reverse balance accounts

Bill Gribble grib@billgribble.com
Fri, 8 Sep 2000 08:06:47 -0500


On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 09:32:12PM -0700, Dave Peticolas wrote:
> I think this is a good idea, both the per-account reverse setting
> and requiring the hierarchy to be consistent.

I don't think I agree; allowing per-account preferences for balance
sign-display seems like a recipe for confusion.  What is the problem
that it's solving?  If there are a class of accounts that people want
to see with the opposite sign, I think that should be discussed, but
it seems to me that if an account has the "wrong" sign it's probably
symptomatic of a systematic problem in the way one is using the
program (i.e. putting negative numbers for check amounts).

b.g.