GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 635386
Document trading accounts
Last modified: 2018-06-29 22:47:51 UTC
Some documentation should be written for the trading account feature added in version 2.4. Initially this could be a few brief comments with pointers to <http://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~selinger/accounting/tutorial.html> and <http://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~selinger/accounting/gnucash.html>. If the "Use Trading Accounts" check box is selected on the Accounts tab of the File->Properties dialog then GnuCash will use trading accounts more or less as described in those two pages.
I was looking in the concept guide for a chapter where to insert this notion. I don't know if it can fits in the currency chapter or capital gain or loss. Do you have some suggestions?
Created attachment 176587 [details] [review] Patch to document new trading account feature Here is a little patch with a note about the new trading accounts functionality. This feature will deserve at least a section for itself but for 2.4 release I thin this could be enough. I think that the start of the currency chapter is the best position for this note. Any comment?
Comment on attachment 176587 [details] [review] Patch to document new trading account feature Sure, this initial comment is an improvement over our current status.
Right, that's a start and better than nothing. I might change it to say "going to the Accounts tab" instead of "going in the Accounts tab", but this is a minor detail.
I've applied the patch to the guide with Mike's suggestion. In my opinion the bug could be left open in the hope that this topic will get his dedicated chapter or section in the GnuCash docs. So I will move the target to "future" as this issue could be considered solved for 2.4 release.
*** Bug 637467 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
(we don't use the milestone "future" for now - by definition, everything should be done in future :-) ... removing milestone because of this.)
Comment on attachment 176587 [details] [review] Patch to document new trading account feature Already committed in r19962
GnuCash bug tracking has moved to a new Bugzilla host. The new URL for this bug is https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=635386. Please continue processing the bug there and please update any external references or bookmarks.