Trading Accounts

David Carlson david.carlson.417 at gmail.com
Mon Feb 12 09:18:35 EST 2018


UnfOrtumately I cannot read the article that zchristofer cited from my
clunky Tablet ant tablet really messes up mystery composition skills.

I think that if you have always correctly calculated every capital gain in
every closing transaction and never had any ambiguously matched lots there
will not be any overall difference with or without trading accounts.

I would guess trading accounts help the most for users with more
complicated trades.

I am sure that you would need to drill down to the capital gains and
incomes in closing transactions to see where the  T A could make a
difference.

David C



On Feb 12, 2018 6:53 AM, "Christopher Lam" <christopher.lck at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Les
>
> Really interesting question, with a simple and a complicated answer.
>
> Simple answer: I think Trial Balance would differ if you deal with
> multiple currencies or stock (i.e. multiple conversions with differing
> dates and prices).
>
> Complicated answer:
>
> https://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~selinger/accounting/tutorial.html
>
> https://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~selinger/accounting/gnucash.html
>
> C
>
> On 12/02/18 20:41, Les wrote:
>
>> I have a "test" laptop with GC 2.6.17 running the latest Linux Mint.  I
>> opened GC and tried using Trading Accounts, did check and repair, noted the
>> totals of assets, liabilities, income and expense before and after.  There
>> was no difference.  I then ran a Income and Expense report for year 2016
>> (which is the same as my production GC and compared the two.  Again there
>> was no difference in totals between the two GC files.
>>
>> So, exactly what does Trading Accounts actually do? I noticed that when
>> viewing a stock transaction using auto-split view, there are added lines
>> showing trading: currencies and trading: exchange and stock symbol, that
>> does not appear without trading accounts.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Les
>>
>>
>> On 02/12/2018 04:41 AM, David Carlson wrote:
>>
>>> It would be more fun to make a test copy of an existing file! 😁
>>>
>>> David C
>>>
>>> On Feb 12, 2018 4:13 AM, "Les" <lelliott5 at gmail.com <mailto:
>>> lelliott5 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     Thanks, Adrien, David & Christoph for your replies.  I think
>>>     opening a new GC file and testing Trading Accounts is a good idea.
>>>
>>>     Regards,
>>>
>>>     Les
>>>
>>>
>>>     On 02/12/2018 01:40 AM, Christoph R wrote:
>>>
>>>         And run “Actions -> Check & Repair -> Check & Repair All” to
>>>         add the needed splits to existing transactions.
>>>
>>>         Gruß,
>>>         Christoph
>>>
>>>             Am 12.02.2018 um 01:27 schrieb David Carlson
>>>             <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com
>>>             <mailto:david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>>:
>>>
>>>             I think that if you want to stop using trading account s
>>>             it is difficult to
>>>             turn them off.
>>>
>>>             I would set up a test file to try them on until you decide
>>>             whether you like
>>>             them.
>>>
>>>             David  C
>>>
>>>             On Feb 11, 2018 5:39 PM, "Adrien Monteleone"
>>>             <adrien.monteleone at gmail.com
>>>             <mailto:adrien.monteleone at gmail.com>>
>>>             wrote:
>>>
>>>                 Yes, you can add trading accounts (or any other
>>>                 accounts) as needed to your
>>>                 current file.
>>>
>>>                 Regards,
>>>                 Adrien
>>>
>>>                 On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 4:18 PM, Les
>>>                 <lelliott5 at gmail.com <mailto:lelliott5 at gmail.com>>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>                     I have been using GC for several years, and
>>>                     although I trade stocks, I
>>>                     have never used the "Trading Accounts" option.
>>>                     Can I just start using
>>>
>>>                 it,
>>>
>>>                     or would I need to start a new GC file?
>>>
>>>                     Thanks,
>>>
>>>                     Les
>>>
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