On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 11:43:32PM -0400, Forest Bond wrote: > Hi Phil, > > On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 12:02:07PM -0400, Phil Longstaff wrote: > > The budget report is my current itch, so I've been upgrading it. > > ... > > I'd like to see the budget reporting improved as much as anyone else, and I'm > glad that you are looking at it. However, the semantics of budget data have > not > been clearly established, as I highlighted in a comment on bug #570895: > > My current understanding of budget numbers is that if A and B are expense > accounts and B is a child account of A and both A and B have numbers entered > for a given period in the budget, the total expenses for that period is > A[period] + B[period]. In other words, A[period] doesn't *override* > B[period]. This is how things are handled in BIS, anyway. I don't think > the > correct behavior is documented anywhere. This may be part of a larger > design > discussion, so feel free to move it to the ML if you think it is > appropriate. > > I'd really like to see some agreement on this before the budget reports get > much > further. > > Thoughts?
What you describe is correct. It's important to remember that: a. A and B may use different currencies. b. Budget values for an account are always in the same currency as the account. c. There *may* be no reasonable way to convert from one currency to the other. -chris _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
