> 1:
> after some cooling down of this discussion, you should create a pull
> request against
> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/blob/maint/po/glossary/gnc-glossary.txt
>
I don't know what everybody's hysterical about, myself. I think using proper
accounting terminology is useful, so I'm hap
> This is getting ridiculous, can we stop the personal attacks now please.
> Let's just accept that different countries call it Fiscal Year and others
> call it Financial Year - my own accountant here in Oz calls it Financial Year
> and that is also what we called it in NZ when I lived ther
>
> I wouldn't after 4 years of animal science (humans plus) plus a lot of home
> butchery. Look up the Dunning-Kruger Effect, two blokes got a nobel prize
> for saying you're full of shit. Your GP knows bugger all about lymph nodes
> anyway.
>
1) In what year did David Dunning and/or Justin Kru
>
> Formal vs. layman terminology--or behavior for that matter--is a constant
> tension in GnuCash. AFAIK none of the developers has formal accounting
> training past one or two college courses; most rather less. Even fewer of the
> user base have any formal accounting training at all and so we
> I see references/comments in the PR referring to ?Fiscal? year. Just my
> view but ?Fiscal? seems to be one of those terms that are rarely used by
> anyone except federal treasurers and finance reporters. Perhaps more
> understandable to use FinYear / FinancialYear or similar.
>
Well, "Fiscal
