Sigh. You're right, of course. I've never filed a bug report before, so I was hoping someone else would do it for me. But I'll figure it out -- it's the least I can do in return for all the benefits I receive from using GnuCash.
Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com On 2023-03-24 12:46, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > Maybe file a documentation bug for tracking? > > Regards, > Adrien > > On 3/23/23 6:06 PM, Stan Brown wrote: >> In 4.13, the Close Book help text, which is the Close Book section of >> the installed manual, includes the following text under "How It Works", >> as the second paragraph under "Necessity": >> >> "In fact, closing the books reduces the usefulness of the standard >> reports because the reports don’t currently understand closing >> transactions. So from their point of view it simply looks like the net >> income or expense in each account for a given period was simply zero. " >> >> That paragraph doesn't seem to be accurate any more. I closed the books >> in 4.13 and the ran an income statement for the full year. The account >> totals were given just as they were before I closed the book. >> >> Can whoever is maintaining the book look at deleting that paragraph, >> please? (And please note: This is the installed manual, not the one on >> the website. I have GnuCash running in a virtual machine with no >> Internet.) >> > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
