Hi Stephen, I agree with your wife about not including the Income Statement inside a Balance Sheet. These serve different functions and it just makes a Balance Sheet more complicated than necessary. From an accounting perspective you should be able to evaluate a balance sheet fairly quickly and having a fairly uniform layout means comparison of balance sheets for different entities is much easier, which is the rational for trying to get the IFRS standards adopted world wide. My personal preference is for simple reports which meet one specific objective well and clearly.
As I explained in a post to John, I don't necessarily require GnuCash to impose parent placholder accounts not to have transactions into them specifically, but it would be a nice feature to have an option to make adherence strict if the user requires it. It may however require considerable code mods to achieve that and I can achieve that by just removing any transactions which target an account i make a placeholder to a sub-account or another account. More difficult of course if you have a large number of such transactions. A lot of people use GnuCash for a lot of functions other than formal accounting so as David T pointed out some people may find being able to make transactions to a parent account useful and also use the placholder readonly functionality to meet other requirements. I can't think of a specific case but I am all for retaining as much flexibility in GnuCash as possible. It may be just better documentation fof the Placholder setting may achieve that. Cheers David ----- David Cousens -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
