Re: [GNC] Delete a trading account => crash

2024-05-19 Thread Fred Tydeman
s and let it > calculate the Price column. It does get crazy when you have multi-currency > enabled and/or are dividend reinvestment transactions ... > > > -Original Message- > From: Fred Tydeman > Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2024 1:04 AM > To: Gnucash Users > Subject:

[GNC] Delete a trading account => crash

2024-05-18 Thread Fred Tydeman
Running GnuCash 4.14 on Fedora Linux. Due to a mistake on my part, I have two Trading accounts: IVR-PC IVRPRC for the same security. First, I tried changing Trading:IVRPRC to Trading:IVR-PC in a Sell or Buy transaction from the cash account. However, when I pressed Enter, Gnucash undid my

Re: [GNC] Finance::Quote PreRelease 1.61_03

2024-05-02 Thread Fred Tydeman
make depend fails (as there is no 'depend' target in the makefile). On Thu, May 2, 2024 at 6:16 AM Kalpesh Patel wrote: > If you are installing it into the system installed perl, which most likely > you are doing so with a su switch user utility, then correct way to do so > would be to: > > #

Re: [GNC] Finance::Quote PreRelease 1.61_03

2024-05-02 Thread Fred Tydeman
, the Debian/Ubuntu > package will be named libfoo-bar-perl and for Fedora/Redhat it will be > named perl-Foo-Bar. > > If you have cpan modules installed then it is a good idea to initialize it > by executing 'o conf commit' at CPAN shell prompt of 'cpan>'. > > -Original Mess

Re: [GNC] Finance::Quote PreRelease 1.61_03

2024-05-01 Thread Fred Tydeman
Running: sudo make install worked. I was able to get stock quotes again. So thank you. Trying: cpan cpanm locate cpan Gets nothing on my linux. dnf list cpan* gets: cpanspec.noarch On Wed, May 1, 2024 at 8:07 PM Bruce Schuck wrote: > On 5/1/24 7:39 PM, Fred Tydeman wr

Re: [GNC] Finance::Quote PreRelease 1.61_03

2024-05-01 Thread Fred Tydeman
install' failed due to permission issues. Does it need 'su' to do the install? On Wed, May 1, 2024 at 7:09 PM Fred Tydeman wrote: > I am running Fedora Linux 26 > I downloaded the Finance::Quote. > When I run: perl Maklefile.pl > I get: Can't locate ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm > So, c

Re: [GNC] Finance::Quote PreRelease 1.61_03

2024-05-01 Thread Fred Tydeman
I am running Fedora Linux 26 I downloaded the Finance::Quote. When I run: perl Maklefile.pl I get: Can't locate ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm So, can you point me to more complete documentation? On Tue, Apr 30, 2024 at 8:00 PM Bruce Schuck wrote: > A few more fixes and additions to Finance::Quote.

Re: [GNC] Finance::Quote PreRelease 1.61_03

2024-05-01 Thread Fred Tydeman
Can I apply this update to my older 4.14 Gnucash system on Linux? On Tue, Apr 30, 2024 at 8:00 PM Bruce Schuck wrote: > A few more fixes and additions to Finance::Quote. For those who are > comfortable with the interim releases, 1.61_03 has been uploaded to CPAN. > > >

[GNC] One LLC pay expense of another LLC

2024-04-28 Thread Fred Tydeman
If LLC-a pays an expense of LLC-b ie, cash from LLC-a goes to expense of LLC-b, should I also show a transfer of equity from LLC-a to LLC-b? It seems that needs to be done so that the Balance sheet for LLC-b is correct. ___ gnucash-user mailing list

[GNC] Use 4.14 and 5.6 on same file (at different times)

2024-04-28 Thread Fred Tydeman
Will I run into problems if I use both GnuCash 4.14 and 5.6 on the same file / book? That is, 4.14 is on my current production Linux system and where I use Gnucash. I have installed a later Linux system on a different disk partition and it has Gnucash 5.6 If I were to use Gnucash 5.6 to enter some

Re: [GNC] Multiple Currencies with Balance Sheet not balanced

2024-04-22 Thread Fred Tydeman
A guess on my part. In the Balance sheet: Click on Options Click on Commodities Click on Price Source Try Closet to Report Date You might also check if the conversion rate between PHP and USD was recorded: Tools Price Database Currencies Look in both USD

Re: [GNC] IRA conversion

2024-04-06 Thread Fred Tydeman
ht first sell your regular > IRA into a (taxable) Distributions account. That would allow creation of > any gains entries necessary. Then use the Distributions account to buy into > the Roth. > > I'm sure others will inform me and you of the errors in my advice. > > David T. >

[GNC] IRA conversion

2024-04-05 Thread Fred Tydeman
Suggestions on how to record moving cash and stock from a regular IRA to a Roth IRA so that a taxable event is recorded? ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe:

Re: [GNC] Find account

2024-03-30 Thread Fred Tydeman
gt; work if you are in a report, so go to an account register or your > chart of accounts). > > David > > > On Sat, 30 Mar 2024 at 01:36, Fred Tydeman wrote: > > > > Is there a way to find all accounts that contain a given string? > > I am looking for *quote*

[GNC] Find account

2024-03-29 Thread Fred Tydeman
Is there a way to find all accounts that contain a given string? I am looking for *quote* somewhere in the account name. Gnucash 4.14 on Fedora Linux ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to

Re: [GNC] Finance Quotes Yahoo off the rails again?

2024-03-29 Thread Fred Tydeman
I am on Fedora Linux, GnuCash 4.14 and yahoo_json works for me (just got the quarter ending prices for both stocks and currencies). On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 7:59 PM David G. Pickett via gnucash-user < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > So anyone care to recommend a source setting for quotes that

[GNC] Last day of month

2024-03-23 Thread Fred Tydeman
Is there a way to force reports (such as Assets over time) to show values on the last day of the month (instead of the first day of the month)? ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to

[GNC] Max value during year

2024-03-10 Thread Fred Tydeman
Is there an easy way to find the maximum value of an account during a given time period (such as a year)? I currently do: Reports: Assets & Liabilities: Asset chart: Options: Accounts: the account I care about Display: Show table General: Start and End of previous year (or specific

Re: [GNC] Bill total does not match real total

2024-03-07 Thread Fred Tydeman
Actually, DFP (decimal floating point) has been part of gcc since 2005. DFP is now part of standard C (C23). DFP was first proposed for C in 2003 N1016 01-Sep-2003 Mak, Extension for the programming language C to support decimal

Re: [GNC] Net Assets

2024-02-25 Thread Fred Tydeman
In one of my files/books that holds just US assets (no foreign), when I click on the down arrow at the bottom of the screen (to the right of Profits), I get a list of assets that I can scroll thru. On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 3:38 PM Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) < stan...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > Thanks

Re: [GNC] Net Assets

2024-02-24 Thread Fred Tydeman
On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 4:23 PM Fred Tydeman wrote: > The "Net Assets" value at the bottom of the screen does NOT match the > Assets account Present(USD) value. > So, when I saw the word "Net", I assumed Assets-Liability. > But, as you pointed out, tha

Re: [GNC] Net Assets

2024-02-24 Thread Fred Tydeman
799026 appears to be that bug report (search for "Summary Bar") On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 4:06 PM Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > And I'm pretty sure there is a bug filed on it. > > Regards, > Adrien > > On 2/24/24 2:14 PM, David H wrote: > > Thank you for that as I

Re: [GNC] Net Assets

2024-02-24 Thread Fred Tydeman
hael or Penny Novack < stepbystepf...@comcast.net> wrote: > On 2/24/2024 2:10 PM, Fred Tydeman wrote: > > I am looking at the Accounts account screen. > > At the bottom of the screen, is Net Assets: $xxx and Profits: $yyy > > I assume Net Assets is the current value o

Re: [GNC] Net Assets

2024-02-24 Thread Fred Tydeman
ttom ticker net asset displays multiple accounts, from the drop down > select Grand total then it will show you the net asset as per your balance > sheet > > > > Saludos Cordiales > > > Murugan > -- > *From:* gnucash-user hotmail@g

Re: [GNC] Net Assets

2024-02-24 Thread Fred Tydeman
ayed in that bar. > > Stan Brown > Tehachapi, CA, USA > https://BrownMath.com > > On 2024-02-24 11:36, Murugan Muruganandam wrote: > > the bottom ticker net asset displays multiple accounts, from the drop > down select Grand total then it will show you the net asset a

[GNC] Net Assets

2024-02-24 Thread Fred Tydeman
I am looking at the Accounts account screen. At the bottom of the screen, is Net Assets: $xxx and Profits: $yyy I assume Net Assets is the current value of Assets - Liabilities. If that is the case, numbers are wrong by a lot. If that is not the case, what is Net Assets? Running GnuCash 4.14 on

[GNC] Popup shows wrong acnt

2024-02-08 Thread Fred Tydeman
OS: Linux GC 4.14 I have some accounts open, so the bar near the top shows the accounts. If I hover the mouse over one of those accounts, I get a popup with the full "path" (acnt:subacnt:subacnt:...). I then click on the leftmost Accounts, pick one of those other accounts (that are on the bar),

Re: [GNC] Compare two sets of accounts?

2024-01-21 Thread Fred Tydeman
On Linux, on the command line: gnucash --nofile On Sun, Jan 21, 2024 at 8:06 AM Myron A Schroeder wrote: > Where do I find the " --nofile runtime parameter." > > ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription

Re: [GNC] QIF import ignore account

2024-01-20 Thread Fred Tydeman
On Sat, Jan 20, 2024 at 3:02 PM Geoff wrote: > Hmmm... > > When I try importing that file into GnuCash 5.5 it crashes silently, and > the trace file contains just one line: > > * 09:56:13 WARN Failed to open application manifest > `C:\Program >

Re: [GNC] QIF import ignore account

2024-01-20 Thread Fred Tydeman
> > Regards, > Adrien > > On 1/20/24 4:33 PM, Fred Tydeman wrote: > > If there is some trace or dump file that I should be looking for, > > I do not know what/where it is. > > ___ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnu

Re: [GNC] QIF import ignore account

2024-01-20 Thread Fred Tydeman
On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 5:57 PM Geoff wrote: > The reason for this problem you encountered with the QIF Importer: > > > However, when I do the Import in GnuCash, it shows up as: > > Income:Dividends:Assets:us:Investments:TaxFree:f:Roth-F-Fid.:blue owl > cap > > Is this record in your file: >

Re: [GNC] Idiot 101 question

2024-01-16 Thread Fred Tydeman
This is the only way I know to still run 16-bit DOS programs They will NOT run under recent Microsoft Windows (except maybe in DOS Box). Quicken for DOS (Version 8.0, 1994) | 16-bit Microsoft DOS emulator (built into OS/2) | 32-bit OS/2 (IBM operating system; actually eComStation follow-on) |

Re: [GNC] Viewing account balances of today

2024-01-14 Thread Fred Tydeman
On the accounts tab, top right corner (down pointing arrow): Click on: Present or Present(USD) Depends upon how you want stocks/mutual funds to show up (shares or dollars) On Sun, Jan 14, 2024 at 8:21 AM Thomas wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I was wondering whether it is possible to change the

Re: [GNC] End of Year?

2024-01-13 Thread Fred Tydeman
On Sat, Jan 13, 2024 at 9:20 AM R Losey wrote: > I gather that the main reason for "closing" books is that on the "Accounts" > tab, one can see the year-to-date expenses and income instead of the total > since one started using GnuCash. It's a neat idea. > Another option is to use the

[GNC] QIF import ignore account

2024-01-13 Thread Fred Tydeman
GnuCash 4.14 on Linux As part of a QIF import, I have the following transaction: ^ D1/12'24 NDiv Yblue owl cap CX T122.50 Mblue owl cap LIncome:us:NoTax:Roth-F-Fid:div:blue owl cap ^ However, when I do the Import in GnuCash, it shows up as:

Re: [GNC] QIF import Failed

2024-01-07 Thread Fred Tydeman
Thank you. Is that documented somewhere in Gnucash? On Sun, Jan 7, 2024 at 4:02 PM Derek Atkins wrote: > Indeed. QIF treats the L[XX] as Asset/Liability account and LXX as an > Income/Expense account (Category). > -derek > > ___ gnucash-user mailing

[GNC] QIF import Failed

2024-01-06 Thread Fred Tydeman
Running GC 4.14 on Linux During an import of a QIF file, I am getting "Failed" on the QIF Import screen. The message at the top of the box says there should be details shown below for my review. However, there are no details about the failure. Suggestions on where I should look for the details

Re: [GNC] Can I print an account?

2023-12-18 Thread Fred Tydeman
How about the "PrtSc" (Print Screen) key? On Mon, Dec 18, 2023 at 3:59 PM Simon Roberts < si...@dancingcloudservices.com> wrote: > Hi all, I'd like to be able to print a range of transactions in a single > account. Essentially just a dump of what I see on the screen, though I > suppose I would

Re: [GNC] Size of description column not shrinkable?

2023-12-17 Thread Fred Tydeman
Try doing Going from right to left Double click the column headers / titles area eg, Balance, then Credit, then Debit, then Transfer, then Description ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to

[GNC] Accounting Period Change issue

2023-12-17 Thread Fred Tydeman
In trying to track down a Total (Period) issue, I used Edit -> Preferences -> Accounting Period to change the Start Date and End Date fields to Absolute dates. After doing Close of that dialog, there appeared to be no change in the values in the Total (period) column. I expected a change, but

Re: [GNC] Wrong Total(Period)

2023-12-14 Thread Fred Tydeman
All of the (sub)accounts have either no transactions no transactions in 2023 So, for 2023, they all should be zero. Doing an Income report for those gets zero. On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 4:17 PM Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > I'm not familiar with how it works with

Re: [GNC] Wrong Total(Period)

2023-12-14 Thread Fred Tydeman
2023. On Wed, Dec 13, 2023 at 5:10 PM Fred Tydeman wrote: > OS: Fedora Linux 36 > GnuCash: 4.14 > > Looking at the expanded Chart of Accounts, Total(Period) shows a non-zero > amount > for a specific Income account. Yet, all of the accounts and sub-accounts > involved

[GNC] Wrong Total(Period)

2023-12-13 Thread Fred Tydeman
OS: Fedora Linux 36 GnuCash: 4.14 Looking at the expanded Chart of Accounts, Total(Period) shows a non-zero amount for a specific Income account. Yet, all of the accounts and sub-accounts involved have 0 for Total(Period). There are no transactions for this year for any of these accounts. I

[GNC] Adding security during import

2023-12-02 Thread Fred Tydeman
When I import a QIF file that contains stocks that GnuCash does not know about, I get a screen to provide details about Tradable commodities. It would be nice if there were a button at the bottom to advance to the next security (in addition to the existing advance to the next screen == QIF

Re: [GNC] GNU Cash not performing math functions correctly on entry [SOLVED]

2023-12-01 Thread Fred Tydeman
In GC of 4.14 using Automatic Decimal, 1/3 gets 0.33, while 1./3 gets 33.33 On Fri, Dec 1, 2023 at 9:42 AM Fred Bone wrote: > On 01 December 2023 at 0:27, Adrien Monteleone said: > > > It is working fine here on MacOS and Linux Mint. > > > > Can you replicate it with a fresh test book using

Re: [GNC] GNU Cash not performing math functions correctly on entry [SOLVED]

2023-12-01 Thread Fred Tydeman
In GC 4.14, using Automatic Decimal of 2 On Fri, Dec 1, 2023 at 9:42 AM Fred Bone wrote: > On 01 December 2023 at 0:27, Adrien Monteleone said: > > > It is working fine here on MacOS and Linux Mint. > > > > Can you replicate it with a fresh test book using all default settings? > > I can

Re: [GNC] I need basic help

2023-10-25 Thread Fred Tydeman
At top left of screen, click on Accounts. Then under Account Name, click on Expenses Then click on New at top of screen. that will get you a popup to create a new account. On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 10:02 AM Edwin Booth via gnucash-user < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > How do I add a new

[GNC] Bad date not caught

2023-10-12 Thread Fred Tydeman
In an account, I clicked on Duplicate of a transaction. I got a small popup with the date field highlighted. I typed in 5.19.21 (instead of the correct 5/19/21) and pressed enter. That got me the transaction duplicated, but with the date of 12/31/1969. Seems like the code should warn me about bad

Re: [GNC] Stock quotes hung

2023-10-09 Thread Fred Tydeman
I am back home and stock quotes is working fine. So, my problem must have been a very slow internet connection. It would be nice if there were some way to cancel a stock quote fetch in progress. I had to reboot the entire Linux system before. On Sat, Sep 9, 2023 at 3:25 PM Fred Tydeman wrote

Re: [GNC] Stock quotes hung

2023-09-09 Thread Fred Tydeman
Fred Tydeman wrote: > 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,

Re: [GNC] Stock quotes hung

2023-09-09 Thread Fred Tydeman
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

2023-09-09 Thread Fred Tydeman
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

[GNC] Stock quotes hung

2023-09-09 Thread Fred Tydeman
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] Intl currencies

2023-08-29 Thread Fred Tydeman
I am tracking COP, EUR, GBP, THB about every two weeks. My base currency is USD. After doing Tools: Price database: Get Quotes, I see that EUR, GBP, and THB all have today's prices. But not COP. There are entries for COP up until around 07/18/2023. However, under USD, there is an entry for COP

[GNC] Month date in report

2023-08-22 Thread Fred Tydeman
In the Asset Chart (Assets over time) report, picking a step size of one month, is there a way to have it use the last day of the month (instead of the first day of the month)? ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your

Re: [GNC] Consolidation of family member accounts

2023-08-14 Thread Fred Tydeman
Based upon my usage of keeping three separate "trusts" in the same one file/book, If multiple family members own the same stock, then the Trading transactions will be a pain to keep correct. I gave up and went with three separate files/books. On Mon, Aug 14, 2023 at 12:00 PM James Thomas wrote:

[GNC] Convert Money Market stock acnt to Bank acnt

2023-08-12 Thread Fred Tydeman
Is there an easy way to convert a money market stock account to a bank account? Since the price is always $1, and each transaction has Trading splits, the money market accounts are adding extra data to the book file and the price history file. ___

Re: [GNC] Addition to basis

2023-08-08 Thread Fred Tydeman
Thank you for the instructions. I started with my existing transaction with the Imbalance split in one of the Income accounts. In the Imbalance split, I changed the Imbalance account to the stock asset account. Pressed tab twice. Got a popup of Transfer Funds. Changed the Currency transfer

Re: [GNC] Addition to basis

2023-08-08 Thread Fred Tydeman
Brad > > P.S. Although I like to include all the related emails in my response, > Thunderbird (the email client I use - > https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/) is separating flywire's email, even > though it has the same subject line, from Fred & Derek's emails...? > > > On 8/8

[GNC] Addition to basis

2023-08-08 Thread Fred Tydeman
How does one record an Addition to basis for a stock? The splits involved are: Income: qualified div Income: non-qualified div Expense: foreign tax Asset: cash Imbalance -- should be addition to basis I have tried changing the Imbalance to Asset: stock with a price of 0.00, but

[GNC] Small amount

2023-08-02 Thread Fred Tydeman
I am trying to record a sale of a crypto coin and a purchase with that cash. Sell 76 "A" for $0.006 total Buy 0.1 "B" for 0.06/share for $0.006 total But, the system keeps changing the total buy/sell $ to 0.01 from 0.006 Is there a way to keep more digits in the USD? I changed the parent

Re: [GNC] Ideas and recommendations for community project

2023-08-01 Thread Fred Tydeman
On Tue, Aug 1, 2023 at 7:43 AM Michael or Penny Novack < stepbystepf...@comcast.net> wrote: > > > And yet, apart from that, it would already help me a lot if there was an > idea how I could promptly and internally (i.e. without all tax aspects > and legal requirements) map the (partial) payments

[GNC] Currency conversion

2023-07-30 Thread Fred Tydeman
I have noticed that my Price Database has both COP -> USD and USD -> COP conversion rates. Does it matter? ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe:

Re: [GNC] Income Statement versus Transaction Report

2023-07-19 Thread Fred Tydeman
On Wed, Jul 19, 2023 at 9:09 PM Steve Butler wrote: > Look on the currency tab if I remember correctly. > Transaction Report: Options: Currency: Price source: Last up through report date. Income Statement: Options: Commodities: Price source: Last up through report date. So, they are the same.

Re: [GNC] Income Statement versus Transaction Report

2023-07-19 Thread Fred Tydeman
On Wed, Jul 19, 2023 at 9:44 PM Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > I could be mistaken, but if you wanted each and every transaction to be > converted to the FX rate at the time of each transaction, then the only > way to do that would be with trading accounts turned on

Re: [GNC] Income Statement versus Transaction Report

2023-07-19 Thread Fred Tydeman
On Wed, Jul 19, 2023 at 8:24 PM David Cousens wrote: > Fred, > > You may need to look at the report options for the transaction report to > ensure > they match the settings used for the income statement report particularly > the > setting for beginning and end dates and the account settings. >

[GNC] Income Statement versus Transaction Report

2023-07-19 Thread Fred Tydeman
In looking at Income Statement versus Transaction Report for just Income accounts for all of last year, the numbers do not match. My main currency is USD. However, for this file, all the income was in COP. Now, during the year the number of COP / USD varied a lot: from around 3748 to 4846; year

Re: [GNC] Cannot alter Trading value

2023-07-18 Thread Fred Tydeman
On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 9:13 AM john wrote: > To change the price in a bank register, right-click the stock split and > select "Edit Exchange Rate" from the pop-up menu. In the exchange rate > section of the resulting transfer dialog select the "amount" radio button > and enter the number of

Re: [GNC] Cannot alter Trading value

2023-07-18 Thread Fred Tydeman
On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 7:52 AM Gyle McCollam wrote: > If you changed the dollar amount, you would need to change either the > number of shares and/or the price per share as well. Otherwise the price > per share * number of shares still equals the original dollar amount and > the difference

[GNC] Cannot alter Trading value

2023-07-17 Thread Fred Tydeman
I entered a purchase of stock (the dollar amount and the number of shares). The system added two trading splits. I saved the file. I reopened the file. I now realize I typed the dollar amount wrong. I open the transaction and show the four splits. I change the dollar amount in the purchase

[GNC] Report: Asset Chart: Same security twice

2023-07-16 Thread Fred Tydeman
In looking at a Report: Asset Chart, I noticed that the same security appears twice. It appears this is due to the security being moved from a mutual fund company to a brokerage account. It is the same investment. Is that the expected behaviour? Is there a way around this?

[GNC] Bar chart - no data - not enough levels

2023-07-06 Thread Fred Tydeman
I am trying to do an Asset Bar Chart like the one in the Help file for Investments (that one shows AMZN). I select Reports: Assets and Liabilities: Asset Chart For the options, I select one Mutual Fund account (which is priced in COP). I take the Default for Display In General, I alter the Start

[GNC] Capital gains

2023-06-23 Thread Fred Tydeman
If I sell a stock for a profit, I can think of two ways to record the transaction. 1) Record the sale with the sell price. This results in less shares in the stock account, and more cash somewhere else; and two trending transactions. This shows up as four splits. But, then, how

Re: [GNC] Account name with ':' in it

2023-06-07 Thread Fred Tydeman
Bug 798949 has been filed. I changed the Namespace by editing the uncompressed XML file. On Wed, Jun 7, 2023 at 5:33 PM john wrote: > > > > On Jun 7, 2023, at 07:50, Fred Tydeman wrote: > > > > When I started Gnucash today (after doing a QIF import yesterday),

[GNC] Account name with ':' in it

2023-06-07 Thread Fred Tydeman
When I started Gnucash today (after doing a QIF import yesterday), I am getting a popup: The separator character ":" is used in one or more account names. This will result in unexpected behaviour. Either change the account names or choose another separator character. Below you will find the

Re: [GNC] Invalid transactions

2023-06-04 Thread Fred Tydeman
and then re-enter the > scheduled txn. > > Regards David H. > > > On Mon, 5 Jun 2023 at 07:45, Fred Tydeman wrote: > >> When I start up Gnucash, I am getting a popup: >> Unknown account for guid[...], canceling SX [fjt+kab policy] creation. >> >> Whe

[GNC] Invalid transactions

2023-06-04 Thread Fred Tydeman
When I start up Gnucash, I am getting a popup: Unknown account for guid[...], canceling SX [fjt+kab policy] creation. Where should I be looking for that bad transaction? I have tried using backups from several days ago and still get that error message. OS: Fedora Linux 37 Gnucash 4.14

[GNC] gnc-fq-update missing

2023-05-30 Thread Fred Tydeman
On Linux Fedora 37, gnucash 4.14, gnc-fq-update is missing. Actually, I have many versions of Fedora Linux, each with different versions of GnuCash, and none of the systems have gnc-fq-update. In looking at the online gnucash docs, section 11.*, I do not see instructions on getting gnc-fq-update;

Re: [GNC] gunzip test.gnucash fails

2023-05-28 Thread Fred Tydeman
On Sun, May 28, 2023 at 4:20 AM Ken Farley wrote: > Where did you get the impression that you could use gunzip to uncompress > the files? > A previous message about mass change of stock price source used gunzip as part of that process. But, in rereading that message, I see that I missed that

Re: [GNC] gunzip test.gnucash fails

2023-05-28 Thread Fred Tydeman
Besides changing lines like: tb are there any other places I need to worry about? On Sun, May 28, 2023 at 4:26 AM Derek Atkins wrote: > For the record, yes, you can use gunzip, but you have to manually rename > it > first. > Having said that, the name space is used throughout the file, so you

[GNC] gunzip test.gnucash fails

2023-05-27 Thread Fred Tydeman
I am trying to unzip a copy of my gnucash file with: gunzip test.gnucash But, I get: unknown suffix -- ignored I am running Fedora Linux 37 and Gnucash 4.14 I am trying to change the name of a parent security namespace which has many children. I had hoped that I could edit the uncompressed XML

Re: [GNC] Tax report options

2023-05-14 Thread Fred Tydeman
When I get the 1099 DIV forms for mutual funds and stock brokerage accounts, I add two transactions dated year end (if this is the only mention of foreign taxes): Foreign tax: +xxx (expense) Dividend: +xxx (income) for each net foreign tax paid for each security. I am looking for the

Re: [GNC] Tax report options

2023-05-14 Thread Fred Tydeman
ngle code. > > Note that you cannot go through and set all your accounts to various tax > assignments in one pass; the code doesn't allow that (or at least hasn't in > my experience). > > David T. > On May 14, 2023, at 11:43 AM, Fred Tydeman wrote: >> >> I have marked a

[GNC] Tax report options

2023-05-14 Thread Fred Tydeman
I have marked a dividend parent account as Sch B dividend income. Is there an easy way to apply that to all of its child accounts? Or, do I have to add the income tax information to each child one by one? ___ gnucash-user mailing list

[GNC] Tax report options

2023-05-14 Thread Fred Tydeman
Is there a way to add to the Edit -> Tax Report Options? For example, I would like to add Form 1116 Foreign Tax Credit ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe:

[GNC] Two accounts: same name, same parent

2023-05-14 Thread Fred Tydeman
In looking at my account tree, I see two accounts with the same name with the same parent. That seems wrong. In looking at them, one is a placeholder, the other is a normal account. Now that I see that issue, I have moved the normal account to be a child of the placeholder and renamed it.

[GNC] Shortcuts in Security Editor

2023-05-06 Thread Fred Tydeman
On Linux, is the file /home//.local/share/gnucash/accelerator-map the entire set of shortcuts? Or, is it possible to add others? I would like one to quickly delete a Security in the Security Editor (instead of clicking on Remove). Also, it would be nice if the Highlight line moved to the next

Re: [GNC] Easy way to delete old transactions

2023-05-06 Thread Fred Tydeman
>> >> >> Sent from Samsung Galaxy smartphone. >> >> >> >> Original message >> From: Fred Tydeman >> Date: 5/6/23 3:07 AM (GMT-05:00) >> To: Gnucash Users >> Subject: [GNC] Easy way to delete

[GNC] Easy way to delete old transactions

2023-05-06 Thread Fred Tydeman
Is there an easy way to delete all transactions in all accounts before a certain date? ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe:

[GNC] Cannot change Trading splits

2023-04-30 Thread Fred Tydeman
I have an older existing transaction with splits for an ATM transaction of getting Euros for US dollars. I duplicate it with today's date. I Click on Split to open up the new transaction. I change the amounts and tab out of each split. And in the process update the currency conversion rate. I

[GNC] Transactions in Placeholder

2023-04-28 Thread Fred Tydeman
My understanding is Placeholder accounts should have zero transactions in them. However, when I Import a QIF file, sometimes I end up with transactions in a Placeholder account. It would be nice if the importer would give a warning about putting transactions into a Placeholder account. That

Re: [GNC] Reconcile w/ open transaction

2023-04-25 Thread Fred Tydeman
OS: Linux Fedora 37 GnuCash 4.14 On Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 9:30 PM David Carlson wrote: > Fred, Please remind us of your GnuCash release and OS, since there has > been some rather recent changes in the areas involved on your question. > > On Tue, Apr 25, 2023, 1:14 PM Fred Tydeman w

Re: [GNC] Error in Advanced Portfolio

2023-04-25 Thread Fred Tydeman
the error message misleading. On Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 7:08 AM Fred Tydeman wrote: > When I run an Advanced Portfolio report, I am getting: > > There is an error processing the transaction 'spinoff of 0.00 currency > units'. This may to be caused by a sell transaction causing a negative >

[GNC] Reconcile w/ open transaction

2023-04-25 Thread Fred Tydeman
I updated three transactions by changing N to C in the R column and correcting the amount in the last of the three transactions. I did a Reconcile and ended it with Finish. I tried to save the book / file. That got me a popup telling me I had an open transaction and should I close it. I clicked

[GNC] Error in Advanced Portfolio

2023-04-24 Thread Fred Tydeman
When I run an Advanced Portfolio report, I am getting: There is an error processing the transaction 'spinoff of 0.00 currency units'. This may to be caused by a sell transaction causing a negative stock balance, and a subsequent buy transaction causing a zero balance. This leads to a

Re: [GNC] Advanced Portfolio report: missing income

2023-04-24 Thread Fred Tydeman
same > > https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v4/C/gnucash-guide/invest-dividends1.html > > > > > Saludos Cordiales > > > Murugan > -- > *From:* gnucash-user hotmail@gnucash.org> on behalf of Fred Tydeman > > *Sent:* Monday, Apr

[GNC] Advanced Portfolio report: missing income

2023-04-24 Thread Fred Tydeman
In the Advanced Portfolio report, I select All Accounts. I get a report. It shows zeros for most of the stocks in the Income column. Yet, those stocks are paying dividends. I then go back to the Options: Accounts and none of Income, Expenses, Liabilities, Equity, or Trading are selected (it

[GNC] Zero entries in Balance Sheet

2023-04-24 Thread Fred Tydeman
In the Balance Sheet options, Display: I have unchecked Include accounts with zero total balances. I have checked Omit zero balance figures Yet, my report has many entries with 0 shares and $0. Is there I am missing? OS: Linux Fedora 37 GnuCash 4.14 ___

Re: [GNC] Balance sheet Trading Gains details

2023-04-24 Thread Fred Tydeman
> Regards, > John Ralls > > > > On Apr 24, 2023, at 8:18 AM, Fred Tydeman > wrote: > > > > Sorry, but that did not work for my needs. > > For the three days I am looking at, no transactions took place. > > I believe that the Balance Sheet Trading Gains is

Re: [GNC] Balance sheet Trading Gains details

2023-04-24 Thread Fred Tydeman
nts. The polarity will be changed between profit and loss. > > > > Saludos Cordiales > > > Murugan > -- > *From:* gnucash-user hotmail@gnucash.org> on behalf of Fred Tydeman > > *Sent:* Monday, April 24, 2023 10:55 AM > *To:* Gnuc

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