Cash Flow report vs. Income Statement

[Ken Heard]

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Mike or Penny Novack wrote:
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>> a. A basic primer on double entry bookkeeping.
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> The first question to decide is whether WE need to create this. A
> possible alternative is to FIND already existing primers and provide
> links (if available as on-line materials) or a suggested reading list if
> books. There is a "scope" issue here. There can be documentation for
> "how to use GnuCash" for that portion of the user audience who already
> know something about double entry bookkeeping. That's documentation to
> show how to do things "the GnuCash way" that they already know how to do
> using other methods. There can also be documentation "how to do double
> entry bookkeeping" (for those who've never don it before) and we might
> decide that providing this is part of our mandate BUT need to keep in
> mind that this wouldn't likely be directly related to how GnuCash is
> doing it.
> 
> Michael
> 
All good points, and yes there are thousands of accounting/bookkeeping
primers on line and in print, of varying quality.  Also to be kept in
mind are differing accounting and taxation practices from country to
country.  I would not however want to embark on answering your need
question before consensus is reached on the three numbered questions
mentioned in my post of 2009-06-17 at 15:12 eastern daylight time North
America.

Regards, Ken Heard
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