[GNC] Capital gains reporting - Australia

2021-01-17 Thread dullege
I'm recently using Gnucash to record personal share trading, including commissions, and whenever shares are sold I use scrubbing to capture capital gains/losses in some custom Income accounts (short term and long term). These transactions are recording across many Asset accounts (one per secur

Re: [GNC] UK specific: MTD - Making Tax Digital

2021-01-17 Thread Fross, Michael
I suppose that depends on where you live Edward. Many of us don't have to deal with MTD. On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 1:45 PM Edward Bainton wrote: > Of the 6, I have to confess that I read it too hastily and I don't have to > do VAT, so the VAT bridge won't be of interest to me. > > But crikey,

Re: [GNC] Recent list in file menu

2021-01-17 Thread David H
You can easily check the mru details by doing the following... defaults read -app Gnucash or defaults read -app Gnucash | grep history Cheers David H. On Mon, 18 Jan 2021 at 04:48, Peter S. Shenkin wrote: > Hmm could that be because there were only four files stored so far in > myst

Re: [GNC] UK specific: MTD - Making Tax Digital

2021-01-17 Thread Edward Bainton
Of the 6, I have to confess that I read it too hastily and I don't have to do VAT, so the VAT bridge won't be of interest to me. But crikey, if you can't use GnuCash for MTD, it's not much use anymore, is it? On Sun, 17 Jan 2021 at 19:05, Stephen M. Butler < stephen.m.butle...@gmail.com> wrote:

Re: [GNC] UK specific: MTD - Making Tax Digital

2021-01-17 Thread Stephen M. Butler
On 1/17/21 1:28 AM, Liz wrote: On Sun, 17 Jan 2021 02:52:19 -0600 (CST) "chr...@floatdene.com" wrote: As there are only about 6 users interested, it is definitely not worth the effort! While you have only counted 6 who have put up their hand so far, I think that there would be far more inte

Re: [GNC] Recent list in file menu

2021-01-17 Thread Peter S. Shenkin
Hmm could that be because there were only four files stored so far in mystery-memory because of the previous setting? What happens if you open a fifth file, exit the program and then restart? Do you see five? -P. On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 1:31 PM Michael Hendry wrote: > > On 17 Jan 2021, at 1

Re: [GNC] Recent list in file menu

2021-01-17 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 17 Jan 2021, at 18:03, Michael Hendry wrote: > >> On 17 Jan 2021, at 16:07, Chris Graves wrote: >> >> defaults write -app Gnucash "/org/gnucash/history/maxfiles” 6 > > Well spotted! > > I think I tried every other possible combination I could find in the man page > for “defaults”. > >

Re: [GNC] Recent list in file menu

2021-01-17 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 17 Jan 2021, at 16:07, Chris Graves wrote: > > defaults write -app Gnucash "/org/gnucash/history/maxfiles” 6 Well spotted! I think I tried every other possible combination I could find in the man page for “defaults”. Thanks, Michael ___ gnuca

Re: [GNC] Recent list in file menu

2021-01-17 Thread Chris Graves
Looks like there is a typo in the command, it should be: defaults write -app Gnucash "/org/gnucash/history/maxfiles" 6 > On Jan 17, 2021, at 2:55 AM, Michael Hendry wrote: > >> On 16 Jan 2021, at 21:50, David Carlson wrote: >> >> Searching the archives of this list I found a thread a year ago

Re: [GNC] Configuring Automatic Retrieval Quotes error

2021-01-17 Thread Fred Bone
On 16 January 2021 at 23:12, Denise Ufkes said: > Hello, > I am just starting to set up GnuCash and want to set it up to > automatically update mutual fund prices.  I followed the instructions in > the manual as show here, but got the following error.  I can see the file > it is looking for, but d

Re: [GNC] Recent list in file menu

2021-01-17 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 16 Jan 2021, at 21:50, David Carlson wrote: > > Searching the archives of this list I found a thread a year ago. This > suggestion was part way through the thread: < > https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2020-January/089080.html> > It seems to be only for Mac computers so there

Re: [GNC] Newby questions opening accounts

2021-01-17 Thread David Cousens
peter A pretty fair summary. On Q2. It is not so much a question of what GnuCash likes as one of standard accounting practice. Not sure where your finance guy learned his accounting. GnuCash implements what is known as a double entry accounting system. Every transaction debits one account and cre

Re: [GNC] UK specific: MTD - Making Tax Digital

2021-01-17 Thread Liz
On Sun, 17 Jan 2021 02:52:19 -0600 (CST) "chr...@floatdene.com" wrote: > As there are only about 6 users interested, it is > definitely not worth the effort! While you have only counted 6 who have put up their hand so far, I think that there would be far more interested in a usable system. It d

Re: [GNC] UK specific: MTD - Making Tax Digital

2021-01-17 Thread Christopher Lam
But the CSV export already exists. See the "Income and GST Statement" report which is definitely tailored for VAT/GST calculations for UK and Australia but can be used for any similar tax regimes, and has a dedicated CSV export facility. If your bridging software has particular requirements for for

Re: [GNC] Configuring Automatic Retrieval Quotes error

2021-01-17 Thread Geoff
Hi Denise I am not sure why you have encountered that error. As a workaround, you could try installing Strawberry Perl independently from this web site: https://strawberryperl.com/ Once perl is installed, you need to run the "gnc-fq-update" script (also located in the "C:\Program Files (x86)

Re: [GNC] UK specific: MTD - Making Tax Digital

2021-01-17 Thread chr...@floatdene.com
Good points. I have bridge software already working and approved by HMRC for use. My initial thought was to have a report in GnuCash that generated the VAT report for a period. There would then be a menu option to submit VAT. This menu option would generate a csv file containing the VAT values for