Isn't this "unrealised gains/losses"?
Jai: the "proper" way to record transactions during shorting is still
unsolved, but should be similar to buying/selling stock, except the
balances are negative. Broker expense fees remain positive.
On Wed, 9 Jun 2021, 10:28 am Geoff, wrote:
> Hi Christopher
Hi Christopher
Thanks for pointing out these issues.
My reasoning for the need to book a future liability for a short sell
was to record the obligation to deliver the short sold stock at a future
date. Perhaps "contingent liability" would be a better term?
Anyway, I'll leave that to the exp
Chris & Geoff,
Thanks for your help - I was able to get it to work
1. I went to https://www.alphavantage.co/support/#api-key
I got a free API Key
I went to GnuCash -> Edit -> Preferences -> Online Quotes -> and input
the Alpha Vantage API Key
2. I re-ran the "Install Onlin
Hi Geoff
On Wed, 9 Jun 2021, 9:27 am Geoff, wrote:
>
> Gnucash will permit you to run a negative balance on a stock, see
> attached screenshot.
>
The UI will allow you to record transactions when short-selling, but bear
in mind:
- the current portfolio and advanced portfolio reports cannot hand
Usually, income accounts and expense accounts are placed in different top level
hierarchies (Income and Expenses, respectively). Rearranging the accounts to
segregate these would be a first step to gaining some clarity.
Original Message
From: Jim DeLaHunt
Sent: Tue Jun 08 17
Jack,
GnuCash has by default, top level accounts for Assets, Liabilities, Income,
Expanses and Liabilities. These are also the names of account types.
All accounts of account type Assets should be somewhere under the top level
Asset account and likewise for accounts of each other account type. Th
Jack:
On 2021-06-08 14:04, Jack Frillman via gnucash-user wrote:
…The parent account "Investment Misc" is an expense account and is
marked as a place holder account.…
…In my account tabs the "Investment Misc" parent account shows a
negative amount. (-$70 K range) …
Questions:
+ What can I do
I would prefer 999a to sort before 1000a and character sorts to be case
insensitive, but I do not depend on that for any purpose.
I do, however, depend on the auto numbering function ignoring strings
containing non-numeric characters as it currently does, so it currently
only increments numbers an
I have been using GNC for a few months now for my personal finances and
I'm trying to understand some it's behavior. I'm no accountant and I'm
sure I'm not following strict accounting rules. Again I'm using it only
for my personal finances and overall I am satisfied with what I have set
up. S
Really the effective num field because of the split-action option, but anyway...
The submitter of PR#963 complained that sorting on the num field doesn't work
right if the value is bigger than an int can hold; that's 9 digits. His
knowledge of C wasn't quite up to the task of fixing it, but I've
> On 7 Jun 2021, at 17:30, John Ralls wrote:
>
>
>
>> On Jun 6, 2021, at 11:22 PM, Michael Hendry wrote:
>>
>>> On 7 Jun 2021, at 06:57, flywire wrote:
>>>
>>> What you want is very simple, just not in GnuCash which is possibly the only
>>> package without it. The workaround changing accoun
On 6/8/2021 9:22 AM, D. via gnucash-user wrote:
I'll just note that I have *never* in 15 years had a gnucash-generated loan
transaction that matched the actual bank transaction. I have *always* had to
adjust the amounts manually after the fact, because the bank will calculate
interest and prin
I'll just note that I have *never* in 15 years had a gnucash-generated loan
transaction that matched the actual bank transaction. I have *always* had to
adjust the amounts manually after the fact, because the bank will calculate
interest and principle amounts based on the exact day (and probably
The part about tracking loan payments when trying to create a partially
paid down loan in GnuCash is tricky. GnuCash only does simple interest
calculations, so many times the best you can do is get an estimated
periodic payment transaction which you will have to correct manually each
month after y
Work through https://gnucash.org/viewdoc.phtml?rev=4&lang=C&doc=guide
It would have been simpler as a tutorial if it was only two accounts deep.
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Hi guys, this is my scenario simplified with hypothetical figures:
1. I bought property ex valued at $100 5 years ago.
2. I start with GnuCash today
3. As of today, let's say I have paid off a part of the loan, and let's say
I have $25 left to pay.
Is this how you would do it?
1. create an asset
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