Well, that's one possibility I suppose. Is this not a feature that would find fairly widespread use? Indeed, is it not a feature that might facilitate easier use of the software and encourage wider adoption?
I'm still holding out hope that it might exist already :) Thanks for the suggestion Gyle On Fri, Jan 19, 2024 at 9:41 AM Gyle McCollam <gmccol...@live.com> wrote: > The quick and dirty solution is to save a copy of what you send to the > accounts, under a different name (say: B4A) and when you get back the file > from the accountants review the accounts tab of the B4A with the returned > file. That will tell you which accounts have a change in value. You can > then open those accounts and see what changes/corrections they made. ou > can then make those same changes in your current file. Just make sure that > after you save a copy (B4A) that you aren't using that file going forward > as GC usually opens the last saved file. > > Thank You, > > *Gyle McCollam* > > Gyle McCollam > > gmccol...@live.com <gmccol...@gyleshomes.com> email > ------------------------------ > *From:* gnucash-user <gnucash-user-bounces+gylemc=gmail....@gnucash.org> > on behalf of Simon Roberts <si...@dancingcloudservices.com> > *Sent:* Friday, January 19, 2024 8:50 AM > *To:* Gnucash Users <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> > *Subject:* [GNC] Compare two sets of accounts? > > Hi all, > > Does GNC provide any mechanism for comparing two versions of the same set > of accounts? > > I'll be sending my books to my accountant soon, and I imagine they will > have some corrections/adjustments. I'll be giving them a laptop with GNC > installed, so they can most easily browse, and it occurs to me that they > could also make their changes in place. But, unless they write down > separately every entry they create or change, I would need to somehow > re-integrate their work with my "master" file. Either that, or I'd have to > freeze my bookkeeping while they're working on things, and that's likely to > take too long to be acceptable. > > With the hostage-taker's rent-ware that I used to use, there was a specific > mechanism for an "accountant's copy" and a means to merge the changes back > automatically. But I've failed to find this in the docs for GNC (quite > possibly as a result of poor / uninspired searching!) > > Is this supported directly? Is this something folks have found an approach > for? I suppose, as a not quite worst case, I could simply diff the XML file > itself, but that's going to produce results that will be somewhat messy, at > best. But at least I'd know something about what changed. > > What ideas can you offer (or manual pages, if I've failed that > embarrassingly!) > > TIA, > Simon > > > -- > Simon Roberts > 303 249 3613 > https://www.youtube.com/@DancingCloudServices > https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonhgroberts/ > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > -- Simon Roberts 303 249 3613 https://www.youtube.com/@DancingCloudServices https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonhgroberts/ _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
