Over the past several months, I have been importing Quicken data into GnuCash. There is about 6 years of data and lots of transactions. Besides normal income and expenses, that data involved many different stocks and many different currencies. Recently, I saw a reference to "Trading" accounts. I have now enabled that feature. Based on reading https://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~selinger/accounting/tutorial, I believe that my old transactions that involve currencies (and maybe stocks and other assets whose value varies) were done wrong.
Do I need to redo old transactions involving currencies? Do I need to redo old transactions involving stocks? Do I need to redo old transactions involving any assets whose price varies? This probably depends upon the asset, eg. no for Real Estate. Is there an easy way to fix the mess I have created? Aside: I do not recall any mention of trading accounts in the Tutorial early on when it talked about setting up the Chart of Accounts. What is the reason that Trading accounts are not turned on by default? _______________________________________________ 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.
