Cash Flow Report

[Charles Brescia]

Mike:
    Thanks for the input, one of the features of GnuCash that makes it so
useful is this forum and all the people so willing to help.  That work
around would certainly work, as did the one I tried.  What I am seeking
here however is what I see as an improvement to the Cash Flow report that
wouldn't have those issues to begin with.  The P&L report IS the format and
functionality that I seek in the Cash Flow report.  Geert had suggested on
another forum that I come here to make my suggested improvements.  But I do
appreciate all the people that come here to help.

Charles


On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 4:14 PM, Mike or Penny Novack <
stepbystepfarm at mtdata.com> wrote:

>
>  and when I use the P&L report for a prior year
>> I have to date it from 1/1/?? to 12/30/?? because of the way GnuCash
>> closes
>> out Income & Expense categories.  If I date it all the way to 12/31/?? I
>> get nothing but zeros.
>>
> OK, I can help you with this one. You are using "close the books" and
> having a problem with the fact that there is no "date that is not a date"
> between the years on which to do the close operation. Here is what to do
> <<year end processing >>
>
> 1) When you have all transactions for the current year entered but BEFORE
> you do the "close the books" copy the file giving it a name like
> "precloseYYYY" and also copy that to backup.
> 2) Now run "close the books" and make a backup copy "postcloseYYYY"
>
> Whenever you wan to (re)run the P&L ("Income Statement" for YYYY) specify
> that you want gnucash to open "precloseYYYY". However if you have once run
> it (say before having closed the books) and exported it and saved a copy to
> backup you shouldn't have to rerun it.
>
> Understand? Your apparent problem is just not having a reasonable backup
> procedure in place. Backups are necessary. It isn't a matter of if your
> machine will die but when.
>
> Michael
>
>