On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 21:50 +0000, Mark Brown wrote: > On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 12:49:50PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > > What would you like done in the surrounding dialog? Perhaps there is a > > wishlist item here, if you think something could be made more clear. > > Looking at the scheduled transaction editor in conjunction with the > preference "Accounts->Labels->Use formal accounting labels" shows that > with formal accounting labels disabled things are fairly easy to > understand: the labels for the columns say "Total funds in/out" with in > corresponding to an increase in the account and out corresponding to a > decrease. If, however, I opt to use formal accounting labels then I > find that "Funds in" is mapped to debit and "Funds out" is mapped to > credit. It is this labelling that is so counterintuitive.
Accounts>Labels>Use formal accounting labels does not affect the General Ledger, nor is it clear at all how it could be. "Funds in" does not increase the amount in the account for all accounts; for example, if you put money "into" a liability account, the result is that the balance goes *down*. Likewise, expense/income accounts behave "backwards" from what some people expect. And, a general ledger entry simply cannot use anything other than the generic terms. > One option would be to let the user edit scheduled transactions in the > context of an account, giving the view normally given for the account. That seems to be a rather huge change in the way they would work, since nothing of the kind currently happens. Thomas
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