[Kmymoney-devel] New account creation issues

[Thomas Baumgart]

Hi,

On Tuesday 29 July 2014 08:55:19 Cristian Oneț wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> While working on this [1] I found the following problem. Right now we
> have two different functions performing the same task, account
> creation:
> 
> 1. KMyMoneyApp::createAccount
> 2. KMyMoneyApp::slotAccountNew
> 
> I guess 1 was the old (original) function and 2 was added when the
> account wizard was added. Both functions are still called from various
> places. 1 is called from the QIF importer and when creating a new
> category. 2 is called when creating a new account. One difference
> between the two is that for investments with opening balances 1
> creates the opening balance in the brokerage account if it exists 2
> always creates it in the investment account. So there are differences
> in the way accounts are created depending on the place the account
> creation is triggered, should we fix this?

Yes, my 0.02

> Another issue related to the bug is the constraint that for categories
> and investment accounts the user should not be able to edit the
> opening balance [2]. What's the reason for this decision? A user could
> want to account for previous expenses/incomes while setting up a
> category. I don't see anything wrong with allowing that.

Asking for the reason might be a bit late. I honestly don't remember. It 
could have been just a shortcut to avoid an imbalanced accounting tree 
(since we did not know what to do with the other split of an opening 
balance transaction of a category at the time).

To my understanding, we need a similar mechanism as the opening 
balances account in the equity section called "outstanding income" or so 
(you accountants out there help me with the wording, please) and 
possibly another one for expenses.


> [1] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=297223
> [2]
> 
http://kmymoney2.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/kmymoney2/kmymoney2/kmy
money2/k
> mymoney2.cpp?r1=1.186&r2=1.187&
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Regards

Thomas Baumgart

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