[GNC-dev] „Accruals are potentially missing as account_types in the db scheme

[Alexander Damm]

"  If I understand correctly what you mean by "accruals" you mean that
this report requires you to treat some liabilities differently than
others. You need to be able to distinguish between them. This would not
require a new "account type", just a partitioning of liabilities between
"ordinary liabilities" << a place holder under liabilities; its children
would be ordinary liabilities >> and "accruals" << a second place holder
under liabilities; its children would be accounts that are "accruals" >>

Then you only need to "scrape" the Balance Sheet as produced by gnucash."


yes that is exactly what I would like to have.
So you're suggesting to use the field "placeholder" in the table accounts
and match all the accruals accounts under one account with the
name:"accruals" and the account_type:"liablility" and the placeholder: "1"
and the parent_guid: "(form the main accruals account)" ?


regards alex



On Thu, 14 Apr 2022 at 17:27, Michael or Penny Novack <
stepbystepfarm at comcast.net> wrote:

> > Due to the mandatory Taxonomie I have to use among other things the
> > following acoounts:
> >
> > Activ:
> > (Fixed Assets) de-gaap-ci:bs.ass.fixAss
> > (Current Assets) de-gaap-ci:bs.ass.currAss
> >
> > Passiv:
> > (Equity) de-gaap-ci:bs.eqLiab.equity
> > (Accurals)de-gaap-ci:bs.eqLiab.accruals
> > (Liability) de-gaap-ci:bs.eqLiab.liab
>
> Currently I programmed a workaround in python to get all the liabilities
> from the db. Still it would be nicer, if we would have an account_type
> "accurals" or another field in the table accounts to distinguish between
> liability and accurals.
>
>   If I understand correctly what you mean by "accruals" you mean that
> this report requires you to treat some liabilities differently than
> others. You need to be able to distinguish between them. This would not
> require a new "account type", just a partitioning of liabilities between
> "ordinary liabilities" << a place holder under liabilities; its children
> would be ordinary liabilities >> and "accruals" << a second place holder
> under liabilities; its children would be accounts that are "accruals" >>
>
> Then you only need to "scrape" the Balance Sheet as produced by gnucash.
>
> Michael D Novack
>
>
>
>
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