[GNC] Job Expenses? Job Profit Reports?

2021-09-20 Thread Christian Peritore
Looking everywhere for this function but can't seem to find it. How to connect a given Job to any Expense? Then how to Report a Job's net profit (and connected total Expenses and total Income)? Entering Expenses doesn't seem to offer a Job to spend against. I presume I need to bring the Expense

Re: [GNC] import csv transactions with split

2021-09-20 Thread David H
Got it. Glad you got it sorted out. Cheers David H. On Tue, 21 Sept 2021 at 02:27, David Solet wrote: > David, thank you for your response. That is not the problem, since there > is a screen where one links the name of the account in the csv > file--whatever it is--with the actual account in gn

Re: [GNC] Capital gain with Return of Capital

2021-09-20 Thread David Carlson
Yes, but GnuCash keeps trying to enter a security price after trying to zero it out, then the transaction is spoiled. Unless, that is, if you know the secret... On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 11:00 AM Fred Tydeman wrote: > The tutorial says how to correctly process return of capital -- it lowers > the

Re: [GNC] import csv transactions with split

2021-09-20 Thread David Solet
David, thank you for your response. That is not the problem, since there is a screen where one links the name of the account in the csv file--whatever it is--with the actual account in gnucash. However, I found the problem; it is with the content of the csv file. In my csv file, a value for custome

Re: [GNC] Capital gain with Return of Capital

2021-09-20 Thread Fred Tydeman
The tutorial says how to correctly process return of capital -- it lowers the basis price. So, one has a larger capital gain. I followed the instructions in the Tutorial for Return of Capital under Investments On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 6:52 AM Michael or Penny Novack < stepbystepf...@comcast.net>

Re: [GNC] Capital gain with Return of Capital

2021-09-20 Thread Fred Tydeman
On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 8:26 AM Jean-David Beyer via gnucash-user < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > > was return of capital. I have not yet learned how to enter a return of > > capital in GnuCash > > Do you not just subtract the capital returned from the cost basis? > Correct. Linux Gn

Re: [GNC] Capital gain with Return of Capital

2021-09-20 Thread David Carlson
Now that I bothered to read the Tutorial I see that there is an example but it does not mention how to implement it. It is tricky to extract cash from a security account. There is a description in the section on security sales, but that, of course, describes how to attribute it either to long or

Re: [GNC] Capital gain with Return of Capital

2021-09-20 Thread Jean-David Beyer via gnucash-user
On 9/20/21 11:10 AM, David Carlson wrote: > I would suspect that most of us have never had a return of capital and we > would not know how to record such a transaction in GnuCash. I myself have > recently purchased a fund that pays a dividend, but they say wait until the > end of the year to get a

Re: [GNC] Capital gain with Return of Capital

2021-09-20 Thread David Carlson
I would suspect that most of us have never had a return of capital and we would not know how to record such a transaction in GnuCash. I myself have recently purchased a fund that pays a dividend, but they say wait until the end of the year to get a report of how much was capital gains and how much

Re: [GNC] Capital gain with Return of Capital

2021-09-20 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 9/20/2021 12:01 AM, Fred Tydeman wrote: I have entered a buy of an ETF. The ETF has done several annual Return of Capitals (which I entered). I have entered a sell of all of the ETF. I used the Actions: View Lots: Scrub Account to create the Capital gain. The Capital gain calculated is wrong i