Sorry, I was not really paying attention to who was answering which question. It is very hard to do when Gmail is butchering the thread sequence.
On Thu, Jul 21, 2022, 5:44 PM Michael or Penny Novack < [email protected]> wrote: > On 7/21/2022 4:53 PM, David Carlson wrote: > > Perhaps another user misunderstood your question. John R is a major > > developer and he has a very good idea of what is going on inside the > > program. Clarifying the documentation is always appreciated. > > David, I was NOT asking about how the program worked or about the > documentation. I have not worked on THIS project but am a retired senior > systems analyst and senior business analyst, decades in the cypher mines > for one of the world's largest "financials". > > I was asking about PURPOSE. > > I can see clear uses for hiding sub accounts but having their contents > included in the (parental) total. But it is far less clear under what > circumstances you would want sub accounts (that had non-zero balances) > to NOT be included in the (parental) total when the sub accounts were > hidden. That's the behavior that was being asked about. > > Documentation unclear that this is not what happens? Unless a clear > purpose, I would consider NOT including in the totals a more or less > obvious accounting error. The documentation is supposed to clarify > "gnucash does not make this error", "gnucash does not make that error?, > etc. > > That's why I was asking "under what circumstances would you NOT want the > hidden accounts included in the parental total?" Wearing the business > analyst hat, not the systems analyst hat. > > Michael D Novack > > > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
