[GNC] Am I being a muppet?

[Fred Bone]

On 03 March 2020 at 17:50, Uttam Chakravorty said:

> >    1. Re:  show previous years totals on account page?
> >       (Adrien Monteleone)
> >    "you can run the multicolumn Income Statement, from the Reports > 
> > Experimental menu. Select a range of several years in Options > General
> > and also set Period duration to ‘Year’"
> 
> 
> The topic and Adrien's advice resonated so I had to have a go.  And it
> works well.
> 
> However, I did a 'close books' on 31st December 2018 (year = Jan - Dec). 
>   I am therefore getting nothing in the 2018 column and assume I won't get
> anything even in the 2019 (Dec 2019) once I close it.  This is not too
> horrible as I keep the html reports.  However, I would like to know if I'm
> missing a trick or just being stupid.

You can always delete the closing transactions - probably best done from 
the relevant Equity account, as they're easily found there. 

If you want them back, it's easy enough to re-do the "close books". Or, 
if you're using the XML file format, just reopen the file without saving 
it.