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<mailto: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. _______________________________________________ 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.
