John, The simplest method would be to create a new file at the end of an accounting period, export the chart of accounts and then reset the opening balances to the closing balances in your old file. You would need to perform any adjustments to the accounts depending on whether your accounting is on a cash or accrual basis and close your expense and income accounts to equity (there is a documented procedure for this) before starting the new file. The reports functionality should generally be able to work with this (if not it is a bug which needs to be fixed) as this would be the situation when starting a new set of books in gnucash for an ongoing business. It does mean though that you will not be able to get a full history on depreciating assets and similar without going back to your old file and combining reports from the old file and the new file. There are a number of discussions in the archive about closing the books and using or not using a new file as it comes up each year.
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