[Breaking Change v13] Introducing Immutable Ledgers in ERPNext

[peterg]

@wale

While I agree that accounting principles are different in various parts of the world, the highlighted above is likely to result in VERY significant user experience issues. I think the team needs to carefully consider this

Exactly…The forward-posting requirement for stock valuation, not reversal workflows, is the real issue here.

To be fair to the developers, this feature is only partially implemented so far as of beta 4. An explanation of how stock posting will eventually work was made by @nabinhait here, but so far the posting/transaction date distinction has still yet to be implemented in most user-facing contexts.