Stock Basis and Capital Gains from sale
Bill Suit
bsuit at bellsouth.net
Tue Jul 15 16:19:14 CDT 2003
The section on commodity (1.6) would have explained a lot to me a week
or so back when I was trying to set up some mutual fund accounts. Derek
came to my rescue. I was trying to figure out how to actually set up a
commodity. Seems like much of the 1.6 documentation may still be
accurate. FWIW, Bill
On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 11:40, Jon Lapham wrote:
> Steve Wallace wrote:
> > I am a new user of GnuCash 1.8.4. I am located in the USA. Looking for
> > a Quicken replacement.
>
> Welcome aboard Steve.
>
> > Don't expect a lot of fancy features but need
> > basic investing capabilities. I have quickly read through the documents
> > I have been able to find. Sections on investing are mostly just
> > headings, is this because investing features are not yet implemented or
> > just missing documentation? I have looked at the Help Manual, the
> > Concepts & Tutorial Guide did I miss something?
>
> This part of the documentation is being written as we speak. You can
> see the top secret under development version of the investment and
> capital gains documentation here:
>
> http://www.jandr.org/temp/gnucashdocs/chapter7.html
>
> http://www.jandr.org/temp/gnucashdocs/chapter8.html
>
> Mind you, this is still under heavy construction. As you are a new
> person to GnuCash, someone like you could help a great deal by giving
> advise on how to make the docs better. Maybe as you learn, you could
> help me update the docs along the way? I'll do all the heavy lifting,
> you just have to tell me what to do.
>
> One other resource for you would be the GnuCash v1.6 documentation. It
> seems that some of the things there didn't make it to the v1.8
> documentation. See here:
> http://www.gnucash.org/docs/C/gnucash-docs-1.6/
>
> Of course, since it was written for v1.6, it may not be totally
> applicable. :)
>
> Of special interet to you is probably these sections:
> http://www.gnucash.org/docs/C/gnucash-docs-1.6/xacc-depreciation.html
> http://www.gnucash.org/docs/C/gnucash-docs-1.6/xacc-commodity.html
> http://www.gnucash.org/docs/C/gnucash-docs-1.6/xacc-portfolio-report.html
> http://www.gnucash.org/docs/C/gnucash-docs-1.6/xacc-stkptlo.html
>
> (if you see anything that helps, let me know!)
>
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