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/** \page gnucashextension Proposed GnuCash Extensions
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The following are proposals for various, as-yet-unimplemented
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enhancements. The goal of this document is to understand some
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of the changes that will come soon to the interfaces.
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\section accountperiods Accounting Periods
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Accounting periods are implemented by creating an object that
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describes the accounting period, and then assigning every
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transaction to at least one period.
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\verbatim
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typedef struct _accountingPeriod {
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GUID guid; // id
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char *name; // user-selectable name
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int kind; // enum {none, week, month, quarter, year }
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Timespec * start_date; //
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Timespec * end_date;
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AccountGroup *topgrp; // chart of accounts for this period.
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} AccountingPeriod;
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\endverbatim
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The Transaction struct has to be extended with a period guid.
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Every transaction can belong to at most one accounting period.
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In addition, each chart of accounts needs to be extended with
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an accounting period as well. This allows 'old' accounts to be deleted
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from 'open books', without having to delete that same account from old
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closed books. Basically, a new chart of accounts needs to be written
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out/read from the engine for each new accounting period.
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The xaccPeriodClose() subroutine performs the following:
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- crawl over all transactions and mark them as being part of this
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accounting period (actually, new transactions should by default be
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getting put into the currently open period...)
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- find the equity account (what if there is more than one equity account
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?? what if equity has sub-accounts ?? )
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- transfer all income/expense to equity (shouldn't the equity account
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match the income/expense hierarchy?)
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- return a new account group with new opening balances ...
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\section transactionchanges Changes to Transaction Structure
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Add an accounting period guid (see above).
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\section splitchanges Changes to Journal Entry (Split) Structure
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\subsection splitvoucher Voucher Reference
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Add a char * voucher; This is a generic id string that somehow
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identifies the piece of paper/electronic document(s) that indicate
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where/how to find the paper trial for this entry. This list of id's
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should probably be a list of key-value pairs, where the keys & values
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can be completely configured by the user, and hold the needed data
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that the user wants to store. For the SQL backend, this is a key
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to a user-definable table.
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\section bankingchanges Additional Banking Info
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BankId -- routing & transit number (US) or Bankleitzan (DE) or Banque (FR)
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BranchID -- Agence (FR), blank for other countries
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AcctKey -- Cle (FR), blank in others
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Account type enumerants:
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bank account types:
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checking, savings, moneymarket, creditline, cma (cash amangement account)
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*/
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