new year

[Gary Holtum]

I use it for tax prep as well as personal accounting. It is most convenient to have a separate file for a tax year.

I used a high end windows program since win 95. Finally, Win7 will not load it even as an XP simulation. So, now I am trying Gnucash.  The other program would close a year and start a new year file with necessary balances. All payee and payer data saved as well.

Looks like I have to start from scratch with empty accounts.

BTW, I know exactly when I purchase items like a washing machine. I have a file for it with warranty info, store invoice, competitive quotes etc.

Gary   

-----Original Message-----
From: Colin Law [mailto:clanlaw at gmail.com] 
Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2015 2:43 PM
To: Gary Holtum
Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: new year

On 8 November 2015 at 18:06, Gary Holtum <diamondhranchqh at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Is there a way to close this year's file and start a new year (new 
> file) carrying over balances in all but the expense accts?

I am curious as to why you would want to do that.

One example of a reason not to is when, for example, you ask yourself when and where you bought the washing machine.  If you just have one file then you can search for "washing machine" and it will find it.
If you have separate files you might have to work through two or three before you found the right year.

Colin

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