Chris, you are a second class user. GnuCash was written to use fiscal year but a change made in 2001, exposed to users in 2006, dropped fiscal year and introduced calendar year(s) and an accounting period. Years (this and previous) is the first class service, automatic relative to current date but accounting period is very much a second class service requiring manual changes to start and end period *preferences*, particularly annoying when working with multiple periods at the same time.
If the start and end of the year are redefined the reports still work on the redefined year, as demonstrated by the code I wrote, supplied, and used seamlessly without issues other than having to apply it to each new version released and fixing a bug. With GnuCash V5 those definitions have been *removed* from editable scheme code in reports and placed in compiled C++ code. Clearly, the program works, it's only a matter of customising the start and end date of a year for reports. I recently asked for guidance on how to reinstate the configurable years in V5 but I don't have a reply yet. _______________________________________________ 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.
