[GNC] Using GnuCash as an Accounting Tutor

The first two sections of the GnuCash Guide https://www.gnucash.org/viewdoc.phtml?doc=guide are a tutorial to introduce accounting and the application respectively. The whole concept of reconciling a cheque account is very dated in a time when countries move to abandon cash, but it covers the

Re: [GNC] Using GnuCash as an Accounting Tutor

The only book I know about is https://www.packtpub.com/product/gnucash-24-small-business-accounting-beginners-guide/9781849513869. The GnuCash version is obviously a bit old but the general operation of GnuCash hasn't changed. Regards, John Ralls > On Sep 9, 2023, at 19:44, wrote: > >

[GNC] Using GnuCash as an Accounting Tutor

Dear all, I teach a course in Corporate Valuation Theory that is taken by students from a variety of disciplines. Many of them have not studied accounting, and while I devote two lectures and two homework assignments to the subject, it is impossible to convey the depth of this vast subject and

Re: [GNC] Stock quotes hung

I was wrong. The gnucash-cli command, after a couple of minutes, did finish. And looking at the price history, it did get the AT price for yesterday. So, it looks like things are very slow for some reason. Perhaps the internet at this airbnb is causing problems. On Sat, Sep 9, 2023 at 5:19 PM

Re: [GNC] Stock quotes hung

I have removed Get Quotes for all of my stocks and have just GBP currency getting quotes. Doing the gnucash-cli command works. If I add in just one stock (T == AT), gnucash-cli hangs. I tried adding in --debug to that gnucash-cli, but nothing stood out as a problem. Suggestions?

Re: [GNC] Stock quotes hung

Unfortunately no. The Securities window can show which ones are set (click the arrow at the right end of the header row and check Get Quotes) but the control isn't sensitive so you have to double-click on each line item and change it in the Security Editor dialog box. Regards, John Ralls > On

Re: [GNC] Who this "Jim" is, and intermittent delivery of gnucash-user posts [was: Re: gnucash_user: rounding errors and significant digits]

Jim, And I'm sorry for making you waste your time investigating that. I didn't check the archive, I searched my local mailbox on the subject ("gnucash_user: rounding errors and significant digits") and turned up only Bruces most recent two posts. Armed with the date from your 108251 link I

Re: [GNC] Gnu Cash stopped working 2 days ago.

David, That's very strange, `string->number` is a guile function used only in the QIF importer. Please run /Application/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash --debug and attach the resulting tracefile (see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Tracefile). It may be quite long so don't try to paste in

Re: [GNC] Stock quotes hung

Is there an easy way to add or remove Get Quotes for many stocks at a time? On Sat, Sep 9, 2023 at 11:50 AM john wrote: > > GnuCash 4.14 uses the old perl utilities gnc-fq-check and gnc-fq-dump. The > info and dump commands were added to gncuash-cli --quotes in 5.0. > > FWIW I retrieved an AAPL

Re: [GNC] Who this "Jim" is, and intermittent delivery of gnucash-user posts [was: Re: gnucash_user: rounding errors and significant digits]

I'm sorry, I made a mistake in my message below. The Jim message which Bruce was quoting, in the Bruce message to which John replied, did in fact make it to the gnucash-user list archive[4], but in August, so of course it was not in the September archive[1]. Thus, the list archive is not

[GNC] Who this "Jim" is, and intermittent delivery of gnucash-user posts [was: Re: gnucash_user: rounding errors and significant digits]

On 2023-09-09 12:36, john wrote: I don't know who this "Jim" is, their replies are not making it to the list Oh dear. I spend time writing my messages to Bruce McCoy. It would be a pity if they didn't make it to the list. This "Jim" is me, Jim DeLaHunt . The Jim message which Bruce was

Re: [GNC] gnucash_user: rounding errors and significant digits

Hello, Bruce: I would like to reply to a few places in your detailed message where I think I can clarify the argument. On 2023-09-09 10:59, Bruce McCoy via gnucash-user wrote:     "he actual $value of this $price and #shares is $14.99896, a difference of $0.00104." At the moment,

Re: [GNC] Gnu Cash stopped working 2 days ago.

Dear John, Thank you for your suggestions: there is nothing in the crash report and this is what the terminal output is: Last login: Fri Sep 8 23:30:43 on console alandavidsmith@Alans-MacBook-Pro ~ % /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash Application Path

Re: [GNC] gnucash_user: rounding errors and significant digits

On 2023-09-09 12:19, Ken Farley wrote: > I really don't see what is so difficult to understand about this. > > The key equation is AMOUNT = PRICE * SHARES > > Gnucash works under the philosophy that two of those terms must be > maintained precisely: > > AMOUNT - the total cost of the

Re: [GNC] gnucash_user: rounding errors and significant digits

Bruce, I don't know who this "Jim" is, their replies are not making it to the list. Unfortunately their understanding of GnuCash's handling of amount, value, and price is flawed. Amount is the quantity of a split in the split account's commodity. Value is that amount converted to the

Re: [GNC] gnucash_user: rounding errors and significant digits

I really don't see what is so difficult to understand about this. The key equation is AMOUNT = PRICE * SHARES Gnucash works under the philosophy that two of those terms must be maintained precisely: AMOUNT - the total cost of the transaction. What you ultimately paid in the currency of your

Re: [GNC] gnucash_user: rounding errors and significant digits

Jim,      Thank you for your response of Mon, Aug 21, 2023 at 5:00 PM via GnuCash-user.   In it you said:     "Logically, $value = $price/share * #shares, and this should be precise equality."   This is certainly true.   And accuracy is a top consideration in a financial program.         

Re: [GNC] Gnu Cash stopped working 2 days ago.

Open /Applications/Utilities/Console and click Crash Reports in the sidebar. If GnuCash is crashing there will be a detailed report there. If there's nothing, try opening /Applications/Utilities/Terminal and running GnuCash from the command line:

Re: [GNC] Stock quotes hung

> On Sep 9, 2023, at 06:37, Fred Tydeman wrote: > > I am running GnuCash 4.14 on Fedora Linux 37 > > Last weekend, I could get stock quotes. > Yesterday and today, all I get is a spinning circle. > I end up rebooting Linux to get out of a hung session. > All of my stocks are getting prices

Re: [GNC] Gnu Cash stopped working 2 days ago.

Dear Sir, It stopped working suddenly. I then updated it to 5.3 and it still was shutting down on opening it. I have also only just updated to the latest version of Ventura. This has made no difference. I have checked the Apple permissions - again there is nothing obvious. Regards, David

Re: [GNC] Anomalous behaviour of a Bank Account Register

Sorry to hear that, but it does take a pretty steady hand. Hopefully, your daughter will be able to get it for you. Good Luck! Thank You, Gyle McCollam Gyle McCollam gmccol...@live.com email From: Peter Jackson

Re: [GNC] Gnu Cash stopped working 2 days ago.

Hi Alan, Has the MacOS been recently updated? This may have broken something or other. You might try getting a fresh installation of GnuCash and installing it, or you could use Time Machine and go back a couple of days and restore just the program file. If none of those work I'd look at the

[GNC] Stock quotes hung

I am running GnuCash 4.14 on Fedora Linux 37 Last weekend, I could get stock quotes. Yesterday and today, all I get is a spinning circle. I end up rebooting Linux to get out of a hung session. All of my stocks are getting prices from yahoo as json. In looking at the online documentation in 11.3

[GNC] Transaction Splits for Australian ETF Annual Statements

I got sick typing into a spreadsheet so I got the app to extract the data directly from the pdf to create the transaction splits: https://github.com/flywire/ETF-Annual-Statement One line of code will compile it into a Windows *.exe to avoid python if anyone wants it. There is a start on a gui

[GNC] Gnu Cash stopped working 2 days ago.

Hello everyone, I am using MacBook Pro M! And my Gnu Cash has suddenly stopped opening. It looks was though it is opening up normally and then just switches off. Does anyone no why - It does not make sense to me. Regards, David Smith 54 Pryme Street Anlaby, HU10 6SH.

[GNC] Potential issue with inversion of currency conversion rate during CSV import of transactions

Hi! I came across a potential issue with the use of the correct rate for cross-currency transactions during CSV imports where I hope others here could reproduce the issue or tell me where I took a wrong turn during thinking. use case: As a German national I live and work abroad in Sweden