[GNC] Compare two sets of accounts?

[Myron A Schroeder]

Where do I find the " --nofile runtime parameter."

Looks like an interesting way to have more than one set of books on my
computer.

Thanks for your help.

Myron Schroeder

On Fri, Jan 19, 2024 at 11:42 AM Gyle McCollam <gmccollam at live.com> wrote:

> The quick and dirty solution is to save a copy of what you send to the
> accounts, under a different name (say: B4A) and when you get back the file
> from the accountants review the accounts tab of the B4A with the returned
> file.  That will tell you which accounts have a change in value.  You can
> then open those accounts and see what changes/corrections they made.  ou
> can then make those same changes in your current file.  Just make sure that
> after you save a copy (B4A) that you aren't using that file going forward
> as GC usually opens the last saved file.
>
>
> Thank You,
>
> Gyle McCollam
>
> Gyle McCollam
>
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> Sent: Friday, January 19, 2024 8:50 AM
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> Subject: [GNC] Compare two sets of accounts?
>
> Hi all,
>
> Does GNC provide any mechanism for comparing two versions of the same set
> of accounts?
>
> I'll be sending my books to my accountant soon, and I imagine they will
> have some corrections/adjustments. I'll be giving them a laptop with GNC
> installed, so they can most easily browse, and it occurs to me that they
> could also make their changes in place. But, unless they write down
> separately every entry they create or change, I would need to somehow
> re-integrate their work with my "master" file. Either that, or I'd have to
> freeze my bookkeeping while they're working on things, and that's likely to
> take too long to be acceptable.
>
> With the hostage-taker's rent-ware that I used to use, there was a specific
> mechanism for an "accountant's copy" and a means to merge the changes back
> automatically. But I've failed to find this in the docs for GNC (quite
> possibly as a result of poor / uninspired searching!)
>
> Is this supported directly? Is this something folks have found an approach
> for? I suppose, as a not quite worst case, I could simply diff the XML file
> itself, but that's going to produce results that will be somewhat messy, at
> best. But at least I'd know something about what changed.
>
> What ideas can you offer (or manual pages, if I've failed that
> embarrassingly!)
>
> TIA,
> Simon
>
>
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