Christopher Browne writes:
> The asset and liabilities appear to be appropriately handled; it makes
> sense for assets to "appear positive" (e.g. - be debits) whilst
> liabilities should "appear negative" (e.g. - be credits) and similarly,
> one would expect liabilities to "look negative."
I only had one semester of accounting and that was more than twenty years
ago, but I don't think it works to treat debit and credit as synonyms for
positive and negative.
> It should be the case that the sum of the values of all the accounts adds
> to 0...
It should be the case that the sum of all debits equals the sum of all
credits (including equity).
> ...in a sample that I just set up, the signs on the expenses/incomes are
> all backwards so that the balance sheet does not balance.
>
> This is definitely a Bad Bug.
It is a *grave* bug.
> ...it should be not overly difficult to configure that to optionally
> always use Debit/Credit rather than using ledger-specific functionality.
I would be grateful for that. It might make it possible for me to actually
use gnucash (that and fixing the above mentioned bug).
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