On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 9:04 PM, Martin Blais <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Moreover, these virtual accounts work here in this specific case, but what > if they're needed somewhere else in the ledger to solve some other problem? > Can you have multiple sets of them or is there a single meaning for > "--real"? How is a tax expense not "real"? What does this mean? The reason > I tend to kick back about this feature is that it has happened to me at > least ten times over the time I was learning how to do this that I would > trip up because I did not know how to book my transactions right and ended > up using virtual postings as a crutch whereas I should have been forced to > get more creative and figure it out. Eventually I managed to get rid of all > of them without loss of information. I plan to document all these as > examples at some point, I think a lot of examples would be useful to > someone learning the DE method. That's why I feel quite strongly that in > most cases the problem needs not break out of the DE model; I'm sure there > are *some* cases where they are needed, but I just don't have those use > cases myself and I don't see good use cases I couldn't convert. It would be > useful to build a list of real-world use cases of virtual postings and see > if they can all be solved without or not - make a compelling argument about > the need for virtual postings. > Actually, I wonder: does Quickbooks or Simply Accounting or other company-level DE bookkeeping system support fudging accounts without a balance? I don't know, but if not, that would be a convincing argument for them being superfluous. If the SMBs can do all the complicated transactions they need to without breaking the balancing rules, it's rather unlikely that what we do is so special that we need to be able to. -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ledger" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
