Ken All accounts have a currency associated with them. When you hold an asset, you hold it at a value in a particular currency, not as an item of indeterminate value. You would require an inventory (which GnuCash does not have to hold the items and in inventory accounting each item still has a value, usually its cost to either buy or produce which is used to calculate the value of the items held in the corresponding inventory account. An inventory account would not dissimilar to a stock account.
David Cosuens On Sat, 2022-04-23 at 17:46 +0800, km22 wrote: > Hi, > > I am starting a new Gnucash file for a simple "mock" trust. The trust > holds physical assets (like stamps and coins and other collectibles). I > want to represent the contributions to this trust in the form of these > assets. However, when I try to create new Equity accounts for the > contributions it only allows me to use "Currency" type assets. I don't > understand why Gnucash would force this limitation. Why wouldn't a user > be allowed to use any asset type they wish (stocks, bitcoin, > collectables) and not solely the ISO cash types? > > A screenshot of the issue is attached. > > Thanks, > > Ken > > _______________________________________________ > 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. _______________________________________________ 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.
