[Kmymoney-devel] New account wizard question

[Fernando Vilas]

On Friday, July 09, 2010 16:18:34 Jack wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> In the second step of the "Select Accounts" part of creating a new
> file, the dialog says "Select groups of accounts that
> correspond......"  I find several issues with this dialog.
> 
> -- the lower right pane is labeled "Accounts"  but what shows up in
> them is categories, not accounts.  Should the label change, or am I
> misunderstanding something?
> 
> -- I have tried several of these (US) templates, and none of them
> created any accounts, only categories.
> 
> -- several of the templates say (in the "Detailed description" to use
> along with a base category group, but there is no explicit notice which
> are considered the base groups.  Also - that implies that you can
> select more than one category, but the usual way of Ctl-Click does not
> work for me - it just replaces the selected template with the new one.
> 
> Thanks for any explanations.
> 

From an accounting standpoint, categories are accounts. The parent account for 
them is either Income or Expense. If I pay rent with cash, then there is a 
debit on the Rent account and a credit on my Cash account.

While KMM uses a double-entry system, that is mostly abstracted away from the 
user by using the concept of categories.

Maybe the explanation needs to be clearer, and possibly the labels need to 
change also. I can see how it could be confusing to a user.

-- 
Thanks,
Fernando Vilas
fvilas at iname.com
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