On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 08:36:26PM -0500, Linas Vepstas was heard to remark: > On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 06:26:50PM -0700, David Hampton was heard to remark: > > On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 18:02, Linas Vepstas wrote: > > > > > > However, any report that shows ROI or uses a FIFO to calculate > > > profit/loss will have to look at old/closed books to figure out what > > > the original purchase price was. That's the bad news. The good news is > > > I don't think we have any FIFO-based reports in gnucash yet. :-) > > > > A capital gains report for stock transactions is on my to-do list. I > > guess I'll wait for your book closing changes to go in before I start. > > No, that would be a bad idea. All of the book closing changes done so > far are in CVS. Adding the rest are deep on my back-burner at the > moment. Its highly unlikely that I'll be doing more in the next few > months. > > Besides, I'm hopeful that the remaining changes can be done > (mostly) transparently as far as any individual report is concnerned. > At most, there would be a 'global' choice that asks, 'should this report > span multiple (closed) books?' but the report code itself shouldn't > wouldn't need to know that it was spanning multiple books.
I guess I contradicted myself. Reports that do ROI/cap gains, etc. will *not* need to do anything special to access closed books (I hope). It'll happen automagically under the covers (i hope). --linas -- pub 1024D/01045933 2001-02-01 Linas Vepstas (Labas!) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP Key fingerprint = 8305 2521 6000 0B5E 8984 3F54 64A9 9A82 0104 5933 _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
