Re: WELCOME to gnucash-devel@gnucash.org

2000-03-07 Thread Christopher Browne
On Sat, 04 Mar 2000 11:09:25 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > It's been rumoured that Valsecchi Patrick said: > > How could I give an initial value to an account? > > > > I know I can use an entry (how it is automatically done by the soft) > > that contains an ini

Re: WELCOME to gnucash-devel@gnucash.org

2000-03-05 Thread Valsecchi Patrick
Buddha Buck wrote: > Obviously, this is something that accountants using double entry have > had to deal with for 700 years or so... > > The solution is to use an equity account. In my Chart of Accounts, I > have an equity account called "Net Worth". So when I said "I started > with $20,000 in

Re: WELCOME to gnucash-devel@gnucash.org

2000-03-04 Thread linas
It's been rumoured that [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > My problem: > > How could I give an initial value to an account? > Right, its currently not implemented. I beleive that the right way to Actuall, the other note which says 'use an equity account' is right. I guess I was thinking too much about

Re: WELCOME to gnucash-devel@gnucash.org

2000-03-04 Thread Buddha Buck
> Hi all > > I'm using gnucash V1.3.0. Nice piece of soft ;-) > > > My problem: > How could I give an initial value to an account? > > So with double entry, it's impossible to have initial value for an > account. > > Is there a solution I missed or is it something interesting to add to > the

Re: WELCOME to gnucash-devel@gnucash.org

2000-03-04 Thread linas
It's been rumoured that Valsecchi Patrick said: > > Hi all > > I'm using gnucash V1.3.0. Nice piece of soft ;-) Thanks! > My problem: > How could I give an initial value to an account? > > I know I can use an entry (how it is automatically done by the soft) > that contains an initial value wi

Re: WELCOME to gnucash-devel@gnucash.org

2000-03-04 Thread Valsecchi Patrick
Hi all I'm using gnucash V1.3.0. Nice piece of soft ;-) My problem: How could I give an initial value to an account? I know I can use an entry (how it is automatically done by the soft) that contains an initial value without "Transfer from". But everything will be broken (in particular the "b