Very very new ?

[P. Pitts Dockman]

I think I still have a 10 yr learning curve ahead of me and being 50+ am not 
overly encouraged.  I am certainly more of a user than a hacker and most 
certainly a gosh awful programer.

That said, I was wondering why there is not a Postable? t/f field in the 
account record. The way I set up accounts the majority of the parent accounts 
would be non-postable; ie in English that's what the word 'other' is for. A 
parent 'Utilities' might have children 'Heating Oil', "Elec", "Propane" and 
"Other". There is no cause to be able to post to the parent "Utilities" and 
if the these parent accounts are not shown in the drop down listings of a 
register proper account selection is improved.

Look for my patches in about a year but as I work would appreciate any feed 
back as to why this should not be a user selectable feature?

In for a dime in for a dollar, let me pass another concept/issue along that 
I'll be looking at.  From my accounting perspective the whole account 
parent->child concept is inverted. Any postable account of a certain type 
needs to capture specific transaction information.  The parent should not 
impose limits on the child, rather the child need to capture what is required 
and pass to the parent what ever information the parent can handle (often 
only signage of a debit/credit amount.) I concur currency is an exception as 
both parent and child need to talk about apples and apples.

What I am exploring is opening equity parent accounts to children of any 
type.  From both a business model and personally (the wife has a shop and I 
run a farm) equity accounts should be able to summarize 
profit-center/enterprise activities.  I recognize that a chart of accounts is 
not a replacement for a report writter that says Store-X is in a strip mall 
within the eastern region of territory 2-Monte Carlo. Maybe only 5% of users 
may utilize such a feature but I can not think of any accounting reasons to 
preclude it.

Comments appreciated, flames accepted, thanks in advance
ppd