End-of-period procedures > Starting a new fiscal year > Task 6: Start a new fiscal year
checked with your accountant to ensure no further entries are required in your company file for the current year.
The previous fiscal year’s monthly totals for all accounts are changed to last year categories. If last year amounts already existed, those amounts will be replaced.
The balance of your current-year earnings account is transferred to your retained earnings account.
The balances of your income, cost of sales, expense, other income and other expense accounts are returned to zero.
Closed sales, closed purchases, paycheck information, and journal entries assigned to closed sales and closed purchases, are kept or purged according to your selections in the Start a New Fiscal Year Assistant.
To start a new fiscal year
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Go to the File menu and choose Start a New Year and then Start a New Fiscal Year. The Start a New Fiscal Year Assistant appears.

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