On 9/14/2023 8:55 AM, Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) wrote:
Just as a point of information, I prefer Basic view because I can get
more transactions on my screen that way. When reviewing a previously
entered transaction in an account register, I usually click the Split
button rather than changing the whole register's view.
That's what feels simplest to me, but of course it's a very individual
taste. We are fortunate that there are usually multiple ways in GC to
accomplish a given thing.
Probably because I can understand "basic view" as ledger wide "cashbook
accounting" (which I used to do for the most popular accounts in pen and
paper days) I haven't used the setting for "journal view" (except for an
individual split transaction). So I don't know from personal experience.
When you say "see more transactions on the page" are you saying that the
setting results in ALL transactions on that ledger page being expanded
in journal view WHETHER OPEN (for editing) OR NOT.
BTW -- for the benefit of those who never did bookkeeping pen and ink on
paper, cashbook accounting was limited to a small subset of the ledger
accounts because paper only so wide. Thus "fold out" ledger paper might
be 12 column, so could be six accounts. IF also keeping the journal here
(I did) that would be journal, cash, and four other accounts.
Essentially gnucash can do "basic" for all the ledger accounts, acting
like an indefinitely wide page, unlimited number of columns. But I don't
think of "basic mode" as being basic but as the cashbook shortcut. I
think of "journal mode" (which can handle the general case of
transactions) as basic and the "basic mode" as special case of only two
accounts involved.
The fact that this special case (only two accounts) is so common is what
made the "cashbook accounting" shortcut so useful/time saving PLUS
reducing the need to individually post THESE transactions eliminating
the chance of transcription errors during posting << these were the bane
of our existence ---- autoposting by computer is error free >>
Michael D Novack
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