> On Sept. 21, 2013, 2:24 p.m., Alvaro Soliverez wrote:
> > I fail to see why you would want equity accounts displayed for imports. Can 
> > you explain the use case?
> > 
> > Keep in mind that equity accounts are not stock or share accounts of some 
> > kind.
> 
> Ralf Habacker wrote:
>     To be able to import opening balances for example when using german 
> template "all accounts", which have an account "Equity"->"Opening balances". 
> Otherwise I would have to manual enter the opening balances for all related 
> accounts by hand.
> 
> Alvaro Soliverez wrote:
>     These opening balances are exactly that, opening balances, and should not 
> have a payee assigned.
>     
>     That account is to balance the entry when you start using KMyMoney and 
> you enter the opening balances for your asset and liability accounts. As per 
> double-entry accounting, all transactions have to be balanced, and money 
> can't just pop out of the blue. 
>     
>     eg. you start using KMM on Jan 1, but you already had a bank account by 
> that date. You create the account and enter the balance on that date. To 
> balance that transaction, a split is assigned to "Equity/Opening balances". 
> No payees are involved.
>     
>     Sorry for the delay, this went under my radar.
>
> 
> Cristian Oneț wrote:
>     I understand what Alvaro is saying but is there a way to import opening 
> balances of accounts if one has many accounts? If there is not then I would 
> suggest shipping this patch since the visibility of the equity accounts is 
> controlled by the expert mode flag anyway. I really don't like limiting the 
> functionality in valid use cases just for the sake of simplicity.

You can import opening balances, but you can't assign them a payee, because it 
doesn't make sense. I'm opposing to this because so far I fail to see the 
grounds to let that happen. Opening balances just don't have a payee.


- Alvaro


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On Sept. 21, 2013, 12:41 p.m., Ralf Habacker wrote:
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> (Updated Sept. 21, 2013, 12:41 p.m.)
> 
> 
> Review request for KMymoney and Cristian Oneț.
> 
> 
> Repository: kmymoney
> 
> 
> Description
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> 
> When enabled display of equity accounts with 'settings->general->filter->show 
> equity accounts' equity accounts are not displayed in the "Default Account" 
> tab of payee page and in the unknown payee import dialog. 
> 
> The related bug could be triggered with: 
> 1. create a new file
> 2. select the german skr03 standard chart of accounts. 
> 
> 
> Diffs
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> 
>   kmymoney/converter/mymoneystatementreader.cpp 5619cc2 
>   kmymoney/views/kgloballedgerview.cpp 2057b47 
>   kmymoney/views/kpayeesview.cpp 69697e6 
> 
> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/112847/diff/
> 
> 
> Testing
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> 
> git master
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ralf Habacker
> 
>

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