On Wed, Jun 11, 2025 at 1:54 AM Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) < [email protected]> wrote:
> On 2025-06-10 23:26, Steve Butler wrote: > > When I first saw your question, I was wondering why you wanted a > > particular order. > > Just because it seems weird and disconcerting to have them all jumbled. > For instance, I have half a dozen categories of automobile expenses, > with Account Codes that group them together, and it seems strange not to > have them together. > > You're right that if I want to see how a particular account did, I can > go to that account. But when I'm in a register for a particular account, > using the Auto-split view and looking through details for one reason or > another, it's jarring to get the closing transaction, which takes up a > couple of screenfuls and doesn't keep related accounts together. > > As a result of earlier comments, I'm still thinking about whether to use > closing entries at all. Maybe I can do without them and get what I want > to see through reports. The question of whether to "close the books" > comes up here a few times a year, and I think most of us understand that > it's not a necessity but we may want to do it because that's how we > learned bookkeeping or for some other reason. > Looking at it another way, we can always see current-period figures > in the Accounts Pane if we've activated that column. But closing the > books every year lets us see the totals by year in a given income or > expense account, without the extra step of running a report. What I'm > weighing is whether I actually want to do that often enough to make it a > factor in my choice to close books or not. > A confession: I've not been using the tool, but using the more laborious method of closing each account individually... it takes a lot longer, but I have a chance to review each account to see if it makes sense. I don't have any particular order, but doing it that way, you could. So far, I found errors of my own recording every year, so I'm a little afraid of doing the automatic end-of-year closing the books. I never did this for years, but I like having a yearly summary: Under Equity, I have a FYnnnn for each year, with the income & expenses closed to the year so that I can see at a glance how that year went... because they are sub-accounts under Equity, the Equity total is also correct. -- _________________________________ Richard Losey [email protected] Micah 6:8 _______________________________________________ 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.
