The other thing this would allow would be for a general journal report
(a description of every transaction in chronological order of entry)
with payments appearing in the proper places.
Best Wishes,
Chris Travers
On 4/26/07, Charley Tiggs <..hidden..> wrote:
Chris Travers wrote:
Hi all;
I have been thinking a great deal about the data organization of
financial transactions for 1.4 even though we are not there yet. I
think we can all agree we need to have a central table which tracks
every financial transaction and which other tables may join to. I
would propose that this table should be equivalent to the General
Journal of paper-based accounting systems and it would replace the
current gl table.
In most cases, the journal table would be very similar in structure to
the current GL table, but I have one question: should we give
payments their own journal entries? I would think the answer would be
yes, and then have a table which handles the many-many relationship
between payment entries and other entries.
What do other people think?
I support having payments have their own entries. There've been several
cases recently from a code standpoint where it would have been simpler
if they had been separate.
Charley