diff --git a/Docs/En/xacc-accwin.html b/Docs/En/xacc-accwin.html index b9923dbe7a..cca469ad63 100644 --- a/Docs/En/xacc-accwin.html +++ b/Docs/En/xacc-accwin.html @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ Chart of Accounts.
The picure below shows an example for a stock or currency trading account. - Note that the Scurity field is not greyed out, and that you can + Note that the Security field is not greyed out, and that you can enter a value. That value is typically a stock-ticker symbol, or a three-letter ISO currency code.
diff --git a/Docs/En/xacc-currency.html b/Docs/En/xacc-currency.html index a1b98dd40b..76a5bc7493 100644 --- a/Docs/En/xacc-currency.html +++ b/Docs/En/xacc-currency.html @@ -1,32 +1,55 @@ + + +
+A Double Entry bookkeeping system stores both values, and + requires that all transactions balance:
+ +Double entry states that value1+value2+value3+ ... = + 0 where each value is recorded in a different account.
+ +A value is
+ +Thus, buying a widget in Japan and using US Dollars to + pay for it would appear thus:
+ +- - -A double entry system stores both values (and makes teh transaciton balance): - -double entry states that value1+value2+value3+ ... = 0 -where each value is recorded in a different account. -A value is value=exch-rate*amount (for currency accounts) - value=price*num-shares (for stocks/mutual-funds) - -Thus, buying a widget in japan and using dollars to pay for it would appears -like so: - -SpendAcct: (an oridnary bank/cash acct valued in USD) ----------- -Date xfer from memo cost +Date xfer from memo cost 1/5/99 [YenAcct] Buy widget $1.00 - - -YenAcct: (a currency trading account valued in yen) --------- -Date xfer from memo purchase rate -1/5/99 [SpendAcct] Buy widget Y150 0.00667 - - -The engine links together all three of these values (1.0, 150, 0.00667) -permanently and makes it imposssible to change one without changing another, -so that the grand total is always zero. - - ++
+Date xfer from memo purchase rate +1/5/99 [SpendAcct] Buy widget Y150 0.00667 + ++
The engine links together all three of these values (1.0, + 150, 0.00667) permanently and makes it imposssible to change + one without changing another, so that the grand total is always + zero.
+ + + diff --git a/Docs/En/xacc-date.html b/Docs/En/xacc-date.html index 2014512fdd..60eedd2aed 100644 --- a/Docs/En/xacc-date.html +++ b/Docs/En/xacc-date.html @@ -1,8 +1,13 @@ - - -
'+':
'=': increment day
@@ -32,9 +37,9 @@ The date cell handles the following accelrator keys:
't': today
-
-GnuCash can be compile to understand either Eurpean style dates or American Style
-dates. Grep for UK_DATES in dates.h
-
-
+ GnuCash can be compiled to use either European style dates or
+ US Style dates. Grep for UK_DATES in
+ dates.h
+
+