On Wed, 17 May 2000 11:40:42 PDT, the world broke into rejoicing as
Rob Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
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> >>>>> On 16 May 2000 16:36:00 -0500, Bill Gribble
> >>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
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> Bill> "Jon A. Christopher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> >> Eliminating single-entry would be a mistake IMHO. Who wants to
> >> learn a new system of accounting just to balance their checkbook?
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> Bill> But my question was, WHAT is it about double-entry that's new?
> Bill> It doesn't change the way you use gnucash AT ALL, except that
> Bill> you are required to have a "category" for every transaction.
> Bill> Are you seriously saying that that's too much for you?
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> Maybe there could be an option which was "default all categories to
> misc", which would keep people from having to do the "categorize every
> transaction" thing when they don't want to.
That's an option.
Note that this option means that you'll only have the Chequing Account;
there will be _no_ income accounts, _no_ expense accounts, _no_
use in running reports to indicate if you made income or not.
A big chunk of functionality just heads to uselessness if you
use single entry accounting...
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