Re: [GNC] Investment accounts - maintain ongoing balance only

2022-05-08 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 5/8/2022 3:47 PM, Stan Brown wrote: On 2022-05-08 10:17, Scott Soderling wrote: Debit to Assets:Investment Account Credit to Income:Investment Gains and Losses (Some people, me among them, would put Investment Gains and Losses under Equity rather than Income. I do this because investment gai

Re: [GNC] Investment accounts - maintain ongoing balance only

2022-05-08 Thread Stan Brown
On 2022-05-08 10:17, Scott Soderling wrote: > Opening the investment accounts and giving them opening balances is easy. > I'm now looking for suggestions going forward regarding updating the > current value of each account monthly. That is, I don't want to set up sub > accounts for every stock, mut

Re: [GNC] Investment accounts - maintain ongoing balance only

2022-05-08 Thread Derek Atkins
If you just want to keep the value balance, then you can just use a regular asset account and every month (or quarter, or however often) enter a "balance update" transaction for whatever gains/losses you achieved that month/quarter/etc. Note that this will combine realized and unrealized gains, so

[GNC] Investment accounts - maintain ongoing balance only

2022-05-08 Thread Scott Soderling
I use GnuCash for all my personal finances. I have a number of "retirement" investment accounts. I receive monthly multi-page statements for each account from the bank, showing every transaction (buys/sells, interest, dividends, capital gains, etc). Now that I'm a senior, I have to withdraw monthly

Re: [GNC] Investment Accounts

2019-02-10 Thread David Cousens
The totals for any account should reflect the totals of transactions to any subaccounts + the total of transactions to the account itself. I am not seeing any deviation from that behaviour in my personal accounts for superannuation funds which are also simply setup as asset accounts not as a forma

Re: [GNC] Investment Accounts

2019-02-10 Thread David Cousens
The totals for any account should reflect the totals of transactions to any subaccounts + the total of transactions to the account itself. I am not seeing any deviation from that behaviour in my personal accounts for superannuation funds which are also simply setup as asset accounts not as a forma

Re: [GNC] Investment Accounts

2019-02-10 Thread David Carlson
David A, David Cousens just listed all the things that could be trouble sources as far as the setup of the account hierarchy is concerned. From your original message you have already verified most or all of those configurations issues. You can review all of this in chapter 9 of the tutorial. I a

Re: [GNC] Investment Accounts

2019-02-10 Thread Nathanial Jones
SPAXX is just the fund that Fidelity puts your cash balance into. I just treat it as cash and ignore the fact that it's actually a mutual fund. It's not worth the hassle of making a sale transaction to make an actual purchase. On Sun, Feb 10, 2019, 3:11 PM David Cousens How did you set up the Inv

Re: [GNC] Investment Accounts

2019-02-10 Thread David Cousens
How did you set up the Investment account? Did you use the Action->New Account Heriarchy and select investment accounts for setup or did you set them up manually? See https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v3/C/gnucash-guide/chapter_invest.html Is the Investments account of type Asset? Is the parent Accou

[GNC] Investment Accounts

2019-02-09 Thread david amaral via gnucash-user
I am in need of help with a new investment account I created. Everything seems right except the totals.I created an account under investments named brokerage.Under brokerage I created a sub account named spaxxI entered transactions and the account spaxx has the correct total displayed.the brok

Re: [GNC] Investment Accounts not Displaying Decimals

2019-01-09 Thread Les
No problem.  I solved this issue.  What I didn't realize was the dollar field was now expanded, so only a partial view of the price was being displayed.  Once I expanded the field. everything displays properly.  My bad :-( On 1/9/19 6:54 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: Yes, sorry, that preferenc

Re: [GNC] Investment Accounts not Displaying Decimals

2019-01-09 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Yes, sorry, that preference was added later. I didn’t read well enough of your post to notice you were in the 2.6 series. Regards, Adrien > On Jan 9, 2019, at 10:09 AM, Les wrote: > > Thanks David. > > I think you are right. > > Les > > On 1/9/19 10:07 AM, David Carlson wrote: >> I believe

Re: [GNC] Investment Accounts not Displaying Decimals

2019-01-09 Thread Les
Thanks David. I think you are right. Les On 1/9/19 10:07 AM, David Carlson wrote: I believe you just have to live with it in release 2.6.21 or several other releases below 3.3.  You should be able to manually re save any particular entry in decimal form if it is really bothering you, but why

Re: [GNC] Investment Accounts not Displaying Decimals

2019-01-09 Thread Les
Thanks for the suggestions, but I have already checked these accounts and they are the same as all the others (1/1). Les On 1/9/19 9:45 AM, Tom Teixeira wrote: Maybe try Tools>Security Editor. Check the "Fraction Traded" field for those securities which only show whole numbers. The other p

Re: [GNC] Investment Accounts not Displaying Decimals

2019-01-09 Thread David Carlson
I believe you just have to live with it in release 2.6.21 or several other releases below 3.3. You should be able to manually re save any particular entry in decimal form if it is really bothering you, but why bother if it does not appear that way in reports? David C On Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 9:52

Re: [GNC] Investment Accounts not Displaying Decimals

2019-01-09 Thread Tom Teixeira
Maybe try Tools>Security Editor. Check the "Fraction Traded" field for those securities which only show whole numbers. The other place to look is "Smallest Fraction" field for the account itself, though as I recall, the default is "Use Commodity Value" which is set by the Security Editor. On 1/9/1

Re: [GNC] Investment Accounts not Displaying Decimals

2019-01-09 Thread Les
As far as I can determine, there is nothing in preferences that addresses this issue.  Also, there are only 2 maybe 20 investment accounts with this issue. Les On 1/9/19 8:14 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: Op woensdag 9 januari 2019 12:51:45 CET schreef Adrien Monteleone: Check preferences. Ther

Re: [GNC] Investment Accounts not Displaying Decimals

2019-01-09 Thread John Ralls
> On Jan 9, 2019, at 6:14 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: > > Op woensdag 9 januari 2019 12:51:45 CET schreef Adrien Monteleone: >> Check preferences. There is an option for this. >> >> Regards, >> Adrien > > While I may be wrong I thought this was only introduced in the 3.x series ? 3.3 and late

Re: [GNC] Investment Accounts not Displaying Decimals

2019-01-09 Thread Geert Janssens
Op woensdag 9 januari 2019 12:51:45 CET schreef Adrien Monteleone: > Check preferences. There is an option for this. > > Regards, > Adrien While I may be wrong I thought this was only introduced in the 3.x series ? Geert ___ gnucash-user mailing list

Re: [GNC] Investment Accounts not Displaying Decimals

2019-01-09 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Check preferences. There is an option for this. Regards, Adrien > On Jan 9, 2019, at 5:45 AM, Les wrote: > > I have two investment accounts that are not displaying decimals, but > fractions. All other investment accounts are displaying decimals (except > foreign accounts). How to fix this p

[GNC] Investment Accounts not Displaying Decimals

2019-01-09 Thread Les
I have two investment accounts that are not displaying decimals, but fractions.  All other investment accounts are displaying decimals (except foreign accounts).  How to fix this please?  This occurred after upgrading Linux Mint from 18.2 to 19.1 and GC from 2.6.17 to 2.6.21. Thanks, Les __