On Thu, 11 Mar 2010, Chris Travers wrote: > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 9:50 PM, Luke <[email protected]> wrote: >> In 1.2.18 (yeah, I know...): >> >> One can not change the income/expense account on an inventory item, if >> that item is already associated with, I suppose, an invoice. >> >> If the item has not been sold (I assume that's the criteria), these >> accounts can be changed freely. >> >> The question: is this the intended behavior? > > Yes. >> >> If so: what is the financial reasoning? > > Reversal breaks if the account is changed. Apparently the original > concern was reposting though (since the behavior began in SQL-Ledger).
I had assumed that the technical reason at least, was the mutability of posted transactions. > In 2.0, we need to have a new approach to this, though. How do other financial applications handle this situation? Luke ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Ledger-smb-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ledger-smb-users
