> On Jul 7, 2022, at 7:05 AM, Paul Kroitor <p...@kroitor.ca> wrote:
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> Hello again,
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> Perhaps I missed earlier discussions about this, but is there a reason the
> Accounting Period is an attribute in the Preferences menu (and thus
> system-wide) rather than in the File Properties menu (as all the other
> company-specific items are)?
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> Am I correct that every time I open a set of books with a different fiscal
> year, I have to go into Preferences to change the accounting period? If I
> don't do this, all the reports use the wrong start and end dates.
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> This is nuts - I work with four different fiscal years here!
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> A related issue is why the accounting period specifies a year at all. Surely
> it should just be the month and day, since an entity's fiscal period are the
> same dates every year (e.g. Sept 1 - Aug 31).
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> I have the feeling I'm missing something basic about this..
You're not missing anything basic, it's a design decision from the early days
of GnuCash; the original design wasn't for business at all, that was bolted on
later, and didn't put much emphasis on one user having multiple books nor
sharing a book between users. Those design choices are deep and affect both
code and stored data so changing them in a way that maintains some sort of
compatibility is hard. If you look through the preferences and the way various
configuration data are stored--online banking and report configurations for
example--it's easy to find more instances of "user" data should be "book" data.
No, fiscal years aren't always 365 1/4 days: The first and last fiscal years of
an entity are usually truncated, as is one of the fiscal years when the entity
changes the beginning of its fiscal year.
Regards,
John Ralls
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