Re: [GNC] Australian Foreign Investments Taxation

2020-04-07 Thread David H
Hi Ben, Isn't Libre Office able to highlight a column and change the date format from dd/mmm/ccyy to dd/mm/ccyy for instance ?? Cheers David H. On Wed, 8 Apr 2020 at 00:54, Ben Stanley wrote: > Hello Gnucash Users, > > I have now downloaded the foreign exchange rates from the Reserve Bank >

Re: [GNC] Australian Foreign Investments Taxation

2020-04-07 Thread Ben Stanley
Hello Gnucash Users, I have now downloaded the foreign exchange rates from the Reserve Bank of Australia: https://rba.gov.au/statistics/historical-data.html#exchange-rates Note that the exchange rate data is published in an Excel .xls file. I used LibreOffice to save it as a .csv for import

Re: [GNC] Australian Foreign Investments Taxation

2020-04-07 Thread pobox . deva
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Re: [GNC] Australian Foreign Investments Taxation

2020-04-07 Thread Christopher Lam
Yes, you can do that. File import prices from CSV. On Tue, 7 Apr 2020, 5:22 pm Ben Stanley, wrote: > I can get a CSV file of daily exchange rate data. Is there a way of > importing it into the price database? > > On 7 April 2020 7:17:54 pm Christopher Lam > wrote: > >> The only report which is

Re: [GNC] Australian Foreign Investments Taxation

2020-04-07 Thread Ben Stanley
I can get a CSV file of daily exchange rate data. Is there a way of importing it into the price database? On 7 April 2020 7:17:54 pm Christopher Lam wrote: The only report which is capable of using closest-to-date conversion is the Transaction Report from the Income:Dividends(USD) and

Re: [GNC] Australian Foreign Investments Taxation

2020-04-07 Thread Christopher Lam
The only report which is capable of using closest-to-date conversion is the Transaction Report from the Income:Dividends(USD) and Income:CapGains(USD) accounts, using a Report Currency of AUD. It will choose the USD/AUD price from the price editor list closest to each transaction's posting date.

[GNC] Australian Foreign Investments Taxation

2020-04-07 Thread Ben Stanley
Hello Gnucash people, This question may be more suited to Gnucash developers, but lets try it here first. I need to perform a tax calculation in accordance with instructions from the Australian Taxation Office. All foreign income, deductions and foreign tax paid must be converted to