I can't think of any reason that equity needs to be included. On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 9:54 AM Christopher Lam <christopher....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you Phil. Github isn't logged anywhere apart from web interface, > hence not the best for discussion. > > The only hiccup I really want to elucidate is whether equity being part of > Transfer line is needed at all. So please let me know whether it should be > part of the equation at all. > > My suggestions for summary lines as follows would encourage users to think > 'incoming funds --> outgoing expenses, and invest into savings and pay off > loans" > > "Inflow from Income" = normally positive > "Outflow to Expenses" = normally positive > "Outflow to Asset&Liability" = normally positive > "Unbudgeted balance" = aiming towards zero > > On Fri, 3 Jan 2020 at 11:32, Phil Longstaff <phil.longst...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I will continue this discussion here because I can no longer comment on >> the >> change on github. >> >> No, I understand you aren't trying to be difficult. >> >> I think when I made the original change, my books were set with a certain >> sign-reversal setting and I didn't test with other settings. My problem >> now >> is that I have very little time to spend to fix this. It has been a few >> years since I have done anything on the gnucash code base and no longer >> have a working development environment. >> >> Phil >> >> On Thu, Jan 2, 2020 at 6:04 AM Christopher Lam <notificati...@github.com> >> wrote: >> >> > P.S. I'm not intending to be difficult here -- the previous strategy had >> > assumed that all budget values asset/liability/income/expense/equity had >> > assumed sign-reversal=credit-balances, and was adding/subtracting them >> as >> > such. After bug fix, if this commit, the summary totals would have been >> > extremely broken e.g. asset=$300, liability=$1000; the transfer column >> > would have shown $1300 or $700 according to sign-reversal preference, >> and >> > the total column would be much more wild. >> > >> > — >> > You are receiving this because you were mentioned. >> > Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub >> > < >> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/commit/775200ef348f8579a3e0258988ae25a8026dbd6d?email_source=notifications&email_token=AE6Z25I2JTMG4J3KIZ26GT3Q3XC4FA5CNFSM4KB3HZ4KYY3PNVWWK3TUL52HS4DFVVBW63LNNF2EG33NNVSW45FKMNXW23LFNZ2F62LEZYBC6A6C#commitcomment-36635586 >> >, >> > or unsubscribe >> > < >> https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AE6Z25OEXIQVNT5ACQEDTBTQ3XC4FANCNFSM4KB3HZ4A >> > >> > . >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-devel mailing list >> gnucash-devel@gnucash.org >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel >> > _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
