I refactor quite liberally, and it has bitten me slightly in that I have some totals that don't quite add up now. Am going to investigate balance assertions that John mentioned before doing anything more.
I archive at the end of the tax year, after I've done my tax. On Aug 1, 11:01 am, Simon Michael <[email protected]> wrote: > How careful are you folks about changing past journal data, eg to clean up > the account tree ? > > I heard one person who tries to append only. > > But as my chart of accounts evolves, I want to rename/split/merge accounts in > old transactions too, otherwise my reports > become cluttered. > > But that makes it hard to recreate old reports, to verify agreement with > related/derived historical documents, and > probably increases the risk of introducing errors (eg "de-reconciling"). > > Perhaps you refactor your current journal freely, but archive a read-only > snapshot once a year ? Once a month ?
