[GNC] Can I set different accounting periods

[Mark Itzcovitz]

Thanks Adrian, and Stan, for the suggestions.

As you suspected, Adrian, a VM would be overkill for my needs.  In fact, I
shouldn't have expressed my question as "Is there ANY way":-)

I have thought of another method (which reminds me that I forgot to say in
the original question that I'm running on Windows); have a .reg file
associated with each GnuCash file that sets the accounting period values
appropriately in the Windows Registry.  Then have a script to run the .reg
file before starting GnuCash.

Regards,
Mark

On Mon, 6 Oct 2025 at 16:35, Adrien Monteleone <
adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:

> Logging out-in between two OS users can be a pain for a separate set of
> books for a different entity. Although not terribly simple, an
> alternative is to run another OS instance in a virtual machine. (could
> be any OS like Linux if you are worried about licensing)
>
> If you have enough resources on your machine, you can run the VM in the
> background and depending on your VM software, you can even set up a
> separate GnuCash app launcher in your Host OS that simply launches
> GnuCash inside the VM itself so that the entire process to open that
> other set of books is one-click seamless. Though that might be overkill
> for your needs. Guest VMs don't necessarily need lots of resources
> either, and with Linux you can find a really 'light' distro just to run
> GnuCash. (XP is also really light by comparison these days, but GnuCash
> isn't officially supported on it any longer)
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
>
> On 9/19/25 12:28 PM, Mark Itzcovitz wrote:
> > I see that, by design, Preferences are set for a user, not a set of
> books.
> > My problem is that I run two sets of books with different accounting
> > periods.  Is there any way I can set different accounting periods but
> still
> > use the same user?
>
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