[GNC] Accounting period on a per-file basis?

[Michael or Penny Novack]

> To Michael's point, setting specific dates, that's not as convenient,
> but maybe saving one report with two sets of options will reduce the
> amount of date selection I have to do, even if it doesn't reduce it to
> zero.

Perhaps lack of clarity what is meant by "saved report"

Thus for any entity, I would (at least) be running a "Statement of 
Revenues and Expenses" (the business world would call P&L) and a balance 
sheet quarterly). I would be SAVING these by exporting from gnucash into 
the "financial reports" folder of the organization using a file name 
incorporating the Julian date (the effective date as opposed to real 
time date when run. All that I would have SAVED of the report in gnucash 
would be the display preferences, accounts excluded if any, etc.. I 
would expect to EACH TIME enter the effective dates of the run. I would 
find things like "current year", "current quarter", etc. not terribly 
useful as what those mean would depend on the real time date when the 
report was run.

Understand? Am I running the year end reports the night of Jan 31st? 
Probably not. Probably not until a few days into the next year. But 
maybe, depending on how New Years fell, I would be running before the 
end of the year (say the 31st was a Monday -- well the 30th would not be 
a "business day" and the 29th the last day for external transactions ). 
In other words, the meaning of "current year, current quarter, etc. is 
unclear. Explicit dates are clear.

Michael D Novack