Stock Value Report....Where is it?

[Dj]

Thanks a ton Beth
it works exactly the way you said.

Could this be added to the doc so that other users may
benefit.

PS I saw Derek's mail before yours. so sorry for the
extra mail

--- Beth Leonard <beth at oasis.slimy.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 07:40:20PM -0700, Dj wrote:
> > But as soon as I moved to the next section (8.5.5)
> > Making Stock Value Reports I could not figure out
> > where I could find this option. I am using gnucash
> > 1.8.11 on Fedora Core 3. gnucash was installed
> from
> > the Fedora update servers
> 
> I believe the report you are looking for is:
> Reports -> Assets & Liabilities -> Asset Barchart
> 
> If you set up your accounts as they did in the
> example,
> you will need to change the options for the report,
> under the "Accounts" tab you will need to change it
> to "Show Accounts until level [5]" so that it will
> display the stocks.
> 
> Other pitfalls I've hit: If you bought the stocks a
> long
> time ago and tried to enter the initial date in 4
> digit year format (i.e. 1998 vs 98), double check
> that
> the '98' was recorded, not '19'.  If gnucash thought
> you
> bought the stock in the future (2019), it won't show
> up in 
> the report.
> 
> If you do not yet have much history in the price
> editor of
> the prices, you'll want to use "nearest in time" as
> the 
> Price Source in the General tab of the options for
> that
> report, otherwise the bars won't look right.
> 
> Let me know if this works for you or you have any
> other
> problems with it.
> 
> --Beth 
>
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