On Aug 7, 2009, at 8:15 AM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
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
No, the "professional mode" could be set at compile time, and ordinary
system security measures can be used to make the gnucash files
inaccessible to nonadministrative users except through gnucash itself.
Not that I'm interested in writing or using such a mode.
Regards,
John Ralls
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