The other thing this would allow would be for a general journal report (a description of every transaction in chronological order of entry) with payments appearing in the proper places.
Best Wishes, Chris Travers On 4/26/07, Charley Tiggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Travers wrote: > > Hi all; > > > > I have been thinking a great deal about the data organization of > > financial transactions for 1.4 even though we are not there yet. I > > think we can all agree we need to have a central table which tracks > > every financial transaction and which other tables may join to. I > > would propose that this table should be equivalent to the General > > Journal of paper-based accounting systems and it would replace the > > current gl table. > > > > In most cases, the journal table would be very similar in structure to > > the current GL table, but I have one question: should we give > > payments their own journal entries? I would think the answer would be > > yes, and then have a table which handles the many-many relationship > > between payment entries and other entries. > > > > What do other people think? > > I support having payments have their own entries. There've been several > cases recently from a code standpoint where it would have been simpler > if they had been separate. > > Charley > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express > Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take > control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. > http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ > _______________________________________________ > Ledger-smb-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ledger-smb-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Ledger-smb-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ledger-smb-devel
