Re: [GNC] Can a bank account have sub-accounts?

2023-03-13 Thread Alton Brantley
and the bank register will open with its name followed by a “+” so my “Bank of America” account opens as “Bank of America+” --Alton Brantley ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe

Re: [GNC] Equity account changed to Trading Account

2021-09-26 Thread Alton Brantley via gnucash-user
ry > setting > the Parent Account for the trading account to "New top level account" and then > try changing the account type back to Equity and then reset the parent account > to Equity. > > David Cousens > > On Sat, 2021-09-25 at 17:17 -0400, Alton Brantley w

[GNC] Equity account changed to Trading Account

2021-09-25 Thread Alton Brantley
Trading accounts for any reason as I don’t use foreign currency. Any ideas appreciated --Alton Brantley ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman

[GNC] Gnucash 4.1 on Mac Crashing on Exit

2020-08-25 Thread Alton Brantley
It seems that if I have a couple of unsaved transactions, and then go to exit Gnucash, I can get a crash. If I have one or two transactions I have edited but not saved, and I do Menu->File->Quit, 1. I get asked to save a transaction, so I click yes, then 2. I get asked to safe the file before

Re: [GNC] Disappearing entries

2020-06-18 Thread Alton Brantley
Are you, by chance, using the “Import transactions from CSV” capability to update your accounts? If so, you should be aware that sometimes the transaction matched is one that has already been reconciled, so it appears that the transaction has been added when, in fact, it has updated a

Re: [GNC] looking for quicken alternative

2020-03-27 Thread Alton Brantley
I was in the same boat, and made the conversion, and would never go back. There are a few steps to take to accomplish the migration, and to understand the conceptual differences between the two programs. However, it’s worth it once you get the process working for you. If you have any questions,

Re: [GNC] Find or search all expenses in a certain account

2020-03-10 Thread Alton Brantley
In situations like this, I have usually just moved the 10 or so transactions from the current account(“AccountX”) to a new account (say AccountXNew), then delete AccountX, then rename AccountXNew to AccountX. ___ gnucash-user mailing list

Re: [GNC] Apple Card csv

2020-02-03 Thread Alton Brantley
like the program has hung. Go get a cup of coffee or take a bathroom break! -Alton Brantley > Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2020 11:44:01 -0500 > From: Keith Bellairs mailto:ke...@bellairs.org>> > To: gnucash-user email group <mailto:gnucash-user@gnucash.org>> > Subject: [GNC]

[GNC] Getting slow response and logged faults in 2.6.21 to 3.7-1 conversion

2019-09-12 Thread Alton Brantley
On Mac OS X 10.14.6, I’ve moved from Gnucash 2.6.21 to 3.7. All the data look fine, BUT I get lots of beachballs as I move from one screen to the next, or even scroll within a register. Looking at the logs, I get lots of Gnucash process messages along the lines of "found no value for key

Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions: Why create in advance?

2019-07-11 Thread Alton Brantley
, utilities, etc) in the Bank:Payments due account. When I want the actual Bank account updated, I just open each subaccount, edit off the “:Income due” or “Payments due”, and the transaction is moved to the parent account. -Alton Brantley > Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2019 15:20:33 -0500 (CDT) >

Re: [GNC] Need better documentation - and maybe more robust functionality - on using Lots

2019-06-24 Thread Alton Brantley
If you’re a day-trader, I can sympathize, put you would probably find the same issues with other personal accounting programs. I use Gnucash to manage 7 different investment portfolios, including trading options, and I track commission fees, reconcile the lots, adjust for partial lot sales,

[GNC] QFX vs OXR/QXF

2019-05-15 Thread Alton Brantley
You should be aware that the OFX import will use the posting date only as its import date. Your statements will list the transaction date, so your statements and your ledger will not match directly. For that reason, I have gone back to using CSV import format, because the CSV import tool

Re: [GNC] how to track Futures and Options

2018-12-15 Thread Alton Brantley
I carry options as a stock. Just multiply the contracts by 100 to show shares under options. Regarding commissions, I have a subaccount under the brokerage account labeled “Open Commissions”. When I execute an opening transaction, then the commission is debited to “Open Commissions”. I think of

Re: [GNC] how do I get different dates for balancing transactions when transferring amounts between two accounts

2018-05-15 Thread Alton Brantley
Under each account for which this can occur, I create a subaccount called “ACH” for “Automated Clearing House,” so when the originating account registers the transfer transaction, the target account’s subaccount “ACH” gets the corresponding split. Then, when the receiving account registers the

[GNC] Handling Return of Capital in Reinvested dividends

2018-04-14 Thread Alton Brantley
I am trying to deal with Return of Capital events happening over a series of dates, therefore a series of lots. For whatever reason, I am not able to adjust individual lot amounts. Example: Tx 0:January 1,2017 $1000 DR Stock:XYZ Corp 100 sh @ $10/shr $1000 CR Cash And in ACTION->View Lots

Re: What's the best way to model "in-flight" transactions?

2017-09-28 Thread Alton Brantley
The way I handle this is to create a subaccount of my bank accounts labeled “Bank1:ACH” for automated clearing house. Then the transactions look like this (where Db means debit, Cr means credit, and assuming credit card is paid $1000.00) Bank1 is an account of type bank (an asset), ACH is a

Re: Printing reports without spliting text across pages

2017-08-10 Thread Alton Brantley
I run Gnucash on a Mac, but under VirtualBox with Ubuntu. That way, my data is stashed on a virtual disk for security and it’s a cleaner environment. > On Aug 9, 2017, at 7:46 AM, gnucash-user-requ...@gnucash.org wrote: > > Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2017 07:37:53 -0700 (PDT) > From: Jeffrey Black

Getting OFX import to use DTUSER vs DTPOSTED

2017-06-10 Thread Alton Brantley
valid date indication for each transaction, and that’s what get used I would love to have an option, by account, which would allow me to specify which date entry takes precedence! -Alton Brantley ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org