Gnucash file is getting long!

DaveC49 davidcousens at bigpond.com
Wed Jun 14 18:55:01 EDT 2017


John, 

The simplest method would be to create a new file at the end of an
accounting period, export the chart of accounts and then reset the opening
balances to the closing balances in your old file. You would need to perform
any adjustments to the accounts depending on whether your accounting is on a
cash or accrual basis and close your expense and income accounts to equity
(there is a documented procedure for this) before starting the new file. The
reports functionality should generally be able to work with this  (if not it
is a bug which needs to be fixed) as this would be the situation when
starting a new set of books in gnucash for an ongoing business. It does mean
though that you will not be able to get a full history on depreciating
assets and similar without going back to your old file and combining reports
from the old file and the new file.  There are a number of discussions in
the archive about closing the books and using or not using a new file as it
comes up each year.

David Cousens



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