Okay, I've finished a first stab at chapter 8 of the tutorial and guide. Yeah, I know I've skipped a few chapters here, but my company needs *this* info now... It is not ready for prime time yet, so no patches, but I have HTML-ified what I've done so far and put it up on my web site. Please take a look and comments from financial super-geniuses would be great.
I would like to say that for most of the text I copied from the gnucash v1.6 documentation (which I guess is the documentation cbrowne wrote).
http://www.gnucash.org/docs/C/gnucash-docs-1.6/
Cruise over to: http://www.jandr.org/temp/gnucashdocs/
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This is the intro to the chapter. My only question to the list for this page is whether you think these 3 subjects belong in the same chapter (asset depreciation, asset appreciation, and loans). It seems to me that loans are a different animal? No?
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This is the section on asset depreciation. My questions for the list here is in section "8.2.3 Handling Depreciation in GnuCash". This is directly copied from the 1.6 documentation, and it mentions that you need 3 accounts: "Asset Cost", "Accumulated Depreciation", and a "Depreciation Expense" account. I do not understand what the Accumulated Depreciation account does. It does not appear in the example. Ideas?
Also, if you have multiple assets you want to track, obviously you need multiple "Asset Cost" accounts. But, can they share the same depreciation expenses account, or should they each have their own depreciation expense accounts?
Compare to: http://www.gnucash.org/docs/C/gnucash-docs-1.6/xacc-depr.html
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This is the section on asset appreciation. My question is about the example given at the end of "8.3.3. Capital Gains in GnuCash: Selling the Asset". It doesn't seem to match any of the 3 possibilities... or am I just an idiot?
Compare to: http://www.gnucash.org/docs/C/gnucash-docs-1.6/xacc-capitalgains.html
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