Yay! Glad you figured it out!
That account selection behavior hits lots of newbies.
-derek
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On August 17, 2021 7:40:08 PM Lisa Rowell <lisa.gives...@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks for the congratulations, it was probably the longest run once
program I've ever written and there was a LOT of time spent cleaning
things up.
Thanks for the confirmation that Capital Gains method works, that was
the section I was referring to. I played with it more and realized what
was going on. I had left the Trial Balance report up all during my
experimentation, and only played with the General tab, not noticing the
Accounts tab. When you first bring up a report it defaults to all
accounts, but if leave it up and add a new account, for example a
Capital Gains:XXXXX account, you have to go to the accounts tab and
explicitly add it to the set, otherwise it's not included in the next
refresh and it looks like the added gain/loss isn't recognized. Sigh. I
should have figured that out much sooner than I did.
I also played with the lots mechanism and yeah it's definitely a handy
tool, thanks for the pointer. I couldn't get the UI to let me select
multiple splits to add at once, but it still seems to be the way to go.
It should work for 99% of my sell transactions, and the remainder are
ones involving transfers without sales, which I can handle on my own.
I've had very few of those anyway (maybe 2 or 3). I tried the Scrub
mechanism, but it seemed to alter transactions in my ledger and I'd
rather not go that route.
Thanks.
Lisa
On 8/17/2021 12:55 AM, Geoff wrote:
Hi Lisa
Congratulations on pulling off such a massive data migration!
To try and answer your question about the Trial Balance, yes I have
seen unresolved capital gains / losses causing this report to not
balance. When you mentioned "9.7.1.2" did you mean "9.7.1.2. Separate
the Capital Gain/Loss Transaction from the Sale Transaction." in the
"GnuCash Tutorial and Concepts Guide"?
https://www.gnucash.org/viewdoc.phtml?rev=4&lang=C&doc=guide
If so, yes, I record the capital gains / loss transactions separately
from the sell transactions and have not encountered any problems. I
recommend the use of the Lots functionality - hard to grasp at first,
but once it clicks you are cooking with gas ;--)
My Trial Balance is currently in balance, but it took quite some time
and effort (running it at different "As At" dates) to track down the
offending transactions.
Good luck!
Regards
Geoff
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On 16/08/2021 9:42 am, Lisa Rowell wrote:
In preparation for a move from Mac to Linux, I went to move from my
circa 2015 version of Quicken for Mac to GnuCash. Sadly that version
lacks QIF support and couldn't even be imported correctly into the
latest PC Quicken. It does, however, have the option to view all
transactions in one list and export the current list to a CSV file
with Quicken-isms describing the transactions. Long story story: I
was able to write a program to translate 99% of my 24 years of
transactions into a format digestible by GnuCash's CSV import. The
remainder, mostly Split, Add and Remove shares, were best dealt with
by hand anyway. Along the way I ran into a few issues that might not
have been reported. There's a question at the end.
1) Large files will blow up the program a crash that gives no clue of
the issue on MacOS. On a PC it gives a popup with a cryptic message
that I think amounts to a too many threads error. I got around this
by outputting to per year files for most years and smaller for a few
select ones. The crash would normally happen at the point of
selecting the import configuration.
2) Multiple back to back imports will also crash the program. I got
around this by exiting and restarting between imports.
3) The Num field, which I translated, for better or worse, from
Quicken's similar field, had an issue where entries which did not
have a Num entry would be given one. My limited experimentation with
this seemed to indicate that when a split with no Num followed an
entry on the same date that had a Num, it would inherit the previous
entries Num.
4) The match algorithm is a bit too greedy in pairing splits. If you
have a sequence of splits that describe two transactions that have
the same date and description, they will be merged into a single
transaction. This often came up with transactions like end of the
month dividends or interest payments. If the algorithm encountered
two splits that balance out in amounts, followed by two more that
also balanced themselves, would not it be better to make them two
separate transactions? This can be gotten around by artificially
altering the transaction's description or by tedious manual editing.
5) When pulling in a lot of transactions at once, it seems that
random entries get deselected in the match list. I wasn't able to
predict the behavior though.
6) I wasn't able to get the Cleared field to work. If it was anything
but "n" the split would be ignored. I'm not sure what the intention
was on this, but it might be worth documenting.
And now for the question: I'm using version 4.5 and was not able to
get the Trail Balance Report to show equal totals after a security
Sell transaction, despite making Capital Gain/Loss entries. Is the
technique described in 9.7.1.2 still supported? I tried the example
in 9.7.2.1 and it gave me with an imbalance, but did it in my
existing file. If it's supported I'll make a clean file and
experiment with it more.
Thanks.
Lisa
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