Am 21.03.2019 um 15:14 schrieb Derek Atkins: > Hi, > > Philip Burg <[email protected]> writes: > >> I would like to close my books at the end of my financial year but >> have access to the previous years files, my thoughts were to archive >> the file at the end of the year by backing up to a cd/dvd then start >> afresh with the new financial year. would this be possible. I am using >> windows 10 and Gnucash Version 3.4 Build I.D. 3.4+(2018-12-30) > > Archiving old books is always a good idea. > > Restarting at the begining of the year, however, is not necessarily is > good idea. Specifically, there is a Close Books feature that zero's out > your Income & Expense accounts into Equity, but it doesn't actually > DELETE any data. > > Your other option is to Export the account tree which will create an > empty file and then re-open it. The downside is that you will have to > reset all your opening balances, and if you use any business features > you will need to manually re-enter all that metadata too (customers, > vendors, tax tables, etc). I highly ANTI-recommend this approach. >
I don’t know how to say it, but I think GnuCash might be better off with a balance carry over method into the next year. At least for me in Germany I can’t think of someone accounting for more than one year and also only on certain circumstances accounting for another period than 01.01. to 31.12. I don’t know whether it would be possible to have an option the gnucash file for the previous year which would be used comparisson reports. Is there a way to ex- and import the business related things? If there were the scenario you’ve described would a bit cumbersome but still doable. Kind regards Christian Kluge _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
