On May 11, 6:16 pm, John Wiegley <[email protected]> wrote:
> The last column is a running total of the second-to-last column, it is
> not account-specific in any way. Can you tell me which portion of the
> docs led you to believe that the total figure was related to the
> account on that line?
>From the doc, I think what I was thinking of was this:
"Because
there is no ``balance'' in a general ledger---it's always zero---we
write in the total balance of all payments to ``Pacific Bell'', which
now is $223.00 (previously the balance was $200.00)."
and
"The purpose of the
Ledger program is to make general ledger accounting simple, by keeping
track of the balances for you."
and
"While the @command{balance} command can be very handy for checking
account totals," ... "@command{register}
reports each transaction and how it contributes to that total."
This sounds to me like what reg does is show a running total for each
account. A global running total sounds much less useful - isn't
it going to be zero all the time (if your accounts balance)?
Isn't that what the first quotation is saying, that keeping a running
total isn't very useful?
Dan
