[GNC] Modifying the Register

[R Losey]

You don't have to do anything special as far as GnuCash is concerned. I
have 9 years of data, and my file is 2.4M in size.

However, some people enjoy zeroing Income and Expenses each year to Equity
(I learned about it last year, and tried it, and I really like the benefits
I get from it). For me, I created a FYnnnn account under Equity, and then
and an "yyyyIncome" and "yyyyExpense" sub-accounts under the
FYnnnn account. All expenses have their  balances as of 31 Dec transferred
to the "nnnnExpense" account and all the income accounts have their balance
as of 31 Dec transferred to "nnnnIncome".

[As people here have pointed out, the only small drawback is that you
generally don't want to have income/expenses on 31 Dec - so that when
reports are run, the end of December (or the end of the year) should be set
to 30 Dec. If you use 31 Dec, it will include the equity transfer, and the
numbers reported will be zero. But I can live with the workaround.]

But this is absolutely NOT required for GnuCash... it's a great program, as
you can use it as you choose to fit what you need to track and what you
want to track.



On Sat, Dec 21, 2024 at 8:33 PM G Elevich <tkb355 at gmail.com> wrote:

> While I have your attention. I am not a business owner, and I don't have
> any special year end close out or reporting to do. Do I need to do anything
> special at year end, or can I just keep posting transactions into the new
> year?
>
> Thank you, and Merry Christmas.
>
> On Fri, Dec 20, 2024 at 10:03 PM Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:
>
> > There is a memo field tied to each split of a transaction, which you see
> > in expanded (split view / journal) mode.
> > There is also a transaction note field, which is visible in double - line
> > mode.
> > The order and placement of these fields is not user-editable.
> > Enjoy!
> > -derek
> > Sent using my mobile device. Please excuse any typos.
> >
> > On December 20, 2024 21:42:58 David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> > Please reply all to keep your message in the list.  This time I did it
> for
> >> you.
> >>
> >> No, the structure of the transaction register and the transaction editor
> >> is
> >> baked into GnuCash.
> >>
> >> On Fri, Dec 20, 2024 at 8:29 PM G Elevich <tkb355 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Your last sentence is what I was getting at. If the structure of the
> >>> transaction view is fixed, then I cannot add a field to it?
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, Dec 20, 2024 at 5:40 PM David Carlson <
> >>> david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I do not fully understand your question.
> >>>>
> >>>> When you are editing a transaction (in Autosplit Ledger or Transaction
> >>>> Journal view) there is an extra split line at the bottom of the
> >>>> transaction
> >>>> where you can enter an additional memo with whatever transfer account
> >>>> that
> >>>> you care to assign.
> >>>>
> >>>> As for rearranging the order of the fields, the structure of the
> >>>> transaction view is fixed left to right and cannot be changed.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Fri, Dec 20, 2024 at 3:49 PM G Elevich <tkb355 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> I cannot find a way to add a memo (or other) field at the end of the
> >>>>> split
> >>>>> record in the register. Nor a way to rearrange the order of fields.
> >>>>> Thx
> >>>>> Greg
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