The Enterprise Accountant Edition user can do this for you. They have a tool called Period Copy.

Or, you can do this using the File menu > Utilities, Clean Up/Condense function, which allows you to Remove all transactions from a specific date, back. Or, Condense it.

There is some housekeeping to do […]

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