I'm seeking comments on a proposal to support a configurable year start day/month. This goes back to https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2021-September/045946.html but I see the issue a bit clearer now.
Firstly, GnuCash already supports Accounting Period Start/End Date eg https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/blob/4.12/libgnucash/app-utils/date-utilities.scm#L621-L625 (Note: even code variable names demonstrate the confusion between accounting and fiscal year) Accounting Period only supports a single period changed manually which is very limiting compared to Previous/This/Next Year variants automatically updated each day as supported elsewhere in GnuCash and other packages. I've hacked a different start year month into each version over the last couple of years which could be modified to change day: https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2021-October/097880.html On year-start day/month (ie new year) the year is numbered by the calendar year at the end of the period (eg 1 Jul 2020 to 30 Jun 2021 is 2021). Reporting by year variants works well (although I don't use Business Features) but the change process is inconvenient and too complex for most users. If the changes are likely to be accepted I'm happy to: * do any changes required as described in https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Custom_Reports * update the documentation to explain the preference setting * rename variable: cal-year to cur-year * add a previous 2Year Start/End period so preparing reports for the previous year allows the year before that to also be accessed I understand the GnuCash Preferences, Report, year-start day/month would need to be in a compiled executable. I'd ask someone to send me one as a windows executable. A default of 1 January would ensure users are not affected unless they change the setting. _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
