Re: [GNC-dev] alpha-testing budgets in 5.x

On Tue, 4 Jan 2022 at 22:21, Adrien Monteleone <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On 1/4/22 10:40 AM, Christopher Lam wrote:
> > Experienced Users,
> >
> > The upcoming 5.x series (master branch) currently has a one-time fix for
> > budgets to ensure they're internally stored as unreversed numbers.
> > Currently (up to 4.x) budgeting $1000 income into $600 expense and $400
> > liability repayment are stored as +1000, +600, +400. They should be
> stored
> > internally as -1000, +600, +400 amounts, as per usual accounting
> equation.
>
> I would nit-pick the assertion of 'usual accounting equation'. I've only
> seen one form of it, in any reference, and short of any further
> 'factoring' it looks like this:
>

(snip)

The internal representation for *all* GnuCash transactional data has always
(IIUC) followed the convention "asset + liability + equity + income +
expense == 0". This is what I meant by the GnuCash accounting equation.
This dictates the amounts and signs saved in the XML/SQL. This also applies
to budget amounts, except budget income amounts. This will be modified in
5.x.

Any sign reversal *for display* aims to follow the global pref "Reverse
Balanced Accounts". This is stored in
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations#GSettings -- on
Windows it'll be the systemwide registry
Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\GSettings\org\gnucash\GnuCash\general

HTH, C