On 2021-10-09 18:22, prl wrote: > GnuCash really only caters for fiscal years where the fiscal year > happens to be the same as the calendar year. According to the Wikipedia > entry, that's the most common choice, but there are quite a lot of > countries where it's not the case. > > For example: Australia, Canada (for personal/corporate), Hong Kong, > India, New Zealand (personal/corporate) & UK (different dates for > government and personal/corporate). And despite fairly close ties > between Australia and New Zealand in other matters, Australia and New > Zealand have different fiscal years for personal/corporate use). The USA > has three different dates, federal, state and personal/corporate, though > the latter is the calendar year.
The US Government fiscal year is 1 Oct through 30 Sept. Individual states have other fiscal years. Corporations and other businesses can have any fiscal year they like, for accounting purposes or tax purposes or both. -- Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com https://OakRoadSystems.com _______________________________________________ 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.
