[GNC] Stock transaction research
I have been browsing various Gnucash documentation areas and think Gnucash might be able to help me with a tedious task: properly account for all transactions on stocks bought many years ago which have undergone spinoffs, splits, reverse splits, renames, etc. The stocks were recently sold to buy real estate and we need accurate capital gain/loss calculations for the IRS. Given the age of the holdings, the accounts of those stocks in TD Ameritrade don't have accurate cost basis information, so I am belatedly trying to calculate that for tax filing purposes. I have all the records, but not all are in or available in digital form, so I have been laboriously entering them in a spreadsheet. Would it be worthwhile to set up a new data file just for those stocks and import/hand enter them in Gnucash instead? (I suspect any IRS auditor would be more impressed with my Gnucash data store than my Excel data store.) Thanks. -Tom ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] YellowNet, EBICS, …
Hi all, my intension was to CC aqbanking-user instead of gnucash-user. Sorry for the noise. Regards Frank Am 27.11.21 um 02:37 schrieb Martin Preuss: > Moin, > > Am 27.11.21 um 01:11 schrieb Frank H. Ellenberger: > [...] >> YellowNet war wohl die Schnittstelle für die Schweizer PostFinance und >> ist irgendwann wegen ihrer Security-by-obsurity-Politik rausgeflogen. > [...] > Richtig, das Backen unterstuetzen wir nicht mehr. Man kann aber immer noch > YellowNet-Dateien importieren. > > [...] >> Zu EBICS finde ich die Doku etwas dürftig. Es gibt ein paar Abschnitte >> im Aqbanking6-Handbuch von 2019. >> Gehe ich recht in den Annahmen >> * Es kann im Prinzip dasselbe wie HBCI, aber die Implementierung bleibt >> dahinter zurück; >> https://aquamaniac.de/rdm/projects/aqbanking/wiki/AqBanking6#Aktueller-Status-der-Backends-in-AqBanking6 >> >> * wird in AT, CH, DE, FR von einigen/vielen[?] Banken Geschäftskunden >> angeboten; >> * Die Benutzerbasis ist überschaubar; >> * Testmöglichkeiten? > [...] > > Die Testmoeglichkeiten sind momentan das Problem: EBICS wird Privatkunden > nicht angeboten, daher kann ich nicht mehr testen. Falls jemand eine Bank > kennt, die das doch anbietet, wuerde ich mich ueber Hinweise freuen. > > Zu HBCI hatte ich mal einen Kontakt zur GAD, aber auf meine Anfrage bzgl. > EBICS hatte ich bisher immer nur Antworten bekommen wie "ich schaue mal". > > [...] >> OFX direct-connect: Um das "nicht getestet" aus der Liste zu bekommen, >> könnte man ja mal die amerikanischen Benutzer auf gnucash-user fragen. ;-) > [...] > > Die Seite war inzwischen veraltet, habe das mal aktualisiert. > > [...] >> Paypal: laut https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/De/Paypal_einrichten klappt >> es auch für Privatkunden. > [...] > > Das Backend ist inzwischen auch durch den beherzten Eingriff eines Users auch > wieder auf dem Stand (nutze ich selbst auch). > > > Gruss > Martin > > ___ 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.
[GNC] Sometimes I can't post transactions - no 'transfer' account is offered
I've probably doing something silly somewhere but I can't spot what it is at the moment. While entering transactions into GnuCash today it sometimes offers no account in the 'Transfer' column so anything I do ends up in an 'Imbalance' account. The up arrow and down arrow do nothing when it's in this state. The issue comes and goes and I can't see any pattern to it, I've never seen this problem before though. I'm running GnuCash version 4.4 on xubuntu Linux version 21.10. -- Chris Green ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] Sometimes I can't post transactions - no 'transfer' account is offered
Hi Chris, Am 27.11.21 um 16:53 schrieb Chris Green: > I've probably doing something silly somewhere but I can't spot what it > is at the moment. > > While entering transactions into GnuCash today it sometimes offers no > account in the 'Transfer' column so anything I do ends up in an > 'Imbalance' account. > > The up arrow and down arrow do nothing when it's in this state. > > The issue comes and goes and I can't see any pattern to it, I've never > seen this problem before though. Did you read yourhoroscope carefully? ;-) Perhaps related to https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798375 ? > I'm running GnuCash version 4.4 on xubuntu Linux version 21.10. Regards Frank ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] Sometimes I can't post transactions - no 'transfer' account is offered
On Sat, Nov 27, 2021 at 05:45:23PM +0100, Frank H. Ellenberger wrote: > Hi Chris, > > Am 27.11.21 um 16:53 schrieb Chris Green: > > I've probably doing something silly somewhere but I can't spot what it > > is at the moment. > > > > While entering transactions into GnuCash today it sometimes offers no > > account in the 'Transfer' column so anything I do ends up in an > > 'Imbalance' account. > > > > The up arrow and down arrow do nothing when it's in this state. > > > > The issue comes and goes and I can't see any pattern to it, I've never > > seen this problem before though. > > Did you read yourhoroscope carefully? ;-) > Perhaps related to https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798375 ? > I don't think that's it. Normally I'm offered the same 'transfer' account as for previous transactions so I don't have to enter anything for the destination account. -- Chris Green ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] Stock transaction research
I have all the records, but not all are in or available in digital form, so I have been laboriously entering them in a spreadsheet. Would it be worthwhile to set up a new data file just for those stocks and import/hand enter them in Gnucash instead? (I suspect any IRS auditor would be more impressed with my Gnucash data store than my Excel data store.) Whether worthwhile or not, you'd have to judge, but since you would be hand entering the data in either case, not more work using gnucash and as you note, easier t produce the reports you would want. The point is, you can most certainly use gnucash to maintain multiple sets of books. Back in the old days of pen and ink on paper bookkeeping it was quite usual to have subsidiary sets of books. A main set of books, of course, but then possibly also a "cashbook" (for transactions involving actual cash and a small set of the most popular ledger accounts involved with those transactions) and a "petty cash book". Thus once a month (when being replenished) the "petty cash book" account TOTALS (not each tiny transaction) entered into the main books. The same with the "cashbook". Another use you might make of additional sets of books is for virtual entities. When I was doing books for organizations that put on events (and these dwarfed the "main" other transactions of the entity) I would create a set of books for the event (opened with a "loan" from the organization) and then closed back to the organization when all was over. Makes it easy to see what the organizers want to see (like how did event X do compared to last year's X). For my [personal use, I have a set of books for our solar system so we can correctly track things like how it is paying itself off.. Keep in mind that ordinarily you can be entering only real transactions but in this case there are virtual transactions (an electric bill we don't have to pay is not a transaction in the real sense, but represents income to the solar system which can be used to pay on the loan, etc. At this point it has almost paid back the original loan (with interest) even accounting for its expenses (what we pay on its behalf) like its share of property insurance, its share of our taxes from sale of SRECs, etc. << those payments to us are taxable (if you don't cheat) so we credit 80% of "sale of SRECs" to income and 20% to expenses "tax owed". Once 100% paid off I will have to decide what to do. Either close out OR perhaps continue treating it as an ":investment" (what it is in our personal books) paying dividends and/or building a sinking fund to pay for its eventual repair/replacement. Michael D Novack Note -- The "cashbook" would actually be more familiar to you than other parts of traditional bookkeeping as it was direct entry into the ledger just like you do with gnucash. No entering first into a journal and then posting to the ledger. Using gnucash is very much like "cashbook for everything" but gnucash CAN produce the corresponding journal as a report if you wanted to see that for some reason. ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] Sometimes I can't post transactions - no 'transfer' account is offered
On Sat, Nov 27, 2021 at 05:05:05PM +, Chris Green wrote: > On Sat, Nov 27, 2021 at 05:45:23PM +0100, Frank H. Ellenberger wrote: > > Hi Chris, > > > > Am 27.11.21 um 16:53 schrieb Chris Green: > > > I've probably doing something silly somewhere but I can't spot what it > > > is at the moment. > > > > > > While entering transactions into GnuCash today it sometimes offers no > > > account in the 'Transfer' column so anything I do ends up in an > > > 'Imbalance' account. > > > > > > The up arrow and down arrow do nothing when it's in this state. > > > > > > The issue comes and goes and I can't see any pattern to it, I've never > > > seen this problem before though. > > > > Did you read yourhoroscope carefully? ;-) > > Perhaps related to https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798375 ? > > > I don't think that's it. Normally I'm offered the same 'transfer' > account as for previous transactions so I don't have to enter anything > for the destination account. > Although reading the description of the above bug more carefully I think I might be seeing a different manifestation of the same thing. If/when it happens again I'll see if I can understand better what's going on. -- Chris Green ___ 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.
[GNC] nabble gnucash gone?
Good afternoon. The wiki link to gnucash on nabble no longer works. Has gnucash vanished from nabble? I scrolled through almost 200 pages searching for "gnucash" and got no hits. - Elmar ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] nabble gnucash gone?
Hi, On Sat, November 27, 2021 1:04 pm, Elmar wrote: > Good afternoon. The wiki link to gnucash on nabble no longer works. > Has gnucash vanished from nabble? I scrolled through almost 200 pages > searching for "gnucash" and got no hits. You would have to ask Nabble. It's not a service that *we* provide, it's a third-party service. If it's not working then that would be on them, not us. Good Luck, > - Elmar > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. -derek -- Derek Atkins 617-623-3745 de...@ihtfp.com www.ihtfp.com Computer and Internet Security Consultant ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] Flatpak/Flatseal Gnucash fails to launch
Hi Elmar, At first, yiu should not hijack other threads. For a new thread, do *not* respond to another mail, but create a new mail to the list. Am 25.11.21 um 18:42 schrieb Elmar: > Flatseal also reacts the same way, i.e. does not open, although if > flatpak is really isntalled it should at least show its window. If other apps behave similar, is is usually a problem with your flatpak installation. Try to google terms like "flatpak linux mint 20" Regards Frank ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] nabble gnucash gone?
A few months ago Nabble consolidated servers down to one. The owners of each forum received an email and had to request moving to the new one. Did the GnuCash forum owner do this? https://support.nabble.com/Downsizing-Nabble-td7609715.html On Sat, Nov 27, 2021 at 1:04 PM Elmar wrote: > Good afternoon. The wiki link to gnucash on nabble no longer works. > Has gnucash vanished from nabble? I scrolled through almost 200 pages > searching for "gnucash" and got no hits. > > - Elmar > ___ > 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.
Re: [GNC] nabble gnucash gone?
No clue -- you would have to ask whoever the "GnuCash forum owner" is. It's not us. -derek On Sat, November 27, 2021 2:16 pm, Glenn Fowler wrote: > A few months ago Nabble consolidated servers down to one. The owners of > each forum received an email and had to request moving to the new one. Did > the GnuCash forum owner do this? > > https://support.nabble.com/Downsizing-Nabble-td7609715.html > > > On Sat, Nov 27, 2021 at 1:04 PM Elmar wrote: > >> Good afternoon. The wiki link to gnucash on nabble no longer works. >> Has gnucash vanished from nabble? I scrolled through almost 200 pages >> searching for "gnucash" and got no hits. >> >> - Elmar >> ___ >> 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. > -- Derek Atkins 617-623-3745 de...@ihtfp.com www.ihtfp.com Computer and Internet Security Consultant ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] Flatpak/Flatseal Gnucash fails to launch
I'm not sure how I "hijacked" the thread. I thought I started a new one - apparently not. Sorry. I'm pretty sure that flatpak itself is the problem. I just don't know how to diagnose it, or provide the right data so that it can be diagnosed by someone better than I. I was hoping that since the inability to launch gnucash is how I ran into this, that somone else would have had this problem and solved it. I'll go the google route - searching the Mint forums didn't help. And I guess the gnucash list is also not the place :) I'll quit this thread here. - Elmar On 11/27/21 1:58 PM, Frank H. Ellenberger wrote: Hi Elmar, At first, yiu should not hijack other threads. For a new thread, do *not* respond to another mail, but create a new mail to the list. Am 25.11.21 um 18:42 schrieb Elmar: Flatseal also reacts the same way, i.e. does not open, although if flatpak is really isntalled it should at least show its window. If other apps behave similar, is is usually a problem with your flatpak installation. Try to google terms like "flatpak linux mint 20" Regards Frank ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] Sometimes I can't post transactions - no 'transfer' account is offered
Chris The transfer account field entry is a list box. There should be a downward pointing arrow at the right side of the box. If you click on that it should bring up a pop-up list of accounts from which you can choose by left clicking on one of the entries. Do you get the list coming up when you left click on the arrow? David Cousens On Sat, 2021-11-27 at 15:53 +, Chris Green wrote: > I've probably doing something silly somewhere but I can't spot what it > is at the moment. > > While entering transactions into GnuCash today it sometimes offers no > account in the 'Transfer' column so anything I do ends up in an > 'Imbalance' account. > > The up arrow and down arrow do nothing when it's in this state. > > The issue comes and goes and I can't see any pattern to it, I've never > seen this problem before though. > > I'm running GnuCash version 4.4 on xubuntu Linux version 21.10. > ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] nabble gnucash gone?
Elmar, The Nabble interface to the GnuCash mailing lists failed some 4-5 months ago and has not been restored. It may simply have been whoever was administering that may have given up. I find I can get a threaded list display using Mail Archive e.g. https://www.mail-archive.com/gnucash-user@gnucash.org/ although this lacks the diting capability but is useful for finding related messages David Cousens On Sat, 2021-11-27 at 13:04 -0500, Elmar wrote: > Good afternoon. The wiki link to gnucash on nabble no longer works. > Has gnucash vanished from nabble? I scrolled through almost 200 pages > searching for "gnucash" and got no hits. > > - Elmar > ___ > 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.
Re: [GNC] Flatpak/Flatseal Gnucash fails to launch
On 11/27/21 15:29, Elmar wrote: I'm pretty sure that flatpak itself is the problem. I just don't know how to diagnose it, or provide the right data so that it can be diagnosed by someone better than I. I am not better than you. I solved my GnuCash flatpak problems by eliminating flatpak altogether. A friend of mine made me an .rpm file with GnuCash in it. I ended up with these ~/Downloads/DONE/gnucash]$ ls -l total 73412 25600 Nov 6 2020 boost169-chrono-1.69.0-4.el8.x86_64.rpm 29480 Nov 6 2020 boost169-date-time-1.69.0-4.el8.x86_64.rpm 51688 Nov 6 2020 boost169-filesystem-1.69.0-4.el8.x86_64.rpm 270168 Nov 6 2020 boost169-locale-1.69.0-4.el8.x86_64.rpm 155352 Nov 6 2020 boost169-program-options-1.69.0-4.el8.x86_64.rpm 283268 Nov 6 2020 boost169-regex-1.69.0-4.el8.x86_64.rpm 11944 Nov 6 2020 boost169-system-1.69.0-4.el8.x86_64.rpm 60736 Nov 6 2020 boost169-thread-1.69.0-4.el8.x86_64.rpm 110652 Nov 6 2020 gc-7.6.4-3.el8.x86_64.rpm 70430720 Nov 5 2020 gnucash.tar 3684500 Nov 6 2020 guile-2.0.14-7.el8.x86_64.rpm 37408 Nov 6 2020 libatomic_ops-7.6.2-3.el8.x86_64.rpm It calls itself Version: 4.2 Build ID: 4.2+(2020-09-26) Finance::Quote: - -- .~. Jean-David Beyer /V\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey /( )\ Red Hat Enterprise Linux ^^-^^ up 1 week, 7 hours, 18 minutes ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] Sometimes I can't post transactions - no 'transfer' account is offered
On Sun, Nov 28, 2021 at 06:48:33AM +1000, davidcousen...@gmail.com wrote: > On Sat, 2021-11-27 at 15:53 +, Chris Green wrote: > > I've probably doing something silly somewhere but I can't spot what it > > is at the moment. > > > > While entering transactions into GnuCash today it sometimes offers no > > account in the 'Transfer' column so anything I do ends up in an > > 'Imbalance' account. > > > > The up arrow and down arrow do nothing when it's in this state. > > > > The issue comes and goes and I can't see any pattern to it, I've never > > seen this problem before though. > > > > I'm running GnuCash version 4.4 on xubuntu Linux version 21.10. > > > > The transfer account field entry is a list box. There should be a downward > pointing arrow at the right side of the box. If you click on that it should > bring up a pop-up list of accounts from which you can choose by left clicking > on one of the entries. Do you get the list coming up when you left click on > the > arrow? > No, that's the point, clicking the down arrow (or up arrow if one happens to be near the bottom of the screen) does nothing. Normally I get a default 'transfer' account and only need to click the down arrow to change it. When this problem occurs there's no default transfer account offered and the down arrow does nothing. -- Chris Green ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] Stock transaction research
On Sat, Nov 27, 2021 at 12:10 Michael or Penny Novack < stepbystepf...@comcast.net> wrote: … > Whether worthwhile or not, you'd have to judge, but since you would be > hand entering the data in either case, not more work using gnucash and > as you note, easier t produce the reports you would want. Thanks, Michael, for the good tips Merry Christmas, -Tom ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] Flatpak/Flatseal Gnucash fails to launch
Elmar, This thread isn't hijacked, but your query regarding Nabble is embedded into this thread, which is why you drew Frank's scolding. Personally, I think you're perfectly entitled to bring this issue to the user list, and if I used flatpak, I'd try to help you, instead of suggesting you go the Google route. David T. Original Message From: Elmar Sent: Sat Nov 27 15:29:34 EST 2021 To: "Frank H. Ellenberger" Cc: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: Re: [GNC] Flatpak/Flatseal Gnucash fails to launch I'm not sure how I "hijacked" the thread. I thought I started a new one - apparently not. Sorry. I'm pretty sure that flatpak itself is the problem. I just don't know how to diagnose it, or provide the right data so that it can be diagnosed by someone better than I. I was hoping that since the inability to launch gnucash is how I ran into this, that somone else would have had this problem and solved it. I'll go the google route - searching the Mint forums didn't help. And I guess the gnucash list is also not the place :) I'll quit this thread here. - Elmar On 11/27/21 1:58 PM, Frank H. Ellenberger wrote: > Hi Elmar, > > At first, yiu should not hijack other threads. For a new thread, do > *not* respond to another mail, but create a new mail to the list. > > Am 25.11.21 um 18:42 schrieb Elmar: >> Flatseal also reacts the same way, i.e. does not open, although if >> flatpak is really isntalled it should at least show its window. > If other apps behave similar, is is usually a problem with your flatpak > installation. Try to google terms like "flatpak linux mint 20" > > Regards > Frank ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] Using Gnucash to access file over flaky network
Hi Chris You originally said: > For reasons that are complicated but not especially interesting, I > would like to run Gnucash on one machine, with the data file located > on a remote machine — with the added challenge that the network access > available to the Gnucash "client" machine is a terrible cellular data > connection that sometimes drops without warning. Depending on the speed / latency of your connection, another alternative for you to consider is "remote access" software on the "client" to access GnuCash on the "remote server". Solutions, depending on you operating system(s), include: * Windows Remote Desktop * VNC - Viewer & Server https://www.realvnc.com/en/connect/pricing/ https://www.tecmint.com/best-remote-linux-desktop-sharing-software/ Regards Geoff = On 27/11/2021 1:30 am, Chris Mitchell wrote: Thanks to all for your insights! Now that the general hesitance about the remote-SQLite setup has been specifically substantiated, I guess I'll have to decide between braving the "less tested" Postgres server backend or just go with the scripted lock-and-copy approach. I have for a while now been kind of wanting to learn some database admin basics, so I'll probably take this excuse to do that, and if I trash my Gnucash data while learning, I'll have nobody to blame but myself. (Step 1: learn how to correctly back up and restore a Posgres DB...) As an added bonus, that would get me poised and ready to try out concurrent multi-user access some day down the road when it gets implemented. ;-) Cheers! -Chris ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] Stock transaction research
Hi Tom I suggest you read Chapter 9 Investments: https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v4/C/gnucash-guide/invest_concepts1.html Particularly Chapter 9.5 Buying Shares: https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v4/C/gnucash-guide/invest-buy-stock1.html And pay attention to Paragraph 9.5.2.1. Handling Commissions and Fees. I have been down this path myself, and found it easier to use a spreadsheet to compute the cost base for tax purposes using the transaction data recorded in my GnuCash portfolio. Regards Geoff = On 28/11/2021 12:01 am, Tom Browder wrote: I have been browsing various Gnucash documentation areas and think Gnucash might be able to help me with a tedious task: properly account for all transactions on stocks bought many years ago which have undergone spinoffs, splits, reverse splits, renames, etc. The stocks were recently sold to buy real estate and we need accurate capital gain/loss calculations for the IRS. Given the age of the holdings, the accounts of those stocks in TD Ameritrade don't have accurate cost basis information, so I am belatedly trying to calculate that for tax filing purposes. I have all the records, but not all are in or available in digital form, so I have been laboriously entering them in a spreadsheet. Would it be worthwhile to set up a new data file just for those stocks and import/hand enter them in Gnucash instead? (I suspect any IRS auditor would be more impressed with my Gnucash data store than my Excel data store.) Thanks. -Tom ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] Stock transaction research
On Sat, Nov 27, 2021 at 18:17 Geoff wrote: > Hi Tom > > I suggest you read Chapter 9 Investments: > https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v4/C/gnucash-guide/invest_concepts1.html ... Thanks, Geoff, will do. Blessings, -Tom ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] Stock transaction research
I believe gnucash can record all your detailed stock accounting accurately, however, the data entry is (imho) difficult to do correctly. Additionally, to extract data from your stock accounts is also not obvious-- from dividends to notional distributions to stock splits, or reinvesting dividends into stock. I do not know if the portfolio reports can understand all possible legal combinations. I'm certain they do not handle shorting. There will be hopefully an accurate Stock assistant which helps create correct transactions. But it's not ready: https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/pull/818 On Sun, 28 Nov 2021, 9:40 am Tom Browder, wrote: > On Sat, Nov 27, 2021 at 18:17 Geoff wrote: > > > Hi Tom > > > > I suggest you read Chapter 9 Investments: > > https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v4/C/gnucash-guide/invest_concepts1.html > > ... > > Thanks, Geoff, will do. > > Blessings, > > -Tom > ___ > 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.
