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University Collaboration Programme

6671...@gmail.com (Bank-Builder) — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:50:48 UT

The Community Banker project announces its University Collaboration
Programme. The intent behind this programme is to involve
universities and other academic institutions from around the world
when sourcing material for students who are required to complete
practical exercises in programming and information systems.

Re: Accounting Foundation

6671...@gmail.com (Andrewt) — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:39:31 UT

Greetings Bank-Builders,

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

Collaboration & Copyright

6671...@gmail.com (Andrewt) — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 09:53:08 UT

1. Collaboration.
============
All the elements to facilitate good project collaboration are now in
place:
* The main web site: [link]
* The source code: [link]
* The documentation wiki: [link]
* The discussion group: [link]

Re: Accounting Foundation

johntucker....@googlemail.com (JohnT) — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:55:46 UT

GNUCASH

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

Re: [Bank-Builders] Re: wikis

johntucker....@googlemail.com (John Tucker) — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 11:00:28 UT

I think that a wiki expert would have no trouble (given the right
access) extracting the data from any wiki into another. I've asked
Wikispaces if they offer that kind of facility.
Zim's good for now anyway.
JohnT

Re: community banker wiki

johntucker....@googlemail.com (JohnT) — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 10:35:08 UT

OK, picking up on this ...

1&2)
Yes, it looks as if we need to use something like AccountClass -- an
abstract group of any accounts to which rules such as dormancy/
freezing/lending default etc. can be applied. The world's various
jurisdictions will each allow a whole range of possible rule-books, to

Accounting Foundation

6671...@gmail.com (Andrewt) — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:54:28 UT

Hi Bank-builders,

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

Re: [Bank-Builders] Re: wikis

johntucker....@googlemail.com (John Tucker) — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 11:48:44 UT

OK, I'll choose one that allows us to do this (and allows enough bods;
and some privacy; and doesn't cost anything).
JohnT

Re: community banker wiki

and...@turpin.co.za (andrew@turpin.co.za) — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 11:25:50 UT

Greetings,
1. The dormancy/freezing of accounts is a contentious issue and is being
done in ZA under the anti-terrorism legislation. Of course pensioners are
unlikely to be involved in nefferous activities. We also have to treat
pension and disability grant beneficiaries with finese (about 25% of our

RE: [Bank-Builders] wikis

and...@turpin.co.za (andrew@turpin.co.za) — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 11:07:08 UT

Just a quick thought - if we spend all the effort to populate a wiki on a
hosted sight will we be able to save a local copy as I would like to
eventually deploy a "cleansed" version with communitybanker?

wikis

johntucker....@googlemail.com (John Tucker) — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 10:52:29 UT

Hi bank-builders,
I've been having a quick look for a wiki for the project.
We can set up our own wiki for bank-builders using free sites such
as Wikispaces and Wiki.com. Both sites guide one step by step through
the process of setting up a wiki and are said to be very useful for
beginners ;)
I like the look of Wikispaces myself, so unless anyone's got another