Balance sheet report for a sub-group of accounts

Rob Walker rob@myinternetplace.net
Sun, 17 Jun 2001 21:09:24 -0700


>>>>> On Sun, 17 Jun 2001 11:49:55 +0200, Christian Stimming
>>>>> <stimming@tuhh.de> said:

Christian> I think it's the user's responsibility to get the account
Christian> hierarchy right. In fact, I could imagine a credit card
Christian> that *is* an asset, namely, if I had transferred money to
Christian> my credit card account in advance. (i.e. I would use it as
Christian> a debit card, not a credit card.) Since we can't know what
Christian> the user intends to do, we shouldn't try to
Christian> guess... However, if the register labels all are meant for
Christian> a liability credit card account, we should consider to
Christian> allow credit card accounts only as subaccounts of liability
Christian> accounts.

My accounting-adled brain says that all credit card accounts should be
of the appropriate types, with other-than-normal balances if one runs
a negative (opposite from normal) balance on it.

rob