I use, in addition to USD. AUD, HKD, CAD, CNY and SGD. I buy in
tranches for average cost. So, not sure that means I have complicated
trades but I make sure I never have any orphan accounts. I checked my
test file for capital and it did not list any. Although, at the bottom
of my accounts list, there is a list of currencies and exchanges with
totals for each. But, again, there isn't any difference in income and
expenses.
Les
On 02/12/2018 08:18 AM, David Carlson wrote:
UnfOrtumately I cannot read the article that zchristofer cited from my
clunky Tablet ant tablet really messes up mystery composition skills.
I think that if you have always correctly calculated every capital gain in
every closing transaction and never had any ambiguously matched lots there
will not be any overall difference with or without trading accounts.
I would guess trading accounts help the most for users with more
complicated trades.
I am sure that you would need to drill down to the capital gains and
incomes in closing transactions to see where the T A could make a
difference.
David C
On Feb 12, 2018 6:53 AM, "Christopher Lam" <christopher....@gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi Les
Really interesting question, with a simple and a complicated answer.
Simple answer: I think Trial Balance would differ if you deal with
multiple currencies or stock (i.e. multiple conversions with differing
dates and prices).
Complicated answer:
https://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~selinger/accounting/tutorial.html
https://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~selinger/accounting/gnucash.html
C
On 12/02/18 20:41, Les wrote:
I have a "test" laptop with GC 2.6.17 running the latest Linux Mint. I
opened GC and tried using Trading Accounts, did check and repair, noted the
totals of assets, liabilities, income and expense before and after. There
was no difference. I then ran a Income and Expense report for year 2016
(which is the same as my production GC and compared the two. Again there
was no difference in totals between the two GC files.
So, exactly what does Trading Accounts actually do? I noticed that when
viewing a stock transaction using auto-split view, there are added lines
showing trading: currencies and trading: exchange and stock symbol, that
does not appear without trading accounts.
Thanks,
Les
On 02/12/2018 04:41 AM, David Carlson wrote:
It would be more fun to make a test copy of an existing file! 😁
David C
On Feb 12, 2018 4:13 AM, "Les" <lellio...@gmail.com <mailto:
lellio...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Thanks, Adrien, David & Christoph for your replies. I think
opening a new GC file and testing Trading Accounts is a good idea.
Regards,
Les
On 02/12/2018 01:40 AM, Christoph R wrote:
And run “Actions -> Check & Repair -> Check & Repair All” to
add the needed splits to existing transactions.
Gruß,
Christoph
Am 12.02.2018 um 01:27 schrieb David Carlson
<david.carlson....@gmail.com
<mailto:david.carlson....@gmail.com>>:
I think that if you want to stop using trading account s
it is difficult to
turn them off.
I would set up a test file to try them on until you decide
whether you like
them.
David C
On Feb 11, 2018 5:39 PM, "Adrien Monteleone"
<adrien.montele...@gmail.com
<mailto:adrien.montele...@gmail.com>>
wrote:
Yes, you can add trading accounts (or any other
accounts) as needed to your
current file.
Regards,
Adrien
On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 4:18 PM, Les
<lellio...@gmail.com <mailto:lellio...@gmail.com>>
wrote:
I have been using GC for several years, and
although I trade stocks, I
have never used the "Trading Accounts" option.
Can I just start using
it,
or would I need to start a new GC file?
Thanks,
Les
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