Martin, I just use continuous books. It is great being able to search for the details of that thing you bought 5 years ago! How I do my yearly books (tax return) is to build a report that includes all the relevant accounts, & the dates are set as first financial year day (1 July in Australia) to end date (30 Jun), then generate the report. I have saved the report, so all I need to do each year is to update the dates & add any new accounts. I can run that report any time if I need to review my income. My books are not complicated, but I do reconcile all my accounts every month to check for fraud (& have found some unfortunately). My account keeping is mainly to manage some rental properties, so rent payment, Maintenance, & claimable expenses. In Australia, when a property is sold that is not one´s primary residence, there are costs associated with purchase that can be claimed on sale. Very handy to be able to easily find those costs that may have been many, many years ago.
btw, I run one set of books for private & business accounts. I use reports to sort out the Business details required. I do not use invoicing for my needs. regards, Doug On Sun, 18 Jan 2026 18:48:55 -0800 Steve Butler <[email protected]> wrote: > Look at close books. But that is optional. You can just continue and all > will be good. > > On Sun, Jan 18, 2026, 18:17 Monroe Bryant <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Where do I find, in the manual, how to transition from one year to the > > next rather than just continuing. > > > > Monroe Bryant > > Sent from my iPad Air > > > > "We [the people] are the 1st-responders; > > the police are our backup!" Glenn Beck, 2013 > > > > Please show your e-mail savvy by respecting and protecting the privacy of > > all parties. When Forwarding, use "BCC" and press "Send" only AFTER you > > have deleted all extraneous email addresses from this email. It's the smart > > way to share. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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. _______________________________________________ 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.
