Re: [GNC] Feature Request: Add Support for Functional Currency Amount in Transactions

2025-01-04 Thread John Ralls
I’ve been mulling this for some time, incited by a user who calls himself CDB-Man in the bug tracker and IRC. CDB-Man is a licensed accountant in Vancouver, BC. There’s a lot of discussion in https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797796. I don’t think we need to add anything, just make a sma

Re: [GNC] Adding Interest to Liability

2025-01-04 Thread Dale Alspach
You need to add an expense transaction for the interest. If the interest is $100, Credit the liability account $100 and debit an expense account such as IRS penalties and interest for $100. Dale On Sat, Jan 4, 2025, 5:29 PM Louise wrote: > I'm not an accountant, so be gentle with me! > > I have

Re: [GNC] Feature Request: Add Support for Functional Currency Amount in Transactions

2025-01-04 Thread Derek Atkins
Back around GnuCash 1.4 each split had a home currency / value. It was removed in 1.6. The argument at the time was that if you're holding a handful of, e.g. Mexican Pesos, it doesn't really matter what the USD value was when you acquired them, it only matters what the value is when you need

Re: [GNC] need help with potentially corrupt book

2025-01-04 Thread Chase Philport
Whoops sorry- derp. Arch Linux (latest / linux 6.5.5-arch1-1) GNUCash "Build ID: 5.10-unknown-commit(2024-12-25)" Thanks On 1/4/25 4:59 AM, G R Hewitt wrote: Hi Chase, In the first instance you will need to let us know what operating system you are using and what version of GnuCash. On Sat

[GNC] Adding Interest to Liability

2025-01-04 Thread Louise
I'm not an accountant, so be gentle with me! I have an account set up for the money I owe the tax man. As I owe it. I've created it as a liability. When I pay it from my chequing account I Withdraw from the chequing account, and transfer to the liability account. That reduces the total amoun

[GNC] Feature Request: Add Support for Functional Currency Amount in Transactions

2025-01-04 Thread Tian Kevin
Dear GnuCash Development Team, I hope this email finds you well. My name is Kevin as an accountant, and I am a GnuCash user who manages multi-currency financial transactions. I appreciate the powerful features GnuCash provides for personal and business finance management. I am writing to propose

Re: [GNC] How to implement tracking employee stock options?

2025-01-04 Thread David Warren
I can't imagine that something like this would EVER get implemented 'formally' into GC. So much complexity with how employers deal with stock option awards, vesting periods, black-scholes methods, different countries' accounting rules. The fact that someone asked once in 2001 and someone else in

Re: [GNC] Problem getting Finance::Quote working

2025-01-04 Thread Bruce Schuck
On 1/4/25 09:32:28 -0500, Kalpesh wrote: You can provide well know api-key of: NOTAREALAPIKEY as the key for Alphavantage in order to silence that superfluous message being emanated from F::Q to GNC provided that you are NOT using that module to retrieve any quotes. It has been working for

Re: [GNC] Problem getting Finance::Quote working

2025-01-04 Thread Kalpesh Patel
You can provide well know api-key of: NOTAREALAPIKEY as the key for Alphavantage in order to silence that superfluous message being emanated from F::Q to GNC provided that you are NOT using that module to retrieve any quotes. It has been working for yours truly for many many years... -Origin

Re: [GNC] need help with potentially corrupt book

2025-01-04 Thread G R Hewitt
Hi Chase, In the first instance you will need to let us know what operating system you are using and what version of GnuCash. On Sat, 4 Jan 2025 at 09:30, Chase Philport wrote: > Hi there. I have been using GNUCash for several years now, but I have > not been diligent it keeping it updated for

[GNC] need help with potentially corrupt book

2025-01-04 Thread Chase Philport
Hi there. I have been using GNUCash for several years now, but I have not been diligent it keeping it updated for the end of 2023. I am catching up on my finances and spend several hours last night working on my "GNUBOOK.gnucash", updated several accounts, saved, and quit GNUCash (via File > Qu

[GNC] How to implement tracking employee stock options?

2025-01-04 Thread -
I mean options granted to employees (usually not tradable), not calls and puts. https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=313663 is an enhancement request for this, filed in 2005. https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=799420 has some discussion about this, because the QIF importer broke due to

Re: [GNC] Problem getting Finance::Quote working

2025-01-04 Thread Tomas Volf
David H writes: > Have you setup your Alpha Vantage API key the output warns you about ? > Preferences >> Online Quotes - > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Online_Quotes#Alphavantage > > 00:58:05 WARN [GncFQQuoteSource::set_api_key()] No > Alpha Vantage API key set, currency quotes and other Alp