Long Selinger's guide is not specifically a guide to doing things in GnuCash but a general discussion of the accounting approaches that can be used. Which specific section of Selinger's guide are you referring to - which section which table and which line in the table.
There isn't AFAIK any information specifically on Trading account in the Help manual or Guide at this stage. What information does exist is in the wiki pages https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Trading_Accounts. The GnuCash treatment in Trading Accounts I think was developed from Selinger's article so the Wiki may make it a bit clearer. I can't offer much further help on them as I don't personally use them except maybe once every couple of years if I travel overseas. I have a broad understanding of how they are used from an accounting perspective as I have a formal background in accounting but I don't know much of the details of how they are implemented in GnuCash. Some features like these and the Business Features may use specific named accounts in their implementation. Someone else who makes use of trading accounts may be able to offer more detailed advice on how they function. Long, Just to give you a bit of background on the project and the forums: Most of the people responding on the User forum are largely other users of GnuCash although the group of major developers do chime in when the rest of us get something wrong or they are not otherwise engaged working on aspects of the program. We vary considerably both in our background knowledge of accounting from having an understanding of formal accounting through to self taught and some of the self taught people are pretty good. We all also use GnuCash for many different purposes, personal finances, tracking share trading, monitoring investments, accounting for small businesses etc so we all have a different perrspective on your problem. The users who contribute and the developers are all volunteers and many if not most have full time jobs. Some of us are users but also make minor contributions to the program coding and or the documentation. The documentation, particularly of newer features often lags behind the development because it is often done by people who haven't developed the code and who only work out what GnuCash is doing be experimenting with it and talking with others who have a better knowledge of the code. GnuCash has been around for a long time and some code dates form its inception. Many if not most of the people who wrote the code are no longer associated with the project. Often documentaion on newer aspects or aspects under development will be found in the USER and DEV forums and in the FAQ's on the GnuCash Wiki site and the breakout pages from the main Wiki page. Some of this will eventually find it's way into the documentation. As users we also sometimes come up against problems in GnuCash and will be distracted while trying to sort them out. When you ask a new question you cannot necessarily assume that someone who can provide an answer will necessarily have read previous questions although you can expect that we will have read through the replies and discussion threads of the current question, although not always. It pays to make questions as specific as you can and provide enough background detail that responders will have some context, particularly when the question is in a new thread. David ----- David Cousens -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
