Perhaps I'm being overly dense here... Cash, Bank Accounts, etc are sub-elements of Assets.
So certainly, GnuCash treats assets the same - an asset is an asset. But once you divide assets up - in any way - you are treating them as different things... therefore, "Is 'Cash on Hand' an asset?" - Yes. "Is it treated like other assets?" - Yes. Is it the same thing as some other asset? - No Just seems to me that we are trying to distinguish between a head category (Asset) and its various sub-categories (Cash on Hand) -- this is not really a like-to-like comparison. On Wed, Oct 2, 2024 at 11:05 AM Brook Milligan via gnucash-user < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > Is it really the case that the _only_ impact of account type is to change > the headings in the GUI? > > Cheers, > Brook > > > On Oct 2, 2024, at 9:29 AM, Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) < > stan...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > > > > Thanks for this, Ross. I asked a similar question in July, but your look > > into the code gave a much better answer than I got. > > > > It would be very nice if this information can be added to section 2.8.2 > > of the Tutorial and Concepts manual. > > > > Stan Brown > > Tehachapi, CA, USA > > > https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbrownmath.com%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cbrook%40biology.nmsu.edu%7C4b705d077b4e4fd6e86708dce2f70ea9%7Ca3ec87a89fb84158ba8ff11bace1ebaa%7C1%7C0%7C638634797952949749%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=%2FZfS2v%2BkUjHKAXXXRpevKzz30kumTnp5oXhJO28ce1A%3D&reserved=0 > > > > On 2024-10-01 10:54, Ross Reedstrom wrote: > >> So, answering the question. Internally, GnuCash has an enumeration > >> GnuAccountType, which that drop down is populated from. There are > >> conditionals all over the code that switch based on the account type. > One > >> significant one for answering your question (Cash vs. Bank or any other > >> Asset account, Credit vs. generic Liability) is that there are two > >> mappings for human friendly column names for "debit" and "credit" > actions. > >> > >> Cash uses "Receive" and "Spend". Bank uses "Deposit" and "Withdraw". > Asset > >> uses "Increase" and "Decrease". On the other side of the ledger, Credit > >> uses "Payment" (debit) and "Charge" (credit), generic Liability uses > >> "Decrease" (debit) and "Increase" (credit). Helps get past the > >> non-accountants "Wait, I debit the cash account when I put money in my > >> wallet???" confusion. > >> > >> There are probably other differences, but that's what I found with a > quick > >> search through the code. Note that the code is well structured, and > >> heavily commented with good comments, for example: > >> > >> /* The type field is the account type, picked from the enumerated > >> * list that includes ACCT_TYPE_BANK, ACCT_TYPE_STOCK, > >> * ACCT_TYPE_CREDIT, ACCT_TYPE_INCOME, etc. Its intended use is to > >> * be a hint to the GUI as to how to display and format the > >> * transaction data. > >> */ > >> > >> Hope that helps. > >> > >> Ross > >> > >> On Tue, Oct 1, 2024 at 12:24 PM Chris Miller via gnucash-user < > >> gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > gnucash-user mailing list > > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > > > https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.gnucash.org%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fgnucash-user&data=05%7C02%7Cbrook%40biology.nmsu.edu%7C4b705d077b4e4fd6e86708dce2f70ea9%7Ca3ec87a89fb84158ba8ff11bace1ebaa%7C1%7C0%7C638634797952949749%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=E5KraKJqm4YtxXo8Y2LOXr3vvxQmaSrYW%2F6%2FCFYnBmE%3D&reserved=0 > > ----- > > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > -- _________________________________ Richard Losey rlo...@gmail.com Micah 6:8 _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
