Re: [GNC] Fiscal Year: Preferences vs Properties

2022-07-07 Thread Paul Kroitor
ecial requirements / procedural quirks anyway. I guess there's nothing to do but live with it. Regards, Paul -Original Message- From: john Sent: July 07, 2022 12:48 PM To: Paul Kroitor Cc: GnuCash User List Subject: Re: [GNC] Fiscal Year: Preferences vs Properties > On Jul

Re: [GNC] Fiscal Year: Preferences vs Properties

2022-07-07 Thread john
> On Jul 7, 2022, at 7:05 AM, Paul Kroitor wrote: > > Hello again, > > > > 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 othe

Re: [GNC] Fiscal Year: Preferences vs Properties

2022-07-07 Thread Paul Kroitor
sh requires the year be entered as well as the month and day). There are definitely much easier and less error-prone approaches to this! -Original Message- From: gnucash-user On Behalf Of Michael or Penny Novack Sent: July 07, 2022 10:47 AM To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: R

Re: [GNC] Fiscal Year: Preferences vs Properties

2022-07-07 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
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. But THIS "problem" is separate from "accounting period". Reports that require

[GNC] Fiscal Year: Preferences vs Properties

2022-07-07 Thread Paul Kroitor
Hello again, 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)? Am I correct that every time I open