A technique which has been mentioned in the past but not recently is to designate a backup file copy made at the same time as the year end reports as the final copy for the year. This could be manually marked read only by your file manager software.
David Carlson On Sat, Mar 21, 2020, 11:08 PM Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > I covered that. > > It isn’t necessary, or even desirable. > > One can achieve the desired result without doing so. > > Keeping everything in one book retains the ability for varied reporting. > > Once transactions are archived, reporting becomes limited with respect to > historical transactions. (and with it, analysis of said transactions, to > some degree) > > The most versatility is retained by keeping all years in one book. > > Segregating by date, starts to introduce limitations. > > Regards, > Adrien > > > On Mar 21, 2020 w12d81, at 6:33 PM, Fran_3 <mailbox0...@yahoo.com> > wrote: > > > > How about just creating a new account under Assets > Current Assets > > > and naming it Checking 2020 > > Then for the last transaction in Checking 2019 transfer the ending > balance to Checking 2020. > > This way everything is preserved and you have all your 2020 checking > transactions in one neat account. > > Wouldn't that work? > > > _______________________________________________ > 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.
