On 11/5/2021 11:22 AM, Sharon Sydnor wrote:
Gyle, yes thank you I considered that and did set the correct start and end
dates and also thought to look to the PREFERENCES of the entire program and
there is a place there to also set the start and end dates and select if they
are RELATIVE or ABSOLUTE, and I chose the latter. I’ll change to relative and
see if it makes a difference although I don’t understand why it would. Also
since I do my books “at one sitting” and block out a period of time and work
straight through from Jan to Dec of usually the former year, I change the date
and time on the entire computer as well, setting it back to Dec 31 of the
required year.
Sharon
I think it might help clarify things if instead of referring to gnucash
report names you said what reports you wanted in terms of their standard
accounting names. Thus a "balance sheet" report has a DATE associated
with it (the :as of" date) while a "statement of income and expenses"
would have a DATE RANGE (start and stop date of the interval.
BUT --- "I change the date and time on the entire computer as well" is
not needed. Like most accounting software, gnucash does NOT assume
either data entry of transactions nor dates for reports are in "real
time'. You SPECIFY the date/dates.
One oddity that MIGHT be tripping you up is that with gnucash specify
dates for reports only after they exist! In other words, you first "run"
the report with whatever default dates present and then use the "edit
report options" to change things like the effective date (and
formatting, etc.) This might seem like extra work but ensures that you
explicitly set dates, etc. instead of forgetting this and mistakenly
having the dates form the last time being used.
Michael D Novack
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