Re: [GNC] Importing CSV exchange rate prices

2024-11-03 Thread Andrew Beattie
Thanks Jim. that solved it. I tried Currencies and Currency as namespace, but not CURRENCY which as you noted was given in the import routine instructions and the capitalisation mattered. I will put something in the Wiki if I get write access as penance for not reading the import dialogue pr

Re: [GNC] GnuCash 5.9 on macOS 15.2 Dev Beta

2024-11-03 Thread Maf. King
On Sunday, 3 November 2024 15:31:24 GMT Michael or Penny Novack via gnucash- user wrote: > > PS -- know why we call them "bugs"? << the origin of the tern >> > > The story i was told many years ago was a dead moth shorting out some core memory module (or somesuch) in the very early days of st

Re: [GNC] Dealing with mutual funds

2024-11-03 Thread Patrick James via gnucash-user
Boniforti, I applaud your effort to advance your financial accounting. With that out of the way, there are good reasons how professional accountants can help individuals. There are a myriad of horror stories about how transactions could be structured differently, while accomplishing the same ob

Re: [GNC] Dealing with mutual funds

2024-11-03 Thread Boniforti Flavio
Hi Jim. I'm a private individual, not a company. Thus, I don't need an accountant and my jurisdiction doesn't matter in what I'm doing: it's my personal finance tool, which I use to track my income/expenses and total wealth. With "would that work?" I was trying to ask if I was missing something an

Re: [GNC] Dealing with mutual funds

2024-11-03 Thread Jim DeLaHunt
Boniforti: On 2024-11-03 02:25, Boniforti Flavio wrote: ...As of now, I have just put all the CHF Cash in that account. As I've added CHF in 5-6 different transactions and in between those I have also converted to USD and bought VT stocks, would I need to zero the "CHF Cash" account, then add ea

Re: [GNC] Stocks with prices in more than one currency

2024-11-03 Thread Patrick James via gnucash-user
"Another person is doing these stock transactions. They provide me with the QIF files." It sounds as though the other person is entering bad data, which is causing bad reports. It's not completely clear as to the origin of the QIF data, so I'm guessing a bit here. You mentioned Finance::Quote t

[GNC] Improvements to Vendor Posting Operations

2024-11-03 Thread Geoff Jankowski via gnucash-user
Hi all, Bearing in mind I may not have set my system up correctly, I am posting some observations on the vendor posting to see if I can amend how I currently process my invoices or if it requires some code tweaking. I am using GC Business to track costs on the new house I am building. I am not

Re: [GNC] GnuCash 5.9 on macOS 15.2 Dev Beta

2024-11-03 Thread Michael or Penny Novack via gnucash-user
On 11/2/2024 9:26 PM, William Prescott wrote: From Seth's comment below, it appears that the problem is only with MacOS 15.2, the public beta. Has anyone else confirmed that Gnucash 5.9-1 runs okay on MacOS 15.1? Best wishes, Will This tells me time to remind folks what "alpha" and "beta" m

Re: [GNC] Stocks with prices in more than one currency

2024-11-03 Thread Fred Tydeman
On Sat, Nov 2, 2024 at 6:16 PM Patrick James via gnucash-user < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > Fred, > > The basic challenge here is that you don't seem to know how data gets into > your GnuCash database. There are some very crafty people reading this list, > so I'm not going to exclude the po

Re: [GNC] Dealing with mutual funds

2024-11-03 Thread Boniforti Flavio
Hi Richard. I think I was already going that route --> [image: image.png] As of now, I have just put all the CHF Cash in that account. As I've added CHF in 5-6 different transactions and in between those I have also converted to USD and bought VT stocks, would I need to zero the "CHF Cash" account