Closing Out 2013

[Parker Jones]

> From: warlord at MIT.EDU
> Note that there is not requirement that you Close the Books.  Indeed,
> all this does is zeroize your Income and Expense accounts, rolling them
> up into Equity.  The reports can do that for you already, so all it
> really does is fix up the Chart of Accounts for you to show you
> year-to-date totals.
> 
> One thing it does NOT do is prevent you from entering transactions in
> the past.  

It has happened several times that I've added a transaction and inadvertently entered the wrong date, somewhere in the past.  Since there is no undo function, I've had to hunt down the transaction which was a waste of time.  Does this only happen to me?

I wonder whether the ability to lock previous years, prohibiting changes in the past, is a feature anybody else would appreciate?  Or at least, a pop-up saying "You are about to add a transaction to a previous year, are you sure Y/N?"

P. Jones