Quentin, Those are great suggestions. I have already fixed the outdated reference to the old list. Can anyone tell me if the IRC channel is still alive? If you have some examples of how to produce said P&L and balance sheet, could you share them? If you email them directly to me I will be sure to anonymize them. I am only using the most basic of functionality of ledger, so the more advanced reporting capabilities are not in my repertoire yet.
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 04:09, quentinsf <[email protected]> wrote: > Craig - that's great - thanks for taking this on. It's very good to > see the 3.0 docs taking shape. > > A couple of sections I think would be very useful for those just > getting started might be something like: > > > 1. What you need to understand, or need tell your accountant, to > explain the differences between Ledger and other systems. > > e.g. Ledger doesn't really distinguish between credit and debit > accounts so the sign of a value might not be what you expect. > > There was some discussion a while back in this thread: > http://groups.google.com/group/ledger-cli/browse_thread/thread/d45d69adb0c09f7b/80177ab633771b77 > > > and > > 2. Making Ledger do what outsiders expect > > e.g. How to actually produce that P&L, balance sheet and cash-flow > report for your board. > > > Maybe these would be more appropriate for the wiki initially, or > perhaps they already exist somewhere and I haven't found them yet. It > took me a while to find the wiki, actually - perhaps we need a link to > it in section 1.3 of the docs, which I notice also has an out-of-date > link to the Sourceforge mailing list. > > Thanks for the good work - this has made me update my old 2.6 to > 3.0 :-) > > Quentin > > -- Craig, Corona De Tucson, AZ enderw88.wordpress.com
