[Kmymoney-devel] New account creation issues

[Jack]

On 2014.07.29 01:55, 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?
> 
> 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.

Allowing an opening balance for a category would probably be necessary  
if we ever implement a way of archiving all data prior to some cutoff,  
such as start of new fiscal year.

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