Re: Need help converting from gnucash

2020-07-31 Thread Anand Gupta
I just converted three and half years worth of gnucash file into beancount. Really happy! I am using Gnucash 3.8 and struggled for few hours with gnucash-to-beancount and piecash installed by pip. I had to build and install locally from https://github.com/jreynolds01/piecash and https://github

Re: Need help converting from gnucash

2020-08-01 Thread Anand Gupta
Thanks! I could use File->'Save As' to save the gnucash xml file into sqlite format. Also I just had a top level income category in gnucash. Bean-check did not like it. So I created an Income:Revenue account at top, and changed all the income entries to Income:Revenue. The notes url link below

Gnucash->Beancount: Retained Losses missing from beancount balance sheet

2020-08-01 Thread Anand Gupta
After converting from gnucash to beancount I compared the balance sheet from both. It turns out that Gnucash automatically computes a line item in Equity section called retained loss. It is simply all expenses minus all incomes. However, beancount balance sheet does not have this line item. A

Re: Gnucash->Beancount: Retained Losses missing from beancount balance sheet

2020-08-01 Thread Anand Gupta
Thanks, Anand On Saturday, August 1, 2020 at 5:14:22 PM UTC-5, Martin Blais wrote: > > How are you producing your balance sheet? What tool and options are > you using? > > > On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 5:56 PM Anand Gupta > wrote: > >> After converting from gnucash to bean