[GNC] NEw user assistance

[Karl]

Hello David and everyone,

Thank you for your messages. A little background about myself: I'm a
Canadian (born and raised), and a CPA. I have been using GnuCash for a
while now, but am interested in delving deeper into its functions that can
be useful to me. I use GnuCash only for personal and private use for my
household, not for business purposes in any way.

I am currently running Microsoft Windows 10 Pro (Build 19045) on my main
machine at home, and am using GnuCash Version 4.10 with "Finance::Quote
1.54" and perl (v5.32.1).

I am enjoying the Chapter 9 - Investments part of GnuCash and have
successfully set up the Automatic Online Retrieval of Stock Quotes. What a
great function!

The trouble is, I can't figure out a way to have any foreign investments
denominated in my local currency (CAD). For example, if I invest in, let's
say, Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL), which is traded on the NASDAQ (a foreign
market for me), the share(s) value only shows up in the currency of the
market in which it is being traded (in this case, USD). How do I get
GnuCash to denominate and show me my foreign investments in my local
currency (CAD)?

Not sure if this is related but, I also tried to set-up the currency
exchange function, but it appears that this is no longer functional due to
the API Key from Alphavantage. Is this true?
https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798599

Thank you everyone. Happy to see that there is a supportive and
collaborative community here!

Regards,

*Karl*


On Thu, 5 Jan 2023 at 20:07, David H <hellvee at gmail.com> wrote:

> Welcome to gnucash Karl.
>
> I think from memory Nabble went away during the pandemic about 12 months
> ago, so maybe forget that one :-)  If you have any questions, post them
> here to the gnucash user list (gnucash-user at gnucash.org) and you'll get
> all the help you need.  Also just a heads up do NOT use reply to reply to
> individuals, use REPLY ALL so that everyone benefits and can contribute to
> the question at hand.  Also if you subscribe to the digest version and
> reply to something, update the subject to something meaningful don't just
> leave it as "Digest ......." which is pretty meaningless and trim any
> extraneous cruft out of the reply.
>
> Also it always helps to include what version of Gnucash you installed and
> on what OS as things vary a little from Windows to Linux to MacOS - so lets
> start there, which is it ?
>
> Cheers David H.
>
> ps don't forget that "Reply All". :-)
>
>
> On Fri, 6 Jan 2023 at 11:31, Karl <karlsawatzky419 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello there!
>>
>> I am a new user to GnuCash and am looking for some assistance. I have
>> subscribed to the mailing list and am attempting to access the Web Forum
>> (Nabble) for further assistance from other users.
>>
>> Specifically, I am trying to set-up the online pricing list for stock
>> quotes.
>>
>> Please assist. Thank you for your assistance.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> *Karl*
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