Re: RFC: A "book-close dialog" to help auto-zeroize all Inc/Exp accounts

2007-12-24 Thread Derek Atkins
Quoting Mike or Penny Novack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The result you have is two transactions, one representing total > income and one representing total expenses. But the absolute > magnitude of these two amounts is of little interest while the > difference between them and especially the sense

Re: RFC: A "book-close dialog" to help auto-zeroize all Inc/Exp accounts

2007-12-24 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
> > >> The other issue is the fact not really how traditional accounting >> would do this. More usual is a temporary equity account (receiving >> total income and total expenses) which is then closed to retained >> equity with a single entry, either gain or loss for the year (thus >> making

Re: RFC: A "book-close dialog" to help auto-zeroize all Inc/Exp accounts

2007-12-23 Thread Derek Atkins
Hi, Quoting Mike or Penny Novack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Ah, yes, a Description for the transaction. Good point! Thanks, >> I'll go add that. >> >> Anything else >> -derek >> >> > The date for which the closing takes place should be a user set > variable (OK to have it default to 12/31/curr

Re: RFC: A "book-close dialog" to help auto-zeroize all Inc/Exp accounts

2007-12-23 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
>Ah, yes, a Description for the transaction. Good point! Thanks, >I'll go add that. > >Anything else > > >-derek > > > The date for which the closing takes place should be a user set variable (OK to have it default to 12/31/current year). a) You don't know the FISCAL calendar of your users.

Re: RFC: A "book-close dialog" to help auto-zeroize all Inc/Exp accounts

2007-12-23 Thread Derek Atkins
Quoting Phil Longstaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The Income Statement report has an option allowing you to specify the > closing entries pattern. You may want to allow the transaction > description to be set in your dialog box so that it can match any > currently existing closing transactions. Ah,

Re: RFC: A "book-close dialog" to help auto-zeroize all Inc/Exp accounts

2007-12-23 Thread Phil Longstaff
Derek Atkins wrote: > Hi, > > I decided to spend some time this weekend on a simple dialog to > help you zero-ize your income and expense accounts. I've come > up with a dialog that effective looks like this (please excuse the > ASCII Art but I don't want to have to write the code to actually > fi

RFC: A "book-close dialog" to help auto-zeroize all Inc/Exp accounts

2007-12-23 Thread Derek Atkins
Hi, I decided to spend some time this weekend on a simple dialog to help you zero-ize your income and expense accounts. I've come up with a dialog that effective looks like this (please excuse the ASCII Art but I don't want to have to write the code to actually fill in the dialog yet): +--