Tutorial and concept guide chapter 9

Md. Aminul Islam Khan aikhanlab at gmail.com
Tue May 17 05:34:20 EDT 2011


On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Geert Janssens
<janssens-geert at telenet.be>wrote:

> On dinsdag 17 mei 2011, Md. Aminul Islam Khan wrote:
> > On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 8:45 PM, jomali <jomali3945 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I suggest you re-read Chapter 9.3 and see that it asks you to set up
> some
> > > Fixed Asset accounts as well.
> >
> > Thank you. I went through it again.
> >
> > Chapter 9.3 says: "Below is a generic account hierarchy for tracking the
> > appreciation of 2 assets, *ITEM1* and *ITEM2*. The *Assets:Fixed
> > Assets:ITEM1:Cost* accounts are balanced by the*Assets:Current
> > Assets:Savings Account* account, the *Assets:Fixed
> Assets:ITEM1:Unrealized
> > Gains* accounts are balanced by the *Income:Unrealized Gains* account
> > (similar for*ITEM2*).
> > -Assets
> >     -Current Assets
> >         -Savings Account
> >     -Fixed Assets
> >         -ITEM1
> >             -Cost
> >             -Unrealized Gain
> >         -ITEM2
> >             -Cost
> >             -Unrealized Gain
> > -Income
> >     -Realized Gains
> >     -Unrealized Gains
> > Then in Chapter 9.4 it says: Start with an account hierarchy similar to
> > than shown in Section 9.3, “Account
> > Setup”<http://code.gnucash.org/docs/guide/capgain_accounts1.html>,
> > but replace “ITEM1” with “Degas” and you can remove the “ITEM2” accounts.
> > The following paragraphs and table of Chapter 9.4 asks to:
> > transfer to .....Assets:Fixed Assets:Savings Account.
> >
> > That created the confusion.
> >
> > aikhan
> >
> >
> Ah, thank you. Those paragraphs indeed mix up the account names. I have
> committed a fix that will be in the nightly built documentation as of
> tomorrow.
>
> Welcome and thanks for taking the trouble.

> Geert
>


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