Hi, I probably didn't use the right terminology in the title. I've implemented balance assertions for gnucash myself since I couldn't find that feature in gnucash (https://github.com/armanschwarz/gnc_tools). This allows me to put expected balances into the ledger and ensure that they remain that way even if I make changes later on.
This works fine except for the fact that I have to put my assertions in as negative numbers, e.g. if they're in a liability account. This makes sense from an accounting equation perspective but it's counterintuitive to see a negative balance assertion in the ledger against a positive "balance" (since gnucash GUI shows a liability as a "balance" while the sum of the transaction values in the XML file will be negative). It would be helpful if I could somehow look in the transaction element in XML and figure out whether the "balance" value should be multitplied by 1 or -1 before comparing it with the sum of the individual transactions. Looking at the XML file though, I didn't see any values that would tell me this. I could construct a dictionary of "act:type" to "sign", but then I'd have to manually maintain a possibly large dictionary. That's not the end of the world, but if that's the solution, is there an exhaustive list of account types and their sign that I could get access to? _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
