Re: [GNC] AQBanking OFX DirectConnect

2020-03-18 Thread csingley
v2, specifically versions 202 and 205. Just send them XML. Here's the result of scanning USAA's server: (ofxtools) 6:30:50 csingley@nous ofxtools sequences ? ofxget scan usaa [{"versions": [102, 151], "formats": [{"pretty": false, "unclosedelements": tr

Re: [GNC] ofxtools - a Python OFX library

2019-05-28 Thread csingley
John Ralls-2 wrote > > Thanks. > > A couple of things you might be interested in: We use AQBanking for OFX > Direct Connect imports, but if you import an OFX or QFX file we use > https://github.com/libofx/libofx. > > The other is that there's a more up-to-date database of OFX Direct-Connect >

[GNC] ofxtools - a Python OFX library

2019-05-28 Thread csingley
Some of you might be interested in a project I've been working on: https://pypi.org/project/ofxtools/ This originally started almost 10 years ago when I asked Jeremy Jongsma if he minded if I reworked his ofx.py script (he didn't). One thing led to another, and I ended up implementing a

Re: [GNC] Importing investment info from Financial Planner's website

2019-05-28 Thread csingley
Just to summarize what people are telling you: GnuCash doesn't have any sort of functionality to automatically create accounts for an investment the first time it's seen, if that's what you're after. You will need to manually set up your accounts with beginning balances. It's not that bad,

Re: [GNC] Cashflow-like report to show realized and unrealized gains / balance sheet delta report

2019-02-28 Thread csingley
with the relevant calculations and their application to performance reporting (this isn't really very difficult). David Carlson-4 wrote > On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 7:50 AM Chary Chary > chary314@ > wrote: > >> csingley, >> >> thanks for feedback. I found the correc

Re: [GNC] Cashflow-like report to show realized and unrealized gains / balance sheet delta report

2019-02-28 Thread csingley via gnucash-user
e man. But we shouldn't be under any illusions that the way we handle investments in GnuCash represents best accounting practice. Quite the opposite is true, really. Chary Chary wrote > csingley, > > thanks for feedback. I found the correct report name, which I think I > want. In

Re: [GNC] Cashflow-like report to show realized and unrealized gains / balance sheet delta report

2019-02-27 Thread csingley
Adrien Monteleone-2 wrote > Keep in mind, except for very special circumstances, for most people, > ‘unrealized gains’ are simply a ‘what if’ level of thinking. They do not > belong in your books. Only actual realized gains are reflected there. I don't think "owning investments" counts as very

Re: [GNC] Cashflow-like report to show realized and unrealiz

2019-02-27 Thread csingley
David wrote > IANAA, but as I understand it, gnucash doesn't track unrealized gains well > mostly because traditional accounting isn't focused on unrealized gains. > I'm told that accountants want to be certain that the *amount* of what you > have is accurate. The value of that is less