Re: [GNC] Accounting for gold coins

2019-03-02 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Don’t let the detail disuade you. I was just being as thorough as I could muster. Even without knowing where everything is, the entire setup shouldn’t take more than about 15–30 minutes. (maybe a tad longer if you have lots of opening entries you need to make for current holdings, or if you want

Re: [GNC] Stocks/Equities queries (Australian Based)

2019-03-02 Thread Xboxboy Mageia
HI guys, I got several stocks all entered in now: Really happy with how that's gone. Now I'm tripped up on a bonus issue of shares. For some reason I'm lost one how to enter these bonus shares that cost zero. I enter in 16 new shares to the correct asset/stocks/sharecode account, but even when I

[GNC] Order of transactions

2019-03-02 Thread Lisa Kurtz
Hi, I just started using GnuCash, and am still trying to figure out all the tips and trick of how to use this. I am coming from Quicken, and one of the things that I was able to do in there that I can't seem to figure out in GnuCash is choosing the order that the transactions are posting. For exam

[GNC] Can't get online currencies

2019-03-02 Thread Sam Wuermli
I'm trying to get online auto currency updates. I think I have everything setup according to chapter 9 of the manual. Finance::Quote is installed, GBP and CHF have Get Online Quotes set in Security Editor. In Price Editor I see the two currencies plus CAD as default currency. When I click on Get Qu

Re: [GNC] Order of transactions

2019-03-02 Thread David Cousens
Lisa In the register display for an account you will see a field Num. You can specify a number for each transaction which will determine the order in which the transactions are displayed.This however affects all registers in which the transaction appears as per the second reference below. It is r

Re: [GNC] Order of transactions

2019-03-02 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Lisa, I will add to David’s advice that you can use the NUM field other than a simple 1,2,3,4... You might, for example, need or want to keep an actual transaction number with the transaction. For that case, you can put the real transaction number in the Action or Memo field of the split. Ot