Re: [GNC] "Unrealized Losses" in Trial Balance Report

2020-10-17 Thread Phil Diacono
Hi all, I searched on this and found an email thread with the above title, initiated thusly: "On Mar 22, 2018, at 1:02 AM, Richard " where Richard reports the lack of balance in his Trial Balance report. The responses to his email seemed to be put it down to rounding errors and/or Check I

Re: [GNC] Best way to Auto Sync GC Checking Transactions with the Bank?

2020-10-17 Thread David Carlson
Regarding import/update frequency, I would personally shoot for a periodicity that generates a reasonably small number of transactions at a time to handle in ten or fifteen minutes max, as that is when I start to get careless in matching. That could mean daily for some users, or about a week or

Re: [GNC] The type of trading accounts

2020-10-17 Thread Adrien Monteleone
They show up in their own section if I'm not mistaken. While the original question is interesting, I wonder how practical the answer is. Regards, Adrien On 10/17/20 11:58 AM, Stan Brown wrote: And of asset accounts. One way to determine whether its expense account or an asset account is

Re: [GNC] Exchange rate of income statement report

2020-10-17 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Gal, Have you investigated using the Trading Accounts feature? While I do have some multi-currency transactions in my book, I rarely need to do so, but turning on Trading Accounts helped me make sense of them. A caveat, as I believe Will noted: I enter exact amounts for each currency

Re: [GNC] Best way to Auto Sync GC Checking Transactions with the Bank?

2020-10-17 Thread Adrien Monteleone
The Help/Guide and probably the wiki (as well as various threads in this list) will provide more insight into how the Import Matcher works, along with tips and tricks to use it most effectively. My first question would be, "What is the reason for doing this daily? What advantage over larger

Re: [GNC] v4.2 report numbers change over gnucash restarts; Price Database dropping user:price-editor entries.

2020-10-17 Thread Phil Diacono
I filed the issue/enhancement request as https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797983 On 18/10/20 10:15 am, John Ralls wrote: > > >> On Oct 16, 2020, at 10:15 PM, Phil Diacono wrote: >> > > I'm able to reproduce the problem with losing prices, but only with the SQL > backend. It works as

Re: [GNC] v4.2 report numbers change over gnucash restarts; Price Database dropping user:price-editor entries.

2020-10-17 Thread John Ralls
> On Oct 16, 2020, at 10:15 PM, Phil Diacono wrote: > > Hi team, > > I have a vague recollection something like this happened a few years ago > but it was just a display issue, restarting gnucash would display the > seemingly missing manually added currency conversion rate. > > However with

Re: [GNC] The type of trading accounts

2020-10-17 Thread Stan Brown
On 2020-10-17 04:42, Gal wrote: > But on the other hand, when I open a trading account register, I see that > money coming into the account (debit) is increasing its balance, and money > going out of the account (credit) is decreasing the balance, but this is the > behavior of expense accounts.

Re: [GNC] transaction report missing subtotals

2020-10-17 Thread Fran_3 via gnucash-user
I see the problem. After some experimentation I failed to discover a solution. Hopefully someone else here can chip in. On Saturday, October 17, 2020, 3:57:15 AM EDT, Gal wrote: GnuCash - User mailing list wrote > .. On Sorting Tab - set Primary Key to Date to "enable " Primary

[GNC] The type of trading accounts

2020-10-17 Thread Gal
Does a trading account, i.e. an account of type "Trading" that was auto created by the system, acts like an income account or like an expense account? On one hand the concept behind this account type classifies it as an income account: https://www.mscs.dal.ca/~selinger/accounting/tutorial.html

Re: [GNC] transaction report missing subtotals

2020-10-17 Thread Gal
GnuCash - User mailing list wrote > .. On Sorting Tab - set Primary Key to Date to "enable " Primary Subtotal > Date Key) When the primary key is the date, the primary subtotal are displayed. The issue arises when the date is chosen as the secondary key, in which case "secondary subtotal"