RFC: Chapter 8 Tutorial/Guide

[Linas Vepstas]

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
> 
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