Re: [GNC] Return of capital and trading acnt

2023-03-21 Thread Chris Grinton
No. You enter a return of capital the same way regardless of whether trading accounts are or are not used. From: gnucash-user on behalf of Fred Tydeman Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2023 6:47:29 AM To: Gnucash Users Subject: [GNC] Return of capital and trading

[GNC] Return of capital and trading acnt

2023-03-21 Thread Fred Tydeman
If one is using Trading Accounts, does that impact how Return of Capital is recorded? I looked in the Tutorial and Concepts Guide and found the Return of Capital section. It has no mention of Trading accounts. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@

Re: [GNC] Return of Capital

2019-04-20 Thread cicko
John Ralls-2 wrote > That's an interesting way of handling an RoC. The only downside for those > of us with different tax rates depending on how long we hold an investment > is that it resets the purchase date, and if we're not paying attention > might make one think at tax time that the $500 RoC w

Re: [GNC] Return of Capital

2019-04-19 Thread Adrien Monteleone
John, I thought the same thing on price, but if you look closely, the “1” is cut off because the column is too small. The line total reflects that indeed, that split was at $10. Regards, Adrien > On Apr 19, 2019, at 9:55 PM, John Ralls wrote: > > > > Alen, > > Sorry, I missed the imgur li

Re: [GNC] Return of Capital

2019-04-19 Thread John Ralls
> On Apr 19, 2019, at 2:34 PM, cicko wrote: > > John Ralls-2 wrote >> IIUC the transaction that you're creating is between IPE and AUD. That >> will cause trading account splits as they operate between any differing >> commodity pair, not just between currencies. > > Right, that's what I woul

Re: [GNC] Return of Capital

2019-04-19 Thread cicko
John Ralls-2 wrote > IIUC the transaction that you're creating is between IPE and AUD. That > will cause trading account splits as they operate between any differing > commodity pair, not just between currencies. Right, that's what I would expect. John Ralls-2 wrote > The example doesn't show sh

Re: [GNC] Return of Capital

2019-04-19 Thread John Ralls
Alen, Yes, I saw that. IIUC the transaction that you're creating is between IPE and AUD. That will cause trading account splits as they operate between any differing commodity pair, not just between currencies. I presume that you're working on the transaction in split view. In that view GnuCas

Re: [GNC] Return of Capital

2019-04-19 Thread Adrien Monteleone
> On Apr 19, 2019, at 12:24 AM, cicko wrote: > > Adrien Monteleone-2 wrote >> Interesting that GC is throwing that Trading split in at all. The >> transaction balances without it. I’ll presume this brokerage account for >> the fund and the cash are both in AUD also? > > Correct. My case is in

Re: [GNC] Return of Capital

2019-04-18 Thread cicko
John, I've included the answer to your question(s) in the thread continuing on Adrien's answer. There may be something wrong with the insertion of the adjusting splits. In both cases, you might want to follow up there. Thanks! -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f141

Re: [GNC] Return of Capital

2019-04-18 Thread cicko
Adrien Monteleone-2 wrote > Interesting that GC is throwing that Trading split in at all. The > transaction balances without it. I’ll presume this brokerage account for > the fund and the cash are both in AUD also? Correct. My case is in AUD even though the example which suggests how to post such

Re: [GNC] Return of Capital

2019-04-18 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Interesting that GC is throwing that Trading split in at all. The transaction balances without it. I’ll presume this brokerage account for the fund and the cash are both in AUD also? Does manually adding: Dr.(buy) Trading:CURRENCY:AUD $500 Satisfy GC and avoid the pop-up? The two Trading sp

Re: [GNC] Return of Capital

2019-04-18 Thread cicko
Hi! Thanks for the feedback. Let me try to answer both your and John's questions and perhaps a few details along the way. > Let's say there is $1000 in 100 shares in IPE account. 2000-01-01 * Bought IPE Assets:Investments:Broker:Shares:IPE100 IPE {10.00 USD} [2000-01-01] @ 10.00 USD Ass

Re: [GNC] Return of Capital

2019-04-17 Thread John Ralls
> On Apr 17, 2019, at 8:03 AM, cicko wrote: > > I'm trying to record the recommended transaction as > > 2019-04-01 * Return of capital > Assets:Investments:Broker:Cash 500.00 USD > Assets:Investments:Broker:Shares:IPE100 IPE { 5.00 USD} [2000-01-01] > @ 5.00 USD > Assets

Re: [GNC] Return of Capital

2019-04-17 Thread Adrien Monteleone
cicko, I confess, while I use trading accounts (for PMs) I don’t track stocks, so maybe I can’t be of help, but what are you expecting the balancing transaction below to be? I see three splits which appear balanced, one to cash for $500 (presumably debit because it is listed as a positive and

Re: [GNC] Return of Capital

2019-04-17 Thread cicko
I'm trying to record the recommended transaction as 2019-04-01 * Return of capital Assets:Investments:Broker:Cash 500.00 USD Assets:Investments:Broker:Shares:IPE100 IPE { 5.00 USD} [2000-01-01] @ 5.00 USD Assets:Investments:Broker:Shares:IPE -100 IPE {10.00 USD} [2000-01

[GNC] Return of Capital

2019-04-17 Thread cicko
Hi, I'm trying to run some reports with ledger but have hit the wall at the very beginning. The return-of-capital transactions are reported as invalid. I'm following the instructions for recording this type of transaction and the $ amount goes from IPE account to Cash. Unfortunately, ledger does n