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 <david.carlson....@gmail.com> wrote: >I believe that you are witnessing first hand why trading accounts are not >enabled by default, i.e. they create a royal mess in your trading history. > >You might want to re-read the recent thread about evil trading accounts. > They may work ok for some users who's documentation goals align with the >design parameters of TA's. > >Other users will prefer to continue either manually tracking lots in >external spreadsheets or trusting their brokers back rooms to do it for >them. > >Oh, I am neither a developer nor an accountant, just a long term user. > >On Tue, Jul 26, 2022, 5:47 PM Fred Tydeman <tydeman.f...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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. >> >_______________________________________________ >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.
