Entering Preexisting Shares

[Norman Yeh]

(Paul, my apology for posting my questions to you.)

Hi Derek,

Your answer of adding a column is very interesting. Pls allow me to jump in and ask a few questions.

I am running GnuCash 2.2.9 under Windows XP with SP3. In you answers, pls bless me with details as I am NO accountant, and NO programmer.

1. how do I add a column in a stock account or, for that matter, any account?

2. how do I make Perl aware of what value to put in a new column in a stock account?

3. do I need to update Perl that came with GC 2.2.9 and, if yes, how?

4. how do I update GC, Perl or OFX as I see NO "check for updates" under any of the GC menu items?

Thank you!

Norman

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Derek Atkins 
To: --- --- 
Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org 
Sent: Monday, May 11, 2009 10:24
Subject: Re: Entering Preexisting Shares


--- --- <colonelpenguin at hotmail.com> writes:

> I have a question concerning the entering of pre-existing shares
> covered in 8.5.1 of the documentation.  Since stocks are very liquid I
> think it makes sense to have have the current stock value reflect on
> ones total and current equity.  Instead of specifying the purchase
> price under equity... I would like to show the current worth.  My
> investment value currently updates whenever I get quotes in the price
> editor, but the equity column remains unchanged.  Am I thinking about
> this wrong... or is this a limitation of GNUCash?

Add a column "Value in Report Currency".
That will show you the current value based on the most recent PriceDB
entry.

> Thanks.

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-derek

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