On 18/12/2017 18:13, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
Jeff,
If I recall correctly from other discussion, the General Ledger is not it’s own
entity. It’s a ‘view’ of the separate account ledgers all rolled into one. This
is probably why there is no export option for it.
You recall incorrectly. The general ledger is (as the name suggests)
actually about as pure a view as the UI gives of the entirety of a gnc
set of accounts as is available.
gnc does not actually have separate account ledgers at all, it belongs
to the stream of transactions accounting family.
GnuCash takes the opposite approach from paper books.
that may be correct or incorrect, depending on where you learned accounting.
With paper, you enter everything in a General Journal and then later post the
proper amounts to T-accounts.
Not in UK accounting you don't. In UK accounting you do it the other way :)
With GnuCash, you skip the Journal and enter directly to the accounts.
The General Ledger was provided for the benefit of those who were used to the
paper method and wanted the option to see all transactions in chronological
order regardless of accounts used.
Bollocks.
But I don’t see why you can’t combine the files after the fact. That’s an easy
concatenation command.
Oh, for fuck's sake. There are no separate files, it is a stream of
transactions.
It is curious that you can’t export ‘all’ transactions and have to choose only
one hierarchy at a time.
Yes, that is a bit weird, but it is probably like that because someone
had the same misunderstanding as you about separate account ledgers 15
or more years ago.
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Wm
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