Sorry if my understanding of the GC General Ledger was off. By combining the files, I meant the exported csv files. So a simple: “cat * > gnucash.csv” after those 4 exports would do the trick.
Regards, Adrien > On Dec 18, 2017, at 1:17 PM, Wm via gnucash-user <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> > wrote: > > On 18/12/2017 18:13, Adrien Monteleone wrote: >> Jeff, >> If I recall correctly from other discussion, the General Ledger is not it’s >> own entity. It’s a ‘view’ of the separate account ledgers all rolled into >> one. This is probably why there is no export option for it. > > You recall incorrectly. The general ledger is (as the name suggests) > actually about as pure a view as the UI gives of the entirety of a gnc set of > accounts as is available. > > gnc does not actually have separate account ledgers at all, it belongs to the > stream of transactions accounting family. > >> GnuCash takes the opposite approach from paper books. > > that may be correct or incorrect, depending on where you learned accounting. > >> With paper, you enter everything in a General Journal and then later post >> the proper amounts to T-accounts. > > Not in UK accounting you don't. In UK accounting you do it the other way :) > >> With GnuCash, you skip the Journal and enter directly to the accounts. >> The General Ledger was provided for the benefit of those who were used to >> the paper method and wanted the option to see all transactions in >> chronological order regardless of accounts used. > > > Bollocks. > >> But I don’t see why you can’t combine the files after the fact. That’s an >> easy concatenation command. > > Oh, for fuck's sake. There are no separate files, it is a stream of > transactions. > >> It is curious that you can’t export ‘all’ transactions and have to choose >> only one hierarchy at a time. > > Yes, that is a bit weird, but it is probably like that because someone had > the same misunderstanding as you about separate account ledgers 15 or more > years ago. > > -- > Wm > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
