Re: Two Income Statement patches: Assets & Value

2009-01-29 Thread Mark Jenkins
> I'd use the cash flow statement to answer this question. The cash flow > statement should show you how much an account changed in a period. You I also find that transaction report does a good job of adding up new entries over a period. ___ gnucash-d

Re: Two Income Statement patches: Assets & Value

2009-01-29 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
Frédéric >Actually, it was not. But I can certainly understand how it could seem >that way to you. > >My question/need was actually technical: how much money went into asset >account X last year? [*] > >This need comes as a result of two things: > >* Under Canadian law, the half-year convention

Re: Two Income Statement patches: Assets & Value

2009-01-29 Thread michael.mckay
fixed asset and accumulated depreciation accounts, you will see how much your assets changed by adding new assets and depreciating or writing off old ones. Good luck, Mike. From: Frédéric Brière To: Mike or Penny Novack CC: gnucash-devel@gnucash.org Subject: Re: Two Income Statement patches: A

Re: Two Income Statement patches: Assets & Value

2009-01-29 Thread Frédéric Brière
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 09:33:03AM -0500, Mike or Penny Novack wrote: > Back to the original question which was really "how do I properly keep > the books to reflect "depreciation" and what information must I be able > to report for my jurisdiction. That's NOT a GnuCash question. That's a Ac

Re: Two Income Statement patches: Assets & Value

2009-01-29 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >I don't want to rain on your parade, but in my opinion this is the >wrong thing to do. > >What would be better is to have a separate balance sheet report that >provides the delta over a time period. I don't begin to know how to do >that, but IMO, it is the proper thi

Re: Two Income Statement patches: Assets & Value

2009-01-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 05:46:08PM -0500, Frédéric Brière wrote: > [Please CC any replies, as I'm not subscribed] > > Hi guys, > > I switched my business accouting from a clunky home-made script+database > to Gnucash several months ago -- kudos for all your work! Having now > finished my first t

Two Income Statement patches: Assets & Value

2009-01-24 Thread Frédéric Brière
[Please CC any replies, as I'm not subscribed] Hi guys, I switched my business accouting from a clunky home-made script+database to Gnucash several months ago -- kudos for all your work! Having now finished my first tax report based on Gnucash's reports, here are two things I found lacking in th