012. 
>> When I go to the Accounting Period screen and set the accounting period properly the change does not seem to take.  See screen shot:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> When I run a report or even get out of GnuCash Preferences and go back in the accounting period is back to the current year rather than what I have set.  I've tried to save the file, quit out of GnuCash, and go back in, but that does not work either.
>> 
>> Also, I notice on Preferences screens there is a "Close" button, but not a "Save" button. 
>> How can I get around this problem?
>> 
> By learning how and where you set the date range when running a report?
> 
> When new with some piece of software early on you want to learn how it works. In the case of gnucash reports, you want to learn how you specify all the options you want in effect for THIS run of the report. There are LOTS of options. These include things like what accounts to include, how deep to show nesting, how and what to subtotal, what you want the reports called and what title should display, AND (very important in your case) the DATES for this running of this report.
> 
> If you had thought about for a moment you might have realized that needing to (re)produce reports for times not the current real time would be so common that this wouldn't be something you'd want in global preferences.
> 
> OK -----
> 1) run a report (for the moment ignore that the dates aren't what you want)
> 2) Edit => Report Options
>  This brings up for you a menu where you have pages of options you can change. I suggest in the learning phase you go through this and find out about ALL of the things you can change. Among them will be the effective dates for the running of this report (change those, apply, and the report will change).
> 
> Michael
> 
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