2009/8/4 Chris Shoemaker <c.shoema...@cox.net>: > 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. >
Where parent and children accounts are in the same currency a useful feature (for me at least) would be to show the budgeted, actual and diff values for the sum of parent + children as well as the individual parent and children account values. Colin Law _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
