GnuCash
5.4-12-g13c81df5e6+
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API: Business
The GnuCash Business objects, in src/business/business-core, implement certain basic small-business accounting functions. Below follows a summary overview of the objects and the data that they store. These are listed in order of complexity; with the basic building blocks first, and the more complex structures last.
A very simple object, stores strings for name/street-address/phone/fax/email The address is not a separate entity, but is meant to be embedded in other objects (that is, there is no addressbook; there is no address database that is separate from the objects that use addresses; there is no 'foreach' that can be used to iterate over all addresses.)
API: Address
Describes billing terms, that is when a bill is due, and what sort of a discount is applied (if any). The BillTerm object currently supports: – the discount applied to a bill (absolute numeric value), – the number of days until payment is due, – the number of days until a discount expires. – cutoff ?? The proximo type does what ???
API: BillTerm
Pulls together info needed to generate an invoice, including addresses, job, the dates, the billing terms, the amounts, and the accounts to be credited.
API: Entry
Derek Atkins warlo Version of October 2003 rd@m it.ed u
The gncTaxTable and gncBillTerm business objects have parent, child, refcount, invisible field in their structures that deserve some explanation: