Re: [GNC] Gnucash-created "closing" entries

2018-12-30 Thread David Cousens
Stan, Mike Australia has the similar provisions with your primary residence being capital gains exempt so even realized gains are not taxable income in our case. There are some restictions, e.g. if you sell within 12 months or have a pattern of selling and purchasing which indicates conducting a

Re: [GNC] Gnucash-created "closing" entries

2018-12-30 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/29/2018 6:13 PM, David Cousens wrote: Stan, The main thing is your books are telling you what you need to know and it is working for you. i get your point about net worth. It should be possible to generate a custom report which will just calculate that without having to close all the

Re: [GNC] Gnucash-created "closing" entries

2018-12-29 Thread David Cousens
Christopher, Agreed the balance sheet should really do the trick since it is the state of the accounts at a specific point. The only difference you usually come across is where intangible assets are involved as these are generally not included in net worth whereas they are in equity. David

Re: [GNC] Gnucash-created "closing" entries

2018-12-29 Thread Christopher Lam
That's the purpose of the current balance sheet. Set price-source to 'most-recent' and it should calculate all unrealized/realized (and trading) gains/losses, and add the appropriate adjustments in the net worth calculator. I'm not sure whether *any* other report will calculate these gains.

Re: [GNC] Gnucash-created "closing" entries

2018-12-29 Thread David Cousens
Stan, The main thing is your books are telling you what you need to know and it is working for you. i get your point about net worth. It should be possible to generate a custom report which will just calculate that without having to close all the equity accounts to a single accoun to achieve

Re: [GNC] Gnucash-created "closing" entries

2018-12-29 Thread Stan Brown
people would scoff at my using an accrual basis for my books but a cash basis for computing taxes.) > Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2018 22:12:36 -0600 (CST) > From: David Cousens > Subject: Re: [GNC] Gnucash-created "closing" entries > > ... I am assuming the gains >

Re: [GNC] Gnucash-created "closing" entries

2018-12-28 Thread David Cousens
Stan, There is one other question which may be pertinent. I am assuming the gains and losses you are referring to are realized gains or losses and not unrealized gains or losses. If they are, should they not be reporting in an Income:Investment account rather than directly into Equity. Depending

Re: [GNC] Gnucash-created "closing" entries

2018-12-28 Thread David Cousens
Stan, At the present moment there does not appear to be any way to do what you need to do. There is no option in the current close book procedure for optionally setting the close date to anything else but the close date for the period +12 hrs. This is set as the time of the transactions generated

Re: [GNC] Gnucash-created "closing" entries

2018-12-28 Thread David Carlson
Stan, You could try using the Close Books function to create model transactions then duplicate them to get copies that likely do not contain the odd dates. David C On Fri, Dec 28, 2018, 1:37 PM Stan Brown > From: David Cousens > > Subject: Re: [GNC] Basic Question (I hope) - End of Year

[GNC] Gnucash-created "closing" entries

2018-12-28 Thread Stan Brown
> From: David Cousens > Subject: Re: [GNC] Basic Question (I hope) - End of Year Procedure > > The easiest way to achieve that would be to manually perform the closing > transactions rather than use the inbuilt procedure, then they are just > ordinary transactionsand won't have the KVP pair in