Re: [GNC] What is the purpose of hidden accounts?

2021-08-21 Thread Jim DeLaHunt
On 2021-08-21 22:13, Tim Hume via gnucash-user wrote: Hi everyone, In GnuCash one can create a hidden account. What legitimate purposes are there for hidden accounts? Regards, Tim. Hi, Tim! In GnuCash one can also create an account that is not hidden, use it for several years and many ma

Re: [GNC] What is the purpose of hidden accounts?

2021-08-21 Thread pyz01
I can think of at least two tax account reasons for hidden accounts: 1. If you close or transfer an interest baring account in the middle of the year and want to account for the interest you earned when you do you taxes at the end of the year - rather than close the account - you would hide the

[GNC] What is the purpose of hidden accounts?

2021-08-21 Thread Tim Hume via gnucash-user
Hi everyone, In GnuCash one can create a hidden account. What legitimate purposes are there for hidden accounts? Regards, Tim. Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription prefe

Re: [GNC] Getting Quotes for BRKB

2021-08-21 Thread dullege
I'm using latest version GC with latest version Finance:Quote. I use "Alphavantage" as my source for NYSE and NASDAQ stock prices. In the Security Editor for GC, I created security as follows ... under parent NYSE ... Full name: Berskshire Hathaway Symbol: BRK.B Display symbol: BRK.B Type NYSE

Re: [GNC] Finance::Quote on Mac M1

2021-08-21 Thread Peter West
I try to ensure that my Finder-initiated processes share the same environment as my shell processes by loading envvars with launchctl setenv with every invocation of my .profile. In order to fully test that, I need to create an app that just reports its environment. I haven’t done that. Inciden

Re: [GNC] Finance::Quote on Mac M1

2021-08-21 Thread Peter West
It also works with my MacPorts perl promoted above the system perl. Maybe just not finding gnc-fq-check, if that was the case, was enough to generate that message. Peter — Peter West p...@ehealth.id.au “On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.” > On 21 Aug 2021, at 2:30 am

Re: [GNC] Job Costing as now available

2021-08-21 Thread John Ralls
I'll respond now: No, nothing like that has been contributed nor is it being contemplated by any of the core devs AFAIK. Well designed and written pull requests welcome. Regards, John Ralls > On Aug 21, 2021, at 9:42 AM, Mike Butcher wrote: > > Don, have you seen any response to this message

Re: [GNC] Getting Quotes for BRKB

2021-08-21 Thread Derek Atkins
Does anything else work, because this works for me. $ gnc-fq-dump -v yahoo_json BRK-B Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses: symbol: BRK-B<=== required date: 08/20/2021 <=== recommended currency: USD <=== required last: 285.27

Re: [GNC] Getting Quotes for BRKB

2021-08-21 Thread Colin
Hi Larry, As a sanity check, do online quotes work for other symbols? My online quotes work (thanks to John’s recent posts for us M1 Mac users :) and BRK-B worked without an issue. This was with the default source, Alphavantage, US (the API must be set under Preference - Online Quotes). It al

Re: [GNC] Job Costing as now available

2021-08-21 Thread Mike Butcher
Don, have you seen any response to this message or find a solution otherwise? I too need this function in a big way. Making a new account for every order is horribly messy and cumbersome. It's been a year and a half and I was hoping someone on the development team might have an answer. I love GNUca

Re: [GNC] Getting Quotes for BRKB

2021-08-21 Thread Larry Long
Thanks for suggestion, but same result.  Larry On Saturday, August 21, 2021, 11:40:37 AM EDT, Derek Atkins wrote: Try BRK-B? -derek On Sat, August 21, 2021 11:20 am, Larry Long wrote: > Whenever I run the "Get Quotes" feature of the Price Database tool, the > response is "Unable t

Re: [GNC] Getting Quotes for BRKB

2021-08-21 Thread Derek Atkins
Try BRK-B? -derek On Sat, August 21, 2021 11:20 am, Larry Long wrote: > Whenever I run the "Get Quotes" feature of the Price Database tool, the > response is "Unable to get quotes..." message for Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. > B stock.  Other stock prices are reporting okay. > I've tried editing it's

[GNC] Getting Quotes for BRKB

2021-08-21 Thread Larry Long
Whenever I run the "Get Quotes" feature of the Price Database tool, the response is "Unable to get quotes..." message for Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. B stock.  Other stock prices are reporting okay. I've tried editing it's Symbol/Abbreviation to read various ways (BRKB, BRK.B, BRK/B), but still no

Re: [GNC] Reports in Alternate Language

2021-08-21 Thread Paul Kroitor
Duplicate please ignore! Sent from my iPad > On Aug 21, 2021, at 5:49 AM, p...@kroitor.ca wrote: > > Hello all. This may have already been covered, but after the death of Nabble > I can't see how to do searches throughout the archive. > > > > I need to produce accounting reports in a differe

[GNC] Reports in Alternate Language

2021-08-21 Thread paul
Hello all. This may have already been covered, but after the death of Nabble I can't see how to do searches throughout the archive. I need to produce accounting reports in a different language (French), but I would prefer to use a single installation of Gnucash (all my other sets of books are E

Re: [GNC] Finance::Quote on Mac M1

2021-08-21 Thread David Reed via gnucash-user
So does this mean a future official build of gnucash will have an ARM version and we'll be able to get quotes again? That would be great! Thanks, Dave > On Aug 19, 2021, at 5:43 PM, John Ralls wrote: > > You can't escape the problems. ;-) > > FWIW I just completed building on an M1 with Mont