Re: [GNC] How to Realized Gain/Loss when turned on trading account ?

2020-04-11 Thread David Cousens
Long I have tried experimenting with the trading accounts. I confess to finding the whole currency exchange dialog totally confusing along with the random Imbalance amounts which are intoduced which you somehow have to get back to zero. I am going to have to play and experiment a lot more when I

Re: [GNC] Canadian Sales Tax Questions and/or "Canadian Version" of GnuCash

2020-04-11 Thread jess
Personally, I do it because I can update with command line conveniently. It gives me the App Store update experience and I am well embedded in the homebrew eco-system. John Ralls-2 wrote > Yes, you can use Homebrew, but they just wrap the Gnucash.app that I build > and distribute via https://www.

[GNC] "Capital Loss" is Expense or Income account ?

2020-04-11 Thread Long
GnuCash Documents : https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v3/C/gnucash-guide/currency_invest1.html - 12.5.2. Selling a currency investment "you must account for the profit (or loss) as coming from an Income:Capital Gains account (or Expenses:Capital Loss)" --- Because in

Re: [GNC] How to Realized Gain/Loss when turned on trading account ?

2020-04-11 Thread Adrien Monteleone
You don’t touch the trading accounts directly. Just make your transactions between your normal accounts. GnuCash will add splits for each currency in your transaction to make it balance. Regards, Adrien > On Apr 11, 2020 w15d102, at 12:51 AM, Long > wrote: > > You can't transfer amount to "T

Re: [GNC] How to Realized Gain/Loss when turned on trading account ?

2020-04-11 Thread Adrien Monteleone
David, I’ve seen that problem if you try to fetch rates or let GnuCash use a rate from the price db when you know both the debit and credit in each currency to be exact. Let’s take the example of purchasing an ounce of silver from a coin dealer for $17.34: Dr. Assets:Precious Metals:Silver

Re: [GNC] "Capital Loss" is Expense or Income account ?

2020-04-11 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Record it in the income account. Some people keep both a Capital Gain *and* a Capital Loss account. But you really only need the Capital Gain account for most purposes. (your local laws may require both however) With one account, both gains and losses are recorded in that same account. Gains w

[GNC] Keeping Imported Transactions from Overwriting Data?

2020-04-11 Thread Eric H. Bowen via gnucash-user
I've been using GnuCash for my personal finances, and I've noticed one annoying problem. When I write a paper check, I put the payee's name and associate information in the "Description" and "Notes" field. But, when I import transactions from my credit union (usually with QFX) prior to reconcil

Re: [GNC] Keeping Imported Transactions from Overwriting Data?

2020-04-11 Thread David Carlson
In cases where I don't want GnuCash to overwrite existing transaction with an imported one, I set the imported transactions as new. I try to assign the correct account if I know it. This creates a duplicate so I need to manually match them up and delete the ones that I don't want later. On Sat

Re: [GNC] Keeping Imported Transactions from Overwriting Data?

2020-04-11 Thread D. via gnucash-user
It's been a while since I imported transactions, but I seem to recall there being a point where you could tell the matcher to (R)econcile or (U)pdate the existing entry.  Choosing R should set the transaction to cleared and leave your manually-entered data intact. Now,  why that matcher defaul

Re: [GNC] Keeping Imported Transactions from Overwriting Data?

2020-04-11 Thread David Carlson
David T, You are right. I too am not sure why the (U)pdate option overwrites the text of the existing transaction, but I think that it usually is offered as the default when the date of the matched transaction is not the same as the imported transaction, and possibly when the importer tries to ma

Re: [GNC] Keeping Imported Transactions from Overwriting Data?

2020-04-11 Thread Jim DeLaHunt
Eric: On 2020-04-11 10:10:20 -0500, "Eric H. Bowen" wrote: When I write a paper check, I put the payee's name and associate information in the "Description" and "Notes" field. But, when I import transactions from my credit union (usually with QFX) prior to reconciling, the data I entered is ove

[GNC] Gnucash and Windows 10 Aero snap feature

2020-04-11 Thread ameet
Hi All, Is there a property in a gnucash config that I can edit to allow aero snap control handed to windows 10? It seems gnucash 3.x series doesn't get along with this feature. I have an ultrawide monitor. In default mode, if I snap gnucash to left or right side, it snaps perfectly fine a

Re: [GNC] How to Realized Gain/Loss when turned on trading account ?

2020-04-11 Thread David Cousens
Long I found that setting up the transfers makes a lot more sense using the toolbar Transfer icon or the Menu->Actions->Transfer as you are more easily able to setup the debits, credits and the accounts and the exchange rate seems to work a bit more naturally and uses a different dialog I was th

[GNC] GnuCash 3.10 Released

2020-04-11 Thread John Ralls
The GnuCash development team announces GnuCash 3.10, the eleventh release of the 3.x stable release series. Changes This is a snap release to reverse the changes to the reconcile window's filtering reconciled transactions with a reconcile date after the current statement date when computing t

Re: [GNC] Gnucash and Windows 10 Aero snap feature

2020-04-11 Thread John Ralls
There's no config for that. AeroSnap isn't fully supported by Gtk. For a somewhat technical discussion of why and whether it will change in Gtk4, see https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/issues/105. Regards, John Ralls > On Apr 11, 2020, at 2:41 PM, wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Is there a pro

Re: [GNC] How to Realized Gain/Loss when turned on trading account ?

2020-04-11 Thread Long
David Cousens, 1 - Trading Accounts only show in the Balance Sheet, I tried to create Income Statement Report, And there are no Accounts named "Realized Gains or Loss" like you said. You should create a new file, and using the new version GnuCash (newest version is 3.9). 2 - Like i said, There ar

Re: [GNC] How to Realized Gain/Loss when turned on trading account ?

2020-04-11 Thread David Cousens
Long, Balance Sheet and Income Statement are attached for a simple test which involved a currencytransfer of 100 AUD to a USD account and then a transfer back from the USD account to the AUD with a different exchange rate that created a loss of 0.26 using trading accounts to record. I used the men