Enhancement Request for GNUcash

[Mike or Penny Novack]

  Most of us reading this are having more than a little difficulty 
understanding for WHAT you are asking.
> To whom it may concern,
>
> Given how limited and un-free our monetary system is nowadays, I think
> GNUcash would make a great tool for the following freedoms below:
What does the free or unfree status of a currency have to do with 
keeping track of it with double entry bookkeeping. Maybe give some 
example where an "unfreeness" would affect accounting. Is it THIS sort 
of thing? You deposit a check into your checking account and so record a 
transaction in that amount as of that date. But your bank probably has a 
hold on that amount until that check has cleared << you would NOT be 
allowed to withdraw your full bank balance until then >> Or do you mean 
something else?
>
> 0 > The Freedom to modify your starting and ending balance. This means you
> can take a @200 balance (yes, I'm using the @ symbol for example use), and
> turn it into @200000 without the need to transfer anything.
With double entry bookkeeping EVERYTHING you do has to have equal debit 
and credit amounts. Are you possibly meaning "can I "rescale" EVERY 
amount in the set of books? << that would not violate equal debits and 
credits >>
>
> 1 > The Freedom to add and subtract from your ending balance like a
> calculator.
I can't eve guess what you might mean by this.

  2 > The Freedom to send and receive money in any amount you choose.

Nor this one either. What limitation on the amounts being entered are 
you referring to?

  3 > The Freedom to exchange this currency for other currency of any 
amount or size. So I am generically requesting a feature that allows 
this to be implemented into GNUcash, just to exercise this right. Thanks 
for understanding, Jesse.

For a "what if"? You want a global change of currency at some specified 
exchange rate? << as opposed to the ACTUAL rate when the transactions 
become real >> You are making an unjustified assumption here, that all 
the things in your books would be exchangable in this way. Currency yes, 
but how about other assets that exist in the place of the original 
currency. You have a "book value" for those BUT do not know what the 
actual amount of currency they convert to until that conversion (to the 
first currency) has taken place. For example, your house here in the US 
might have a book value of $X but you do NOT know if that can be 
converted to #Y until/unless that house has been successfully sold.

Michael D Novack