Balance sheet report for a sub-group of accounts

[Robert Graham Merkel]

On Wed, 13 Jun 2001 19:15:46 Christian Stimming wrote:
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> Oops, that bug goes on me. The problem is that I didn't manage to get the
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> sub-balance calculation and the account showing/not-showing to follow the
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> same rules on which accounts to include and which not. The problem lies
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> html-utilities.scm at e.g. line 511, where the function for subbalance 
> calculation simpy ignores any of the account selection options. At this 
> point we would need to introduce a new function that does the subbalance 
> calculation with regards to the account selection options.
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> Note, however, that the semantics of the account selection in the balance
> 
> sheet and those in the profit and loss report are slightly different. 
> (That's what you get if two different developers write different 
> reports...) The semantics for the latter are explained in 
> html-utilities.scm:309. If somebody fixes the subbalance bug, he might 
> want to unify those two semantics in a consistent behaviour as well. 
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Yes, I suppose we should fix it.

> I can do that, but I'm busy this week, i.e. I can work on that after June
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> 18th. If somebody else wants to go ahead before that date, please do it.
> 
> Christian
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There is another issue to do with this code, that I noticed WRT the balance
sheet but also appears in the average-balance report.  What should we do
if somebody has an asset parent account with, say, a credit card
subaccount?

At the moment, the credit card account will be displayed as an asset . . . 
                  

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