I can't see how. Firstly, from previous comments, people don't seem to understand my workflow. The suggestion it is only a matter of setting the Accounting Period once per year is so wrong without changing start date of year.
To briefly summarise, I have half a dozen entities and a few extras, each with separate tax file numbers in a standard folder structure. If an entity has it's own bank account it gets it's own set of books, otherwise, I use QuickBooks and put classes on transactions/splits and report on the classes. (My preference is the openness of GnuCash.) I normally navigate through the Windows folders and double-click on the entity.gnucash file or start it from the MRU list so it is easy to flick between entities. A typical workflow is preparing tax returns for the previous financial year. The V4 year hack defining start year as 1 July works well for all the reports I use with year being relative to current date (as opposed to accounting period which must be explicitly set). I often need to look at 2 years prior, ie the last finalised tax return, but it doesn't have a date option so I set start/end of accounting period to the dates for 2 (financial) years prior. This workflow allows me to identify issues with transactions/splits/accounts that often need something similar in another entity. I imagine the workflow is fairly typical. Accounting period is really useful for running a series of reports when the entity was different, say a particular project period. So, I very much want to define the current year which would also define prior year, keep the existing accounting period functionality, and add a start/end of 2 years prior period. A preference setting like currency for start date of year would be nice but I'd be happy with a hacked version. Regards https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2023-April/106523.html Adrien wrote: > I can certainly see the utility of being able to define various 'start > of year' options for different reports. Though I think this is > essentially what the 'accounting period' option was supposed to > accomplish. (and then the report's generic 'start of accounting period' > will use that date) > > However, this preference allows only either a very general relative > date, or an absolute date with a year, so it has to be reset if wanting > to set a specific date. I think there is already a bug report for it. > > If this preference offered the ability to set *any* day relative to > *any* year, would that accomplish your goal? > > (I still think a hard absolute date option is useful for someone working > on historical data) > > Regards, > Adrien _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org 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.
