As part of reviewing the documentation, I had a look at the
balance-sheet and profit-and-loss code. It's apparent that neither of
them currently deals with dates.
Now, going back to accounting class in high school (boy, was that a
long time ago), a balance sheet is something that is performed
instantaneously - in essence, you pick a moment in time, examine the
value of assets and liabilities (including cash and stocks) at that
instant, and report that. In the gnucash context, we examine the
balances of accounts other than income and expense categories at an
instant and report those balances.
For profit and loss statements, however, the situation is a little
different. To figure out the overall profit for an accounting period,
you need to count only that income and the expenses for that period.
Am I missing anything here?
I'll have a dig at fixing them sometime, probably when the weather
cools down tonight (it's about 39 Celsius or 102 Farenheit today
. . .)
Oh, and another thing. gnc-prices is another piece of Perl we might
want to consider converting to Scheme, or at least exorcise the
hard-coded path.
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