Re: [GNC] Multiple Fiscal Years

2024-03-04 Thread flywire
As I wrote, the hack won't mean much to people using calendar year tax reports. The accounting year absolutely allows reports to be run for a fiscal year, but it's like driving down the road without being able to look at the traffic around you so little chance to correct errors. Comparative

Re: [GNC] Multiple Fiscal Years

2024-03-02 Thread john
Adrien, If you follow the mailing list link in Flywire's original, https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2021-October/097880.html, you'll see that it shares a hack of the Scheme relative-date code to shift the calendar year by a hard-coded 6 months. GnuCash 5 includes a rewrite of

Re: [GNC] Multiple Fiscal Years

2024-03-02 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I'm still not understanding what change you are referring to. In both 4.x and 5.x you can set your Accounting Period to a relative date or an absolute date such as Jul 1 2024 to Jun 30 2024 and when you run reports, choose relative dates such as 'Start/End of Accounting Period' or 'start/end

Re: [GNC] Multiple Fiscal Years

2024-03-02 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Wow, an accounting period of 54 years? I'm not sure I'd ever need to do so, but glad to know it works! Regards, Adrien On 3/2/24 12:26 AM, Geoff wrote: Maybe I am missing something here, but I created a book with a start date of 1-Jan-1970 and an end date of 31-Dec-2024, keyed transactions

Re: [GNC] Multiple Fiscal Years

2024-03-02 Thread flywire
On Sat, 2 Mar 2024 at 17:26, Geoff wrote: > Maybe I am missing something here Absolutely. Say the height of a sporting team member was given as 2.2m high. Was the measurement correct? Who knows! You can use relative values to assess the credibility of a number. Given two other members

Re: [GNC] Multiple Fiscal Years

2024-03-01 Thread flywire
Follow the links through to the code - cur-year and cal-year. The hack supports: this, last and 2 years prior fiscal years which is about what you want preparing tax reports. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your

Re: [GNC] Multiple Fiscal Years

2024-03-01 Thread Adrien Monteleone
What do you mean this was removed? I'm on 5.5 and I still see Relative & Absolute Accounting Period settings. Regards, Adrien On 3/1/24 4:45 PM, flywire wrote: With Gnucash V5 current year with a configurable day/month/year was removed and hard-coded as calendar year. Alternatives: 1.

[GNC] Multiple Fiscal Years

2024-03-01 Thread flywire
With Gnucash V5 current year with a configurable day/month/year was removed and hard-coded as calendar year. Alternatives: 1. Run a GnuCash portable app version since settings are held in the app folder - https://sourceforge.net/projects/portableapps/files/GnuCash%20Portable/ 2. The

Re: [GNC] Multiple Fiscal Years

2024-02-04 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 2/3/2024 7:13 PM, Jay McSkimming wrote: Hi Is there any solution (other than repeated manual system-wide changes) to allow for multiple fiscal years for different sets of accounts arising from different country tax years? Are there any add-ons or means to allow this? Any help

Re: [GNC] Multiple Fiscal Years

2024-02-04 Thread Liz
On Sun, 4 Feb 2024 11:13:49 +1100 Jay McSkimming wrote: > Hi > > Is there any solution (other than repeated manual system-wide > changes) to allow for multiple fiscal years for different sets of > accounts arising from different country tax years? > > Are there any add-ons or means to allow

Re: [GNC] Multiple Fiscal Years

2024-02-03 Thread Jay McSkimming
Thanks Stan, that was pretty much my conclusion (and diagnosis). Perhaps would be a useful enhancement to move accounting periods to the accounts file level rather than within system preferences. Sadly out of my capabilities though. On 4 Feb 2024, at 11:56 am, Stan Brown (using GC 4.14)

Re: [GNC] Multiple Fiscal Years

2024-02-03 Thread Stan Brown (using GC 4.14)
On 2024-02-03 16:13, Jay McSkimming wrote: > Is there any solution (other than repeated manual system-wide changes) to > allow for multiple fiscal years for different sets of accounts arising from > different country tax years? > > Are there any add-ons or means to allow this? I'd be delighted

[GNC] Multiple Fiscal Years

2024-02-03 Thread Jay McSkimming
Hi Is there any solution (other than repeated manual system-wide changes) to allow for multiple fiscal years for different sets of accounts arising from different country tax years? Are there any add-ons or means to allow this? Any help appreciated. Thanks in advance Jay