[GNC] New tax year - unexpected GnuCash display

[Simon Roberts]

Do you have UK date style selected? Or do you have the tax year starting
on  june 4th?

On Thu, Apr 6, 2023 at 9:23 AM aeg via gnucash-user <
gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:

> I'm using GnuCash Version 4.12 on Windows 10, and today, 6 April, is the
> beginning of the new UK tax year.
> As I have the "Total (Period)" column showing in the COE, I was expecting
> to see mostly zeros in that column today, but was surprised to see many
> totals much higher than that, and in the region of what I might have
> expected if it had not been a new fiscal year.
> Under Preferences/Accounting Period/Start Date, the selection is
> Absolute:6/4/23, and under End Date, the selection is Relative:Today.
> In previous years, this arrangement has appeared to work as expected, and
> the only other change I've made since last year is an upgrade from GC 3.5
> to GC 4.12.
> Today, after a series of trial-and-error changes to the Preferences setup,
> each followed by a restart of the program, I've managed to get it working
> as expected, with the final setting the same was at the start. Although it
> now seems that all is well, I'd be interested to know how this problem
> might have occurred, and whether there is anything I should have done to
> prevent it, or whether there might be a bug in the program that others may
> be able to identify. Also, is there any possibility that other totals in
> that column may have been inaccurate during the last 12 months but were
> less easy to spot than they were today?
>
> Regards,Alan
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