> > From: Jay Seidler <jay.seid...@gmail.com> > > To: gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > > Sent: Friday, August 7, 2009 5:55:23 AM > > Subject: transaction corrections > > > > Gnucash is a usable program. It however lacks something *very > > basic and important.* Any professional accounting program must > > not allow the editing or deleting of entered transactions. All > > corrections must be made by an additional correction entry which > > will refer to the original erroneous transaction.
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 06:44:58AM -0700, Phil Longstaff wrote: > > True. However, gnucash is not, and does not pretend to be, a > professional accounting program. I believe it started as a personal > accounting program and expanded to business use. > > I would not be averse to having a "professional" mode which > prevented transactions from being edited or deleted (other than text > edits to description and memos). However, since gnucash is produced > by volunteers, I don't think anyone is going to jump on this in the > near future. further, as has been discussed here before, there is nothing to prevent a sufficiently sophisticated user from either 1) turning off the "professional" mode, making a change and then turning it back on, or 2) manually editting the file or database to alter transactions. such a feature is, IMO, useless, and provides a false sense of security. .02 A
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