Re: 'unknown' column in Income Statement / Profit & Loss
William Moore wrote > Is there something I can do to remove this column? Currently I have to > export the report and edit the html to get a presentable report. I notice this bug has not yet been corrected yet. A simple workaround is to create an empty trading account in your list of accounts, you can even hide it. That will make the Income Report happy. -- View this message in context: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/unknown-column-in-Income-Statement-Profit-Loss-tp4680661p4692940.html Sent from the GnuCash - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ 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.
New Report. Suitable for VAT/GST returns.
Hi All After many years of trying to hack scheme, I've finally been able to create a custom report building on previous efforts by Doug Doughty. Report is accessible in Report > Business > BAS/VAT Report. I attach .scm file to be loaded into ~/.gnucash/config.user as usual, and an example report output. I feel this is the missing report for periodic (eg quarterly) tax reporting as required in some authorities e.g. UK and Australia. Formulas are modifiable with some effort. I hope this is useful to some. The learning curve was painful! Repo at https://github.com/christopherlam/bas-report C BAS/VAT Report (beta) From 01/07/2016 To 30/06/2017 Input Tax accounts: (Assets:GST:Paid) Output Tax accounts: (Assets:GST:Collected) Date Description Total Sales BAS G1 GST on Sales BAS 1A/VAT 1 Sales without GST VAT 6 Total Purchases BAS G11 GST on Purchases BAS 1B/VAT 4 Purchases without GST VAT 7 Bank Remittance [1]Expenses 05/02/2017 Purchase services for $2000 + $200 [2]$0.00 [3]$0.00 [4]$0.00 [5]$2,200.00 [6]$200.00 [7]$2,000.00 [8]-$2,200.00 08/02/2017 Purchase services for $1500, no GST charged [9]$0.00 [10]$0.00 [11]$0.00 [12]$1,500.00 [13]$0.00 [14]$1,500.00 [15]-$1,500.00 26/04/2017 Hybrid. Earn $4000 + $400 GST, spend $1000 + $100 GST. Net = $3300 into bank [16]-$4,400.00 [17]-$400.00 [18]-$4,000.00 [19]$1,100.00 [20]$100.00 [21]$1,000.00 [22]$3,300.00 Total For Expenses -$4,400.00 -$400.00 -$4,000.00 $4,800.00 $300.00 $4,500.00 -$400.00 [23]Foreign Purchases 10/02/2017 Foreign purchase. £500GBP = $800, with $80 GST #meaningless [24]$0.00 [25]$0.00 [26]$0.00 [27]$880.00 [28]$80.00 [29]$800.00 [30]-$880.00 15/04/2017 Foreign purchase. £625 = $1000, no tax involved [31]$0.00 [32]$0.00 [33]$0.00 [34]$1,000.00 [35]$0.00 [36]$1,000.00 [37]-$1,000.00 Total For Foreign Purchases $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $1,880.00 $80.00 $1,800.00 -$1,880.00 [38]Income 01/01/2017 Income $1000 + $100GST [39]-$1,100.00 [40]-$100.00 [41]-$1,000.00 [42]$0.00 [43]$0.00 [44]$0.00 [45]$1,100.00 03/01/2017 Double Income $2x1000 + 2x$100 GST [46]-$2,200.00 [47]-$200.00 [48]-$2,000.00 [49]$0.00 [50]$0.00 [51]$0.00 [52]$2,200.00 08/01/2017 Income $1000, but only $300 attracted a tax of $30. $700 was not taxable. [53]-$1,030.00 [54]-$30.00 [55]-$1,000.00 [56]$0.00 [57]$0.00 [58]$0.00 [59]$1,030.00 Total For Income -$4,330.00 -$330.00 -$4,000.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $4,330.00 __ Grand Total -$8,730.00 -$730.00 -$8,000.00 $6,680.00 $380.00 $6,300.00 $2,050.00 References 1. gnc-register:acct-guid=84bf6de2a6e0dc44fbeae960a644dcb6 2. gnc-register:trans-guid=105c39a63908b4f002791bb1c8457d2d 3. gnc-register:trans-guid=105c39a63908b4f002791bb1c8457d2d 4. gnc-register:trans-guid=105c39a63908b4f002791bb1c8457d2d 5. gnc-register:trans-guid=105c39a63908b4f002791bb1c8457d2d 6. gnc-register:trans-guid=105c39a63908b4f002791bb1c8457d2d 7. gnc-register:trans-guid=105c39a63908b4f002791bb1c8457d2d 8. gnc-register:trans-guid=105c39a63908b4f002791bb1c8457d2d 9. gnc-register:trans-guid=1ea5114fa662a4661e0cce96a0770de1 10. gnc-register:trans-guid=1ea5114fa662a4661e0cce96a0770de1 11. gnc-register:trans-guid=1ea5114fa662a4661e0cce96a0770de1 12. gnc-register:trans-guid=1ea5114fa662a4661e0cce96a0770de1 13. gnc-register:trans-guid=1ea5114fa662a4661e0cce96a0770de1 14. gnc-register:trans-guid=1ea5114fa662a4661e0cce96a0770de1 15. gnc-register:trans-guid=1ea5114fa662a4661e0cce96a0770de1 16. gnc-register:trans-guid=7fc1a61ec5f6db9ee6352c672022007c 17. gnc-register:trans-guid=7fc1a61ec5f6db9ee6352c672022007c 18. gnc-register:trans-guid=7fc1a61ec5f6db9ee6352c672022007c 19. gnc-register:trans-guid=7fc1a61ec5f6db9ee6352c672022007c 20. gnc-register:trans-guid=7fc1a61ec5f6db9ee6352c672022007c 21. gnc-register:trans-guid=7fc1a61ec5f6db9ee6352c672022007c 22. gnc-register:trans-guid=7fc1a61ec5f6db9ee6352c672022007c 23. gnc-register:acct-guid=6f699d49e5af88ed9138a576ed4147d5 24. gnc-register:trans-guid=959074dd6e5e59d1a4ae145abb884043 25. gnc-register:trans-guid=959074dd6e5e59d1a4ae145abb884043 26. gnc-register:trans-guid=959074dd6e5e59d1a4ae145abb884043 27. gnc-register:trans-guid=959074dd6e5e59d1a4ae145abb884043 28. gnc-register:trans-guid=959074dd6e5e59d1a4ae145abb884043 29. gnc-register:trans-guid=959074dd6e5e59d1a4ae145abb884043 30. gnc-register:trans-guid=959074dd6e5e59d1a4ae145abb884043 31. gnc-register:trans-guid=04b7445ded7b9c8626510cc8dce8e97b 32. gnc-register:trans-guid=04b7445ded7b9c8626510cc8dce8e97b 33. gnc-register:trans-guid=04b7445ded7b9c8626510cc8dce8e97b 34. gnc-register:trans-guid=04b7445ded7b9c8626510cc8dce8e97b 35. gnc-register:trans-guid=04b7445ded7b9c8626510cc8dce8e97b 36. gnc-register:trans-guid=04b7445ded7b9c8626510cc8dce8e97b 37. gnc-register:trans-guid=04b7445ded7b
gnucash can't find tutorial & concepts guide
New user/installation on RaspberryPi. When I select Help/Tutorial and Concepts Guide, I get the message: "GnuCash could not find the files for the help documentation. This is likely because the 'gnucash-docs' package is not installed." dpkg --list | grep gnucash reports: ii gnucash 1:2.6.4-3 armhf personal and small-business financial-accounting software ii gnucash-common 1:2.6.4-3 all common files for the financial-accounting software Gnucash ii gnucash-docs 2.6.4-1 all Documentation for gnucash, a personal finance tracking program How to fix the help menu? Thanks, Morris ___ 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.
Re: For UK users: Will gnucash get ready for Making Tax, Digital ?
Mike, mike.m...@gmx.net writes: >[If you don't mind me saying this: I haven't seen mailman lists for >quite some years and I was a little surprised to see they still exist. >I could not find any way how to add another comment to a given thread, >despite having started the thread myself. This contribution may well >appear as a new thread] That's funny -- I see mailman lists every day (not just gnucash -- I'm subscribed to several dozen lists, all run by mailman). You must be hiding under a rock (or living in some non-technical land) to have not seen mailman. Then again, it still surprises me when I see an actual LISTSERV list pop up on my radar. Having said that, to add to a thread you just need to reply to a message in that thread, like how I'm replying to your message here. Enjoy, > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH warl...@mit.eduPGP key available ___ 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.
Re: For UK users: Will gnucash get ready for Making Tax, Digital ?
This reminds me of an earlier question from a user in Sweden. Apparently governments (Sweden in that case, the UK in this one) are getting into the habit of specifying not only acceptable tax software but also accounting software. The UK has not yet required businesses of a certain size to use specifically approved tax or accounting software (have they?), but it seems that Making Tax Digital might lead there. But who knows. I'm averse to having information stored in a digital format on government servers because it will eventually be hacked, stolen, or otherwise used for something other than the original and limited intention (you can pick your favourite bogeyman here; your own government, the Russians, the Chinese, cyber criminals, etc.) In a better world, when HMRC (or the IRS, or the Australia Tax Office) requires something, it should provide the software to do it, free. It appears that in the UK you won't have a choice after 2018. Thompson Reuters already makes MTD software, or close to it: https://www.digita.com/pro/making-tax-digital/what-is-making-tax-digital.aspx Why not ask (and suggest!) HMRC and the MTD office if they will be paying for the cost of the compliance software? Users could deduct the cost of the software from their VAT payments (quarterly? It's not clear to me). And it would be great if the MTD software worked with gnucash .txf imports. You can do a lot to customise the txf exports from gnucash. Compliance software might already be "write off" (it's been a while since I looked at the UK regs), but much nicer if paid for by HMRC up front. I would worry about keeping "electronic records on transaction basis", but that's a larger discussion. It will likely be introduced as a way to reduce reporting errors, but like FACTA in the US, it will be used in a way to penalise the vast majority of law abiding citizens and firms in order to try to dig up criminal activity. FOSS doesn't work for the reasons Buddha Buck outlined, and more. It would be great if someone volunteered to work on a txf export template for MTD. Beyond that, I'm not sure how the devs would "hard wire" MTD (or other jurisdiction specific) features into gnucash that would meet the requirements of the Swedish or UK governments. That sounds like a lot of extra effort even if it were possible. I think Alain has it right, and perhaps its easiest to use the txf export from gnucash to import to another program. You might be stuck with using gnucash for the bookkeeping, and then digita for the reporting. I agree that is "sub optimal", but that describes tax compliance in most jurisdictions. Out of curiosity, who wants MTD? Is it mostly HMRC and large firms which can easily comply with new regs to the disadvantage of their smaller competitors? Sounds like the EU (or the US) to me. You can like or dislike Brexit, but one thing it does is give UK citizens more say over their own governance. If MTD has been delayed because of Brexit, that's probably good; the government should be devoting its energies on something like a Swiss solution to synchronise UK regs with both WTO and the EU. MTD seems a lesser priority (but I do agree with you that the snap general election was a dumb idea). Sorry you have to put up with it. Gordon On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 4:01 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: > A shared library would even better imo. Similar to what aqbanking does for > online bank communications. > > That would allow for easier integration with gnucash and even other open > source applications that wish to interact with HMRC. > > Regards, > Geert > > Alain Williams schreef op 27 juli 2017 11:01:10 CEST: >>On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 12:52:41AM +, Buddha Buck wrote: >> >>> GnuCash does not currently (to my knowledge) support any >>> jurisdiction-specify tax policy or reporting requirements. To do so >>for one >>> would imply that it should do so for all, and that is a maintenance >>> nightmare. As such, I think it more likely that someone would write a >>> program that can take reports or data that GnuCash can already >>generate >>> (CSV exports? OFX exports?) and uploads the necessary info to HMRC. >> >>A small program that takes a well defined import and can talk the HMRC >>Making >>Tax Difficult protocol might be the best way forwards; similar programs >>could >>then also be written to talk to the tax people in other countries - >>without >>cluttering up the core of Gnucash. >> >>I am not sure, however, if this would be enough to keep HMRC happy - >>they seem >>to want verification of the whole accounts program ... I am talking >>about a >>standalone shim/add-on. >> >>I know many companies that have their own accounts s/ware, written over >>many >>years that does just what they need. MTD could cause huge problems if >>there is a >>lot of effort in getting these certified or if the companies need to >>change to >>use an off-the-shelf/bought-in package. >> >>I don't think that HMRC have thought about it from anythi
GnuCash with bad network connection
My home Wi-Fi has suddenly developed a bad case of dropouts in spite of a very strong signal. Several times a day various devices need to reconnect. With that background, if GnuCash is in the process of saving the data file (over Wi-Fi) when the dropout happens, GnuCash appears to hang and my Windows 7 OS reports that the file save failed and after the destination returns it asks me if I want to try again, but it needs a file name. Through trial and error I was able to revive Gnucash and let it do the save using it's internal procedure without crashing and losing data. My question is whether there is a place in the documentation that summarizes troubleshooting various file save problems such as this or possibly other issues with saving or backing up to places other than the local hard drive. I heard through the grapevine that the Q product has recently been having serious data loss issues with this type of network problem. David C ___ 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.
Re: GnuCash with bad network connection
My suggestion is to save the file locally first and then copy it to your file server. Ken Schneider > On Jul 31, 2017, at 3:44 PM, David Carlson > wrote: > > My home Wi-Fi has suddenly developed a bad case of dropouts in spite of a > very strong signal. Several times a day various devices need to reconnect. > > With that background, if GnuCash is in the process of saving the data file > (over Wi-Fi) when the dropout happens, GnuCash appears to hang and my > Windows 7 OS reports that the file save failed and after the destination > returns it asks me if I want to try again, but it needs a file name. > > Through trial and error I was able to revive Gnucash and let it do the save > using it's internal procedure without crashing and losing data. > > My question is whether there is a place in the documentation that > summarizes troubleshooting various file save problems such as this or > possibly other issues with saving or backing up to places other than the > local hard drive. > > I heard through the grapevine that the Q product has recently been having > serious data loss issues with this type of network problem. > > David C > ___ > 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.
Methods to Track Gift Cards and Similar Items
I am seeking guidance on methods to track items such as gift cards, gift certificates, merchant cards, bank reward cards, and store-credit cards for returned purchases. On the one hand, these items are a form of income. As such, I could track them as income. On the other hand, I use these items they way I use a credit card to make purchases. As such, I could track them as a credit card. Are there other hands with other methods? I am looking for a simple, consistent method for all of these items so that I can easily track when I received the item and its initial value, and track the expenditures. I want to keep all of these items in the same part of my account tree. Rigorous, double-entry accounting is not essential. Imbalance on one side of a transaction is OK. What are the pros and cons of the various methods to track these items? Actress Tells All: "I Felt Bloated, Tired...Now I Know Why" ActivatedYou http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/597f9255edc1c12556933st01vuc ___ 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.
Re: Methods to Track Gift Cards and Similar Items
I track gift cards as assets, under Current Assets On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 4:24 PM, Paul W. wrote: > I am seeking guidance on methods to track items such as gift cards, gift > certificates, merchant cards, bank reward cards, and store-credit cards > for returned purchases. > > On the one hand, these items are a form of income. As such, I could track > them as income. > On the other hand, I use these items they way I use a credit card to make > purchases. As such, I could track them as a credit card. > Are there other hands with other methods? > > I am looking for a simple, consistent method for all of these items so > that I can easily track when I received the item and its initial value, and > track the expenditures. I want to keep all of these items in the same part > of my account tree. Rigorous, double-entry accounting is not essential. > Imbalance on one side of a transaction is OK. > > What are the pros and cons of the various methods to track these items? > > > Actress Tells All: "I Felt Bloated, Tired...Now I Know Why" > ActivatedYou > http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/597f9255edc1c12556933st01vuc > ___ > 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.
Re: Methods to Track Gift Cards and Similar Items
Here's an example from my experience: I purchased some new appliances for my kitchen and received a gift card in return. The value of the gift card became a new Asset:Gift-Card that I balanced against a reduction in my existing Expenses:Appliances. So the net of Expenses:Appliances showed me what those appliances really cost me. Then when I used the gift card, for example to buy groceries, it was a reduction in Asset:Gift-Card balanced against an increase in Expenses:Groceries. Eventually (actually pretty quickly) the value of Asset:Gift-Card reached zero, and was easily hidden from my asset list when I got tired of looking at it. Tim Timothy B. Taylor • taylo...@gmail.com • (571) 252-9024 • http://taylortb.com On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 4:24 PM, Paul W. wrote: > I am seeking guidance on methods to track items such as gift cards, gift > certificates, merchant cards, bank reward cards, and store-credit cards > for returned purchases. > > On the one hand, these items are a form of income. As such, I could track > them as income. > On the other hand, I use these items they way I use a credit card to make > purchases. As such, I could track them as a credit card. > Are there other hands with other methods? > > I am looking for a simple, consistent method for all of these items so > that I can easily track when I received the item and its initial value, and > track the expenditures. I want to keep all of these items in the same part > of my account tree. Rigorous, double-entry accounting is not essential. > Imbalance on one side of a transaction is OK. > > What are the pros and cons of the various methods to track these items? > > > Actress Tells All: "I Felt Bloated, Tired...Now I Know Why" > ActivatedYou > http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/597f9255edc1c12556933st01vuc > ___ > 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.
Re: Methods to Track Gift Cards and Similar Items
All those cards represent something that you own and can convert into stuff of value. As such, they are assets, much like cash. They are not, in and of themselves income, any more than cash is. They are not your liabilities, which makes them different than credit cards, and should not be tracked that way. Well, I guess it matters what you mean by a "merchant card" -- if you mean a credit card that can be used only at one merchant, then it's a credit card; if you mean a gift card that can only be used at one merchant, then it's a gift card. Looking through my wallet, I see the following items: A debit card A credit card A stored value card The debit cards are tied to my bank accounts, and so any transaction I do using them comes out of the relevant Asset account (debit Expense:Misc, credit Asset:Bank) The credit cards are tied to my credit accounts, and so any transaction I do using them comes out of the relevant Liability account (debit Expense:Misc, credit Liability:CreditCard) The stored value cards ideally would each have their own asset account, and each transaction I do using them references that account (debit Expense:Food, credit Asset:StarbucksCard) Come the holidays, I get from my mother a gift of a $50 Amazon.com gift card. This is technically "income", and should ideally be recorded as such (debit Assets:AmazonGiftBalance, credit Income:Gifts). When I buy something from Amazon, I'd first credit the Assets:AmazonGiftBalance account. On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 5:09 PM Phil Longstaff wrote: > I track gift cards as assets, under Current Assets > > On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 4:24 PM, Paul W. wrote: > > > I am seeking guidance on methods to track items such as gift cards, gift > > certificates, merchant cards, bank reward cards, and store-credit cards > > for returned purchases. > > > > On the one hand, these items are a form of income. As such, I could > track > > them as income. > > On the other hand, I use these items they way I use a credit card to > make > > purchases. As such, I could track them as a credit card. > > Are there other hands with other methods? > > > > I am looking for a simple, consistent method for all of these items so > > that I can easily track when I received the item and its initial value, > and > > track the expenditures. I want to keep all of these items in the same > part > > of my account tree. Rigorous, double-entry accounting is not essential. > > Imbalance on one side of a transaction is OK. > > > > What are the pros and cons of the various methods to track these items? > > > > > > Actress Tells All: "I Felt Bloated, Tired...Now I Know Why" > > ActivatedYou > > http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/597f9255edc1c12556933st01vuc > > ___ > > 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. > ___ 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.
Re: Methods to Track Gift Cards and Similar Items
The gift card is clearly an asset. When you receive it it is income. In most jurisdictions one would expect gift income to be not taxable however this may not always be the case. I generally have income streams that are both taxable and non-taxable so I already have placeholder subaccounts of Income for Taxable and Non-taxable income. When you receive a gift card the transaction would look like: Db Cr Asset:Giftcards$50 Income:NonTaxable:Giftcards 50 and when you use the gift card it is like any other expense Db Cr Asset:Giftcards $50 Expense: ...50 If the income was taxable you would place the giftcards account under a taxable placeholder instead of a non-taxable placeholder. The treatment for a credit card issued for a returned item is slightly different though. It is still an asset but instead of having the associated income split it will have an credit entry to an expense account cancelling the previous debit entry for the purchase. "Rigorous, double-entry accounting is not essential. Imbalance on one side of a transaction is OK. " As Gnucash is a double entry accounting system it is unlikely that any method which has an imbalance is likely to produce a satisfactory result and may result in inaccurate reports. David Cousens - David Cousens -- View this message in context: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/Methods-to-Track-Gift-Cards-and-Similar-Items-tp4692966p4692972.html Sent from the GnuCash - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ 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.
Re: Methods to Track Gift Cards and Similar Items
On 7/31/2017 4:24 PM, Paul W. wrote: On the one hand, these items are a form of income. As such, I could track them as income. On the other hand, I use these items they way I use a credit card to make purchases. As such, I could track them as a credit card. Are there other hands with other methods? Stop. This is DOUBLE ENTRY bookkeeping. So the "on the one hand income" misses the point. When you receive a "gift card" (etc.) the credit side of that transaction would be income but the debit side an asset account. Not like a credit card but like a debit card. When you use the card (or some portion of it) the transaction might be a debit to some expense account and the credit to that asset account Michael D Novack ___ 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.
Re: Tracking a TIAA mixed fund account
> On Jul 26, 2017, at 10:27 PM, AC wrote: > > I'm going to try > the structure in a new file and see how it behaves. If everything looks > ok then I'll recreate the structure in my main file and start entering > the data. For what it’s worth, I’ve been doing it that way for years and it’s worked well. One thing you might want to be aware of is that it works better if you have a separate top level account for each TIAA account. I have three (a 401A and two 403Bs) and by putting each in separate account I can import the transaction files I download from the TIAA web site easily. This makes entering my monthly MDO payout much easier. The MDO payout is a retirement payment that I’m required by the IRS to take (so they can tax me on it). It consists of a small sale in each of my funds followed by a transfer to my bank account. Entering all this by hand is a real pain. Mike ___ 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.
Re: gnucash can't find tutorial & concepts guide
Hi Morris, On Linux Mint 18.2 the help files are located in /usr/share/docs/gnucash-docs. The display of the tutorial guide and manual by Gnucash uses the gnome Yelp help browser. It may be this is not installed in the raspberryPi Linux version. http://archive.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs-museum/snapshot-20121101/blfs-20121102/xsoft/gnucash.html has some information about compiling and installing the help files which seems to be still current David Cousens - David Cousens -- View this message in context: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/gnucash-can-t-find-tutorial-concepts-guide-tp4692956p4692976.html Sent from the GnuCash - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ 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.
