reports without decimals?

[David T.]

Unfortunately, as I understand the issue, it's a bit more complicated.

According to Wikipedia, the kwacha was re-based earlier this year by "lopping off three zeroes." Presumably, this would render the cents (and therefore the decimal portions) moot.

However, any Gnucash file that included transactions from both before and after the rebasing would have to retain the original valuation, or else the books would not balance. There really isn't any way around this, except to close one set of books and open another.

I do not know where Gnucash gets its denominational definitions, but if it's the ISO definitions, the change will need to be made there before Gnucash will show them. And I don't see Gnucash changing its internal definitions for the reason mentioned above. 

All in all, dumping the data into Excel and formatting there makes the most sense to me.

David



________________________________
 From: Dustin Henning <The00Dustin at gmx.net>
To: stepbystepfarm at mtdata.com; 'Yawar Amin' <yawar.amin at gmail.com> 
Cc: 'Derek Atkins' <warlord at mit.edu>; gnucash-user at gnucash.org; 'Francois de Ryckel' <ifitwalazambia at gmail.com> 
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 11:47 AM
Subject: RE: reports without decimals?
 
If I understand correctly, it's not about rounding.  They don't have what we
would refer to as cents anymore.  Not they just don't use them in taxes,
they don't have them, period.  If that is correct, technically GnuCash
should be updated to fix it.  In the meantime, it might be possible to edit
the currency in the xml file, but that would be unsupported and I don't know
if it would cause problems with the program or not (I tried to change a
currency to 8 decimal places once, it never crashed, but it still rounded
wrong, in this case, the lack of rounding wouldn't be a problem since there
are no "cents").

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Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 13:31
To: Yawar Amin
Cc: Derek Atkins; gnucash-user at gnucash.org; Francois de Ryckel
Subject: Re: reports without decimals?


>Ah, the monetary amounts are rounded to two decimal places and you want
them to be rounded to zero decimal places ... how about copying the report
to a spreadsheet and rounding off the numbers there?
>
>Best,
>
>Yawar
>  
>
Oh dear. This was about rounding?

Yes I know you might be required to file with governmental agencies on a
"whole dollar" (or whatever) basis. But that does not mean you should keep
your books that way. Just because A + B = C does NOT mean that
rounded(A) + rounded(B) = rounded (C). You are going to have enough trouble
with just the limited fudging which might become necessary in your tax
filings. You do NOT want to have the zillion OOB (out of
balance) errors you would get if all your amounts were rounded as entered
and you would be doing one heck of a lot of fudging amounts.

Michael

(somebody who amoung other things used to have to compute the necessary
"fuzz" to make comparisons work when rounding errors were involved).
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