This has confused me. Is the recent thread titled " [GNC] Evil Lots Behavior" about lots or trading accounts?
On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 12:10 AM David T. <sunfis...@yahoo.com> wrote: > 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. >> >> -- David Carlson _______________________________________________ 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.
