# Generating Draft Transactions

As a manager at a nonprofit, I need the ability to have staff propose draft

transactions that are not added to the books official until approved.

Thus, an individual project contributor wants to:

- View the books for that project as an independent set, unencumbered by

  transactions for other projects.

The non-profit administrators want to:

- View the entire set of books for the organization, treating all income,

  expenses, and assets as belonging to the entire org, and only seeing the

  assets".

- Be able to perform operations that span the entire books, such as

  reconciling bank accounts that are contain funds temporarily restricted for

## A "One Native Currency" Organization

In the USA at least, and perhaps elsewhere, the native currency to the

location of the entity is treated as the "one true currency" (which the USA

backup documentation relate to a given accounting document.

An adequate accounting system should provide easy link-up between

double-entry accounting transactions and the documentation that relates to

Ideally, the system should allow the exploration of and linkage to

documentation in both directions.  It should be trivial to answer questions

   * I have this receipt/invoice from our document repository.  Which