New feature

[Derek Atkins]

This would be "Periods", which are in the works but not as far along
as I would have liked by now.  It's a good idea.

-derek

"Felipe \"No Spam Please\" Leme" <57tx5wxgp001@sneakemail.com> writes:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm an "old-time" gnucash user, and I have a sugestion for a new
> feature (I don't know if such feature already exists in another
> financial software - I just use gnucash - neither if it was already
> suggested here - sorry if it did, but I'm in a dial-up conection now,
> so I couldn't expend too much time searching for it).
> 
> The feature I'm talking about would be a checkpoint for accounts. It
> would be some sort of entry in the account that would freeze the
> account between that point and the previous checkpoint (or the
> beggining of the account), in the sense that you couldn't modify the
> transactions in that period to change the account's balance (you could
> change the description, transfer and num fields, for instance, or even
> the date -
> if the new date is still in the period).
> 
> That would be very useful, for instance, in cases where you
> accidentaly enter a new transaction in a wrong date (which is quite
> common in the end of the year, when sometimes you enter a transaction
> in january of that year, instead of the next year). Once you did such
> a mistake and didn't realize it, it's pretty hard to "debug" how your
> account does not match the real world account (from a bank printed
> statement or internet access, for instance). With the checkpoints,
> that such mistakes would not be possible, and your account would
> always be consistent.
> 
> Does it makes sense? Would it be hard to implement (I'm a developer,
> maybe I could even implement it if there is an interest on the
> feature)?
> 
> Regards (and thanks for the good software :),
> 
> Felipe
> 
> PS: I'm not subscribed in the list (due to the dial-up problem :), so
> please include my e-mail address in an eventual reply
> 
> 
> 
> 
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