Re: College project help

2000-05-23 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
On Tue, 23 May 2000, John Hasler wrote: > Surely that is up to the user setting up the chart of accounts? I > certainly want an account for each of my boarders, but others might want > all customers in one account (though I can't think why). To some degree, that is a function of the ability to

Re: College project help

2000-05-23 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
On Tue, 23 May 2000, Dylan Thurston wrote: > A more extreme philosophical question: should there be an account > for each invoice? If not, how do you keep track of which invoices > have been paid? Generally, you can handle this by "reconciling" the account. As you match up charges and payments

Re: College project help

2000-05-23 Thread John Hasler
Richard Wackerbarth writes: > This brings up a philosophical question. Should we have a separate > subaccount for each "customer". Or is it reasonable to place all the > customers into one account? Surely that is up to the user setting up the chart of accounts? I certainly want an account for ea

Re: College project help

2000-05-23 Thread Dylan Thurston
On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 12:41:31PM -0500, Richard Wackerbarth wrote: > This brings up a philosophical question. Should we have a separate subaccount > for each "customer". Or is it reasonable to place all the customers into one > account? A more extreme philosophical question: should there be a

Re: College project help

2000-05-23 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
On Tue, 23 May 2000, John Hasler wrote: > Linas writes: > > But here's the features that no 'ordinary' account has: > > the ability to compute & display: > > 'how old (how many days) is joes debt?' > > 'how old is the average debt?' > > 'what's teh average a/r balance for the last month?' > > 'agi

Re: College project help

2000-05-23 Thread John Hasler
Linas writes: > But here's the features that no 'ordinary' account has: > the ability to compute & display: > 'how old (how many days) is joes debt?' > 'how old is the average debt?' > 'what's teh average a/r balance for the last month?' 'aging': an essential feature for most business application

Re: College project help

2000-05-23 Thread linas
It's been rumoured that Garrett Banuk said: > > Hello, > I doing my college MQP now, its a large project we have to do in order to > graduate. I was looking around for ideas and saw gnucash and thought this > might be an interesting project to help out the linux community. I was > wondering

sqlRe: College project help

2000-05-23 Thread linas
It's been rumoured that Robert Graham Merkel said: > > To support this, the entire gnucash engine will have to be rewritten > to support some kind of database backend (and the front end will > also have to be substantially modified, as the current front end is > based around an in-place storage o

College project help

2000-05-22 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Garrett Banuk writes: > Hello, > I doing my college MQP now, its a large project we have to do in order to > graduate. I was looking around for ideas and saw gnucash and thought this > might be an interesting project to help out the linux community. I was > wondering if anyone had ideas

Re: College project help

2000-05-21 Thread Michael Gerdts
On Sun, May 21, 2000 at 11:09:35AM -0400, Garrett Banuk wrote: > Hello, > I doing my college MQP now, its a large project we have to do in order to > graduate. I was looking around for ideas and saw gnucash and thought this > might be an interesting project to help out the linux community. I

College project help

2000-05-21 Thread Garrett Banuk
Hello, I doing my college MQP now, its a large project we have to do in order to graduate. I was looking around for ideas and saw gnucash and thought this might be an interesting project to help out the linux community. I was wondering if anyone had ideas on some major improvements to gnuc