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There are a number of i18n issues that I think have to be resolved in the
long term. Namely, some words in english means a bunch of different things
while spelt the same. Example: the string "Transfer" could either be a
verb (to transfer money, used as toolba
Here's a silly accounting question:
I'm the treasurer for a church...
Let's say I get a grant for $500.00 for a specific purpose
The money is deposited into the church bank account
It is spent in smaller transactions over the course of the
following year or so
How do I keep track of it?
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On 04 Jun 2001 09:39:10 +1000, Ben Stanley wrote:
> Here's a silly accounting question:
> I'm the treasurer for a church...
> Let's say I get a grant for $500.00 for a specific purpose
> The money is deposited into the church bank account
> It is spent in smaller transactions over the course
> ... but it means I have to check the balance of the
> bank account against my liabilities every time I write a cheque...
> But it does make it easy to reconcile the bank statements.
> :-)
> If there is a better way of doing it, I'd like to hear it.
The "solution" for knowing the amount left in
Ben Stanley wrote:
> Here's a silly accounting question:
> I'm the treasurer for a church...
> Let's say I get a grant for $500.00 for a specific purpose
> The money is deposited into the church bank account
> It is spent in smaller transactions over the course of the
> following year or so
>
But then how do you keep a track of the fact that that money is to only be
used on one project and when the money from the grant has run out the
project has to stop or find some new funding.
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> C
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 10:18:59PM +0200, Christian Stimming wrote:
> There are a number of i18n issues that I think have to be resolved in the
> long term. Namely, some words in english means a bunch of different things
> while spelt the same. Example: the string "Transfer" could either be a
>
It appears that the average-balance report is fundamentally wrong-headed
about balance displays for stock and mutual fund accounts.
Basically, when the average-balance report converts to the report currency,
a fixed price is calculated which is used for all intervals in the report.
This is OK f
On 03 Jun 2001 22:18:59 +0200, Christian Stimming wrote:
> The ambiguities usually are not a problem if the words are used in a
> phrase. But for the messages with single words we need to come up with a
> distinction between different meanings. E.g. instead of the string
> "Transfer" we would n
On Mon, 04 Jun 2001 15:41:37 Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been trying to install GnuCash off and on for at least two years.
> 1.5.97 is the first version that I have successfully installed.
> Congratulations are in order, I think. Here is a rundown of my
> impressions:
>
> Installati
On 04 Jun 2001 15:47:18 +1000, Robert Graham Merkel wrote:
> It appears that the average-balance report is fundamentally wrong-headed
> about balance displays for stock and mutual fund accounts.
>
> Basically, when the average-balance report converts to the report currency,
> a fixed price is c
On 03 Jun 2001 23:28:19 -0700, Dave Peticolas wrote:
> On 03 Jun 2001 22:18:59 +0200, Christian Stimming wrote:
> > The ambiguities usually are not a problem if the words are used in a
> > phrase. But for the messages with single words we need to come up with a
> > distinction between different
On 04 Jun 2001 16:38:22 +1000, Damian Ivereigh wrote:
> Is English not an appropriate localization? What I mean is can't English
> just be another langauge in which the translations are:-
>
> action:transfer -> transfer
> creditTransfer:transfer -> transfer
>
> I always feel rather embarrassed
On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Robert Graham Merkel wrote:
> > Anyway, Once the beast is up and running it works acceptably. I did
> > notice that the initial new file wizard doesn't display any account types
> > in its list, so I couldn't use it jumpstart my accounts tree. Is it
> > supposed to work in t
On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
> Okay I'll have a look at it with strace. Maybe it is stalling on
> something really stupid like name resolution.
Right. It is blocking on opening and reading /dev/random. Perhaps an
upgrade to Guile 1.4 will fix that.
k
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On 03 Jun 2001 23:53:48 -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
> 1.3.4, which came with my distribution. I'm not advised on the life cycle
> of Guile development. Is it prudent to upgrade? Guppi congratulates me
> on NOT having an ancient Guile when I run its configure script :)
1.3.4 should be fine.
On 03 Jun 2001 23:55:49 -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
>
> > Okay I'll have a look at it with strace. Maybe it is stalling on
> > something really stupid like name resolution.
>
> Right. It is blocking on opening and reading /dev/random. Perhaps a
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