Bug 107929

[Derek Atkins]

don Paolo Benvenuto <paolobenve at gmail.com> writes:

>> Well, for one thing it would require answering Chris' latest
>> questions.  There's a lot of questions about how such a register
>> should behave.  I'm not even sure what it means to have a basic
>> register over multiple accounts.  What is the "this account" of the
>> transactions on display?  What do you do if the accounts have
>> different commodities?
>
> I think the "balance" column should be the "total" you can put put as a
> column in the accounts tab: there it calculates the balance including
> all the txns in the sub accounts.

The total in what currency/commodity?  There's no guarantee that the
subtree is all in the same one.  What do you do if you've got an
account in USD, another in EUR, and then a handful of stock accounts
in various commodities?

> The difference would be that in the "sub accounts register" there should
> be the two accounts involved in the txn, both on the same line, and the
> "sub accounts balance" calculated for each txn the same way it is
> calculated in the total column of the accounts tab.

Don't forget about multi-split transactions.  Two is the /minimum/
number.  You could have three, four, five, six accounts involved
in a single transaction (or more!).

I don't understand what you mean by "both on the same line".

I also don't understand what you mean by "sub accounts balance".

-derek

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