p2x modelling in gnc, help me think, please

[Adrien Monteleone]

Go to Preferences > General > Numbers. You can increase your decimal precision. Did that solve the small fraction issue?

As for modeling the investment, I’m not familiar with p2x. I’ll let someone else chime in who is.

On that note, I tried looking it up but didn’t come up with anything useful explaining it. Do you have a few info links I could pour over? Once I understand what it is, I might be able to help modeling it in Gnucash.

The only related thing I found was Peer-to-Peer lending but that didn’t involve negative interest rates as far as I could tell.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Feb 6, 2018, at 4:14 AM, Wm via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
> 
> Background: I am a p2x investor, I like it, it is fun and may do some good to far away people and get me a better return on my money than more conventional investments ... or I could lose it all.  Ho hum.
> 
> the gnc point is how best to model a p2x investment.
> 
> my p2x investments involve hundreds of fractional (or more than 2 decimal) transactions a month,  gnc doesn't like dealing with 0.0001 EUR because gnc takes the view than an EUR is meant to be used in chunks of 9.99 and it is sort of right because there isn't a smaller unit of an EUR than a cent in coins and paper.
> 
> Detail: I run the actual p2x transactions through ledger-cli and get that to produce a journal per month (or whenever I'm interested) that I then enter into gnc, this works well in accounting terms but fails because gnc doesn't see the p2x asset as an investment for reporting purposes.
> 
> I thought the solution would be to make the asset account where the actual bonds live a Mutual Fund with a security of its own equivalent to 1GBP or 1EUR etc as appropriate but that didn't work because the interest doesn't get recognised (possibly because I'm presenting the income as part of a tx with 8 splits to reflect the real world).
> 
> My understanding (which I now think might be broken) of how gnc works out what is an investment or not then fell apart.
> 
> In summary:
> 
> my modelling of p2x in gnc isn't working out as I expected.
> 
> how are other people dealing with similar modern or unconventional investments ?
> 
> is the concept of negative interest income really that unusual (it happens all the time in real markets so why don't gnc reports know about it ?)
> 
> maybe I'm behaving stupidly and I just need a clue <-- let's hope it is this :)
> 
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> Wm
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