Questions tagged [accounts]
A generic tag for questions on all manner of accounts. For specific questions use the "savings-account", "checking-account" or other specific tags. It is recommended that a specific country tag be used to indicate the geography of the question being asked
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Margin calculation on short and long positions combined
Assume an investor goes long on X1 and simultaneously short on X2 both of which cost $1. With margin rate at 50% he is required to deposit 0.5 + 0.5 = $1 margin to make the transaction. My question ...
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GNUCASH: My chart of accounts is upside down at the top level
Gnucash: My chart of accounts is upside down (only at the top level) and badly sorted throughout. For instance:
Imbalance-USD
Trading
Orphan-USD
Liabilities
Expenses
Income
Equity
Assets
Notice ...
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Family Member Broker - Managing Mother's Investment
My niece works for a securities firm as registered broker, (not CFP) - her mother, my sister, inherited a large sum of money and will be investing 100% of her funds with her daughters business. Is ...
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How to account for human error?
Sometimes people make mistakes. The checkout process at stores often involves manual data entry which is error prone. For example, as a customer I could be charged $49.99 for a product priced $49.49.
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Can I open multiple Gnucash account tabs at once?
I have an investment parent account with more than a dozen subaccounts, one for each ticker symbol. When I go to reconcile a statement, I've been opening the subaccounts one at a time - i.e., I open ...
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Start Quicken from Scratch [closed]
I want to start over with all my accounts without any historical information. I have been using it for 9 years and do not want to see all the history although I'd like to have it accessible if needed. ...
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Including benefits in kind within accounts
I'm producing accounts for a local political party using GNU Cash.
There are a lot of benefits in kind that we need to account for.
Previously I included these on a separate spreadsheet, but would ...
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How do I use a liability account (in ledger-cli)?
I don't think this is only applicable to the software, but it's the one that I'm using.
In the documentation it talks about using charitable giving (e.g. tithing) as a Liability.
An example for 10% ...
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Gnucash brokerage account with multiple stocks
GNUCash setup is driving me nuts. Most accounting software tools allow you to create a brokerage account that holds multiple securities. The account ledger can have transactions for all the ...
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Free Money Payroll from Ghost Accounts [duplicate]
My friend said he knows this guy who will deposit money into my Chase bank account. The only requirements being that I have had the account for over 4 months and my balance is not negative.
His name ...
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Terminology question about chart of accounts, general ledger [closed]
I'm trying to learn the correct terminology for the place where I see ALL the "accounts" AND their balances in an accounting app.
I use QuickBooks and if I want to see all of this, I click "Chart of ...
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Where am I miscounting this money?
I run a sports club where I accept payments via three methods: in cash, via a PayPal card reader and online via my website.
I'd been keeping track of the attendees and how much they paid in a ...
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Investing Account Options
I am new to this SE community so please inform me if there are ways I can edit or improve this question, a more appropriate place to post it, or better tags and title.
My grandmother is beginning to ...
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What does it mean if my bank account has a credit?
I have been using one of my bank account on very occasional basis, so I never know how much money is in. Just checked my balance on the phone and it says £130 in credit. Does it mean I still have £130 ...
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Using multiple bank accounts
One thing I've always struggled with finance-wise is how to manage higher-level budget categories across a limited number of accounts. For instance, I currently maintain the following types of ...
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