> On Apr 29, 2020, at 11:45 AM, Phil Longstaff <phil.longst...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Agreed.
>
> It is correct that Assets = Liabilities + Equity uses only positive values.
> However, each balance is a credit balance or a debit balance. It is
> perfectly reasonable to associate one of those types of balance with
> positive numbers and the other with negative numbers.
>
It is. What's not reasonable is to have a preference (as opposed to a book
option) that changes which is negative, especially for stored values. Even
having a book option is dicey unless that option affects exactly one place in
all of GnuCash's code base.
Regards,
John Ralls
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