This would be "Periods", which are in the works but not as far along as I would have liked by now. It's a good idea.
-derek "Felipe \"No Spam Please\" Leme" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, > > I'm an "old-time" gnucash user, and I have a sugestion for a new > feature (I don't know if such feature already exists in another > financial software - I just use gnucash - neither if it was already > suggested here - sorry if it did, but I'm in a dial-up conection now, > so I couldn't expend too much time searching for it). > > The feature I'm talking about would be a checkpoint for accounts. It > would be some sort of entry in the account that would freeze the > account between that point and the previous checkpoint (or the > beggining of the account), in the sense that you couldn't modify the > transactions in that period to change the account's balance (you could > change the description, transfer and num fields, for instance, or even > the date - > if the new date is still in the period). > > That would be very useful, for instance, in cases where you > accidentaly enter a new transaction in a wrong date (which is quite > common in the end of the year, when sometimes you enter a transaction > in january of that year, instead of the next year). Once you did such > a mistake and didn't realize it, it's pretty hard to "debug" how your > account does not match the real world account (from a bank printed > statement or internet access, for instance). With the checkpoints, > that such mistakes would not be possible, and your account would > always be consistent. > > Does it makes sense? Would it be hard to implement (I'm a developer, > maybe I could even implement it if there is an interest on the > feature)? > > Regards (and thanks for the good software :), > > Felipe > > PS: I'm not subscribed in the list (due to the dial-up problem :), so > please include my e-mail address in an eventual reply > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
