[GNC] How do I add stock trades?

2020-05-01 Thread armanschwarz
I would like to start recording my stock trades in GnuCash (3.10). Based on the instructions I could find (https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Trading_Accounts) I enabled "Trading" accounts and then created a top-level Trading account with the name "Trading". I tried to fumble through the instructions b

Re: [GNC] How can I add statement balances to my accounts as

2019-11-01 Thread armanschwarz
ve published this on github for anyone who is interested: https://github.com/armanschwarz/gnucash_balance_assertions";>https://github.com/armanschwarz/gnucash_balance_assertions Usage is ./gnc_assert.py [path] [assertion regex] -d [digits] So for example I've started adding zero-bal

Re: [GNC] How can I add statement balances to my accounts as checks?

2019-10-07 Thread armanschwarz
Adrien Monteleone-2 wrote > Precisely. I was not suggesting humans are or should be infallible, but > that software can help you find mistakes, not prevent you from making > them, especially in light of a rush to rubber stamp through such a process > like reconciliation. (the antithesis of what tha

Re: [GNC] How can I add statement balances to my accounts as checks?

2019-10-06 Thread armanschwarz
Adrien Monteleone-2 wrote > Software can’t fix you. Only you can fix you. You shouldn’t do the > reconciliation till you have time not to rush it. The software won’t > explode if you don’t reconcile by a certain date. Yeah I fundamentally disagree with this, almost at a philosophical level. If we

[GNC] How can I add statement balances to my accounts as checks?

2019-10-01 Thread armanschwarz
Suppose on July 1, 2019 I get a statement that my account balance is $100. Since I know this is true and won't change in the future, I should be able to tell GnuCash that this is the expected balance, and for some kind of warning to appear if that condition is ever violated for the corresponding ac