GnuCash and Swedish accounting legislation

[Larry Evans]

On 01/18/2016 02:18 AM, Draug wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> For quite a while I've used GnuCash for the accounting of my company,
> but recently I've come to question if it's legal to use GnuCash for that
> purpose. According to Swedish accounting legislation, you are not
> allowed to use accounting software that allows you to edit registered
> transactions (where they use Excel as an example), which to my knowledge
> is quite easy to do in GnuCash, even after reconcilation. Swedish
> accounting legislation requires that every mistake is corrected with
> another transaction, and that the mistake is left intact in the records.
> 
> Is there anything that I've missed that makes it possible to use GnuCash
> in accordance with Swedish law? I really want to avoid switching to some
> proprietary, cloud-based accounting software that costs $12 a month to use.
> 
> Yours sincerely,
> Draug

What about making the log files uneditable?  IOW, after each session of
gnucash.  From:

http://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.6/C/gnucash-guide/basics-backup1.html

which says:

Each time you open and edit a file in GnuCash, GnuCash creates a log
file of changes you have made to your data file. The log file uses a
similar naming format as the backup files: .YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.log. Log
files are not a full backup of your data file - they simply record
changes you have made to the data file in the current GnuCash session.
Wouldn't this satisfy the requirement of:

  Swedish accounting legislation requires that every mistake is
  corrected with another transaction, and that the mistake is left
  intact in the records.

?

-regards,
Larry