Closing Out 2013

[Parker Jones]

> From: mikee at saxicola.idps.co.uk
> On Fri, 3 Jan 2014 04:36:56 +1300
> > Parker Jones <zoubidoo at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > 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?"
> > 
> If you've reconciled your books up to the close of year, (of course you did), and you haven't disabled warnings then that's exactly what does happen.  The warning pop-up I mean.

Thanks for pointing out that gnucash already does this. Obviously I'm not doing something right, I'll have to look into it.