On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 12:59 PM, John Wiegley <jo...@newartisans.com> wrote:
> >>>>> "PM" == Peter McArthur <peter.mcart...@gmail.com> writes: > > PM> The manual shows us how unclear the semantics are. Most people seem to > use > PM> auxiliary dates as a date when a cheque is *cleared*. But the manual > also > PM> shows them being used when a cheque is *paid*: > > It should be noted here that one of the "features" of Ledger is that it > leaves > as much of the semantics of your accounting as possible up to you. This > is a > reason why beancount was created: To choose the best notion of what things > mean in a financial setting, and then to impose those semantics to help you > avoid errors. > > C++Ledger, however, is just a glorified calculator. It doesn't tell you > what > your inputs or your outputs should mean. > So - -- from your perspective you don't see a value in having something defined that would help with the date paid, date cleared, date issued (more for invoicing) as a specific 'data type' available for use? As a small business owner that really doesn't want to buy the rights to the use (sort of) of some Win program that isn't really that responsive (to my needs at least) I would like to see something that would enable me to run some kind of a report. This report would then be able to tell me which invoices to be paid or those due me that are outstanding (possibly with a way to make aging easy). I understand that you see C++Ledger as a 'simple' tool - - - I think it is a tool that appears simple but has the framework to do even more. (To use the analogy of a calculator it looks like perhaps just a 4 function machine and then when you dig a little deeper you see the scientific functions and then deeper yet you find the statistical functions and the vector/polar calculations and and and. This is how I see ledger - - - its a tool with little showing on the surface but there is a vast world below!) Dee -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ledger" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ledger-cli+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
