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powerpaul17 / nc_money

Nextcloud app for finance management
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starting balance is not null #50

Open SafetyIng opened 10 months ago

SafetyIng commented 10 months ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I am currently seeing the "Starting Amounts" of the asset accounts as "Unbalanced".

Describe the solution you'd like The problem is that these are assets that already existed before. This should be able to be specified as a "starting balance" when an account is created?

powerpaul17 commented 10 months ago

Hello,

yes that's the current behavior as I haven't implemented a starting balance for accounts yet. The "Unbalanced" value is also not completely correct as it is only calculated from the account type summaries and not from the individual transactions.

powerpaul17 commented 10 months ago

I'm also not sure if it's good to add a starting balance to an account or if it should be handled by a "starting balance account" under the equity section. I think Gnucash handles it this way..

SafetyIng commented 7 months ago

Traditionally in double-entry bookkeeping, there is an account for starting assets and ending assets for the respective accounting year. Perhaps it would be useful to automatically set up the accounts for an account system accordingly and to have the option of having them displayed or hidden in the graphics?

powerpaul17 commented 7 months ago

That is more or less how Gnucash describes it. I think they have 'equity' accounts for that. In any case automatic generation of accounts is a bit problematic since it's impossible to cover all user's cases..