Another option is to let the start of each account correspond to the NEAREST statement BEFORE the beginning of the year. For example, you might have one statement that ends December 31st, but another that ends December 15th and yet another that ends December 12th.
Start each account at the beginning of the next relevant statement. The first account is easy because you'll start January first, the next has all transactions starting December 16th, and the final example has all transactions starting on December 13th. The latter two accounts will have transactions duplicated in the old and the new data files. You're the only one who will be seeing any of these so save yourself some mental energy! As long as you have the opening balances correct, GnuCash will do the right things regarding reports. (The same is true for your old data file, which you are presumably archiving; to enable you to validate all the final statements and run reports you can put a few transactions into the next year and be certain the statements reconcile. It's a small amount of double work, but depending on your circumstances might avoid potential errors.) Just be sure you name your files clearly so you don't accidentally keep entering data into your archived file. You might also consider changing permissions on the old data file or moving it to a read-only medium so you won't accidentally change old transactions. On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 2:47 PM Gyle McCollam <gmccol...@live.com> wrote: > You will have to create your own ending balance for 2021. Review the > statement and find the balance on the statement at 12/31/2021or > add/subtract the entries up to and including 12/31/2021 to arrive at the > balance. That number will become your starting balance for 2022 as well. > You can use the ending balance on the statement when you reconcile 2022. > > ________________________________ > From: gnucash-user <gnucash-user-bounces+gylemc=gmail....@gnucash.org> on > behalf of Seth Burgess <sethbburg...@gmail.com> > Sent: Friday, February 4, 2022 3:26 PM > To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> > Subject: [GNC] Starting a new file > > I have been using GnuCash for about 10 years. I am currently using > Build ID: 4.6+(2021-06-26). I have decided to start fresh with a new > file and discontinue an old one with the same bank accounts starting on > January 1, 2022. I have one bank account that does not end the month on > December 31st and one that does. For the account that does not end the > month on December 31st, I have divided the statement that starts > December 21st and ends January 20th so that the transactions are split > between the old account file and the new one. The transactions are > correctly entered in each file, but the reconciliation of the statement > does not balance using the statement ending balace, because some of the > transactions are in the old file and some in the new file. This means > the reconciliations in each file cannot be finalized. This will cause a > problem going forward, particularly with the new file. I don't know how > to handle this. > > thanks in advance for ideas. > > ----- > 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.