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

[Wm...]

Sun, 8 Nov 2015 14:24:50 <5722249.tqCMuBTHXJ at legolas.kobaltwit.lan>
Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be> wrote...

>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

Funny (genuine amusement) I did not expect my "sleeping with" to be 
literal!

>, as
>gnucash lacks certain features needed to do so efficiently (like
>inventory management,

gnucash has the internal accounting to do inventory management, 
actually.  what it lacks is the user level template transactions to do 
it sensibly.

>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...

I said templates.  Guess what? I test some things out on Tryton (a 
project that is known to have had sex with OpenERP) when thinking things 
through.  Small world.

>> >
>> >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.

EekBoek has a fairly good set IIRC.  Not sure it should be me that does 
the update as my government doesn't impose a formal account numbering 
system and I thought others encouraged it.

>> 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

I've added some stuff

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Wm...