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Re: Is this a bug or a feature?

On Thu, 11 Mar 2010, Chris Travers wrote:


On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 9:50 PM, Luke <..hidden..> wrote:

In 1.2.18 (yeah, I know...):

One can not change the income/expense account on an inventory item, if
that item is already associated with, I suppose, an invoice.

If the item has not been sold (I assume that's the criteria), these
accounts can be changed freely.

The question: is this the intended behavior?


Yes.


If so: what is the financial reasoning?


Reversal breaks if the account is changed.  Apparently the original
concern was reposting though (since the behavior began in SQL-Ledger).
I had assumed that the technical reason at least, was the mutability of posted transactions. 


In 2.0, we need to have a new approach to this, though.


How do other financial applications handle this situation?

Luke