[GNC] How to treat a sale which involves more accounts?

2024-09-25 Thread Paras Desai
This looks perfectly as it should be. Of course, following split transaction can be posted Sale with profit: selling at 3500 Debit - cash or bank - 3500 Credit - asset - 2300 Credit -gain on sale : 1200 Sale with loss : selling at 2000 Debit - cash or bank - 2000 Credit - asset - 2300 De

Re: [GNC] Owning stocks which are not publicly quoted - which account type suits better?

2024-09-25 Thread R Losey
GnuCash will update the price as you record stuff that involves a price -- for example, if dividends are reinvested, the price will update to reflect that, as will any buying or selling that occurs. I also think there is an option for updating the prices manually. Adding a security is a piece of c

Re: [GNC] Owning stocks which are not publicly quoted - which account type suits better?

2024-09-25 Thread Michael or Penny Novack via gnucash-user
On 9/24/2024 8:23 PM, R Losey wrote: I think it could still be a stock - you'll just need to make sure the settings are correct -- and, of course, you cannot update the price online. Dividends fall into three categories that I can think of (and I'm using what I need for the US; not sure about yo

Re: [GNC] How to treat a sale which involves more accounts?

2024-09-25 Thread Boniforti Flavio
Hi Stan. Indeed I now have a choice thanks to all the people replying here :-) I'm in Switzerland. F. https://www.instagram.com/boniforti_music https://soundcloud.com/boniforti_music https://bonny-j.bandcamp.com Am Mi., 25. Sept. 2024 um 17:18 Uhr schrieb Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) < stan...@f

Re: [GNC] How to treat a sale which involves more accounts?

2024-09-25 Thread Stan Brown (using GC 4.14)
On 2024-09-24 23:11, Boniforti Flavio wrote: > Thanks for your input - it seems cumbersome to me, adding accounts for each > instrument I buy. Nevertheless, in my accounting ignorance, I think I > understand it and it looks very nice and detailed. The choice is yours to make. A suggestion: If you

Re: [GNC] Owning stocks which are not publicly quoted - which account type suits better?

2024-09-25 Thread Murugan Mariappan
Not sure If you want to maintain stock issued : create an equity account and the entries should be typically Debit  Cash or other item received (shares issued x price paid per share) or market value of item

Re: [GNC] Reconcile accounts out of monthly sequence

2024-09-25 Thread Tony Vanson
Ah, that's worth considering. As my book is only for my own information and has no legal constraints, I could balance entries with as many bank statements as possible and at the end just force a balance.. Thank you On Wed, 25 Sept 2024 at 18:18, Kalpesh Patel wrote: > But you don't have to recon

Re: [GNC] Owning stocks which are not publicly quoted - which account type suits better?

2024-09-25 Thread Kalpesh Patel
Setting up commodity and maintaining by updating its value is considered a normal user activity in GNC ... whether it is your cup of tea or not that is different story. -Original Message- From: Boniforti Flavio Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2024 2:24 AM To: R Losey Cc: gnucash-user@g

Re: [GNC] Owning stocks which are not publicly quoted - which account type suits better?

2024-09-25 Thread Kalpesh Patel
I don’t think GNC cares who "owns" it. I would think that it is not any different than you owned share(s) of say IBM or Facebook or Google. Technically purchase of share(s) gets you a partial ownership proportionate to total outstanding in that corporation - it is immaterial to GNC whether it is

Re: [GNC] Owning stocks which are not publicly quoted - which account type suits better?

2024-09-25 Thread Kalpesh Patel
Most of the work flows are one time only so ongoing managing would be minimal – like setting up the commodity (security) for it. In your case it will be some made up name for the commodity (name of the company would be a good representation). And then creating an asset account for it to designat

Re: [GNC] Reconcile accounts out of monthly sequence

2024-09-25 Thread Kalpesh Patel
But you don't have to reconcile it one month at a time. You can reconcile all in once from the opening the account until some date (including as of today if desired) in one shot if you know the opening balance and the closing balance as of closing date. -Original Message- From: John Ralls

Re: [GNC] Reconcile accounts out of monthly sequence

2024-09-25 Thread Tony Vanson
Thank you On Wed, 25 Sept 2024 at 11:36, John Ralls wrote: > No. The only way to get the reconciled balance correct is to reconcile in > sequence. > > Regards, > John Ralls > > > > On Sep 24, 2024, at 20:32, Tony Vanson wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > Using Windows 11 and GnuCash 5.8 > > Is it possi