Has anyone installed the GnucashEditor (view & edit GnuCash Files)?

[Mike or Penny Novack]

Ian K wrote:

>Good point re stocks - 
>
It is not just stocks where we normally want to be able to see past 
details of ledger accounts. For example, you normally want to (easily) 
be able to see past history with a customer and there are other similar 
situations.

Somebody was asking HOW to go to new books each fiscal period. Answers 
were addressing THAT, not whether he speed up in opening the application 
was worth the increased difficulty in accessing historical data. As I 
indicated earlier, it was not (in the days of pen and ink on paper) 
customary to begin new ledger accounts, just a new journal book. But 
with a computerized accounting system we are not first entering 
transactions in the journal and then later posting these to the ledgers. 
That was an error prone process and the single biggest benefit of a 
program like guncash is "autoposting". We enter transactions directly 
into the ledger accounts (and the system can produce a "journal" report 
for us if we need to see a chronological ordering of transactions).

Michael