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Re: Setup...after install...closing previous fiscal years.

null@example.com (kpimichael) — Sat, 14 May 2011 21:32:28 +0000

I would attach a pic but dont see how to do that in this forum but this is what i did

General 4 digit COA for new company in US 2.3.0-4 2.3.0-4 iso-8859-1

I am sure i did something wrong I am trying to learn some accounting from your excellent site and software... I hope i can use it and contribute. I am a programmer but i grew up old school with mainframes and pl1...which you probably never heard of. I am now trying to learn php to help out some charities...

Re: Setup...after install...closing previous fiscal years.

null@example.com (joe) — Sat, 14 May 2011 08:05:07 +0000

Which Chart of Account script have you been used when setting up your company?

I cannot reproduce this on en_US-new.sql script.

/Joe

Setup...after install...closing previous fiscal years.

null@example.com (kpimichael) — Fri, 13 May 2011 19:51:43 +0000

When i ran the setup for 2.3.4 I had fiscal years 2008, 2009, 2010 in the database...i guess from the install. I wanted to delete them. When i tried, the system said that i need to make sure that a retained earning and profit and loss account were set up correctly. I went to do that, but each time i tried to update to set the accounts... I would get this message "Before GRN Clearing Account can be changed all GRNs have to be invoiced."

Since i had no transactions on a new setup and i could not find any by looking at the reporting... I am at a loss how to get these previous years closed out. 2009 would not let me close cause 2008 is not closed...etc So i am in a catch 22 in regard to satisfying the error message. As far as i can see there are no GRNs to be invoiced...cause i had no data for 2008.

Have i found a bug? or just showed my lack of accounting knowledge again? I read the postings on this subject and in the wiki... but the answers they give, I tried, and still do not solve this error message.