Re: [Ledger-smb-users] Investment Addon

2011-08-10 Thread Chris Travers
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 2:33 AM, Luke wrote: > On Tue, 9 Aug 2011, Chris Travers wrote: > >> On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 9:33 PM, Luke wrote: >> >>> Cost does not always stay the same--splits, dividends, and selling covered >>> calls can change original cost basis, so that needs to be updatable. >> >>

Re: [Ledger-smb-users] Investment Addon

2011-08-10 Thread Luke
On Tue, 9 Aug 2011, Chris Travers wrote: > On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 9:33 PM, Luke wrote: > >> Cost does not always stay the same--splits, dividends, and selling covered >> calls can change original cost basis, so that needs to be updatable. > > How do dividends affect cost basis? I can't find any

Re: [Ledger-smb-users] Investment Addon

2011-08-09 Thread Chris Travers
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 9:33 PM, Luke wrote: > Yes, although potentially non-face-value bonds might fall under this as > well, short or long term.  I shouldn't have included CDs in the list though, > as they can probably be tracked by conventional means, by just a transaction > to record the inter

Re: [Ledger-smb-users] Investment Addon

2011-08-09 Thread Luke
On Tue, 9 Aug 2011, Chris Travers wrote: On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 1:13 AM, Luke wrote: On Mon, 8 Aug 2011, Chris Travers wrote: 1)  What segments of users are most likely to benefit from this? Interesting.  I'm not sure, actually.  Not even sure how you define segments, but I'll take a stab.

Re: [Ledger-smb-users] Investment Addon

2011-08-09 Thread Chris Travers
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 1:13 AM, Luke wrote: > On Mon, 8 Aug 2011, Chris Travers wrote: > >> First I think this is a great idea.  However I have a few questions: > > Thanks.:) > >> 1)  What segments of users are most likely to benefit from this? > > Interesting.  I'm not sure, actually.  Not even s

Re: [Ledger-smb-users] Investment Addon

2011-08-09 Thread Alvin Starr
At first blush I sort of blew this one off as being a featuer that we would have no use for. On the other hand after reading a little more.. My wife and I run a consultancy business and since we are self employed we are not part of any pension plan. So we have some of our retirement savings (wh

Re: [Ledger-smb-users] Investment Addon

2011-08-09 Thread Luke
On Mon, 8 Aug 2011, Chris Travers wrote: > First I think this is a great idea. However I have a few questions: Thanks.:) > 1) What segments of users are most likely to benefit from this? Interesting. I'm not sure, actually. Not even sure how you define segments, but I'll take a stab. Any

Re: [Ledger-smb-users] Investment Addon

2011-08-08 Thread Chris Travers
On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Chris Travers wrote: > First I think this is a great idea.  However I have a few questions: > > 1)  What segments of users are most likely to benefit from this? > 2)  What new markets would we be able to reach by including such a module? > > Also if there are a sig

Re: [Ledger-smb-users] Investment Addon

2011-08-08 Thread Chris Travers
> > Comments? > > Luke > [1] > http://www.cliffsnotes.com/study_guide/Accounting-Principles-I.topicArticleId-21081.html > [2] > http://www.cliffsnotes.com/study_guide/Accounting-Principles-II.topicArticleId-21248.html > First I think this is a great idea. However I have a few questions: 1) Wha

[Ledger-smb-users] Investment Addon

2011-08-08 Thread Luke
Chris and all We have touched briefly in some development discussion or other, about being able to handle investments at some point in LSMB. I am not at the stage of suggesting any direct sponsored work yet, but mainly in figuring out what level of interest there is for this, and what factors