Re: [GNC] currency of "value" in stock account

2021-11-12 Thread Lionel Élie Mamane
On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 08:57:40AM -0600, David Carlson wrote: > One minor additional fact about the GnuCash Stock register, while it > may not identify the currency underlying individual transaction > split lines, it does have an indication in the lower left corner of > the current number of share

Re: [GNC] currency of "value" in stock account

2021-11-12 Thread Lionel Élie Mamane
On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 07:41:13AM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: > On Thu, November 11, 2021 5:19 am, Lionel Élie Mamane wrote: > The stock account uses the parent account currency for the > TRANSACTION currency (i.e., what you see in VALUE). By "what you see in VALUE", you mean what I see in the "D

Re: [GNC] currency of "value" in stock account

2021-11-12 Thread Lionel Élie Mamane
Yes, sorry, my first message got held for moderation because it was sent from a different email address than the one I subscribed as, so I resent it from the "correct" email address, but forgot to cancel the first held up post. On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 05:29:05PM -0500, D. via gnucash-user wrote: >

Re: [GNC] currency of "value" in stock account

2021-11-11 Thread David Carlson
Oops. On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 10:49 AM Lionel Élie Mamane wrote: > On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 08:57:40AM -0600, David Carlson wrote: > > One minor additional fact about the GnuCash Stock register, while it > > may not identify the currency underlying individual transaction > > split lines, it does

Re: [GNC] currency of "value" in stock account

2021-11-11 Thread Lionel Élie Mamane
On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 04:36:59PM +0100, Lionel Élie Mamane wrote: > On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 07:41:13AM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: >> You don't need the exchange-rate dialog because those are already >> represented in the stock-account view (in expanded mode). > I now discover that this indeed t

Re: [GNC] currency of "value" in stock account

2021-11-11 Thread David Carlson
One minor additional fact about the GnuCash Stock register, while it may not identify the currency underlying individual transaction split lines, it does have an indication in the lower left corner of the current number of shares identified by the security symbol, e.g. IBM and the current value in

Re: [GNC] currency of "value" in stock account

2021-11-11 Thread Derek Atkins
Hi, On Thu, November 11, 2021 5:19 am, Lionel Élie Mamane wrote: > On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 05:52:32PM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: >> On Tue, November 9, 2021 12:04 pm, Lionel Élie Mamane wrote: >>> On Tue, Nov 09, 2021 at 07:31:08AM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: [snip] > According to your previous m

Re: [GNC] currency of "value" in stock account

2021-11-11 Thread Lionel Élie Mamane
On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 05:52:32PM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: > On Tue, November 9, 2021 12:04 pm, Lionel Élie Mamane wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 09, 2021 at 07:31:08AM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: >>> It is the currency of the parent account. So in this case it >>> would be the currency of Assets:Invest

Re: [GNC] currency of "value" in stock account

2021-11-10 Thread David Carlson
I too am confused now. IIRC the previous message noted that currency values were not specifically identified by the currency name when they appeared in the transaction view, which did seem to be a valid concern, but this does not mention that. Now my mail editor will not let me review what this m

Re: [GNC] currency of "value" in stock account

2021-11-10 Thread Derek Atkins
Hi, On Tue, November 9, 2021 12:04 pm, Lionel Élie Mamane wrote: > On Tue, Nov 09, 2021 at 07:31:08AM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: >> On Tue, November 9, 2021 6:41 am, Lionel Élie Mamane wrote: [snip] >> It is the currency of the parent account. So in this case it would >> be the currency of Assets

Re: [GNC] currency of "value" in stock account

2021-11-10 Thread D. via gnucash-user
I feel like we have heard this all before? Original Message From: "Lionel Élie Mamane" Sent: Tue Nov 09 05:44:34 EST 2021 To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: [GNC] currency of "value" in stock account I setup a security. I create an account of type "Stock" that uses that se

Re: [GNC] currency of "value" in stock account

2021-11-10 Thread Lionel Élie Mamane
On Tue, Nov 09, 2021 at 06:04:13PM +0100, Lionel Élie Mamane wrote: > On Tue, Nov 09, 2021 at 07:31:08AM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: >> On Tue, November 9, 2021 6:41 am, Lionel Élie Mamane wrote: >>> I create an account of type "Stock" that uses that security, let's say >>> assets:investments:fooba

Re: [GNC] currency of "value" in stock account

2021-11-09 Thread Lionel Élie Mamane
On Tue, Nov 09, 2021 at 07:31:08AM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: > On Tue, November 9, 2021 6:41 am, Lionel Élie Mamane wrote: >> I create an account of type "Stock" that uses that security, let's say >> assets:investments:foobar >> I open the register for that account >> Now, there are columns "pri

Re: [GNC] currency of "value" in stock account

2021-11-09 Thread Derek Atkins
Hi, On Tue, November 9, 2021 6:41 am, Lionel Élie Mamane wrote: > I setup a security. > I create an account of type "Stock" that uses that security, let's say > assets:investments:foobar > I open the register for that account > > To enter an operation, in column "shares", I enter the number of > s