Hi, FYI: we had some discussion in http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=421766 – support "Passive" account type (able to contain both Liability and Equity accounts)
and I came to the same result as Mike: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=573663 – Accounts have the wrong sort order for most european countries. Cheers Frank Am Monday 23 February 2009 13:17:52 schrieb Mike or Penny Novack: > >I am quite sure I have read a discussion a while ago about the > >constraint of not being able to set more than one account type for an > >account. The thing is that the standard BAS account plan, which is being > >used in Sweden, has a top account (placeholder) which holds both equity > >and liabilities. Its child accounts are split into accounts of either > >the types equity or liabilities. > > > >Could this support be implemented without "too much" work? If you think > >it seems to be an OK idea but are not interested in implementing it, I > >can maybe do it, provided I get some help. > > > >Thanks, > > > >Mikael > > Question (because never perform major surgery when a minor fix might work) > > Is this just something affecting how balance sheet type reports would > appear?(and maybe some other reports) The fundamental equation of > bookkeeping A = L + E remains the same, only with BAS there is this "top > account" assigned to be the root of the L + E tree? But is it otherwise > USED for anything? If not, then implementation might require nothing > more than creating the "BAS Style Balance Sheet" (and other reports that > would be different in BAS --- and if this root account has a non > constant name, filling that in can be done at the edit-option level). > > Michael > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel