[GNC-dev] About budgets in 3.8, 3.9 and 3.10

[John Ralls]

> On Apr 29, 2020, at 11:45 AM, Phil Longstaff <phil.longstaff at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Agreed.
> 
> It is correct that Assets = Liabilities + Equity uses only positive values.
> However, each balance is a credit balance or a debit balance. It is
> perfectly reasonable to associate one of those types of balance with
> positive numbers and the other with negative numbers.
> 

It is. What's not reasonable is to have a preference (as opposed to a book option) that changes which is negative, especially for stored values. Even having a book option is dicey unless that option affects exactly one place in all of GnuCash's code base.

Regards,
John Ralls