Does GnuCash possess a Journal Entry numbering facility
David Britton
bbaruu at gmail.com
Sat Oct 4 09:12:28 EDT 2014
Me? Patch? Code? Submit? What fresh, new Hell that would be, Derek! LOL
Tx for the thought, though.
David
-----Original Message-----
From: Derek Atkins [mailto:warlord at MIT.EDU]
Sent: Fri, 03 Oct, 2014 11:43 AM
To: David Britton
Cc: 'John Ralls'; 'gnucash-user'
Subject: Re: Does GnuCash possess a Journal Entry numbering facility
I would just add:
If you want to see it, submit a patch... :) It is unlikely that the
existing developers will ever implement it.
-derek
"David Britton" <bbaruu at gmail.com> writes:
> OK then! That sounds firm. LOL
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Ralls [mailto:jralls at ceridwen.us]
> Sent: Thu, 02 Oct, 2014 11:22 AM
> To: David Britton
> Cc: Michael Hendry; gnucash-user
> Subject: Re: Does GnuCash possess a Journal Entry numbering facility
>
>
> On Oct 2, 2014, at 6:48 AM, David Britton <bbaruu at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I see, Michael. Decent workaround.
>>
>> @John Ralls: you emailed me with your response. In it, you state
>> that "a Journal Entry Number wouldn't mean anything in the normal
>> accounting
> sense."
>> I think Michael and I could agree that the action of posting should
>> be the trigger to create a JE# which then would mean something;
>> you're saying that the posting trigger is already by-passed. It's
>> here the process hits the rocks where Michael and I are concerned.
>> In contrast the old Bedford Accounting/Simply Accounting booked
>> transactions in real-time like Gnucash but did generate a Number.
>> So, conceptually there's a way through. And it makes a lot of sense
>> from an Audit Trail perspective since Gnucash could be seen as an
indexing system.
>> Personally, I don't use the suggested internal reconciliation
>> facility that you mention - never found it useful to mark entries;
>> good to know,
> though, that there's technique out there.
>>
>> @Michael and @John: So there's a history here. A number of folks
>> find that Gnucash has this perceived shortcoming. I strongly suggest
>> that the team look hard at adding this feature. It's likely a lot of
>> work; I can appreciate that. But I think it's key. Has there been
>> any developer team debate around this?
>
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> Yes. We're not going to do it. Auditability is not a design goal of
GnuCash:
> GnuCash is intended for home and very small business use where
> reconciling with one's monthly bank statements is the only required
> auditing. If that doesn't meet your needs, then GnuCash isn't the right
program for you.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
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