On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 9:00 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Wm <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Cc: > Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 09:28:22 +0100 > Subject: Re: Book-currency feature and cost accounting > Mon, 13 Oct 2014 10:04:35 <CACm7B=1hWDGmuLeEKxESo+ > [email protected]> Alex Aycinena < > [email protected]> > > [cost accounting] > > I was using the term loosely, in the context of foreign currercies > for: "accounting for the cost of foreign currencies in order to calculate > gain/losses on dispositions". The work would also apply to > commodities/securities, though. > > Re-reading your post at the top of this thread what is it that would be > achieved by what you propose ? <-- open question > Lot tracking for non-book-currency splits would be used in an integrated fashion during data entry. This would allow the system to (optionally) track costs for non-book-currency account balances with the lots and calculate gains/losses for dispositions and generate the associated splits while interacting with the user. Some (most?) of these activities can be done with the system today by using the lot viewer/scrubber. But it takes extra steps. You can also manually make sure you have a cost in what you would consider a 'book-currency' today by making sure you always enter a transaction from an account of that 'book-currency', even if no splits in the transaction involve the 'book-currency' (but you have to do some manual cost calculations before the data entry in order to have the correct amounts ahead of time); you are kind of 'faking out' the system to achieve this. > > If the gnc user has Trading accounts ON don't they have all the > transactional information available to them to report on ? <-- is there > something missing from what is recorded > > Lot tracking is not integrated. Extra steps outside of data entry are used to track costs and gain/losses. > I'm wondering if this isn't so much a new feature so much as a report that > wants to be written ? <-- did you try to write a report and gave up > > -- > Wm... > > There is (at least) one report needed and I already have a working version. To get the information on it to come out correctly, I have had to do all those extra steps I mention above. Alex _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
