[GNC] Focus on international standards

[Derek Atkins]

The wonderful thing about gnucash is that it is open source.  The sad thing 
is that it is run 100% by volunteers.  If there is something that bothers 
you, you should volunteer to fix it!  Patches are always welcome.

Thanks!

-derek
Sent using my mobile device. Please excuse any typos.
On February 5, 2022 7:37:14 AM "Fiable.biz via gnucash-user" 
<gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:

> Hello.
>
> I'm very grateful to GnuCash developers. Nevertheless, it seems to me that 
> they are not very interested in international standards, possibly because 
> many of them are Americans, and Americans are not fond of international 
> standards. I use GnuCash 4.9 on Fedora.
>
> 1) Former bug 622778 was opened 12 years ago and is very similar to current 
> bug 797093 ("Miscalculation in cashflow reports"), reported in 2019 and 
> still unfixed.
>
> 2) Bug 796811 ("Allowing ISO number formats (both decimal separators, 
> spaces) and currency symbol as input"), reported in 2018, has not been fixed.
>
> 3) When using multiple currencies, after having filled the price database 
> with the exchange rate of all days with transactions in the foreign 
> currency, I found no way to get a correct income statement based on the 
> exchange rate of each transaction day, which is an IFRS requirement. IFRS 
> for SMEs n°30.7: "An entity shall record a foreign currency transaction, on 
> initial recognition in the functional currency, by applying to the foreign 
> currency amount the spot exchange rate between the functional currency and 
> the foreign currency at the date of the transaction." I tried the 5 options 
> of "Price source": "Average cost of purchases weighted by volume", 
> "Weighted average of all transactions in the past", "Last up through report 
> date" (which is incomprehensible to me, whose mother tongue is not 
> English), "Closest to report date" and "Most recent".
>
> These 3 defects have poisoned my life for long. I guess there are other non 
> standard behaviours which don't bother me. Does anyone know of another 
> openSource project more focused on international standards?
>
> Thank you very much in advance.
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