writes:
>
> Plan X:
> Rip out any notion of "reporting currency" out of the engine.
> As discussed above, this is a lot of work. Hard work, at that.
>
> Plan Y:
> Leave the reporting currency inside the engine, as it is today.
> Maybe even enhance it so that multiple reporting currencies
>
It's been rumoured that Dave Peticolas said:
> Is this what you are proposing:
>
> Account Security stays the same, with the same meaning.
Yes. except maybe we should call it "account commodity".
> Account Currency becomes Account Reported Currency and is
> the currency used in the main window.
It's been rumoured that Christian Stimming said:
> Recall that the "reporting currency" can be changed anytime (= I agree
> with Bill on this).
As do I.
> I disagree with Linas in that accounts should have a
> "reporting currency".
I wasn't trying to say that they should. I was instead sta
OK,
This conversation has gotten to theoretical. I was trying to solve
an immediate programming problem. The SQL database stores
currencies the way we agreed they were soppused to work half a year
ago. As a practical matter, this doesn't mesh well with what the
engine currently does. So I wa
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 06:42:56PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > -- The user is allowed to create transactions whose 'valuation currency'
> > >is different than the 'reporting currency'. However, if this is
> > >done, then a GUI window pops up with a question "how should this
> >
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 10:35:28PM -0800, Christian Stimming wrote:
> I repeat my question from today afternoon: Where can I find more
> information about the "price database" that you're talking about? I haven't
> found it anywhere in the source. Or what kind of database do you mean,
> Linas?
On Tuesday 23 January 2001 17:59, Dave wrote:
> Is this what you [Linas] are proposing:
>
> Account Security stays the same, with the same meaning. [1]
>
> Account Currency becomes Account Reported Currency and is
> the currency used in the main window. [2]
>
> Transaction Currency is added and re
Christian Stimming writes:
>
> I repeat my question from today afternoon: Where can I find more
> information about the "price database" that you're talking about? I haven't
> found it anywhere in the source. Or what kind of database do you mean,
> Linas?
It's not anywhere in the source, it do
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> Lets say that our 'reporting currency' is USD. Lets say we live in
> france, and we bought IBM stock with FF. The user types in the
> shares bought, and the FF paid. (that's our first 'exchange rate').
>
> When user clicks on 'commit', a little GUI dialoge p
Linas Vepstas writes:
>
> Yes, I have already made this change to the engine. The "transaction
> valuation currency" aka "common currency" is stored in the
> "common_currency" field in TransactionP.h. It is not is not really
> 'used' anywhere, but it is set, and tested, and a warning is printe
Hi Bill,
It's been rumoured that Bill Gribble said:
>
> On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 10:22:59AM -0600, Linas Vepstas wrote:
> > Store a single global 'reporting currency'. The chart of accounts
> > will use this currency to report account totals. (its e.g. the
> > euro).
>
> I think you are saying
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 10:22:59AM -0600, Linas Vepstas wrote:
> Store a single global 'reporting currency'. The chart of accounts
> will use this currency to report account totals. (its e.g. the
> euro).
I think you are saying 'the Chart of Accounts and reports will use
this currency to report
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How do your questions relate to the "currencies/the accounting equation"
discussion last Sept/Oct? As I understood the current questions only
concern the reporting end of the bookkeeping whereas the former discussion
was about the back-end structure.
Where c
Dave, Bill, all,
Bill got me to think about the reporting currency & international accounting
issues again. Here's a couple of simple proposals that seems to solve the
issues that I can think of. Its probable that you've already discussed
these, but since I haven't ... :-)
Intro:
I made chang
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