Re: [GNC] How to run Year End Procedures for the Tax Year (UK end 5 April 2023), and start new Data set for the New Tax Year starting 6 April 2023

*'When I was a systems designer for corporate accounting systems in the 80s, it was entirely anathema for anything to be modified, EVER. The only way to fix an error, even one made seconds ago, was to add a reversing entry* * and then re-add (the correct version of) the original.'* I was/am a fan

[GNC] Mea Culpa

Concerning the year end discussion, which I have been following, my input was to mention that the manual stated that if you close the books the report totals may be different, and I postulated that this was so as I had tested it and indeed they were different QED. However, as the discussion progres

Re: [GNC] Mea Culpa

On 2023-04-08 02:48, G R Hewitt wrote: > Concerning the year end discussion, which I have been following, > my input was to mention that the manual stated that if you close the books > the report totals may be different, and I postulated that this was so as I > had > tested it and indeed they wer

Re: [GNC] How to run Year End Procedures for the Tax Year (UK end 5 April 2023), and start new Data set for the New Tax Year starting 6 April 2023

Mea Culpa Concerning the year end discussion, which I have been following, my input was to mention that the manual stated that if you close the books the report totals may be different, and I postulated that this was so as I had tested it and indeed they were different QED. However, as the discussi

Re: [GNC] Command line quotes still not fixed

Alphavantage is required for currency rates Saludos Cordiales Murugan From: gnucash-user on behalf of David G. Pickett via gnucash-user Sent: Thursday, April 6, 2023 4:41 PM To: hell...@gmail.com Cc: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: Re: [GNC] Command l

Re: [GNC] Printing bug in GnuCash 5

In File Page Setup reduce the Bottom Margin to 7 (or any lower number than the default) and try it out Saludos Cordiales Murugan From: gnucash-user on behalf of Tommy Trussell Sent: Thursday, April 6, 2023 6:14 PM To: GNU Cash User Subject: [GNC] Prin

[GNC] Calculating IRR of an investment account

I have tried the manual without much success, and tried two different AIs [ChatGPT and Nova] but both give me instructions that don't seem to exist, such as : 1. Click on the "Reports" menu and select "New Report". 2. In the "Report Type" dropdown, select "Transaction". 3. Click on the "Add Col

[GNC] Calculating IRR of an investment account

I have tried the manual without much success, and tried two different AIs [ChatGPT and Nova] but both give me instructions that don't seem to exist, such as : 1. Click on the "Reports" menu and select "New Report". 2. In the "Report Type" dropdown, select "Transaction". 3. Click on the "Add Col

Re: [GNC] Calculating IRR of an investment account

The clue is in the name - Artificial Intelligence (AI) adjective: artificial: made or produced by human beings rather than occurring naturally, especially as a copy of something natural. Fear not, AI is much stupider. On Sat, 8 Apr 2023 at 13:01, Graham wrote: > I have tried the manual wi

Re: [GNC] Calculating IRR of an investment account

On 2023-04-08 05:02, Graham wrote: > I have tried the manual without much success, and tried two different > AIs [ChatGPT and Nova] but both give me instructions that don't seem to > exist, such as : > > 1. Click on the "Reports" menu and select "New Report". > 2. In the "Report Type" dropdown, s

Re: [GNC] Assign as payment does nothing

Note: after having this issue I decided to go to GNUCash 4.14, however I noticed 4.14 has the same issue. So then I went back to 4.13 and the issue was fixed. So there is something that was added to both 4.14 as well as 5.0 which has created a regression, On Fri, Apr 7, 2023 at 6:12 PM Tom Weich

[GNC] New feature suggestion

Using GnuCash Version: 4.8 Build ID: 4.8a+(2021-09-28) Finance::Quote: 1.51 on Ubuntu Linux --- A) Since there is a an account tree export/import tool, it would be useful & time saving to have the following features: 1- An option for  "New account wizard" to directly import a tree stru

[GNC] Calculating IRR of an investment account

I have tried the manual without much success, and tried two different AIs [ChatGPT and Nova] but both give me instructions that don't seem to exist, such as : 1. Click on the "Reports" menu and select "New Report". 2. In the "Report Type" dropdown, select "Transaction". 3. Click on the "Add Col

Re: [GNC] Calculating IRR of an investment account

Thunderbird autosaves drafts, and they do not disappear automatically from the Drafts folder after you send the message. You have to delete them manually. (It's bad design, I agree, because it leads to confusion. But there it is: we get what we pay for.) Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://Brow

Re: [GNC] Calculating IRR of an investment account

On 4/8/2023 10:27 AM, Stan Brown wrote: Thunderbird autosaves drafts, and they do not disappear automatically from the Drafts folder after you send the message. You have to delete them manually. (It's bad design, I agree, because it leads to confusion. But there it is: we get what we pay for.)

[GNC] Importing QFX

I just upgraded to 5.0 and now can no longer find the QFX choice under Import. Where did it go? ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [GNC] Calculating IRR of an investment account

Or, as another example: sites that require a phone number (maybe for 2FA [second factor authentification]), but only accept US phone numbers. It is a major pain for those of us that don't live in the US, but have extensive dealings with US companies. Will On Apr 8, 2023, at 09:18, Michael or P

Re: [GNC] Importing QFX

There is a bug filed, but the fix is promised for 5.1. I reverted back to 4.13 until then. Thank You, Gyle McCollam Gyle McCollam gmccol...@live.com email From: gnucash-user on behalf of Alan Schold via gnucash-us

Re: [GNC] Calculating IRR of an investment account

This thread has been hijacked and no longer ir relating to the original request about creating a report for Internal Rate of Return (IRR). I would like to see an answer to that question. On Sat, Apr 8, 2023 at 10:33 AM William Prescott wrote: > Or, as another example: sites that require a phone

[GNC] Reports don't open after some activity in 5.0

Using 5.0 I have at least thrice encountered an issue in which some (perhaps many) reports don't operate. The menu and submenus open, but selecting an actual report is essentially a no-op: nothing happens. Not all reports fail to open, but the one I've been using as a test case is the Transactio

Re: [GNC] How to run Year End Procedures for the Tax Year (UK end 5 April 2023), and start new Data set for the New Tax Year starting 6 April 2023

Stan, I'm certainly not trying to convince anyone of any procedure, but for those interested, what you describe about the Accounts page without running a report is achievable without closing the books. Adding the column 'Total (period)' to the Accounts page will show only the current account

Re: [GNC] Mea Culpa

G R, Could you perhaps add that info to the bug report on the documentation change? https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798798 If this is verified as in some cases being needed to get those reports to behave with closing entries, that info can be included and/or it might expose a subse

Re: [GNC] Calculating IRR of an investment account

ChatGPT and other 'AI' bots are merely really fancy auto-complete. They produce 'plausible' text, but they have no concept of accuracy or any understanding of the meanings of any of the words used. I have no fear of them because I understand that is what they are. My fear is that others think

Re: [GNC] Calculating IRR of an investment account

I long ago turned off auto-saving drafts for that very reason. Mail.app on MacOS does the same. It will auto-save while you are typing at various stages and you'll end up with multiple drafts of the same in-progress message. I consider that a bug for both apps. I see neither has been addressed

Re: [GNC] How to run Year End Procedures for the Tax Year (UK end 5 April 2023), and start new Data set for the New Tax Year starting 6 April 2023

> On 4/7/23 9:21 PM, Stan Brown wrote: >> I close my books each year so that the balances in my income and >> expense accounts will be totals for the current year only. If I had >> to redo prior-year reports or some reason it would be slightly >> awkward; but that's minor against the convenience (f

Re: [GNC] Importing QFX

It's on holiday. :) It will be back. On Sat, Apr 8, 2023 at 10:31 AM Alan Schold via gnucash-user < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > I just upgraded to 5.0 and now can no longer find the QFX choice under > Import. Where did it go? > > ___ > gnucash-

Re: [GNC] Calculating IRR of an investment account

Personally, I don't necessarily trust what some program may call the IRR... if I wanted to calculate it, I would export the necessary data to a spreadsheet and then use the spreadsheet's power to calculate it. On Sat, Apr 8, 2023 at 11:41 AM David Carlson wrote: > This thread has been hijacked a

Re: [GNC] Calculating IRR of an investment account

On Sat, 8 Apr 2023 13:00:43 +0100 Graham wrote: > I have tried the manual without much success, and tried two different > AIs [ChatGPT and Nova] but both give me instructions that don't seem > to exist, such as : I was wondering if the AI was capable of answering questions as well as the users.

Re: [GNC] Reports don't open after some activity in 5.0

We've fixed several reports issues already so you might try the latest nightly build from https://code.gnucash.org/builds/win32/stable/ Regards, John Ralls > On Apr 8, 2023, at 10:02 AM, wrote: > > Using 5.0 I have at least thrice encountered an issue in which some (perhaps > many) reports

Re: [GNC] Calculating IRR of an investment account

GnuCash doesn't even claim to have an IRR calculation, so exporting to a spreadsheet is the only option. The advanced portfolio report does have "rate of gain" and "rate of return" columns but they're really just percent return, independent of holding period or timing of cash flows. Regards, J

Re: [GNC] Command line quotes still not fixed

I have no currency rate quotes, just US stocks in US dollars. -Original Message- From: Murugan Muruganandam To: hell...@gmail.com ; David G. Pickett Cc: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Sent: Thu, Apr 6, 2023 5:08 pm Subject: Re: [GNC] Command line quotes still not fixed #yiv0949692185 P {mar

Re: [GNC] Calculating IRR of an investment account

As for exporting the correct data for the XIRR function in OpenOffice Calc or Excel, the trick is to use the account filtering feature of the transaction report to exclude any internal transactions within the investment account (such as reinvested dividends, etc); only external transactions (money