[GNC-dev] Trading Accounts 797701

[Geert Janssens]

Op donderdag 23 april 2020 06:55:21 CEST schreef David Cousens:
> In a recnt discussion with
> (http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=user_no
> des&user=378901) around capital gains and realized and unrealized gains, I
> had occasion to acquaint myself with trading accounts. The current version
> of Ch12 only deals with the manual calculation of multiple currencies and
> while it mentions trading accounts it is mainly by reference to peter
> Selinger's tutorials
> (https://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~selinger/accounting/tutorial.html and
> https://www.mscs.dal.ca/~selinger/accounting/gnucash.html). The user became
> confused and i also ended up confused largely because peter Selinger's
> articles do not discuss the trading account implementation in GnuCash as it
> is now.
> 
> I am proposing expanding Ch12 as per the outline in
> https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797701 to include trading accounts.
> 
> David Cousens
> 
More documentation is always welcome :)

Geert