Can a script be run to move the ending balance of a prior year between movements account?

I am looking to see if a script could be used to move the ending prior year balance (or current year beginning balance) for accounts that gets cleared out in January each year. These are specific accounts like "Dividends Paid" account. Where we would make a journal entry in January each year to move it to the beginning balance in the current year. This affects the cash flow for Dividend Paid movement. So we would like to offset the entry by reversing it out of the dividends paid movements and reclassing it to a "Dividends opening balance reclass" movements. The