Linas writes:
> But here's the features that no 'ordinary' account has:
> the ability to compute & display:
> 'how old (how many days) is joes debt?'
> 'how old is the average debt?'
> 'what's teh average a/r balance for the last month?'
'aging': an essential feature for most business applications. Can't it be
done with a report?
> say joe & bob both borrowed money. One of them paid me back. How do I
> find out who still owes me money? (short of reading the whole thing by
> hand, which would be nasty if there are hundreds of debts recorded).
'Assets:Accounts Receivable:Joe' has a zero balance.
'Assets:Accounts Receivable:Bob' does not (and if parent accounts worked the
way I wish they did, 'Assets:Accounts Receivable' would contain a list of the
balances of all the customers accounts and it would be easy to pick out the
non-zero ones).
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John Hasler
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Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
