Re: start of new accounting period

2000-05-21 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
On Sun, 21 May 2000, Mauro Triulzi wrote: > Richard Wackerbarth wrote: > >The difficulty has to do with the conflict between "closing" books >and > > the generation of reports/graphs which include information from those > > accounting > >periods. > > Were it not possible to establish rules to temp

Re: start of new accounting period

2000-05-21 Thread Mauro Triulzi
Richard Wackerbarth wrote: >The difficulty has to do with the conflict between "closing" books >and the >generation of reports/graphs which include information from those >accounting >periods. Were it not possible to establish rules to temporarily join different "closed books" together to form

Re: start of new accounting period

2000-05-18 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
On Thu, 18 May 2000, Jan Schrage wrote: > If > you are running a business, German tax laws require you to keep history > for at least ten years However, that does not imply that you must keep them "online". Archiving closed books should be fine. If the auditors want the old records, they can o

Re: start of new accounting period

2000-05-18 Thread Jan Schrage
On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 01:23:13AM -0500, Christopher Browne wrote: > On 16 May 2000 21:45:09 CDT, the world broke into rejoicing as > John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Rob Coker writes: > > > Has anybody written code to be able to delete every transaction in every > > > account to prepar

Re: start of new accounting period

2000-05-17 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
On Wed, 17 May 2000, Christopher Browne wrote: > --> It may then be valuable to, after some period of time, have the "rolled > up" transactions folded together, and the income side removed from > the income (and expense) accounts, netted against Retained Earnings. > > _Usually_, I'd expec

Re: start of new accounting period

2000-05-16 Thread Christopher Browne
On 16 May 2000 21:45:09 CDT, the world broke into rejoicing as John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Rob Coker writes: > > Has anybody written code to be able to delete every transaction in every > > account to prepare for a new accounting period? > > Wouldn't it be simpler to just extract the

RE: start of new accounting period

2000-05-16 Thread Leach, Chris J (Oakton)
ballances as opening as filename. Then load this file. How does this sound? Would it be difficult to make the above changes? Regards, Chris > -- > From: John Hasler[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, 17 May 2000 12:45 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject:

Re: start of new accounting period

2000-05-16 Thread John Hasler
Rob Coker writes: > Has anybody written code to be able to delete every transaction in every > account to prepare for a new accounting period? Wouldn't it be simpler to just extract the chart of accounts and use it to start a new file? In fact, a chart of accounts editor of some sort would be ni