Alternate Accounting Period for Reports

[Wm]

Fri, 16 Jan 2015 17:16:13 
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Jason Martin

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>Thanks for the replies.  Does setting the "Edit / Preferences /
>Accounting period / Absolute" have other side effects over leaving it
>default?  Anything I'll have to watch out for if I set it?

Not that I can think of, it is mainly a convenience for reporting 
purposes if your financial period (which gnc allows you to change) 
doesn't match up with calendar years / quarters / months.

e.g. an org I'm working with uses a UK academic year as their financial 
year so I set the accounting periods appropriately using absolute and 
then just change the years as needed when I run through the report 
series, the individual reports all just use Start of accounting period / 
End of accounting period.

If I've understood what you are trying to do correctly you'd set 
absolute periods of (say)
2015-01-25 and 2015-02-24
report on accounting period and shift the month onwards as and when

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