Basically this behavior is an extension of the fact that the outgoing report
is grouped by RT ticket rather than "accrual data." Ripping this
functionality out of other reports was correct, but it needed to stay for
the outgoing report.
Some readers care about recent accruals, some don't. This presentation
accommmodates both audiences, providing the data while making it easy to
ignore or filter out recent accruals.
The period totals were reporting the balance of all the loaded postings, not
just the ones in the reporting date range.
Like the accrual report, introduce a RelatedPostings subclass that records
and saves all the information we need at group definition time, to help us
get it consistently right rather than redoing the same math over and over.
The old defaults were optimized for the audit report.
The new defaults provide more helpful ad hoc reports.
The latter will be run more often and more quickly, so it's
worth optimizing the defaults for them.
Everything it said was a problem has been done legitimately in our books at
one point or another.
* Variation in contract can happen in different line items of an invoice or
"group of contractor" situations.
* Variation in cost can happen because one invoice spans a period of time,
like donation matching programs. There is probably still value in a tool
that checks to make sure we use consistent rates each day, but that
affects all kinds of transactions, not just accruals, so it would be
done better in a separate tool.
* Variation in account happens because invoices legitimately span accrual
accounts, like donation matching programs with fees payable.
So: it's gone, good riddance.
This adds almost all the metadata that's relevant to accruals.
I considered adding statement, but that cuased rows to get spaced out a lot,
and statement's kind of a low-value column, so I decided against it.
Ultimately I would like to make this configurable but that's for the
future.
It is more common than I realized that we split an invoice by
entity on the accrual side, so this supports that better.
It still disregards inconsistency between accrual entity and payment entity
for reporting purposes, to help keep reporting clean around automatic
imports.
The changes to BaseReport._report shook out because at this point, the group
key is effectively arbitrary and shouldn't be used for any reporting
purposes.
