>
> I'm not sure how it works in Quicken. I was referring to just sorting
> by the date of entry, not changing it. But now that I think of it, if
> we switch to sorting by the date of entry, we could go ahead and show
> the date of entry in the left column instead of the 'real' date typed
> in, and allow the user to edit that. Any thoughts about that?
>
Unfortunately, if you happen to edit the date-typed-in by mistake,
there is no way of finding the error by looking for recently entered
(or recently changed) transactions.
Also, if the date-changed is to be used for audit, it won't be much use
if it is easy to change.
Also, it we are to be doing audits, it would be useful to retain
the old transactions after a change -- not so that they would be
actively displayed and added into totals and such, but that
they could be found and used to check whether the change was correct (or,
possibly, to restore the old version if the change were wrong).
Also, if we are going to be doing all this, we should record the name of
the person making the change. In Linux, would a numerical user-id be
sufficient?
-- hendrik.
