Newbie Qs

[Benoit Grégoire]

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On Thursday 18 March 2004 14:18, Keith Iosso wrote:
> Q7. What is the point of forcing the commodity setting for all stock
> accounts?

There is no point in a stock account without a commodity in gnuCash, as they 
are denominated in the quantity of the commodity you own (a constant unless 
you do some operation on it), not their value (which is normally not constant 
at all).

> Q9. If the stock account that I have in the real world has cash
> balances, can I use it as the statements arrive for me or do I need to
> create an extra bank account to hold the cash?

You normally don't need a separate account.
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Benoit Grégoire, http://step.polymtl.ca/~bock/
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