[GNC] Default Accounting period permanent change (Ver 4.6 still..)

[Fred Bone]

On 09 October 2021 at 23:37, Doug said:

> Thanks Alan. Yes, knew that. I am certainly no accountant, but manage to
> bumble along.
> 
>  I think it might be possible to set the defaults in the setup file, but
>  honestly have not looked. 
> What I would like is to be able to define the Financial Year
> start/Financial Year end in setup so
>  it always defaults to the current financial year ()which in Australia´s
>  case is 1 July to 30 June).
> 
>  I wonder how many other countries have non-Calendar year Financial years?
>  I guess the UK might copy us 
> seeing we seem to copy their laws in our early days.

The UK fiscal year end is the perfectly obvious 5 April. This was of 
course recently(*) adjusted from the original 25 March, being the first 
Quarter Day in the calendar year (the Quarters, naturally, being keyed to 
25 December, Christmas Day).

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