On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 03:41:46PM +0100, Colin Law wrote: > 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.
You're certainly not alone. Can someone propose a way to do that which neither breaks nor produces incorrect or misleading results in the case where A and B use different currencies with no conversion rate available? I think one solution would be to use a commodity collector which would show non-zero values for all currencies used by an account or any of its descendants. -chris > > Colin Law _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
