--On April 18, 2007 1:57:51 -0400 Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I really think "trading accounts" is the WRONG approach for this problem.
>
> -derek
For what it's worth, if I actually used multiple currencies on a regular
basis I would have given up on GnuCash within the trial time
Derek Atkins wrote:
>
> Quoting Mike Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > I attached a new patch to 131623. As I said in the comments on the
> > attachment, it also includes an option to turn off computation of
> > unrealized gains entirely. This is needed with the changes to use
> > commodity
--On April 18, 2007 1:57:51 AM -0400 Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> I'm really not sure I agree with the concept of trading accounts.
> I think it just confuses the issue even more. How about "hidden"
> equivalences? Instead of balancing it in a Split, per se, we balance
> it in a
Quoting Mike Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I attached a new patch to 131623. As I said in the comments on the
> attachment, it also includes an option to turn off computation of
> unrealized gains entirely. This is needed with the changes to use
> commodity trading accounts since those accoun
--On April 17, 2007 10:23:39 PM +0200 Christian Stimming
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Am Samstag, 24. März 2007 03:11 schrieb Peter Selinger:
>> Your patch posted on 2006-09-01 at
>> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=335101
>> does indeed fix bug 335101, which is a duplicate of 410604.
>
Am Samstag, 24. März 2007 03:11 schrieb Peter Selinger:
> Your patch posted on 2006-09-01 at
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=335101
> does indeed fix bug 335101, which is a duplicate of 410604.
Has been applied to SVN and is in 2.1.0. Thanks for the reminder.
> Your patch posted on 20
Hi Mike,
I have finally tried your patches.
Your patch posted on 2006-09-01 at
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=335101
does indeed fix bug 335101, which is a duplicate of 410604.
Your patch posted on 2006-06-07 at
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131623
indeed fixes bug 13162
Derek Atkins wrote:
>
> Quoting Peter Selinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > Actually, such accounts represent unrealized (or realized) gains and
> > losses, so they are income, not equity. See
> > "http://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~selinger/accounting/#4.2.";, second
> > paragraph.
>
> A single transact
--On March 8, 2007 3:56:43 PM -0500 Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Quoting Peter Selinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> A single transaction by itself is neither a gain nor a loss. It's a
> POTENTIAL gain or loss, but not by itself.. I guess that's why I'm
> so hesitant to embrace this id
Quoting Peter Selinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Actually, such accounts represent unrealized (or realized) gains and
> losses, so they are income, not equity. See
> "http://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~selinger/accounting/#4.2.";, second
> paragraph.
A single transaction by itself is neither a gain nor a l
Derek Atkins wrote:
>
> Quoting Mike Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > --On March 7, 2007 9:50:00 AM -0500 Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >> If a user later goes back and changes the exchange rate, will your
> >> scrubber update the balancing splits?
> >
> > Do you mean change t
--On March 7, 2007 4:17:39 PM -0500 Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Quoting Mike Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>> --On March 7, 2007 9:50:00 AM -0500 Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> If a user later goes back and changes the exchange rate, will your
>>> scrubber upda
Quoting Mike Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> --On March 7, 2007 9:50:00 AM -0500 Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> If a user later goes back and changes the exchange rate, will your
>> scrubber update the balancing splits?
>
> Do you mean change the exchange rate in that transaction or
--On March 7, 2007 9:50:00 AM -0500 Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Mike Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> The transaction balancing code in xaccTransGetImbalance assumes all
>> exchange rates are correct. A transaction involving more than one
>> commodity has an implied excha
--On March 7, 2007 9:48:56 AM -0500 Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Mike Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
- xaccTransScrubImbalance now scrubs the transaction two ways. It
makes sure the value is balanced, and it makes sure that the
amounts balance separately for
Mike Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The transaction balancing code in xaccTransGetImbalance assumes all
> exchange rates are correct. A transaction involving more than one
> commodity has an implied exchange rate between the commodities which
> can be determined by comparing the amoun
Mike Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> - xaccTransScrubImbalance now scrubs the transaction two ways. It
>>> makes sure the value is balanced, and it makes sure that the amounts
>>> balance separately for each commodity in the transaction. This
>>> makes capital gain splits as created b
--On March 7, 2007 12:29:04 AM -0400 Peter Selinger
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> You mean the old 1.8 currency accounts? No, I don't use them. I
>> don't recall what they were like and I'm not sure if it's a good
>> idea to recycle them for this purpose or not. Right now it creates
>> top l
Mike Alexander wrote:
>
> --On March 6, 2007 4:10:33 PM -0500 Chris Shoemaker
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >> Here's a brief summary of what I've done so far (all of these
> >> changes are under control of a new preference and things work as
> >> before if it is off):
> >>
> >> - Changed x
--On March 6, 2007 4:10:33 PM -0500 Chris Shoemaker
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Here's a brief summary of what I've done so far (all of these
>> changes are under control of a new preference and things work as
>> before if it is off):
>>
>> - Changed xaccTransGetImbalance to return a list of
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 03:54:05PM -0500, Mike Alexander wrote:
> --On March 5, 2007 11:26:57 AM -0500 Chris Shoemaker
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Mike, Peter, et al.,
> >
> >I should have spoken up eariler, but have been pretty busy. I just
> >now skimmed Peter's reports, and wanted to c
--On March 5, 2007 11:26:57 AM -0500 Chris Shoemaker
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Mike, Peter, et al.,
>
> I should have spoken up eariler, but have been pretty busy. I just
> now skimmed Peter's reports, and wanted to comment.
>
> First off, Peter's assessment of GnuCash's flaws are fundamenta
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 11:56:20PM -0500, Mike Alexander wrote:
> --On February 22, 2007 4:09:22 AM -0400 Peter Selinger
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I have also written a fairly detailed critique of multi-currency
> > accounting in GnuCash, with some suggestions for how it could be
> > imp
--On February 22, 2007 4:09:22 AM -0400 Peter Selinger
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have also written a fairly detailed critique of multi-currency
> accounting in GnuCash, with some suggestions for how it could be
> improved. Unlike the tutorial above, this second document is specific
> to GnuC
--On February 22, 2007 4:09:22 AM -0400 Peter Selinger
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I noticed that multiple currencies in GnuCash do not work very well
> with double-entry accounting. I have investigated the issue and
> written a tutorial explaining how double-entry multi-currency
> accou
Peter and developers,
I completely agree with these documents. I didn't manage to figure out what
was wrong by myself, but clearly this is the right way. As it is, every
time I travel I feel like Gnucash hinders my accounting... why should that
be?
Cheers,
--
Guillaume Lessard
[EMAIL PROTECT
Hi,
I noticed that multiple currencies in GnuCash do not work very well
with double-entry accounting. I have investigated the issue and
written a tutorial explaining how double-entry multi-currency
accounting should work. Perhaps someone may find this interesting:
http://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~seli
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