GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 788912
"Part III. Managing Business Finances" is misleading
Last modified: 2018-06-30 00:00:08 UTC
As can be seen in https://lists.gnucash.org/logs/2017/10/12.html#T15:25:46 private users think the chapters of that part have no relevance for them. I think we should rename "Managing Personal|Business Finances" to "Common|Advanced Tasks" or similar. And in the future one could think about a part "Tweaking GnuCash" o.s. containing the Python chapter and a Guile/Scheme Chapter extracted from wiki:Customizing_Reports. The about of "Common Tasks" might be "This part contains tasks which alomst every user has. So you should read them at least once." The about of "Advanced Tasks" might be "This part contains tasks which you might have or not. So you should just read their introductions and decide yourself." The current chapter "Other assets" - the title is misleading - might be renamed to something like "(Modelling) Liquidity (in your CoA)" and because liquidity is one of the fundamental tasks it should stay at the end of part I or early in part II. Or it should be split in "liquidity aspects" (I) and "other assets" (II) BTW "Multiple Currencies" should then move to III. Another point: From my understanding the currently "Checkbook" chapter is about "Bank accounts" (checking and saving), not the book of cheques. chapter_cbook.html contains also hardcoded chapter numbers. They should be replaced by linked numbers.
I thought, there were a "See also" field in the header, but it isn't. See also: Bug 452716 - Budget Feature for personal finances
Frank, I agree with your assessment. I think this can be incorporated into the broader revision of the Tutorial & Concepts Guide outlined in bug 687820 - Proposal to restructure the Tutorial and Concepts Guide. I will attempt to incorporate these suggestions there.
David, I put here 687820 in the 'blocks' list above and there 788912 will appear in the 'depends on' list and you can also go through the graphical 'Show dependency tree'. Closed task will later be shown stroked out. So you can track your progress.
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