You may want to cross-post to gnucash-user, since users will be very interested in documentation and might probide better feedback.
Let me know if/when I need to copy any of this to the gnucash.org website. I presume your work is under the FDL, right? --linas On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 12:43:46PM -0300, Jon Lapham was heard to remark: > Hello all- > > 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/ > > ================================= > assetloan_concepts1.html > compare to: > > 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? > > ================================= > asset_dep1.html > > 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 > > ================================= > asset_app1.html > > 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 > > -- > -**-*-*---*-*---*-*---*-----*-*-----*---*-*---*-----*-----*-*-----*--- > Jon Lapham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Rio de Janeiro, Brasil > Work: Extracta Mol?culas Naturais SA http://www.extracta.com.br/ > Web: http://www.jandr.org/ > ***-*--*----*-------*------------*--------------------*--------------- > > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel -- pub 1024D/01045933 2001-02-01 Linas Vepstas (Labas!) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP Key fingerprint = 8305 2521 6000 0B5E 8984 3F54 64A9 9A82 0104 5933 _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
