Re: [GNC] asset discrepancy in change of year

2021-03-28 Thread Andrea Borgia
Il 27/03/21 19:04, Michael or Penny Novack ha scritto: Now we come to the end of the year, at which point let's say the exchange rate is $1.25/1 EUR. Those $1300 are no longer worth 1000 Eur. They are worth 1040 EUR. Your equity has gone up by 40 EUR. I will stop here because the issue of how

Re: [GNC] closing of books and multiple currencies: a question on exchanges

2021-03-28 Thread Andrea Borgia
Il 27/03/21 22:54, David Cousens ha scritto: On the mutual fund purchase. It is most likely that the fund will > have paid US taxes on its earnings so you are unlikely to be liable > for any tax in the US so there is likely little value in maintaining > US expense or income accounts. I base

Re: [GNC] asset discrepancy in change of year

2021-03-28 Thread Andrea Borgia
Il 27/03/21 23:23, David Cousens ha scritto: As the (Income - Expense) is already recorded against Assets when you create the transactions, you are including them twice in the total you are calculating. Please keep in mind that I am neither an accountant nor a native English speaker, therefo

Re: [GNC] asset discrepancy in change of year

2021-03-28 Thread David Cousens
Andrea, Glad you have the problem worked out. I was working from your description of your calculation. Appreciate the difficulties when you have a second language and a lack of background. The good point about the user list is we are all often coming from different perspectives so all possibiliti

[GNC] Trading accounts functionality

2021-03-28 Thread zuperkoleoptera
I've been using gnucash since 2014, recording my personal finances and investments. I am in Europe so my main currency is EUR. Up until now my investments were in EUR currency as well as some crypto, which are again expressed in EUR currency. Lately I started building an investment portfolio i

[GNC] GnuCash 4.5 Released

2021-03-28 Thread John Ralls
The GnuCash development team announces GnuCash 4.5, the sixth release in the stable 4.x series Between 4.4 and 4.5, the following bugfixes were accomplished: • Bug 783283 - Multi-Currency payments use wrong date Also properly handles the user clicking the cancel button on the transfer d

[GNC] New Financial Year

2021-03-28 Thread Peter Williamson
I don't need to "close books" but would like to create a new gnucash file at the beginning of a financial year and archive the previous years file. Can I do this by just doing a "save as" with an appropriate file name for the new financial year? Would this then leave the previous financial yea

Re: [GNC] New Financial Year

2021-03-28 Thread Derek Atkins
Hi, If you have a data file called, say Books-2020, and then you do: Save and then Save-As and name the new one Books-2021, then you'll have "archived" Books-2020 and GnuCash will, by default, open Books-2021 until you tell it otherwise. -derek On Sun, March 28, 2021 7:09 pm, Peter Williamson wr

Re: [GNC] New Financial Year

2021-03-28 Thread Peter Williamson
Hi Derek Thanks very much Peter > On 29 March 2021 at 12:40 Derek Atkins mailto:de...@ihtfp.com > wrote: > > > Hi, > > If you have a data file called, say Books-2020, and then you do: > Save > and then > Save-As > and name the new one Books-2021, then you'll have "archi