[GNC] End of Year?

R Losey rlosey at gmail.com
Sat Jan 13 22:27:48 EST 2024


Absolutely; there is no reason to do anything special at the end of the
year; for many years, I have just kept using GnuCash and have had no
issues, but some people like to make yearly archives, or do the "close the
books" thing.

On Sat, Jan 13, 2024 at 5:53 PM Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) <
stan+gc at fastmail.fm> wrote:

> With older versions of GC, it used to take a long time to open a file.
> With 4.14, and I presume with 5.x, it's almost instantaneous.
>
> So why is there any discussion of saving previous-year data? It seems
> reasonable to me to archive a file as of 12-31-20XX, because you can't
> have too many archives. But after archiving that snapshot, what's the
> problem with just continuing to use the original of the file that copied
> into the archive? That's what I've been doing since 2018, and it seems
> to work just fine.
>
> Stan Brown
> Tehachapi, CA, USA
> https://BrownMath.com
>
> On 2024-01-13 14:29, David Carlson wrote:
> > Dumb question.  The original topic was about unreconncciled transactions
> > from the pervious year.  If they are not copied over to the new file
> > wouldn't that mess up the next reconciliation?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Jan 13, 2024, 3:07 PM Liz <edodd at billiau.net> wrote:
> >
> >> On Sat, 13 Jan 2024 11:19:26 -0600
> >> R Losey <rlosey at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> But the larger issue is that I believe this email list could benefit
> >>> from a FAQ that is posted monthly or every other month to this group.
> >>> The wiki has some neat ideas about tracking year to year equity
> >>> growth.
> >>
> >> You will need to convince me, because I would get to implement it.
> >>
> >> Liz
> >> (Moderator Hat)
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