Karl:
I understand your situation. I also keep my books primarily in Canadian
dollars, but track investments in US dollars.
On 2023-01-07 09:56, Karl wrote:
…If I purchase foreign stocks
(foreign to Canada), my broker automatically converts my CAD "broker cash
account" to USD to purchase the
Thanks, John.
I am a self-directed investor, using an online broker. My structure would
be something like this:
Bank account ---> transfer funds to ---> online broker cash account (all in
CAD $) > all my investments
I then use my single online broker cash account to purchase my investments
GnuCash prioritizes direct prices over indirect ones, so if you have a single
AAPL-CAD price in your price database and a bunch of AAPL-USD and USD-CAD ones
the latter will be ignored when trying to price AAPL in CAD and you'll almost
always get the single direct price.
Two more important
I would think that if your home currency is CAD and you buy some USD
stocks, you'd first transfer some cash from your CAD bank into your
brokerage account in USD, then immediately use the latter to purchase your
AAPL.
On Sat, 7 Jan 2023, 5:46 am Karl, wrote:
> Hi there John,
>
> Thanks for the
Hi there John,
Thanks for the information. Very helpful! Perhaps I am setting up my
foreign (USD) investment accounts all wrong. I'm trying to follow the
instructions and examples in Chapters 9.5 and 9.6, but I can't
reconcile the instructions with your explanation.
So if I set-up the account
That's a very long-running discussion with another Canadian CPA, see
https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797796
and https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798004.
The simplest workaround is to set up an account structure that looks like
Assets
Investments
Stocks
Hello David and everyone,
Thank you for your messages. A little background about myself: I'm a
Canadian (born and raised), and a CPA. I have been using GnuCash for a
while now, but am interested in delving deeper into its functions that can
be useful to me. I use GnuCash only for personal and
Welcome to GnuCash Karl!
> Specifically, I am trying to set-up the online pricing list for stock
> quotes.
Have a read of these topics:
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Stocks/add_stock
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Online_Quotes
Regards
Geoff
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On 6/01/2023 12:30 pm, Karl wrote:
Hello
Welcome to gnucash Karl.
I think from memory Nabble went away during the pandemic about 12 months
ago, so maybe forget that one :-) If you have any questions, post them
here to the gnucash user list (gnucash-user@gnucash.org) and you'll get all
the help you need. Also just a heads up do NOT use
Hello there!
I am a new user to GnuCash and am looking for some assistance. I have
subscribed to the mailing list and am attempting to access the Web Forum
(Nabble) for further assistance from other users.
Specifically, I am trying to set-up the online pricing list for stock
quotes.
Please
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