Internal transfer accounts (was:Having 2 Descriptions Per Transaction)

Geert Janssens geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be
Sun Nov 8 08:24:50 EST 2015


On Saturday 07 November 2015 18:20:10 Wm... wrote:
> Sat, 7 Nov 2015 10:25:38 <2329537.e4XbGq61WP at legolas.kobaltwit.lan>
> Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be> wrote...
> >I *think* it's an Asset/Liability account, though I never referred to
> >it using these terms.
> >Belgium's official chart of accounts is heavily based on account
> >numbers so I'm more used
> >to the number associated to it.
> >
> >The number for the Internal Transfer account is 580000. Numbers
> >starting with 5 here are
> >for cash, bank accounts, and things like that. Which I understand are
> >Asset/Liability
> >accounts.
> 
> While looking around for a reference to this I see that a certain
> Geert Janssens has made some contributions to OpenERP in a similar
> vein. Sleeping with the enemy, eh? :) [1]
> 

Caught red-handed ;)
Full disclosure: I'm using OpenERP to handle my wife's business, as 
gnucash lacks certain features needed to do so efficiently (like 
inventory management, legal checks on VAT and other tax reporting). I 
always dreamt about implementing the missing parts in gnucash. If only I 
had more free time on my hands...

> >
> >Well, clearly not in Belgium so far :)
> >
> >Thanks for your input however. It helps me to evaluate my habits in a
> >global scope.
> 
> More generally why does GC's French CoA (on which I think the Belgian
> one is based) not have account numbers?  They are there in the
> standard German and Swedish charts for example.
> 
Nobody put in the effort to update the CoA.

> Also, what is the thinking behind not making other countries CoAs
> available to people who apparently aren't in that country?  I like
> learning about how other places do their accounting, why should I have
> to dig around looking for xea files rather than just creating a new
> book and using (say) the Swedish BAS CoA?

Historical oversight. I had already filed an enhancement request for 
this [1]. Again no one stepped up so far to improve this situation.

Regards,

Geert

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=737489 



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