Trading Accounts documentation

Mike Alexander mta at umich.edu
Sat Nov 6 16:51:59 EDT 2010


--On November 6, 2010 12:50:48 PM -0400 Yawar Amin 
<yawar.amin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> On 2010-11-06, at 12:36, John Ralls wrote:
>
>>>> […]
>>>
>>> I don't know how complete you want to make the docs, but there
>>> doesn't seem to be anything about trading accounts, at least not
>>> that I can find with a quick search.  The pages at
>>> <http://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~selinger/accounting/tutorial.html> and
>>> <http://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~selinger/accounting/gnucash.html> give
>>> a good, if slightly outdated, overview of this.  I would be glad to
>>> review anything added to the documentation for this.
>>
>> That's good stuff! Perhaps Mr. Selinger would be willing to
>> contribute the tutorial as a chapter for the Guide, and we could
>> brush up the gnucash bit to reflect the way it works now.
>
> So first off I have to mention I don’t have much domain knowledge
> in currency trading, but I’ll definitely read through Peter
> Selinger’s tutorials (and the Guide) to see what was done before.
> And from his (very recent) note I see he intends to update his page
> with the latest GnuCash trading features. Maybe we could convince him
> to contribute it to the Guide Chapter 10 (Multiple Currencies).

I'm sure he would be glad to work with us on this if he has time.  He's 
already suggested linking from the documentation to his pages as a 
temporary measure.

                Mike
 


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