Null Account and more

Perry Smith pedz at easesoftware.net
Fri Jul 23 10:44:28 EDT 2004


Hey, one more question...

Should the creation of accounts with null names be allowed in the first 
place?  If they are, then we will always have a problem going to the 
current postgres db spec because the accounts table does not allow null 
names.  So, or or the other needs to be changed.

Perry

On Jul 23, 2004, at 9:01 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:

> linas at linas.org (Linas Vepstas) writes:
>
>> On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 11:11:56AM -0500, Perry Smith was heard to 
>> remark:
>>>
>>> When gnucash imported this, it created a sub account under "Interest"
>>> called "Fidelity Ultra" and Fidelity Ultra has a subaccount with no
>>> name.  I can see this in the xml as well as the Accounts window.  
>>> There
>>
>> Possibly a bug in the qif importer ???
>
> Could be.  That code is a pile of hairballs...
>
>>>  "Interest" in quicken as well as gnucash is an expense but Fidelity
>>> Ultra is an income account and the account with no name is an income
>>
>> Bad.  'Fidelity Ultra' should be an asset account of some kind, not
>> an income account.  You cannot use income/expense accounts to hold
>> anything of value.  Income/expense accounts are meant only to record
>> income or expenses, for use in cash-flow type reports.
>
> Not necessarily...  What should happen, IIRC, is that you'll get
> an account tree that looks something like this:
>
> Assets
>   +- Fidelity Ultra
>      +- (stocks here)
>
> Income
>   +- Interest
>      +- Fidelity Ultra
>
> So in essence we'd get the interest income as a transfer from
> Income:Interest:Fidelity Ultra -> Assets:Fidelity Ultra.
>
> -derek
>
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