GnuCash and Swedish accounting legislation

[Colin Law]

On 18 January 2016 at 08:18, Draug <draug at kolabnow.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> For quite a while I've used GnuCash for the accounting of my company, but
> recently I've come to question if it's legal to use GnuCash for that
> purpose. According to Swedish accounting legislation, you are not allowed to
> use accounting software that allows you to edit registered transactions
> (where they use Excel as an example), which to my knowledge is quite easy to
> do in GnuCash, even after reconcilation. Swedish accounting legislation
> requires that every mistake is corrected with another transaction, and that
> the mistake is left intact in the records.
>
> Is there anything that I've missed that makes it possible to use GnuCash in
> accordance with Swedish law? I really want to avoid switching to some
> proprietary, cloud-based accounting software that costs $12 a month to use.

An email from Geert in a different thread has reminded me that there
is already code that optionally makes reconciled transactions read
only. I wonder then whether it would in fact be a fairly simple change
to the code to make it so that /all/ transactions would be locked,
dependent on a configuration option that could be set but not cleared.

Colin