Net Asset Calculation

[Derek Atkins]

Kevin,

Are you willing to donate time and code to help fix it?  If not, then
frankly I don't want to hear this kind of response.  We are _NOT_
Quicken or Money.  We do _NOT_ have a team of tens, let alone
hundreds, of developers and testers.  We are _NOT_ paid for our time
and effort.  So, yes, half-baked code does make it through the
"process".  Tough.  We're doing the best we can given the limited
resources we have.

Based on user experience so far, SXes have clearly _never_ worked
right.  But that alone does not warrant holding back a release.  SXes
are an extraneous feature, and we can easily tell users "don't use
them yet."  There were enough another other fixes completed to warrant
a 1.8.2.  Hopefully the SX code can be fixed for 1.8.3, but that
depends on getting code.  The SX author is busy with real life (as are
ALL of us), and frankly I don't blame him for not being very active in
Gnucash -- it doesn't pay his salary.  Waiting would have meant waiting
indefinitely, and that's NOT ok.

Open Source is not perfect.  The reason it's better than closed-source
is NOT because it's free.  The reason it's better is because it can
leverage the help of hundreds of developers, each working on small
improvements.  Well, I'm sorry, put up or shut up.  Either provide
some code, be one of those people making gnucash better, or stop
complaining.

-derek, who's had a very bad day, and it's not even noon yet

Kevin Benton <kevinb at bentonfam.org> writes:

> All - we released 1.8.2 knowing that SX's were broken yet advertised it
> as a new feature?  Seems to me we should have held off the 1.8.2 release
> for the full SX fix.  As I've said before, I'm not trying to bring up
> things to make it seem I'm just complaining, but giving everyone a sense
> of how a  customer might feel if this kind of "feature" were released in
> Quicken or Money.  Seems to me this feature should be turned off by
> default until fixed.
> 
> On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 20:28, Derek Atkins wrote:
> 
> > The Net Assets is calculated the same way, but only for accounts
> > denoted in a particular commodity.  If you have stock accounts,
> > you can change the net-assets toolbar to show those particular
> > commodities.
> > 
> > Be careful with the SXes -- there are some problems when converting
> > from Scheduled to Real transaction.
> > 
> > -derek
> > 
> > "W. Scott Wilburn" <wswilburn at earthlink.net> writes:
> > 
> > > I apologize if this has already discussed. Please refer me to the 
> > > relevant archives if so. (I looked through the last few months.)
> > > 
> > > I recently switched from 1.6.6 to 1.8.2 and simply opened my old file with 
> > > the new version.
> > > 
> > > In 1.6.6, the 'Net Assets' value displayed in the Accounts Status Bar 
> > > appeared to be
> > > 
> > >         net_assets = total_of_asset_accounts - total_of_liability_accounts 
> > > 
> > > with equity, income, and expense accounts ignored. This seemed sensible.
> > > 
> > > In 1.8.2 'Net Assets' appears to be calculated quite differently. Can 
> > > someone explain the difference please?
> > > 
> > > BTW, the scheduled transaction stuff looks really good. I now have every 
> > > feature I need!
> > > 
> > > Best regards,
> > > Scott Wilburn
> > > 
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