https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=451548
Bug ID: 451548
Summary: Skrooge field tip and handbook should mention loan
Initial balance should be negative
Product: skrooge
Version: Trunk from git
Platform: unspecified
OS: All
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: general
Assignee: guillaume.deb...@gmail.com
Reporter: skierp...@gmail.com
CC: steph...@mankowski.fr
Target Milestone: ---
SUMMARY
I created an account of type "Loan" and realized it probably should be negative
if I owe a lender on it. But maybe Skrooge a + $10,000 Loan must be a debt to
someone else so the negative value is implied. So I looked in the handbook and
it doesn't say.
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Open Accounts view, deselect any account
2. In the Editing panel below the accounts table (click [Edit] to see it),
begin to enter a loan
3. Wonder if the loan's Initial balance should be negative if you owe.
4. Go look in the Skrooge Handbook
https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/skrooge/skrooge/skrooge.pdf
OBSERVED RESULT
The field help status says only "Initial balance of the account."
There's no mention of negative balance in the handbook, or a section on setting
up loans.
After some searching I found the 2013 forum thread
https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=210&t=110906&p=267206&hilit=loan+skrooge#p267206
where @smankowski says " You should create a new account with type=loan with a
negative amount corresponding to the loan."
EXPECTED RESULT
The field help status should say "Initial balance of the account. (Enter a
negative amount if you owe.)"
Mention something similar in the Skrooge handbook section 3.3.1 Account
properties.
Consider adding a section on paying off loans; in that same message @smankowski
says "Each time you refund [? probably better expressed as 'pay off some of']
this loan, you do a transfer from your current account to the loan account."
which is useful guidance.
SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Flatpak runtime: org.kde.Platform/x86_64/5.15
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