On Tue, 4 Jan 2022 at 22:21, Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote:
> On 1/4/22 10:40 AM, Christopher Lam wrote: > > Experienced Users, > > > > The upcoming 5.x series (master branch) currently has a one-time fix for > > budgets to ensure they're internally stored as unreversed numbers. > > Currently (up to 4.x) budgeting $1000 income into $600 expense and $400 > > liability repayment are stored as +1000, +600, +400. They should be > stored > > internally as -1000, +600, +400 amounts, as per usual accounting > equation. > > I would nit-pick the assertion of 'usual accounting equation'. I've only > seen one form of it, in any reference, and short of any further > 'factoring' it looks like this: > (snip) The internal representation for *all* GnuCash transactional data has always (IIUC) followed the convention "asset + liability + equity + income + expense == 0". This is what I meant by the GnuCash accounting equation. This dictates the amounts and signs saved in the XML/SQL. This also applies to budget amounts, except budget income amounts. This will be modified in 5.x. Any sign reversal *for display* aims to follow the global pref "Reverse Balanced Accounts". This is stored in https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations#GSettings -- on Windows it'll be the systemwide registry Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\GSettings\org\gnucash\GnuCash\general HTH, C _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
