JT Morée <more...@yahoo.com> writes: > --- On Mon, 2/8/10, Derek Atkins <warl...@mit.edu> wrote: >> If you perform Cash >> based accounting then you need to apply your Income and >> Expense when the >> payment happens, not when you book the invoice/bill. >> So in this case >> the invoice/bill txn does NOT apply to the period in which >> it is dated. > > I don't see how having a fake/unique/reserved date fixes that problem. If > someone puts invoices in the books on a cash system when sending them there > will be skewed data no matter what date it's on.
The fake date is required for the zeroizing transactions... No, it doesn't help converting from accrual based accounting (invoices/bills) to cash-based accounting, but that's not its purpose here. > gnucash-devel mailing list > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH warl...@mit.edu PGP key available _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
