That will only keep you from editing those reconciled transactions
without receiving a warning. (that is, you *can* still edit them, they
are not 'locked' but you will get a warning about editing a reconciled
transaction, which you can override, and also, dismiss the warning,
which means you won't see it next time you try editing a reconciled
transaction)
There is a read-only threshold, under File > Preferences but it is quite
limited as it is a sliding-window by number of previous days. So you'd
have to change it each and every day as the year went on. And that
applies to all accounts, not just some.
An alternative is to create an archive folder with a copy of the book,
and possibly the annual reports in PDF form. That way if you ever needed
to go back to see if you inadvertently edited something, you'd have a
backup at that state to verify changes. Having a good backup strategy
helps too.
You can also make accounts placeholders which prevents *new*
transactions from being entered, but that doesn't stop you from editing
previous transactions.
Otherwise, no, you can't lock accounts from editing.
Regards,
Adrien
On 12/4/23 8:23 PM, Eric Chapman wrote:
Once I'm sure I'm done with 2022 and the data is not going to change, is
there a good way to lock the income/expense accounts so I do not
accidentally post something to a previous year?
Somewhere in the manual I saw something that said you can "reconcile"
income & expense accounts to lock them:
Because expense accounts are generated entirely by you, there are no
statements against which you would reconcile your data. Therefore,
there is technically nothing to reconcile. You can, of course use
the reconcile process for expense accounts, which will lock the
transactions for future editing.
Anybody doing that? Any advice on best practices? I'd like to do it all
in one fell swoop – the entire year at once.
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