This was what I was going to mention; it can also be used to track reimbursed
expense accounts.
David T.
On Dec 20, 2022, 6:54 AM, at 6:54 AM, Paul Kroitor wrote:
>I use the reconcile feature in at least two other ways:
>
>1. I keep current accounts with a lot of other parties -- four adult
Yes. I saw that right after I sent my reply. I'm sorry. It was a case of my
seeing what was in my own head at the moment.
David T.
On Dec 20, 2022, 1:53 AM, at 1:53 AM, Michael or Penny Novack
wrote:
>On 12/19/2022 2:49 PM, David T. wrote:
>> Michael,
>>
>> While I fully respect your
Michael,
While I fully respect your answer, with over 45 million IRA accounts in the US
(according to one source I found online), this is a pretty common circumstance.
It should be possible for basic guidance to be given by *someone*, without all
45 million consulting an accountant. I
People aren't reading the GnuCash documents. What makes you think they'll read
a text on accounting?
David T.
On Dec 15, 2022, 6:49 PM, at 6:49 PM, Michael or Penny Novack
wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure what you mean when you say "documentation," but I don't
>think the Guide or the Help would
538MB for what?
The application takes up somewhere around 500MB on the HDD.
When running, the application may use large amounts of RAM; currently,
my machine has a load of about 150MB for GnuCash.
When stored, GnuCash files can vary wildly in size, depending on the
storage method. My XML
5 Dec 2022 at 05:35, David T. via gnucash-user
wrote:
David,
I'm not sure what you mean when you say "documentation," but I
don't think the Guide or the Help would be appropriate places to
make such references. Section 2.1 of the Guide gives a few basic
explan
The pdf statements I get from that page include balances. The direct question
was where to find statements on PayPal.
David T.
On Dec 15, 2022, 10:37 AM, at 10:37 AM, Liz wrote:
>On Thu, 15 Dec 2022 09:45:15 +0300
>"David T. via gnucash-user" wrote:
>
>> At paypa
At paypal.com, click the Activity tab, then click the download icon at the top
right. This takes you to a hidden area that includes a tab for Taxes and
Statements. At least, that's what I see on my machine.
David T.
On Dec 15, 2022, 9:29 AM, at 9:29 AM, "Dr. David Kirkby"
wrote:
>On Wed,
David,
I'm not sure what you mean when you say "documentation," but I don't think the
Guide or the Help would be appropriate places to make such references. Section
2.1 of the Guide gives a few basic explanations on underlying accounting
concepts. This section, in fact, states that "you do
Michael,
I'll note that my suggestion was specifically and purposefully to add the text
to the wiki, and not to the Guide or Help.
David T.
On Dec 14, 2022, 5:25 PM, at 5:25 PM, Michael or Penny Novack
wrote:
>
>>> Given the length of this thread and the apparent confusion
>documenting
I think you're thinking of so-called "suspense" accounts? It would seem to me
that tracking what PayPal won't release isn't necessary in my books-- any more
than I need to track when the bank freezes a large check I deposit. I just
carry that balance until it can be used.
David T.
On Dec
I get pdf PayPal statements that can be downloaded, just like from my bank.
David T.
On Dec 14, 2022, 2:00 PM, at 2:00 PM, "Dr. David Kirkby"
wrote:
>On Wed, 14 Dec 2022 at 03:45, R Losey wrote:
>
>> I assume you can reconcile an asset account like any other bank
>> account you can
Given the length of this thread and the apparent confusion documenting PayPal
in GnuCash, it might be helpful for someone to add a section to the wiki page
at "Using GnuCash" on the different methods people have outlined. IMHO, the
Guide and Help cover the overall concepts well enough.
David
There's a setting to force decimal display that somehow is changed on the new
installation.
David T.
On Dec 13, 2022, 22:31, at 22:31, Dean Jagels wrote:
>I recently moved from a native installation of GnuCash 4.2 to a
>Flatpack
>installation of 4.12.
>
>Now, when I look at my mutual fund
e Sheet again and compare them with the saved ones. If
>everything matches your book should be OK. For extra insurance you
>could run Check & Repair before and after as well.
>
>Regards,
>John Ralls
>
>
>
>
>> On Dec 5, 2022, at 2:25 AM, David T. via gnucas
it would be nice if there were a way to mimic this in GnuCash.
David T. On 12/2/2022 9:31 PM, john wrote:
On Dec 2, 2022, at 1:06 AM, David T. via gnucash-user
wrote: Hello, GnuCash 4.11
on Windows 10 As the end of the year approa
u mention are pretty bad, especially the one about auto
re-calculating gains just by viewing them. That's a nightmare. I'd call
it a 'blocking bug' or at least very high severity. (along with the bug
that silently deletes linked sale transactions)
Regards,
Adrien
On 12/4/22 9:16 AM, David T. via gn
gt;off.
>
>The bugs you mention are pretty bad, especially the one about auto
>re-calculating gains just by viewing them. That's a nightmare. I'd call
>
>it a 'blocking bug' or at least very high severity. (along with the bug
>
>that silently deletes linked sale transactions)
>
&g
ffects can be purged from a database. In a
perfect world there would be a simple setting or procedure to
accomplish that.
Can a developer or other user help with this?
On Sun, Dec 4, 2022, 5:04 AM David T. via gnucash-user
wrote:
Hello,
Gnucash 4.11 Windows 10
Having struggled
Hello,
Gnucash 4.11 Windows 10
Having struggled once again with the extremely unreliable aspects of the
Lots Manager, I am resigned to the fact that, while an admirable
endeavor in concept, the Lots Manager is more trouble than it is worth,
and leads to books that cannot be considered
Well said, Geoff.
I'd add that creating the new share is a simple process of making a transaction
that adds the new share to its account.
It's the determination of cost basis (for both the original shares and the new
share you received) that complicates things. These affect future gains
tual funds with regularly-reinvested dividend
>entries), it is significantly more difficult to manage. Since most
>institutions simply report the aggregate sale and gain, it would be
>nice if there were a way to mimic this in GnuCash.
>>>>
>>>> David T.
>&g
https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v4/C/gnucash-guide/chapter_txns.html#txns-register-oview
David T.
On Dec 3, 2022, 11:32 PM, at 11:32 PM, Peter Punzi
wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>I am enjoying using GNU Cash for my noprofit. I set up the account
>structure and naming to match form 990 which we must
nageable; when a single sale gets split into 6 or more such entries
>(as can happen with mutual funds with regularly-reinvested dividend
>entries), it is significantly more difficult to manage. Since most
>institutions simply report the aggregate sale and gain, it would be
>nice if there were
reinvested dividend
entries), it is significantly more difficult to manage. Since most
institutions simply report the aggregate sale and gain, it would be nice
if there were a way to mimic this in GnuCash.
David T.
On 12/2/2022 9:31 PM, john wrote:
On Dec 2, 2022, at 1:06 AM, David T. via gn
Hello,
GnuCash 4.11 on Windows 10
As the end of the year approaches, I am working to get all my accounts
up to date, and I've stumbled across an apparent error in capital gains
calculations in the Lot manager. I am attaching a screenshot of the
problem I am seeing. If you add up the sales
Since I've replicated the problem, I have submitted this as a bug:
https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798675
On 12/2/2022 11:18 AM, David T. via gnucash-user wrote:
Now having had this happen again, I can confirm that the crash occurs
when deleting a Lot-generated gains transaction
Now having had this happen again, I can confirm that the crash occurs
when deleting a Lot-generated gains transaction.
On 12/2/2022 10:30 AM, David T. via gnucash-user wrote:
Hello,
Summary: Using GnuCash 4.11 under Windows 10, I was deleting erroneous
Gains transactions in a Mutual Fund
Hello,
Summary: Using GnuCash 4.11 under Windows 10, I was deleting erroneous
Gains transactions in a Mutual Fund account when GnuCash crashed out.
Details: I was entering sales of mutual fund shares and using the Lots
feature to calculate gains for the sales. This generally works well for
I believe that AlphaVantage is the "default" simply because it is
alphabetically first in the list. And it is included because it is still
possible for users to use it, albeit with significant restrictions (that have
been imposed after the original implementation).
It is not wise to read
Presumably, Dr. Kirby will still have transactions in those accounts, in which
case hiding the accounts and making them placeholders would be the proper
approach.
As for the template, Frank's advice is appropriate. I believe his warning about
being sure is sarcastic; regardless, the template
Try Preferences->Numbers, Date, Time->Force Prices to display as decimals
David T.
On Nov 20, 2022, 7:19 PM, at 7:19 PM, Fred Tydeman
wrote:
>Is there a way to force the Price database to display prices as decimal
>values (instead of fractions)?
This question has a long history (the earliest I've seen is from 2001,
https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2001-October/002612.html). If
you Google "cost center site:lists.gnucash.org/pipermail", you can find a
number of these.
Interestingly, that early thread neatly (if tersely)
James,
While Geoff has been doing a stellar job working with you on your GnuCash use,
I'll say that your account list shown doesn't appear to have any checking
account in it.
It does show an imbalance account with a very large amount in it, though, so I
wonder if somehow your checking
Odd. I tried googling numerous variations of that previous email without
success. Terms I tried included:
kinzelman site:lists.gnucash.org/pipermail
kinzelman reconciliation site:lists.gnucash.org/pipermail
kinzelman reconciling site:lists.gnucash.org/pipermail
paul reconciling
This was my point; the numerous large log files suggest something else might be
amiss.
I've been using GnuCash since 2006 or so, which was version 2.2.x. My file is
quite large, and yet my log files (cf.
https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v4/C/gnucash-guide/basics-backup1.html) continue
to be a
I don't profess to have any great ideas, but I see from the one screenshot that
your file opens, but appears to be empty, and I see from the other that you
have numerous large log files (9mb or so) on every day of the display. Many of
them appear to be only a few days old.
Personally, my log
That works for me! Thanks, John.
David T.
On Oct 16, 2022, 10:34 PM, at 10:34 PM, john wrote:
>I've renamed that page to GnuCash SQL Examples.
>
>Regards,
>John Ralls
>
>
>> On Oct 15, 2022, at 11:54 PM, David T. via gnucash-user
> wrote:
>>
>> Look
Looks good. And this is definitely a better placement. Now, one wonders whether
the name of the page ("PostgreSQL- Requests For Direct Database Access") would
be better as "SQL For Direct Access to GnuCash Data"...
Alas, the power to rename pages reside with only an anointed few...
David T.
Geoff,
Good advice/help! I do think it would be necessary to add the currency to the
result, to inform the resulting prices.
David T.
On Oct 16, 2022, 4:38 AM, at 4:38 AM, Geoff wrote:
>Hi Elmar
>
>To elaborate on John's reply, this SQL statement should do the trick:
>
>
>select
Geoff,
Jeff is asking a more specific question related to the image linking feature.
It's not his book data that he's looking for guidance on; it's whether he can
link his images using a different mechanism than to a file directly.
Jeff, I don't profess to fully understand your solution, but
Frank,
I've just rewritten the page extensively, and in the course of doing so, I
added back your category and headers.
David T.
On Oct 12, 2022, 2:31 AM, at 2:31 AM, "Frank H. Ellenberger"
wrote:
>
>
>Am 12.10.22 um 01:17 schrieb Geoff:
>> I have reverted all of my changes.
>
>… and my
k" as Account type
[Image of New account window with circles)]
Click on the "Select" button for the "Security/Currency" field
Choose "NASDAQ" as type and "(AMZN) Amazon" as security
Set Parent Account to an account in t
John,
sunfish62 (that's me) is also asking for such access.
On 10/11/2022 6:38 AM, john wrote:
On Oct 10, 2022, at 9:01 PM, Geoff wrote:
So, how do I go about obtaining "uploadaccess", or finding a friendly and
patient Administrator to upload images on my behalf?
Just ask!
What's your
Click on the "Select" button for the "Security/Currency" field
>>
>> Choose "NASDAQ" as type and "(AMZN) Amazon" as security
>>
>> Set Parent Account to an account in the Assets branch of your chart
>>
>> Click &
I'm opening the page on Android devices in Chrome.
I still feel that each of the windows should be placed in a separate image, in
the actual instructional sequence.
David T.
On Oct 11, 2022, 11:05 AM, at 11:05 AM, Geoff wrote:
>Hi David
>
>Thanks for the review.
>
>I tested this (on
quot;Security/Currency" field
Choose "NASDAQ" as type and "(AMZN) Amazon" as security
Set Parent Account to an account in the Assets branch of your chart
Click "Ok"
David T.
On Oct 11, 2022, 10:37 AM, at 10:37 AM, "David T. via gnucash-user"
wrot
Geoff,
As it's a wiki, you just go for it.
I was going to do just that, because your image width causes the browser page
to shrink everything else on screen, making it incredibly hard for old eyes to
read the (now miniscule) text.
But, you've aggregated all the steps into one wide image. If
Hylton,
The main GnuCash page includes a link for installation, and on that
installation page, the section for macos states: "Once you have downloaded the
disk image, double click to open it, and then drag the app icon into your
Applications folder (or anywhere else on your system that you
That account register doesn't have any transactions in it, so it won't have any
value either. Is it possible that in the past, you used a report to see the
parent account balances, or even the Chart of Accounts?
And if the account in the screen shot is a placeholder account, then you a)
John,
I don't know about "typically." There are any of a number of ways that someone
might use placeholder accounts. In my own books, I have placeholder accounts
for brokerage holdings, where the placeholder represents an institution's
account and the leaf accounts represent individual
While it's always best to try to use the latest versions, Richard's error
message doesn't sound like one that has to do with currency rate retrieval
(which I believe is the major bug that F::Q1.53 is meant to fix).
I would personally check to see what quote sources are selected for each
Or simply delete account A, and you'll be asked the same question.
David T.
On Oct 8, 2022, 4:02 AM, at 4:02 AM, "Carl S." wrote:
>
>
>*From:* David Carlson [mailto:david.carlson@gmail.com]
>*Subject:* [GNC] Move
Jack:
DRIP="Dividend Re-Investment Plan"
It seems to me that you've decided, in your frustration, to lash out at the
people who are trying to understand your problem and offer you help. That's not
a good look. You've testily confirmed that you haven't received shares from
this dividend, and
Norbert,
You are remembering a thread where the suggestion was to create accounts in the
second currency for the major areas you anticipate tracking find in Riel.
To wit:
Expenses
- Groceries
- - USD
- - RIEL
Best,
David T.
On Sep 5, 2022, 06:45, at 06:45, Norbert Klein wrote:
>Thanks –
Save to a folder in your personal workspace. Just like you'd do with your
personal word processing files.
David T.
On Sep 4, 2022, 14:24, at 14:24, Norbert Klein wrote:
>Thanks - that helped me to do the next step:
>
>Just create a new file:
>
>File -> New File
>
>I followed the
Norbert,
John is discussing a technical aspect of a migration of an existing data file,
whereas you are asking about a brand new installation not presenting you with
apparent next steps. In other words, not the same at all.
Your question received two answers: one terse but highly accurate;
I'm surprised no one has mentioned
https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v4/C/gnucash-guide/basics-accounting1.html#basics-accountingequation2
That's the Tutorial & Guide page that explains the concept.
David T.
On August 31, 2022 10:15:04 AM GMT+03:00, Gyle McCollam
wrote:
>Neal,
>Your welcome. I
ied either. They are less important
though. And
certainly not now any more that you have been using gnucash 3.x already. No
doubt you
have already reopened registers and reports to you likings.
Regards,
Geert
Op dinsdag 23 augustus 2022 13:02:51 CEST schreef David T. via gnucash-user:
I'm not an expert, but I'm pretty sure the price db doesn't have splits; it's
just a list of commodities, prices, and dates (asking with some other
housekeeping info).
I believe that "113 of 304" is in reference to the splits within a given
account, so you'd need to know which account might
Neville,
You've responded to a thread from four years ago, referencing a problem with
upgrading from version 2.4 to version 3.0 (on Windows, I believe). Gnucash is
now up to version 4.11, so whatever problem you've been having is far in most
users' rear view mirrors. Geert probably remembers
The thread at
https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2019-March/083442.html goes
into quite a discussion about how to import multi line csv files.
On August 21, 2022 6:26:24 PM GMT+03:00, Jon Schewe wrote:
>David,
>
>I'm using GnuCash 4.11 from FlatPak. I have all of my
ing to go back to Quicken but I'm thinking that
>it was never an issue to Copy/Paste To/From any type of account.
>
>On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 1:46 AM David T. via gnucash-user <
>gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote:
>
>> Liz,
>>
>> I think the issue really boi
Liz,
I think the issue really boils down to "what exactly is getting copied and
pasted?"
I don't know the specifics, but as far as I understand it, a transaction in
GnuCash looks unitary to the end user, but actually consists of a strange
hybrid: a Transaction entry with (at least) two
>created the play file I just saved my GnuCash file with a new name so I
>could test scenarios.
>>>
>>>>> On Aug 16, 2022, at 3:16 PM, John Ralls
>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On Aug 16, 2022, at 11:56 AM
Hello,
I was just testing something out with a new book, and when I went to
save this new book, I was unable to select the storage format for the
new book. I would have imagined that I would be able to tell GnuCash to
use a specific format (like SQLite3) when I save a new book, but this
are
to create them manually, or take the risk of editing the data file
directly.
Regards,
Adrien
On 8/16/22 2:52 AM, David T. via gnucash-user wrote:
flywire,
You're crossing up threads here. Jim specifically needs to create
Security entries in his GnuCash file (and has stated this on several
Actually, it was clear to me. Jim's point was that if you do these steps 130
times in a row, your brain will explode. Certainly it would be nice to be able
to import them.
On Aug 16, 2022, 14:05, at 14:05, flywire wrote:
>Obviously it wasn't clear that the post copied below identifies the
Jim,
As you continue down this project, consider how you want to handle
various aspects of accounting for stocks and mutual funds--particularly,
how you want to manage tax-related transactions, such as dividend
income, capital gains income, etc. With that many commodities, you will
want to
flywire,
You're crossing up threads here. Jim specifically needs to create
Security entries in his GnuCash file (and has stated this on several
occasions) so that he can add transactions for those securities later.
Your advice regarding adding commodity transactions using csv import
tools is
Geoff's suggestion (to use an external automation tool) would best be
placed on the Using Gnucash page
(https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Using_GnuCash) that Adrien suggested.
Flywire suggested Piecash, which is already listed on the Published
tools page.
On 8/16/2022 12:05 AM, Frank H.
Jim,
I'll address a little of this from my non-technical, non-accountant
perspective.
I don't know the rationale behind those intermediate accounts, and I don't use
them. That said, each investment type behaves a little differently, and perhaps
separating them makes some operations easier
And I designate ETFs as Mutual Funds...
On August 14, 2022 5:44:55 AM GMT+03:00, Derek Atkins wrote:
>Pretty much the only distinction is the UI labels.
>-derek
>Sent using my mobile device. Please excuse any typos.
>On August 13, 2022 21:53:17 Jim DeLaHunt wrote:
>
>> Hello, folks:
>>
>> I am
To use a different sort order, assign account codes to your accounts, add the
Account Codes column to the Chart of Accounts screen, and click that column
header to sort on it.
For further references, each of these is covered in various places in the
documentation and the lists.
On Aug 9,
I can't imagine having so many transactions that the time it took to program
the process would in the end save me time in doing the accounting.
My method for processing pdf statements is to open the pdf statement in one
window and enter my transactions in GnuCash in another-- the old fashioned
Steve,
I expect others will give you ideas on how or what is mistaken on the mortgage
assistant.
I, however, am going to suggest a different approach, which is to forego using
the scheduled transactions/mortgage assistant altogether, and simply enter the
monthly payments manually.
The
ostfrom them but I find it helpful when following and replying a
>discussion in a thread to have them open in my browser. I don't know if they
>are
>mentioned in the Wiki or not.
>
>David Cousens
>
>
>
>On Tue, 2022-08-02 at 08:14 +0300, David T. via gnucash-user wro
>Regards,
>Adrien
>
>On 8/2/22 1:19 AM, David T. via gnucash-user wrote:
>> "If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see
>> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information."
>>
>> On August 2, 2022 8:26:38 AM GMT+03:00, Adrien
can*
>technically select Liability accounts on an Asset Chart, and likely vice
>versa, but they simply will be ignored)
>
>This is also a use case for a specific option to suppress the chart outright
>rather than hack it by sizing constraints.
>
>
>Regards,
>Adrien
&g
t;What filters are you referring to?
>
>Regards,
>Adrien
>
>On 8/2/22 12:14 AM, David T. via gnucash-user wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Since the Nabble mirror of Gnucash lists went down (last year?) and doesn't
>> seem to be getting up again, is it time to remove
For the record, there's a Reload button on the toolbar that will... reload the
current report.
On August 2, 2022 6:56:17 AM GMT+03:00, davidcousen...@gmail.com wrote:
> perhaps then rerun the Transaction Report. The
>latter doesn't rerun automatically . You have to edit the report options and
Adrien,
Good call.
Of special interest perhaps are the Asset Chart and Liabilities Chart reports,
in which the user can (a) select specific accounts to include (under Assets &
Liabilities, respectively), and (b) select Show Table to list the account
values below. One can even (I believe)
Hello,
Since the Nabble mirror of Gnucash lists went down (last year?) and doesn't
seem to be getting up again, is it time to remove references to it on the wiki
and in every message filter?
TIA,
David T.
___
gnucash-user mailing list
Depending on your situation, the built in mechanisms for calculating your basis
and subsequently your gain may or may not generate accurate results.
The lot feature is great when it works, which for me has been about 80%of the
time. But if it doesn't get the right numbers (for whatever reason)
Geoff,
Changing values of reconciled transactions without notice renders a book
completely unreliable for any accounting purpose. If that's not evil, what is?
David T.
On July 27, 2022 2:46:34 PM GMT+03:00, Geoff wrote:
>Lots.
>
>(And they aren't really evil, just wilful).
>
>;--))
>
>Geoff
The thread I started, with the title "Evil Lots Behavior" was about the Gnucash
*Lots* feature, which is designed to "assist" users in the management of
individual lots of stock and mutual fund shares. (For the record, the lots
feature will change reconciled gains transactions without
David C.
Trading accounts are not the same as lots. Different concept, different code.
Just a for instance: trading accounts are turned on by book; lots can be
enabled by account.
David T.
On July 27, 2022 3:33:37 AM GMT+03:00, David Carlson
wrote:
>I believe that you are witnessing first
GnuCash lots feature as I prefer to track lots
>manual ly, so I don't know how that would fit in.
>
>On Mon, Jul 25, 2022, 8:00 AM David T. via gnucash-user <
>gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm seeking advice from the group about the best w
Thanks John. I appreciate it.
On July 25, 2022 6:58:12 PM GMT+03:00, john wrote:
>
>
>> On Jul 25, 2022, at 5:58 AM, David T. via gnucash-user
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm seeking advice from the group about the best way to handle
Hello,
I'm seeking advice from the group about the best way to handle a ticker/name
change for a held stock.
For example, Facebook renamed itself Meta a while back, and in June they
changed their ticker from FB to META. Naturally, I wish the Gnucash books to
reflect these changes; I also
A couple of additions to Adrien's information:
1) Searching using "site:lists.gnucash.org" will also include all the
documentation and other gnucash resources. This may be useful, of course! But
if you want *just* the list archives, use "site:lists.gnucash.org/pipermail"
2) Unfortunately,
Phyllis,
Although I haven't used the importer in recent years, I know that in the past
it has been known to take a LONG time to process. Perhaps it was still working
on the import when you went to Task Manager and killed the process.
Also, I know that when I've been creating new accounts on
It's too bad that the responses to "Gnucash has crashed and I lost X hours of
work" are:
1. Save more often.
2. Don't use a cloud service except as an offline backup.
3. Use the db backend (which is basically a technological alternative to #1).
On July 22, 2022 8:51:01 PM GMT+03:00,
You would be advised to read
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Documentation_Improvement
On July 22, 2022 12:18:37 AM GMT+03:00, Tom Browder
wrote:
>On Thu, Jul 21, 2022 at 15:53 David Carlson
>wrote:
>
>> Perhaps another user misunderstood your question. John R is a major
>> developer and he
ully reversible - just delete all the Capital
>Gains/Losses transactions it created and start matching Buys and Sells again.
>Rinse and repeat.
>
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>Regards
>
>Geoff
>=
>
>
>On 21/07/2022 12:40 am, David Carlson wrote:
>> It could
BTW, this is covered in 5.4 of the Guide.
On July 20, 2022 4:57:15 PM GMT+03:00, "David T. via gnucash-user"
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>You have set your view preferences to display hidden accounts. View->Filter by
>{Other tab} Show hidden accounts
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>To hide an account in the drop d
You have set your view preferences to display hidden accounts. View->Filter by
{Other tab} Show hidden accounts
To hide an account in the drop down list, set the account to Placeholder.
On July 20, 2022 4:03:40 PM GMT+03:00, Stan Brown
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>On 2022-07-19 23:40, David T. via gnucas
Hello,
In the course of catching up with my accounting, I've been working extensively
with mutual fund holdings, and their buys and sells. I have found a disturbing
bug in the way that the lots feature handles existing gains.
Specifically, the software recalculates ALL gains in a lot the
grinding down to a crawl. Even on my
>> highest performance machines it takes several seconds to save but I usually
>> do it before starting any activity that will take more than a few minutes.
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>> On Tue, Jul 19, 2022 at 1:43 PM David T. via gnucash-user <
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If you set an account to Hidden, it will be... hidden in the chart of accounts.
Assuming that your messed up account is a catch-all account from which you hope
to move transactions, I'd actually keep that account visible, and change the
messed up transactions to reflect my current intention--
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