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"\"\""	"Opening and closing quote symbols and optionally their key combos like [altgr]+[Y]/[X]. Define the preferred style of quotation, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Summary_table"
"account"	"A detailed record of money spent and received"
"account code"	"An alphanumerical key of an account in GnuCash, not at the bank, can be used to sort. Some templates provide them or the user can enter them."
"account hierarchy"	"the tree view of all accounts"
"account name"	"-"
"account type: Active"	"The left side of the balance sheet in T account form shows the application of funds in form of assets. Because it contains only assets use assets directly. Complement: Passive. See also: Report Form"
"account type: Asset"	"A thing, esp. owned by a person or company, that has value and can be used or sold to pay debts. Dependent on the context you might use 'account type: Active' instead."
"account type: Assets & Liabilities"	"in fact: 'Active & Passive', group aka 'Balance Sheet accounts'; complement of 'Profit & Loss'"
"account type: checking"	"(esp. US) (Brit = current account) a bank account from which money can be withdrawn without previous notice"
"account type: currency"	"-"
"account type: Equity"	"see: Equity, but see also 'account type: Passive'"
"account type: Expense"	"-"
"account type: Income"	"-"
"account type: Liability"	"A debt, a financial obligation, but see also 'account type: Passive'"
"account type: money-market"	"-"
"account type: Mutual fund"	"-"
"account type: Passive"	"The right side of the balance sheet in T account form shows the source of funds and contains equity & liability. While not common in english, most languages would translate 'equity & liability' with 'passive'. Complement: Active. See also: Report Form Implementation: https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=421766"
"account type: Profit & Loss"	"Group of accounts tracking your success, complement of 'Assets & Liabilities'"
"account type: saving"	"1. (US) any type of account that earns interest 2. (Brit) any type of bank account that earns a higher level of interest than a current account or deposit account"
"account type: Stock"	"-"
"account type: trading"	"This account type (new in gnucash-2.4.0) is used when exchanging or trading amounts from one currency into another"
"account: parent account"	"-"
"account: subaccount"	"-"
"account: top level account"	"-"
"Action (register)"	"The process of doing something that caused a transaction to happen"
"action: ATM"	"Automated teller machine"
"action: autoDep"	"Transaction was an auto deposit"
"action: buy"	"-"
"action: deposit"	"-"
"action: direct debit"	"When people can automatically deduct money straight from your account. The reverse of Direct Deposit."
"action: dist"	"transaction is a distribution (???)"
"action: div"	"transaction is a dividend"
"action: fee"	"-"
"action: int"	"transaction comes from interest"
"action: loan"	"-"
"action: payment"	"see: payment 1."
"action: POS"	"Point of sale"
"action: rebate"	"-"
"action: sell"	"-"
"action: Teller"	"-"
"action: transfer"	"see: transfer 2. (=credit transfer)"
"action: wire"	"-"
"action: withdraw"	"-"
"aging"	"As in: payable aging, or: receivable aging. The aging report categorizes payables or receivables based on time buckets. This gives an overview of which bills or invoices are overdue at which time in the future. "
"amount"	"A sum of money"
"amount due"	"The amount finally to pay, respecting discounts, billing terms…"
"average"	"The result of adding several amounts together and then dividing this total by the number of amounts"
"balance (noun)"	"The amount of money that is in one's account"
"balance b/f"	"Balance brought forward - usually the first entry of an account statement containing the 'balance c/f' of the previous billing period or page"
"balance c/f"	"Balance carried forward - usually the last entry of an account statement to be used as 'balance b/f' on the next billing period or page"
"balance sheet"	"A written record of money received and paid out, showing the difference between the two total amounts"
"balance, to"	"To arrange for income and spending to be equal"
"bank"	"-"
"bill"	"A written statement of money owed for goods or services supplied. In Gnucash, a 'bill' is a statement that we received (from a vendor), whereas an 'invoice' is one that we sent out (to a customer)."
"bill owner"	"see invoice owner"
"billing terms"	"Conditions on paying a bill. Both an invoice and a bill have billing terms. For example, you can have 'terms' of 'Net-30', where the bill is due in full in 30 days."
"Book"	"The dataset that encapsulates all the collections of entities (accounts etc.) in gnucash. The written records of the financial affairs of a business."
"book closing"	"Completing the records of financial affairs for a specific time period, e.g. at the end of the year."
"Budget"	"An estimate or plan of the money available to somebody and how it will be spent over a period of time."
"business (adjective)"	"-"
"business (noun)"	"as Menu Item: Headline for features that are related to small business accounting"
"capital gains"	"Profits made from the sale of investments or property"
"case sensitive"	"Distinguishing the uppercase and lowercase letters"
"cash"	"Money in coins or notes"
"check"	"(esp. US) (= cheque) A special printed form on which one writes an order to a bank to pay a sum of money from one's account to another person"
"check and repair, to"	"To repair unbalanced transactions and orphan splits in an account tree. Any transactions that have debits != credits will get a balancing split added (pointing to a special new account called 'Imbalance'). Any splits that do not have accounts are put into another special account called 'Orphan'. Formerly known as 'to scrub'."
"close, to"	"To end an application's relationship with an open file so that the application will no longer be able to access the file without opening it again. "
"commodity"	"An article that is bought and sold. The most general term of what an account keeps track of, e.g. a currency or a stock."
"commodity listing"	"e.g. NASDAQ"
"commodity option: fraction"	"the smallest amount of a commodity that's traded (e.g. 1/100 for USD, 1 for most stocks)"
"commodity option: Symbol"	"e.g. USD, DEM"
"compound interests"	"interest which is earned on both the initial deposit and on any interest that has already been earned but left on deposit."
"Credit (column in register)"	"(a) A sum of money paid into an account. (b) A record of such a payment. (c) The state of having money in one's bank account."
"Credit Card"	"-"
"credit transfer"	"A transfer of money direct from one bank account to another, without using a cheque"
"credit note"	"A document that you give to a client that says you owe money to the client, i.e. the opposite of an invoice"
"currency"	"The system of money used in a country"
"Custom"	"Custom print format (i.e. according to the user's wishes) as opposed to a template choice."
"dashboard"	"Compact, well-structured presentation of informations. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashboard_(business)"
"database"	"The backend where the data is stored."
"Date"	"A specific numbered day of the month"
"date format"	"DD/MM/YY or MM/DD/YY or something else"
"date range"	"A range in time that is delimited by two distinct dates."
"Debit (column in register)"	"(a) A written note in an account of a sum owed or paid out. (b) A sum withdrawn from an account."
"default"	"Each option has a default setting that it is shipped with, until the user changes the setting."
"deposit (in the reconcile dialog)"	"see credit"
"depreciation"	"The process of something becoming less valuable"
"Description (column in register)"	"1. One textfield per transaction. The text in it should describe what the transaction was about. A short descriptive phrase (up to 40 chars) 2. One textfield per account. It is intended to be a longer, 1-5 sentence description of what this account is all about."
"discount"	"Reductions to a basic price of goods or services. Your language might distinguish between discounts dealing with payments (billing terms) and others (invoice)."
"double entry"	"Important Buzzword :)"
"document link"	"Transactions or bills/invoices can contain a document link which links either to some file on the local disk or to some arbitrary URL."
"due date"	"The last day to pay an invoice in time."
"email"	"Electronic mail. Some languages allow different writings, but each team should use only one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email"
"employee"	"a person who works for somebody or a company in return for wages"
"equity"	"1. The money value of a property after all charges on it have been paid. Equity isn't debt, it's a representation of long-term capital (So combining it with liability isn't really very meaningful, except in the balance sheet. 2. (a) The value of the shares issued by  a company. (b) Ordinary stocks and shares that carry no fixed interest."
"equity statement"	"Report that ... FIXME: Add description."
"escrow (account)"	"A trusted third party that holds a payment or deposit until a transaction is completed. In the US, many mortgage companies set up an escrow account when you get a mortgage.  You pay into the account every month and they disburse amounts out of the escrow to pay for hazard insurance and property taxes. So they are holding funds 'in escrow' to complete the transactions (paying insurance and taxes)."
"exchange rate"	"The relation in value between the money used in different countries"
"field"	"in the account creation dialog??"
"file"	"Any piece of information (text, graphics, executable) put together and given a name. All the information you have on the hard drive is arranged as a collection of  files."
"file type"	"-"
"financial calculator: interest rate"	"-"
"financial calculator: payments"	"see: payment"
"financial statement"	"formal records of the financial activities and position of a business, person, or other entity. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_statement for a list."
"free software"	"Free software is a matter of liberty, not price … see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software"
"gain"	"An increase in wealth; profit; advantage (See also: capital gains)"
"imbalance"	"Name of an automatically created account to get imbalanced transactions back in balance"
"import"	"Process of extracting data from a non-Gnucash format into a Gnucash file. E.g. QIF Import."
"income statement"	"Report that ... FIXME: add description. This report used to be called the 'Profit & Loss', but it was renamed on 2004-07-13."
"interest"	"Money charged for borrowing money, or paid to somebody who invests money"
"invoice"	"A list of goods sold or services provided together with the prices charged; see also: a bill. In Gnucash, an 'invoice' is a statement that we sent out (to a customer), whereas a 'bill' is one that we received (from a vendor)."
"job"	"In business accounting: Jobs are a mechanism by which you can group multiple invoices or bills that belong to the same customer or vendor. The job describes a (larger) piece of work or a task undertaken on order, for which one or many invoices or bills will be issued."
"ledger"	"A book in which a bank, business firm, etc. records its financial accounts"
"liabilities/equity"	"The heading for the right side of the balance sheet. See also: Equity."
"loan"	"A sum of money that is lent (by a bank), see also: financial calculator, Mortgage"
"loan: APR"	"Annual Percentage Rate, includes in contrast to the Nominal Rate some of the various costs to obtain a loan."
"loss"	"The money lost in business activity"
"Lost Accounts"	"name of an automatically created account"
"Lot"	"A particular collection of items that were bought in one transaction. A lot is typically formed when the item is bought, and is closed when the item is sold out. Needed e.g. for U.S. tax purposes."
"merge, to"	"Combine two books into one (see book)."
"marker"	"The thing that the scatter plot uses to mark each data point"
"markup"	"1. Some text annotation, but this meaning isn't used inside gnucash. 2. In the Customer summary report: The ratio of profit vs. sales, i.e. the profit amount divided by the sales amount, shown in percent."
"MDI modus"	"The way how more than one window is displayed in GnuCash at the same time. MDI = Multiple Document Interface."
"Memo"	"One textfield per split that should help you remember what this split was about."
"Mortgage"	"(a) An agreement by which money is lent by a bank for buying a house or other property, the property being the security. (b) A sum of money lent in this way."
"mortgage: ARM"	"Adjustable Rate Mortgage"
"mortgage: FRM"	"Fixed Rate Mortgage"
"national currency"	"e.g. USD, DEM, see Currency."
"net"	"(of money) remaining when nothing more is to be taken away"
"net assets"	"net total of all assets"
"net profit"	"The total income minus the total expenses of a given time period."
"net worth"	"Your net worth is your assets minus your liabilities. If your accounts are balanced, your net worth should equal your equity plus your net profit."
"notes (register)"	"One textfield per transaction that can hold explanatory text about the transaction."
"Num (column in register)"	"Abbreviation for: number; Field in a transaction. If this transaction was done by check, then the check number should be noted in this field."
"open, to"	"to make accessible"
"opening balance"	"If an account starts with a non-zero balance, then this amount is called the opening balance."
"options"	"A menu choice in the graphical user interface that allows the user to specify how the application will act each time it is used. "
"order"	"Watch out: Although this word exists in gnucash program code, all that program code in gnucash is currently not activated. In the future, it will be used in business accounting as follows: A particular request to make or supply goods, but belonging to a (larger) job. Such a request can come from a customer or be sent to a vendor. An order will probably generate one invoice or bill."
"orphan"	"Name of an automatically created account that holds splits that have no account."
"owner (of bill, invoice or expense voucher)"	"The customer to (or employee or vendor from) which this invoice is sent - or short your business partner."
"passphrase"	"A secret phrase that one needs to know in order to get access to a user account "
"Payables/Receivables"	"An amount that must be paid / An amount for which money has not yet been received"
"payee"	"A person to whom sth is paid"
"payer"	"A person who pays or who has to pay for sth"
"payment"	"1. The action of paying sb/sth or of being paid. 2. A sum of money paid."
"placeholder"	"An account where no transactions may be posted to; transactions can only be posted to subaccounts of this account, so this account serves as a placeholder in the hierarchy"
"portfolio"	"A set of investments owned by a person"
"post, to"	"Register invoice, voucher in account register"
"preferences"	"A menu choice in many graphical user interface applications that allows the user to specify how the application will act each time it is used. "
"principal payment"	"Loan repayment calculator: your payments are split in interests payment and principal payment"
"price (in a split)"	"An amount of money for which sth may be bought or sold"
"price type: ask"	"An ask is an offer to sell, and the price you want to sell at."
"price type: bid"	"A bid is an offer to buy, and the price you want to buy at."
"price: quotes"	"online quotes (rather: quotation!?) A statement of the current price of stocks or commodities"
"profit"	"Money gained in business, esp. the difference between the amount earned (sales) and the amount spent (expenses/cost): Profit is sales minus expenses/cost."
"Profit & Loss"	"OBSOLETE. This report was renamed to 'income statement' on 2004-07-13. Old definition: A list that shows the amount of money spent compared with the amount earned by a business in a particular period"
"quick-fill"	"-"
"rebalance, to (a transaction)"	"-"
"reconcile, to"	"reconcile an account, a reconciled split. To find a way to make the bank's account statement agree with the user's recorded transactions in an account."
"record keeping"	"-"
"register"	"A list of items; a book containing such a list"
"register entry: split transaction"	"A transaction that is divided into two or more parts"
"register entry: stock split"	"-"
"register: auto-split ledger"	"one form of register"
"register: basic ledger"	"another form of register"
"register: general ledger"	"another form of register"
"register: transaction journal"	"another form of register"
"reload, to"	"reload the current document"
"report form: T Account Form"	"aka 'two-sided form' is in Europe often used for the balance sheet. Complement: report form: Vertical Form"
"report form: Vertical Form"	"aka 'running form' is in english speaking countries usually used for the balance sheet in one column. Complement: report form: T Account Form"
"Retained Earnings"	"name of an equity account (?); to be distinguished from the opening balance."
"reverse transaction, to (Action in the register)"	"Create a new transaction that is the inverse of the old one.  When you add the two together they completely cancel out.  Accounts use this instead of voiding transactions, usually because the prior month has been closed and can no longer be changed, or the entire accounting system is 'write only'."
"sales"	"(In the customer summary report) The total amount of money received because something was sold."
"save, to (to a file)"	"To write data (typically a file) to a storage medium, such as a disk or tape."
"Scheduled Transaction"	"A transaction or reminder of a transaction that can be automatically executed at a specific time. It can be executed either once, or several times at regular intervals."
"scrub, to"	"DEPRECATED. To repair unbalanced transactions and orphan splits in an account tree. Any transactions that have debits != credits will get a balancing split added (pointing to a special new account called 'Imbalance'). Any splits that do not have accounts are put into another special account called 'Orphan'. Deprecated - use the term 'to check and repair' now."
"security"	"A document or certificate showing who owns shares"
"Share Balance (register)"	"-"
"shares"	"Any of the equal parts into which the money of a business company is divided, giving the holder a right to a portion of the profits"
"source"	"(often: of a quote) A place from which something comes or is obtained."
"split"	"One of the two or several parts a transaction is divided into"
"stocks"	"Alias of 'shares'"
"stock split"	"Sometimes one old share gets replaced by multiple new like 1 OLD @100¤ by 2 NEW @50¤"
"style sheet"	"This sets the particular design or shape of a report."
"subtotal"	"The total of a set of figures that are part of a larger group of figures"
"tax code"	"On the government's tax forms, the tax code identifies the given line or place on the form where certain amounts must be specified according to the current country's legislation"
"tax info"	"field of an account"
"tax type: income tax"	"Amost everybody has to declare and probably pay it. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_tax"
"tax type: sales tax"	"Usually only business users have to handle it, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sales_tax."
"tax type: GST"	"'Goods and Service Tax' is one form of sales tax."
"tax type: VAT"	"'Value Added Tax' is the other form of sales tax."
"template"	"If you create a new e.g. style sheet, you can start from a template."
"time period"	"see: date range"
"Tot"	"as abbreviation for Total"
"total"	"The full number or amount: total of some balances, of any account's running balance etc."
"transaction"	"A piece of business done; the transfer of money from one account to one or more other accounts. (see also: Scheduled Transaction)"
"transaction state: cleared"	"A transaction whose amount has actually been moved. The word comes from checks: a check is issued, but several steps have to be done until the amount is actually retrieved from the bank account, which is the point in time where that transaction (check) gets cleared."
"transaction state: frozen"	"-"
"transaction state: reconciled"	"A transaction that was reconciled with the bank's statement."
"transaction state: voided"	"A transaction that is void i.e. not valid (anymore)."
"transfer (noun)"	"1. The action of transferring sth. 2. see: credit transfer"
"transfer account"	"The account where an amount is transferred to"
"transfer, to (register toolbar)"	"To move money from one account to another. Will create a transaction."
"trial balance (report)"	"The trial balance is a worksheet on which you list all your general ledger accounts and their debit or credit balance. It is a tool that is used to alert you to errors in your books. The total debits must equal the total credits. If they don't equal, you know you have an error that must be tracked down."
"type"	"A class or things that have characteristics in common; type of an account, of a commodity etc."
"units"	"A fixed amount or number used as a standard of measurement; e.g. millimeters, inch; for absolute positioning in the custom check format."
"URL"	"Uniform Resource Locator, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL"
"value (in a split)"	"The worth of sth in terms of money or other commodities for which it can be exchanged"
"vendor"	"In small business accounting: A person or company that sells items and is supplying goods"
"voucher"	"The terms 'Voucher' and 'Expense Voucher' are used interchangeably in gnucash. The 'Expense Voucher' is also a bit of a misnomer -- it's more like an 'Expense Report' in gnucash.  The phrase is meant to be a list of expenses incurred by an employee for which the company will reminburse them."
"withdraw (in the reconcile dialog)"	"see debit"
