Stan, You could try using the Close Books function to create model transactions then duplicate them to get copies that likely do not contain the odd dates.
David C On Fri, Dec 28, 2018, 1:37 PM Stan Brown <the_stan_br...@fastmail.fm wrote: > > From: David Cousens <davidcous...@bigpond.com> > > Subject: Re: [GNC] Basic Question (I hope) - End of Year Procedure > > > > The easiest way to achieve that would be to manually perform the closing > > transactions rather than use the inbuilt procedure, then they are just > > ordinary transactionsand won't have the KVP pair in them. > > > > For closing transactions, they should always appear after any other > > transaction for the period being closed so that the transferred balances > > represent the true state of the accounts at the end of the period. This > was > > why accountants introduced an artificial 13th month into the financial > year > > so that all closing transactions were forced to occur fater any other > > transaction that occurred within the year. Any required adjustments to > the > > accounts are also usually carried out before the closing transactions > for > > the same reason. > > > > A list of key value pairs is a data structure that is part of each > > transaction record. It allows arbitrary data to be added to the main data > > structure (the transaction) without requiring that structure to be > redefined > > throughout the code. Only the code for processing the data in the KVP > needs > > to be added to the code base to add features requiring new data not > > previously stored. The facilities for extracting it and adding it are a > part > > of the original transaction data structure. The KVP is also used in other > > data structures within GnuCash for the same purpose. > > > Thanks for your reply. I understand why you would say that the closing > entries should be the last transactions, but let me explain why that > doesn't work for me. The Gnucash closing entries are only two of about half > a dozen closing entries that I have. > > I make a distinction between (a) ordinary income and expenses, and (b) > several non-routine types of income or expense that I can't plan for. (a) > are Income and Expense type accounts, and GC closes them into an Equity > account called Ordinary Income Summary. (b) are things like Gain or Loss on > Investments, or Legacies, which would dwarf ordinary income and expenses, > and they are Equity accounts, not Income or Expenses. > > When I "close the books", GC generates two transactions, one summarizing > income and one summarizing expenses. Then to have a transaction showing net > income, I have to create it manually: > > Debit: Ordinary Income Summary $500.00 > Credit: Ordinary Income Summary $425.00 > Credit: Net Worth $ 75.00 > > Naturally, that transaction must follow the "close the books" > transactions, since I don't know gross income and total expenses until > after that transaction is created. And then my others: > > Debit: Gain or Loss on Investments: $ XXXX.XX > Credit: Net Worth $ XXXX.XX > > And so forth, for the other non-ordinary accounts. > > I know you suggested that I should create the closing transactions for > income and expenses myself, but there are probably 50 accounts, so that > seems like a lot of work. > > Surely there's a way within the GUI to make the special "closing" > transactions into just regular transactions, so that I can enter the > half-dozen final closing transactions and have them in the right order. > > -- > Stan Brown > the_stan_br...@fastmail.fm > https://BrownMath.com > http://OakRoadSystems.com/ > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > 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 gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.