Year end issues

[David T.]

No, there isn’t. The Close book feature simply creates a transaction that zeroes out your income and expense accounts as of a given date.

In a double entry accounting system, if you delete the expense side of the transaction, what do you suggest doing for the Checking account side? If you are desperate to clear out older transactions, you will most likely have to create a new file with a new set of opening balances. See https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Closing_Books <https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Closing_Books>

Of course, many people prefer to keep historical transactions, and use reports to extract subsets of their file as needed.

David

> On Jan 15, 2018, at 8:03 PM, Jack Whyte <jvwhyte at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi there
> 
> I have used GNU Cash for a number of years to monitor my personal finances.   I have just run the Tools > Close book function to clear down all my expense & income account balances as at 31/12/17 however I seem to have transactions in all of these accounts going back, in some cases, to 2009/2010.
> 
> Can someone please advise me if there is a straightforward mechanism to delete all transactions in these accounts - say, up to and including 31/12/2016 as I am concerned the file, currently at around 1.3MB, will become unwieldy and unmanageable.
> 
> Thanks & regards
> Jack
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