I have uploaded Jan's chart of accounts (Pastel style) which he
prepared
for Southern Cross Credit Union.  I am not sure how well this will
translate in gnucash but will perhaps John can take a look and offer
any
advice.  I am keen to try and get gnucash setup to work with
communitybanker.

I would like to start a discussion around the accounting structure of
the system and what transaction flow is required between the system
and
gnucash.  Any suggestions would be welcome as this portion of the
system
is still not well defined.

Best regards,

Andrew

gnuCash will produce a default CoA for a typical business
File --> New --> New Account Hierarchy
starts a druid (aka "wizard") which lets one chose to set up "Business
Accounts".

There are five sections to the Business CoA ...
* assets
* liabilities
* income
* expenses
* equity
where each of these is a placeholder (a summary or control account)
with a slew of subaccounts, some of which may themselves be
placeholders, of course.  By default, the newly created Chart of
Accounts is not numbered.

To assign numbers one (highlights the account at the top of the tree
one wishes to number) then from the Menu Bar chose Edit --> Renumber
Subaccounts.  The top account can be assigned its number with Edit -->
Account.

A base 36 numbering system is used comprising the 10 numerals plas 26
letters of the western alphabet.  In particular "/" does not seem to
be allowed.

It looks as if we are going to need to develop a "bank builder" CoA
for gnuCash; assign account codes using gnuCash's base36 system; mesh
that with the bank builder system proper; and distribute our gnuCash
CoA with the package.

Incidently, where are the depositors' and borrowers' (control)
accounts in the Southern Cross Credit Union CoA?  I'm guessing 8050/
nnnn and 7050/nnnn.

JohnT

On Dec 18, 5:54 pm, Andrewt <6671...@gmail.com> wrote:

   John has been busy working on the Accounting pages of wiki [see
bank-builders.wikidot.com ] and has defined a separate Trading Ledger
within the system and then the external accounting system (in our case
GNUCash) for everything else the Credit Union needs.

  Without naming names, I know there are several competent accountants
in this forum and would challenge all those with accounting
backgrounds to challenge us with those difficult questions that will
allows us to check and validate our choice of accounting structure.

  Regards,

  Andrew