Re: How to deal with RRSP's (Canada)

2018-01-02 Thread Cam Ellison
On 02/01/18 06:52 PM, DaveC49 wrote: Larry If your withdrawals from the RRSP are taxable on withdrawal then I think your approach of using two files recording transfers to your bank account from the RRSP as Expenses in the RRSP account and Income in your main accounts should work fine as it

Re: How to deal with RRSP's (Canada)

2018-01-02 Thread lejohnston
Victor, Dave, Thanks for your help. At this point my file is not very large and my new RRSP file will be quite small, so I think I will give this approach a try. Larry On 01/02/18 06:08 PM, "R. Victor Klassen" wrote: > > > > > > I kind of like your approach - thus

Re: How to deal with RRSP's (Canada)

2018-01-02 Thread DaveC49
Larry If your withdrawals from the RRSP are taxable on withdrawal then I think your approach of using two files recording transfers to your bank account from the RRSP as Expenses in the RRSP account and Income in your main accounts should work fine as it will satisfy the accounting equation in

Re: How to deal with RRSP's (Canada)

2018-01-02 Thread R. Victor Klassen
The remaining unanswered question, which I think is part of the original question, is what to do about withdrawals being treated as taxable income? For those in the US, an RRSP is roughly equivalent to an (non-Roth) IRA. Contributions are tax deductible, earnings are tax-deferred; withdrawals

Re: How to deal with RRSP's (Canada)

2018-01-02 Thread DaveC49
Larry, I'm not familiar with the details of RRSP accounts in Canada so any comments here are general in nature and not taken as accounting advice per se. If it is a retirement savings account you would treat it as an Asset. Depending upon the conditions associated with withdrawal of funds from

Re: Security Editor

2018-01-02 Thread Carlos A. Garcia
David / John, I have just one saving account in U$S. There are not others securities/commodities. The same file opened in Windows works perfect (with just one currency to check/update USD to ARS). I checked that Alphavantage key is correct in Linux (in Windows too). The F::Q

Re: Split Transaction To Personal And Business

2018-01-02 Thread Christopher Lam
Well within the regular register there's no mechanism for inputting, e.g. $40 electricity paid and have the system allocate among splits according to a formula. There's however a mechanism for inputting in a Scheduled Transaction (known as SX), e.g. let's say 50% use is personal and 50% is