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Ulrich Schenck ulrich.schenck@gmx.de
Wed, 4 Jul 2001 08:38:16 +0200


Freundlicherweise schrieb Nicholas Lee <nj.lee@plumtree.co.nz>
 am 04.07.01 um 08:58:24 Uhr folgendes:

> On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 02:28:54PM +0200, Christian Stimming wrote:
> > 
> > That's an interesting question, I encounter the same problem every now and 
> > then. However, if we had two different dates, the books would not balance 
> > in between this date interval. I think the only "real" solution would be 
> > to have an "account receivable" (A/R, in german: "Forderungen" IIRC) 
> > account on the asset side. On the date when the money is subtracted from 
> > the original account, the amount is transfered to the A/R account. On the 
> > date when it arrives in the destination account, it is transfered to it 
> > from the A/R account which will then be empty again.
> 
> 
> Another term that is used is:  AR (or AP) Clearing Account.
> 

Perhapst in an future version of gnucash there will be two
different modes, one for the (small) business, which uses the
correkt solution with a third account and a "home-users-mode"
where some things like this are a little bit simplified...

Ulrich