On Sat, 2021-04-03 at 03:21 -0400, Mike Alexander wrote: > On 3 Apr 2021, at 1:31, zuperkoleopt...@gmail.com wrote: > > Another issue that I just realized and is related to the > > functionality > > of trading accounts, but maybe not the one that we are discussing > > here, > > is the security/currency of the top level placeholder account > > Trading. > > Shouldn't that be set in my base currency EUR? Strangely enough in > > my > > case it's set in VOW which is a security I trade. > I'm not sure where that came from, but I don't think it matters. I > can't think of anything that GnuCash would use that commodity for. > Another thing that we've sort of passed over without comment is that > trading accounts don't have much to do with realized gains. You still > need to record them as you presumably have been by using splits to a > "realized gain" income account with zero shares and non-zero value. > Trading accounts are more about making the books balance with > unrealized gains. > Mike Yes you are right and that was what I was looking for when I first looked into the functionality.
The problem is that it produces a lot of new transaction splits that don't make sense to me or to my usecase scenario. I think for now my testing is over and I will move on deleting the trading accounts and all related splits, as I have read in some previous messages in the list. I have turned the feature on in another book, an individual upstart bussiness that I am now starting and see how this works out in a different setting. Anyhow for my use case I have discovered 3 following issues, which could be bugs - Trading placeholder account is set in the wrong security / currency - Splits are automatically created in past cross-currency/commodity transactions - Trading accounts do not obey commodity value smallest fraction Do you think I should file bug reports? _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
