On Sun, 12 May 2019 at 09:03, Maf. King <m...@chilwell.net> wrote: > the flexibility is good, but why A/R by default? the other side to those > txns > would generally be an income a/c & VAT collected split? > I don't think loans into the business would have a VAT component. But who > knows what the gubberment might change in the future. >
Ah correct, AP/AR accounts shouldn't be selected by default; the Income/Expense accts have all the information already. I've amended. > - tax accts - default to nil, select VAT (EC&non-EC) asset/liability > accts. > > In addition, sales&purch accts whose description contain *ECGOODS* are > > counted separately for boxes 8 and 9 > > And tax accts are also handled differently depending whether *ECVAT* > exists > > in description. > > There may be a more elegant way to select them. The CSV output is sound > > though. > > Should the sales&purch accts be limited? eg sales can be > > INCOME/AR/LIABILITY only? ditto purch = EXP/AP/ASSET only? > > Limiting selection types might be reasonable, but I see no real necessity > to > limit. If you're setting up for VAT then you should have a clue about the > different types of accounts and where the relevant txns are in your tree. > this isn't mom&pop we need to cater for here, but small businesses with a > turnover of 85k+. A bit of accounting knowledge, and some good docs (OK, > I > hear you - "contributions welcome from the user base". ;-0 ) should be > enough? > > thanks again for your time & efforts. > NP. The last issue is whether the accounts selection system above is the best one. I don't think it's the best but is the one most accessible. "Tax report options" are another method. _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
