Tracking stocks and sales - improving GnuCash

[Mark Johnson]

Todd Wells wrote:

>  I'm not an accountant, so the double-entry stuff is a little foreign to me, but I can (try to) learn.  I'm also a programmer/tester, so I'm pretty comfortable with software in general.
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I used to use Quicken too.  The double-entry is something I like.  
Instead of "categories", we have expense accounts and income accounts.  
I like being able to open one of these accounts and examine all my 
expenses to that "category".  I could not do that in Quicken.

>Also, how do I look at the current price of a stock?  It would be nice to have a simple view (like the Quicken portfolio view) that tells you at a glance your portfolio and the share prices and changes for that day.  I know there's a portfolio report, but that's not quite the same thing, as far as I can tell.  Maybe it's there, I just haven't found it.
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I would suggest that the price editor be able to display prices for just 
one commodity at a time.  (I believe this is coming in G2.)

>Is there a way to turn off the "transaction memorization" feature?  Sometimes this is useful, but when the last memorized transaction is a split, it's kind of a pain.
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It's exactly not turning it off, but you can right-click a transaction 
you are entering and select a menu choice to remove all the splits.  
It's pretty close to what you'd like.

Mark