Re: [GNC] Custom Report

2019-05-10 Thread Michael or Penny Novack

On 5/9/2019 8:28 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote:

Excel might be a problem, but LibreOffice has no issues either opening saved 
GnuCash reports, or importing them as plain text. (copy/paste also works) The only 
issue with doing comparative P&L’s in a spreadsheet is that each period needs 
to have all accounts visible so things line up easily, otherwise you’ll have lots 
of formatting to do.
In general, you DO have this "line up" problem since there is no good 
reason to expect the CoA to be EXACTLY the same in different time 
periods. This is not different whether doing inside or outside of 
gnucash. There is not going to be an automatic solution, each situation 
(of the accounts being slightly different) may call for a different 
solution and probably an annotation as to what was done.


As for how hard to get the exported data into a document under control 
of an editor, I can't speak about when EXCEL is used since I don't use 
it. Whether or not a particular editor app is suitable is outside the 
scope of what I am willing to talk about. I do this all the time, 
opening the (exported) HTML with the browser I choose to use (FireFox) 
and then copy the data "unformatted text" into a document under the 
control of LibreOffice.


Do this every quarter for just one period (year through this quarter) 
except for end of year when after doing this, put in parallel the one 
form the previous year for the annual financial report. More or less 
"standard" for a non-profits.


Michael D Novack
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Re: [GNC] importing invoices as paid

2019-05-10 Thread Derek Atkins
Adrien Monteleone  writes:

> If they are paid, you’d need to have the payment transactions imported
> as well. There isn’t any such thing as ‘paid’ with no actual
> payment. (as far as I’m aware)

You will both have to import the payment transaction, and you will have
to *manually* attach the payment to the invoice/customer.  There is no
importer way to do that.

> I don’t know of a way to auto-assign the transactions as being applied
> in payment of any particular invoice once they are imported. You might
> have to assign those one at a time. (but at least you don’t have to
> create the individual transactions)

Right.

> Perhaps one of the devs familiar with the Business Features can offer
> more insight.

Nope, nothing more; there is no way to import that metadata at this time.

> Regards,
> Adrien

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Re: [GNC] Need help reconciling

2019-05-10 Thread ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user

On 4/26/19 3:19 PM, ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user wrote:

Hi All,

I have been looking over the "Reconcile" on on eof m yu
credit card account.  I just don understand what I am seeing.

1) do I put a "c" in the opening balance as I
I has checked it?

2) I have put "C" in all the charges on my bank statement.

3) I press the Reconcile button and I put in the closing data.

It puts a weird entry into the the ledger that I don't understand
and puts it on one of those weird  "you goofed" accounts.  And
I get no "y"'s.

I look at the doc and I have no clue what is going on.
     https://gnucash.org/viewdoc.phtml?rev=3&lang=C&doc=help
     https://gnucash.org/viewdoc.phtml?rev=3&lang=C&doc=guide

:'(

-T


okay, I am just not understanding.

In the reconcile window

1) I presume "Statement Date" is my statement's closing
   date?

1) the statement date matches my bank statement

2) starting balance is 0 (it is not)

3) Ending Balance matches my statement

4) there is a -$700 reconcile Balance.

I just do not understand


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Re: [GNC] Need help reconciling

2019-05-10 Thread Adrien Monteleone
You have to fix the starting balance first.

If this is your first reconcile of a pre-existing account, read the docs as 
this is a little different.

More than likely, you can just reconcile starting from zero and include your 
Opening Balance transaction which should get you to the proper ending balance. 
(note, the Opening Balance transaction in this case *should* be equal to the 
Starting Balance from your first statement that you are reconciling)

Regards,
Adrien

> On May 10, 2019, at 5:04 PM, ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user 
>  wrote:
> 
> On 4/26/19 3:19 PM, ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> I have been looking over the "Reconcile" on on eof m yu
>> credit card account.  I just don understand what I am seeing.
>> 1) do I put a "c" in the opening balance as I
>> I has checked it?
>> 2) I have put "C" in all the charges on my bank statement.
>> 3) I press the Reconcile button and I put in the closing data.
>> It puts a weird entry into the the ledger that I don't understand
>> and puts it on one of those weird  "you goofed" accounts.  And
>> I get no "y"'s.
>> I look at the doc and I have no clue what is going on.
>> https://gnucash.org/viewdoc.phtml?rev=3&lang=C&doc=help
>> https://gnucash.org/viewdoc.phtml?rev=3&lang=C&doc=guide
>> :'(
>> -T
> 
> okay, I am just not understanding.
> 
> In the reconcile window
> 
> 1) I presume "Statement Date" is my statement's closing
>   date?
> 
> 1) the statement date matches my bank statement
> 
> 2) starting balance is 0 (it is not)
> 
> 3) Ending Balance matches my statement
> 
> 4) there is a -$700 reconcile Balance.
> 
> I just do not understand
> 


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Re: [GNC] Need help reconciling

2019-05-10 Thread David Cousens
Todd

The Statement date is the closing date on your statement. If the statement
date does not match then you set it to the closing date on your statement.

I have never changed the reconcile status to c or anything else (unless I
needed to manually unreconcile a statement period which I don't ever
remember having to do) manually on any transactions. There may be a case for
doing this if you use a check book perhaps.

The starting balance should be the closing balance of the last
reconciliation. If it is 0 the GnuCash does not recognize that there has
been any previous reconciliation. In this case if the account setup in
GnuCash matches a pre-existing bank account, that account will not have had
a zero balance when you started using GnuCash. The first transaction to
reconcile will be the transaction setup to set the opening balance in the
account when you created it (or set it manually after creation of the
account in GnuCash). That opening balance for the account in GnuCash should
have been set to the closing balance of the statement of the period before
the first period you started using Gnucash. This would appear to be the step
you are missing when setting up Gnucash for an existing account.

You then enter the closing balance from your current statement as the ending
balance for the reconciliation.

If it is a credit card and interest charges for the period have not been
entered into GnuCash you can enter these by pressing the ENter Interest
Charges button . Ignore if the interest charges are already entered  or
there are none.

Press OK.  The next window will show payments into the account on the LHS
and withdrawals from the account on the RHS. GnuCash will attempt to select
those transactions which fall within the statement period set in the
previous setup window and they will appear with the checkboxes checked. By
default the transactions are usually arranged in date order of the entries.

Check 1.  Any unchecked entries at the top of either window pane are a
likely problem. They will generally indicate unreconciled transactions
earlier in your GnuCash records than the period currently being reconciled.
They need to be fixed ( identify whether they are duplicates or wrong
amounts entered etc) because if not, your reconciliation up to the start of
the current period is not correct. After fixing them you will need to at
least check that your reconciliation up to the start of the current period
is now correct. That may mean reconciling again completely from the start
although GnuCash generally appears to reflect any changes you make in the
accounts directly into the reconciliation window as they happen.

Check 2.  In the summary panel at the bottom of the window, the starting
balance should be the starting balance of the statement, the closing balance
should equal the closing balance  of the statement and if you are lucky (
i.e. no errors in the current period), the reconciled balance will equal the
closing balance).

Check 3 If the reconciled and closing balances match and the difference is
zero check that all the payments into the account and withdrawals from the
account for the date range in the current period are checked. If this is the
case then your reconciliation is probably complete. 

Check 4 If there are any unchecked payments or withdrawals with dates in the
current statement period, then you have an error - find out why and fix it
then repeat the reconciliation from the startuntil all of the above are
correct.

Check 5 If any checked entry in either pane falls outside the date range of
the current statement, this is an error either in the date of the
transaction. Find out why and fix it - then repeat the reconciliation from
the start

At this point you can press the finish button and your account should
reconcile and the newly reconciled entries will have a "y" in the reconcile
status column.

I personally do not use the above. I uncheck all entries (Ctrl-A then use
the Unreconcile Selection button) then check each entry off individually as
I match it against the corresponding entries in the statement, but I'm an
accountant and therefore pedantic. 

David Cousens 





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[GNC] Price Editor Problems

2019-05-10 Thread DaveW


Where, please, can I get wo-to-go instructions to get my stock Price
Editor (Re)working??

I am running Ubuntu 18.04.  GNC ver 3.5.  My stock is all on the ASX
(Australia).  Things worked wonderfully until the Yahoo demise and
then for a while I was able to use Alphvantage but that stopped too. 

I have tried all sorts of fixes randomly and fear I have completely
confused GNC in the process.

I would greatly appreciate some step by step assistance.

Dave W
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