[GNC] Cash Account

[Stan Brown (using GC 4.14)]

Thanks for this, Ross. I asked a similar question in July, but your look
into the code gave a much better answer than I got.

It would be very nice if this information can be added to section 2.8.2
of the Tutorial and Concepts manual.

Stan Brown
Tehachapi, CA, USA
https://BrownMath.com

On 2024-10-01 10:54, Ross Reedstrom wrote:
> So, answering the question. Internally, GnuCash has an enumeration
> GnuAccountType, which that drop down is populated from. There are
> conditionals all over the code that switch based on the account type. One
> significant one for answering your question (Cash vs. Bank or any other
> Asset account, Credit vs. generic Liability) is that there  are two
> mappings for human friendly column names for "debit" and "credit" actions.
> 
> Cash uses "Receive" and  "Spend". Bank uses "Deposit" and "Withdraw". Asset
> uses "Increase" and "Decrease". On the other side of the ledger, Credit
> uses "Payment" (debit) and "Charge" (credit), generic Liability uses
> "Decrease" (debit) and "Increase" (credit). Helps get past the
> non-accountants "Wait, I debit the cash account when I put money in my
> wallet???" confusion.
> 
> There are probably other differences, but that's what I found with a quick
> search through the code.  Note that the code is well structured, and
> heavily commented with good comments, for example:
> 
> /* The type field is the account type, picked from the enumerated
>      * list that includes ACCT_TYPE_BANK, ACCT_TYPE_STOCK,
>      * ACCT_TYPE_CREDIT, ACCT_TYPE_INCOME, etc.  Its intended use is to
>      * be a hint to the GUI as to how to display and format the
>      * transaction data.
>      */
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
> Ross
> 
> On Tue, Oct 1, 2024 at 12:24 PM Chris Miller via gnucash-user <
> gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
>