On Sun, 21 May 2000, Mauro Triulzi wrote:
> Richard Wackerbarth wrote:
> >The difficulty has to do with the conflict between "closing" books >and
> > the generation of reports/graphs which include information from those
> > accounting
> >periods.
>
> Were it not possible to establish rules to temporarily join different
> "closed books" together to form a normal gnucash file? Once this report is
> generated, this joined file could be discarded. It were good to have a tool
> to handle closed books this way.
The difficulty is not in joining the closed periods but rather getting the
correct set of entries.
For example, in closing a period, the income accounts are closed into
retained earnings. However, a report of income would not want to count these
entries because the total would be zero.
