Support for multiple account types for an account placeholder

[Frank H. Ellenberger]

Hi,

FYI: we had some discussion in 
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=421766 – support "Passive" account 
type (able to contain both Liability and Equity accounts)

and I came to the same result as Mike: 
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=573663 – Accounts have the wrong 
sort order for most european countries.

Cheers
Frank

Am Monday 23 February 2009 13:17:52 schrieb Mike or Penny Novack:
> >I am quite sure I have read a discussion a while ago about the
> >constraint of not being able to set more than one account type for an
> >account. The thing is that the standard BAS account plan, which is being
> >used in Sweden, has a top account (placeholder) which holds both equity
> >and liabilities. Its child accounts are split into accounts of either
> >the types equity or liabilities.
> >
> >Could this support be implemented without "too much" work? If you think
> >it seems to be an OK idea but are not interested in implementing it, I
> >can maybe do it, provided I get some help.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Mikael
>
> Question (because never perform major surgery when a minor fix might work)
>
> Is this just something affecting how balance sheet type reports would
> appear?(and maybe some other reports) The fundamental equation of
> bookkeeping A = L + E remains the same, only with BAS there is this "top
> account" assigned to be the root of the L + E tree? But is it otherwise
> USED for anything? If not, then implementation might require nothing
> more than creating the "BAS Style Balance Sheet" (and other reports that
> would be different in BAS --- and if this root account has a non
> constant name, filling that in can be done at the edit-option level).
>
> Michael
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