What's your favorite year end method?

[Beth Leonard]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 10:49:30AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > That works, too, provided that people (and more importantly, the
> > importers) actually use that field appropriately.
> 
> that's what it always comes down to... getting the user (where the
> importer is a user as well) to enter data in a consistent, defined
> way. 
> 
> I've been slowly building specs for this in my head, and need to get
> it down into bits for others to comment on. 

If you're taking notes...

As a user, I prefer for it to "just work" as much as possible, with
the program taking it's best guess where there is unclear or
insufficient data.  I also like the ability to do a "manual override"
by setting a specific action for those cases where GnuCash's best
guess isn't good enough.

If the ability to do a manual override is written into the report
backend, then I'd also like it to be clear somewhere in the report
or report options that if I don't like the results I'm seeing, I
do have the ability to do a manual override using the action column.

Gah! Now I'm envisioning the paperclip telling me "It looks like you're
trying to compute the basis on the stock you donated, try changing
the action field to 'donate' in the sell transaction"

--Beth 
Beth Leonard
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