Starting a new account
Jon Lapham
lapham at extracta.com.br
Thu Jul 17 12:23:10 CDT 2003
Aaron Siegel wrote:
> Hello
>
> I have been using Gnucash for several years I would like to start a new
> account to clean up my file so I will not be able to see how much I paid for
> college. I want to enter in the opening balance of my mutual funds but I do
> not want to go back five year and recreate all that old information (I would
> also like to focus on what I have and not what I had). I have tired to do
> this a few different ways creating a old asset account to transfer the funds
> from and then left th the number of shares blank, the value of each share and
> then the number of share in the buy field. This will result in a entry with
> the price set to one and the balance to the number of shares. I have tried
> serval different ways and I can not get the price to enter in at any value
> other than 1.
>
> I use to be able to enter in quotes by entering the price and number of
> shares. Can I still do that? How? I am using version 1.8.4
>
Aaron-
I think (maybe wrong) that you are encountering ye' old "commodity set
to a currency" issue with stocks (and mutual funds).
Try following the instructions here:
http://www.jandr.org/temp/gnucashdocs/invest_setup1.html
and let me know if it helps. Try to do this only by reading the
documentation. The docs are new, and I want to see if they are usable.
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Jon Lapham <lapham at extracta.com.br> Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Work: Extracta Moléculas Naturais SA http://www.extracta.com.br/
Web: http://www.jandr.org/
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