Stitch several journal files base on opening balance.

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This can be solved by creating a journal file that includes the other journal-files. Not required to stitch the journal files based on opening-balance.

[prataprc]

Wrong diagnosis. To explain better:

• Typically at the financal year-end accounts are tallied and the final P&L is merged with Equity (or capital).
• From there onwards, to keep in manageable, an "Opening Balance" is created for the next year and book-keeping continues as usual.

goledger facilitates a similar process by:

$ goledger -f journal-2014.ldg -fy 2014 equity > journal-2015.ldg

equity command does the job here, which creates a single transaction with necessary posting to accounts that have non-zero balance. Additionally it filters out accounts that are exclusively used for income and expense.

Now, have said this sometimes we want a consolidated report, with can be further utilized with differeng grouping-options, accross financial years.

For this, we propose the -stitch command line switch. If this is used, all transactions whose payee match "Opening Balance" will be skipped:

$ goledger -f 2015.ldg,2016.ldg balance