Revision as of 08:42, 4 April 2006

Road towards 2.0

This page is just a temporary page to keep track of the progress of the concept guide, as well as what needs to be done with it. Please feel free to add to it, with various thoughts and comments. Especially in things that needs to be clearer, or items that are missing etc.

Check out document

 svn checkout http://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash-docs/trunk gnucash-docs

Review

Please read through the Conceptguide (on the web, or in CVS) and indicate on this wiki which areas need to be reworked, modified, deleted, added, or left unchanged.

We can use this wiki page to discuss what should be in the guide, and which examples. Later on, we can use the gnucash-devel list to send out the raw text for quick reviews

Updating the concept guide

Please co-ordinate and inform of your intentions on gnucash-devel as well as on this wiki.

Areas that need work

The following items have missing text in the existing guide, or just need more work

• Screenshots
  • Since we have moved to GTK2, we need to replace each and every screenshot.
• Bugs
  • [bugs in bugzilla]
  • http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162570
  • http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105932
  • http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106242
  • http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144991
  • http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149621
  • http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=304441
  • http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99477
  • http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98292
  • http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=303164
  • http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=121242
  • http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=303580
  • http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149621
• Chapter 7
  • Automobile Loan (How-To)
  • Entering a Payment Schedule
    • Monthly Payments (How-To)
    • Final Payment (How-To)
  • Selling a House or Automobile (How-To)
  • Reconciling with the Loan Statements (How-To)
  • Putting It All Together
• Chapter 8
  • Recording Stock Splits and Mergers (How-To)
  • Recording Employee Stock Plans (Discussion)
  • Stock Options (How-To)
  • Reconciling with the Brokerage Statement (How-To)
  • Currency trading
• Chapter 10
  • 10.6. Recording Purchases in a Foreign Currency (How-To)
  • 10.7. Tracking Currency Investments (How-To)
  • 10.8. Reconciling Statements in a Foreign Currency (How-To)
  • 10.9. Updating Exchange Rates (How-To)
  • 10.10. Putting It All Together (Examples)
• Appendix A Importing
  • A.2 Organization of QIF Files (Discussion)
  • A.3 Common Duplication Issues (Discussion)
  • A.4 Checking QIF Data (Discussion)
  • OFX features
  • HBCI

Ready for release

The following chapters have been review/modified and are ready for release

Ready for review

The following chapters have been modified and are ready for review

Ongoing work

• 8. Investments

Remaning work

The below chapters have not been modified/checked since the 1.8 serie.

General

• 1. Overview
• 2. The Basics
• 3. Accounts
• 4. Transactions

Personal

• 5. Checkbook
• 6. Credit Cards
• 7. Loans
• 9. Capital Gains
• 10. Multiple Currencies

Business

• 11. Depreciation
• 12. Accounts Receivable
• 13. Accounts Payable
• 14. Payroll

Appendix

• A. Migration Guide
• B. Frequent Asked Questions (we need to update with the valid FQA)

Thoughts and comments

• Make examples with separate accounts for each stocks/brokearage income/expense, so we can track each stocks costs
• One datafile per chapter, and the chapter has to explain how to create the datafile with all its entries.
• If you have multiple bank accounts with one bank the following should be an example?
  • Asset:Bank:CitiBank:Saving
  • Asset:Bank:CitiBank:ATM
• Multiple currencies
  • Equity:Opening Balance:USD
  • Equity:Opening Balance:AUD
  • Income:Saving:CitiBank:Interest (where CitiBank is all in USD)
  • Expenses:Bank:CitiBank:Interest (where CitiBank is all in USD)
  • Expenses:Bank:CitiBank:Charges (where CitiBank is all in USD)
  • Income:Saving:Boom:Interest:HKD (boom has one USD and one HKD account)
  • Income:Saving:Boom:Interest:USD (boom has one USD and one HKD account)
• Investments
  • When you create a commodity, you should also directly create the Dividend account
  • How to Add / Remove shares
  • How to do imediate re-invest dividend
  • How to buy shares with NON-Default currency
    • Current workaround: Buy the shares from the BANK account, and right click on the stock purchase row and select "Edit Exchange Rate"

Default currency AUD (not HKD)
Commodity Stock_1
Assets:Banks:Boom:HKD
Assets:Brokerage Accounts:Boom:Stock_1
Expenses:Investments:Commission:Boom_HKD
Income:Investments:Dividend:Boom_HKD:Stock_1
Open Assets:Banks:Boom:HKD account
Buy Stocks 
                Assets:Banks:Boom:HKD                                   Withdrawal 10,000
                Expenses:Investments:Commission:Boom_HKD    Deposit 500
                Assets:Brokerage Accounts:Boom:Stock_1      Deposit 9,500
Right click on the last row, and select "Edit Exchange Data"
In the following pop up window, enter the actual number of stocks in the last entry box 
 (not the default entry box)

• Assets
  • Personal loan to a friend (Assets:Money owed to you:<Friends name>)
  • Depreciation of private assets like Car and other items (house, horse etc)
• QIF Import
  • Migrating from Quicken/Money
    • I think we need to come with more details on this area? (expand on 2.7. Importing QIF Files, and Appendix A)
  • Ensure that the numbers in the QIF file do not contain " " (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=121443)
  • Sample of QIF file, and links to more samples