Bug 344464

Summary: Detect deposits assigned to an expense category, and withdrawals assigned to an income category
Product: [Applications] kmymoney Reporter: jswami
Component: generalAssignee: KMyMoney Devel Mailing List <kmymoney-devel>
Status: REPORTED ---    
Severity: wishlist    
Priority: NOR    
Version: 4.6.6   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Ubuntu   
OS: Linux   
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Attachments: Typical error created by allowing an expense to be recorded as a deposit

Description jswami 2015-02-22 22:33:32 UTC 
Kmymoney allows users to enter a deposit and assign it to an expense category. Similarly, users can enter a withdrawal and assign it to an income category. This lets the user create errors. 

Better: When a user assigns a deposit to an expense category, or a withdrawal to an income category, the program should issue a warning, such as:

"You are about to assign a deposit to an expense category. Is this what you want to do?"

Thank you.
Comment 1 jswami 2015-02-22 22:39:23 UTC 
Created attachment 91222 [details]
Typical error created by allowing an expense to be recorded as a deposit
Comment 2 Jack 2015-02-22 22:43:42 UTC 
There is no indication that is necessarily an error.  It might be charging a fee or depositing a refund of a fee.  

Other examples of it is not always an error: if I get a rebate from a purchase, or a refund for returning a product, I assign it to the expense category I used for the original purchase.    While the memo does often explain the situation, it is not always the case.

In the meantime, it should be easy to create a pair of reports to find such transactions/splits.

However, showing a warning does make sense in most cases.
Comment 3 jswami 2015-02-22 22:48:43 UTC 
I agree with you fully, Jack. Thank you. 

By the way: A better warning message would be "You are about to enter a deposit assigned to an expense category. Is this what you want to do?"