Geert, Thanks for pointing out that my remarks should be part of bug. Following your recommendation, I have added an additional comment to that bug.
How does a bug update get added automatically to the developer's list? Or does it? Do changes to a bug discussion go only to those subscribing to the bug? Tom > -----Original Message----- > From: Geert Janssens [mailto:janssens-ge...@telenet.be] > Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 7:16 AM > To: gnucash-devel@gnucash.org; Thomas Bullock > Subject: Re: Summary bar description (was: Patch for guide file > "ch_basics.xml") > > On Saturday 16 October 2010, Tom Bullock wrote: > > Geert and Juergen, > > > > Earlier exchanges stated: > > > > "Assets" is the sum of all accounts of types Bank, Cash, Asset, > Stock, > > > > Mutual Fund, Credit Card, Liability, A/Payable and A/Receivable, > > > > obviously taking the proper sign into account. Calling this > "Assets" > > > > would indeed be confusing at least. > > > > Just netting (offsetting credits [liabilities] against debits > [assets] > > from the balance sheet) these together gives "Net Assets", not net > > worth. Net worth is a duration concept, meaning activity over time. > It > > refers to the use of assets to generate income while incurring > expenses > > to do that. Net Assets is a point-in-time concept and excludes any > > income statement activity. > > > > Given what has been said to this point, the most accurate term I > have > > seen is "net assets" for the place where a better name is needed. > > > This very same issue has recently been reported in a bug: > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=631789 > > I have added references there to this thread. > > I don't speak English accounting language fluently, so I have to > accept > whatever others agree upon here. I would suggest to continue any > further > discussion on this description on the bug report. > > Geert _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
