Op zaterdag 13 juli 2019 17:20:41 CEST schreef John Ralls: > There hasn't been much of a response, perhaps because the presentation here > isn't clear. > > The bug, https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797093, complains that the > Cash Flow report on a single bank account reports the following > transaction: > > Assets:Bank Cr 500 > Assets:Other Cr 500 > Expenses:Payroll Dr 1000 > > as > Money in: > Assets: Other 500 > Money Out: > Expenses: Payroll 1000 > Difference: -500 > > Which isn't right: Although the net at the bottom is correct, the report > implies that 500 flowed through the Bank and it didn't. > > Where it gets more interesting is when there are multiple in and out splits > in a single transaction, e.g. > > Assets:Bank Cr 500 > Assets:Other Cr 200 > Expenses:Payroll Dr 600 > Expenses:Else Dr 200 > > In that case, the Cash Flow report on Assets:Bank should show an outflow of > 500, but how should it be apportioned between Expenses:Payroll and > Expenses:Else? 500 to Payroll, 300 to Payroll and 200 to Else, 375 to > Payroll and 125 to Else, or something else? > Does it even make sense to try to determine the "cash flow" on a single account ? I can imagine one would see the cash flow for a business and the details of how that cash flow was generated. Trying to to so on a single account may yield results that don't make sense.
> Or does it even matter? What does matter to me is an accounting package shouldn't make assumptions. If multiple valid distributions are possible it's the user that should be able to mark those somehow. I really would like to have input from users with actual accounting backgrounds on 1. what a cash flow report really should display 2. whether our current cash flow report actually does that or is in effect a totally different kind of report with a misleading name. Geert _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
