On 11/5/2012 11:03 PM, David T. wrote: > Thanks for the input. My comment on the bug reinforces your ideas > presented here. Although I would put the chapter on Transactions > first, simply because understanding that is fundamental to all the > rest. Budgets and Multiple Currencies would go after, since they are > optional for many users. > > Restructuring as you suggest would, I believe, require a more > substantial framework. I would want that framework to be more clearly > delineated in the overall document structure, so that readers would > see that the chapters are definitely using the equation as their > overarching structure. I'm not sure how that would most effectively be > achieved. Would we create new top-level chapters, and embed the > existing chapters in these new chapters? That might be the best. > > Perhaps we would end up with a chapter structure like this: > > 1. Overview > 2. The Basics > 2.1 Accounts > 2.2 Transactions > 3. Asset Accounts > 3.1 Checking Accounts > 3.2 Investments > 3.3 Other Assets > 4. Liability Accounts > 4.1 Credit Cards > 4.2 Loans > 4.3 Other Liabilities [to parallel 3.3] > 5. Equity Accounts > [mumble] > 6. Income Accounts > 6.1 [mumble] > 6.2 Capital Gains > 6.3 Other Income Accounts > 7. Expense Accounts > [mumble] > 8. Multiple Currencies > 9. Budgets > 10. Business Features > 10.1 A/R > 10.2 A/P > 10.3 Payroll > 11. Extending Gnucash > 11.1 Custom Reports > 11.2 Python Extensions > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* David Carlson <[email protected]> > *To:* [email protected] > *Sent:* Sunday, November 4, 2012 10:12 AM > *Subject:* Re: Bug 687290 > > On 10/31/2012 4:40 PM, David T. wrote: > > I have just put an initial draft chapter for the Tutorial on > Bugzilla in the referenced bug, to cover expense accounts. > > > > I welcome suggestions for correction! > > > > David > > _______________________________________________ > > gnucash-devel mailing list > > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > > > I have added a couple of comments to bug 697290. > > These are my thoughts. I think that expenses do deserve an entire > chapter. However, I would structure existing chapters five through > nine, sixteen and expenses to fit into the framework suggested by > chapter two's reference to the five basic account types. This would > mean that chapters on asset account topics (Checkbook, Investments and > Other Assets) be grouped together, liability account topics (Credit > Cards and Loans) together, Income (Capital Gains) as a unit and Expenses > as a unit. Transactions, Budgets and Multiple Currencies apply to all > account types, and should be after the account type sections. > > Business topics should be separate as they are now. > > David C > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > > I like your new proposal. Does anyone else want to give input?
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