Quotes
Don Allen
dca at zurich.csail.mit.edu
Thu May 12 09:15:20 EDT 2005
A similar comment to my previous message about splits: online quotes
(yes/no, quote source) are associated with positions, rather than the
commodity. But the quote is for the commodity, not the position. What is
currently done in gnucash (1.8.10) seems incorrect to me. A result of
this is that if you have multiple positions in stock XYZ in different
brokerage accounts and want online quotes for XYZ, you must so indicate
in each of the accounts.
It would also be nice to have a way of saying "I want online quotes for
every commodity I've specified, and I want them from source X". In
general, I've noticed that there are some deficiencies in the UI for
dealing with things in the aggregate. Another example: I'd like to be
able to say "every transaction in account X really belongs in account Y;
please move them".
By the way, including this message, I've now sent two messages
indicating places where I think gnucash is doing things incorrectly or
unintuitively. I'd like to mention that overall, I think this system,
despite some rough edges, is extremely well done and I extend my
compliments to the developers. It is a pleasure to work with this system
after years of dealing with the bloatware that Quicken and MS Money have
become. I also think that basing gnucash on double-entry accounting was
a crucial decision; a lot of the conceptual cleanliness of the system
depends on that. It's an example of the sort of thing that the
commercial vendors won't or can't do, because they are targeting a
(large) market where a concept like double-entry bookkeeping would be a
tough sell.
/Don
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