Thanks David Yes but as it’s a double entry system, the net effect of deleting a year’s worth of transactions in an account where close book has been applied should be nil so the Checking account should not be effected?
Am I missing something? It could be a bit laborious deleting all these transactions but if the net effect is zero I should be ok. Perhaps I’ll give it a try with a couple of accounts + report back. Jack On 15 January 2018 at 15:38, David T. <sunfis...@yahoo.com> wrote: > No, there isn’t. The Close book feature simply creates a transaction that > zeroes out your income and expense accounts as of a given date. > > In a double entry accounting system, if you delete the expense side of the > transaction, what do you suggest doing for the Checking account side? If > you are desperate to clear out older transactions, you will most likely > have to create a new file with a new set of opening balances. See > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Closing_Books > > Of course, many people prefer to keep historical transactions, and use > reports to extract subsets of their file as needed. > > David > > On Jan 15, 2018, at 8:03 PM, Jack Whyte <jvwh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi there > > I have used GNU Cash for a number of years to monitor my personal > finances. I have just run the Tools > Close book function to clear down > all my expense & income account balances as at 31/12/17 however I seem to > have transactions in all of these accounts going back, in some cases, to > 2009/2010. > > Can someone please advise me if there is a straightforward mechanism to > delete all transactions in these accounts - say, up to and including > 31/12/2016 as I am concerned the file, currently at around 1.3MB, will > become unwieldy and unmanageable. > > Thanks & regards > Jack > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > 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. > > > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org 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.
