On 09 October 2021 at 23:37, Doug said: > Thanks Alan. Yes, knew that. I am certainly no accountant, but manage to > bumble along. > > I think it might be possible to set the defaults in the setup file, but > honestly have not looked. > What I would like is to be able to define the Financial Year > start/Financial Year end in setup so > it always defaults to the current financial year ()which in Australia´s > case is 1 July to 30 June). > > I wonder how many other countries have non-Calendar year Financial years? > I guess the UK might copy us > seeing we seem to copy their laws in our early days.
The UK fiscal year end is the perfectly obvious 5 April. This was of course recently(*) adjusted from the original 25 March, being the first Quarter Day in the calendar year (the Quarters, naturally, being keyed to 25 December, Christmas Day). (*) 1752 _______________________________________________ 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.
