Lots.
(And they aren't really evil, just wilful).
;--))
Geoff
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On 27/07/2022 8:36 pm, David Carlson wrote:
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?
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