[newbie alert] Mortgage/Auto Loan/Stocks How-to ...
Mehul N. Sanghvi
mehul@sanghvi.org
Mon, 11 Mar 2002 00:43:00 -0500
'allo,
I had used GnuCash once upon a time, when it was 1.2.x and then
briefly again when it was 1.4.x. I am back again, trying to get a
grasp on my finances (once again).
I downloaded, via CVS, the latest stable tree (branch 1-6-stable),
and tried to build it, but had no luck with it. I will send
another email shortly pointing out what is going wrong.
In the meantime I have 1.6.4 installed and running. In my
previous flirtations with GnuCash, I used to maintain simple
checking and savings. It worked great. I now have a mortgage,
auto loan, stocks, etc. that I would like to also maintain. So
here are the questions:
1. How do I go about adding mortgage into GnuCash ? I have had
the mortgage for several years now. Do I need to start to set
it up so that it starts from the begining, or can I just pick
up from here and move forward ? What kind of account would I
set up for this ? With double-entry bookkeeping, would I need
to create two accounts ?
2. The same situation as above for the car loan.
3. I have stocks in a Roth IRA, along with mutual funds. How do
I go about adding these into GnuCash ? Should I just start
with what the quantity of stocks I have as off today, along
with the average cost of each share ? Or should I put in
every purchase and sale ? How do I account for stock splits
that have occured ?
For the time being I believe the above questions will suffice. Is
there a FAQ for this, that I might have missed out on ? I did not
see one at the web site.
thanks,
mehul
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