My thanks to all respondents. It is finally making sense to my befuddled
brain.
However I have one more spanner in the works. I had already transferred
funds from my Current Assets:Bank account to Expenses:Staff.
My Bank account has been reconciled.
What, if any, process is available to transfer th
I work with an organization that uses QuikBooks. There seems to be a
built in mechanism in the report generator in that software that
automatically adds a line with name [parent account name] Other which
contains the total of the transactions in the parent account not in any
subaccount of the paren
I am having issues with editing my budget. I am running version 2.6.19 of
GNUCash. I store the files on a NAS devices so I can access them from both of
my two computers. One is a Microsoft Surface Pro 3 and the other is an HP 8530P
laptop.
I can open the data files on both computers but can onl
We should add that these preferences will not get copied over, so after the
move you will continue to receive email from the new bz instance.
-derek
Sent using my mobile device. Please excuse any typos.
On June 28, 2018 7:04:26 PM John Ralls wrote:
I should have mentioned that this will result
I should have mentioned that this will result in a ton of bug-change emails
going out. If you want to avoid getting those emails (and lighten the load a
bit on Gnome's server), please visit https://bugzilla.gnome.org, log in, click
"Preferences" at the top of the page, select the email tag, and
On June 28, 2018, at 1:12 PM, Geert Janssens wrote:
>Op donderdag 28 juni 2018 18:47:18 CEST schreef Stephen M. Butler:
[Snip]
>> Maybe the financial folks can band together to get the developers to
>> enforce no-transactions to a parent account.
>I think we should modify the concepts. "Placeh
As anyone who's used Bugzilla in the last few months already knows, Gnome has
moved their git repositories to a Gitlab instance at gitlab.gnome.org and
migrated bug tracking for Gnome projects there as well. They've left Bugzilla
alone for non-Gnome projects like GnuCash but they're closing it t
I'm sure you like to get feedback from someone with absolutely no
problems at all.
I was using 2.6.21 on my primary computer and testing 3.1/3.2 on my
standby testbed (both on Win 10.1803). I finally decided to take the
plunge and upgraded my primary computer form 2.6.21 to 3.2. The
experie
Is the 'frozen' status which is already in place but seemingly unused
supposed to be for this purpose?
David C
On Thu, Jun 28, 2018, 12:31 PM John Ralls wrote:
>
>
> > On Jun 28, 2018, at 10:10 AM, Geert Janssens
> wrote:
> >
> > Op donderdag 28 juni 2018 18:47:18 CEST schreef Stephen M. Butle
> On Jun 28, 2018, at 10:10 AM, Geert Janssens
> wrote:
>
> Op donderdag 28 juni 2018 18:47:18 CEST schreef Stephen M. Butler:
>> On 06/27/2018 04:41 PM, DaveC49 wrote:
>>> An active non-placeholder account should not have child/subaccounts,
>>> although I don't think GnuCash actually prevents
On 06/28/2018 10:10 AM, Geert Janssens wrote:
> Op donderdag 28 juni 2018 18:47:18 CEST schreef Stephen M. Butler:
>> On 06/27/2018 04:41 PM, DaveC49 wrote:
>>> An active non-placeholder account should not have child/subaccounts,
>>> although I don't think GnuCash actually prevents this. In this ca
On 06/28/2018 12:25 AM, Tony Vanson wrote:
> Thank you for your quick response. My Staff account is set up as an Expense
> not as an Asset. In this particular case would I need to set up a new
> account Current Assets:Staff - as a child account under Current Assets?
> Cheers
I would set it up as a
Op donderdag 28 juni 2018 18:47:18 CEST schreef Stephen M. Butler:
> On 06/27/2018 04:41 PM, DaveC49 wrote:
> > An active non-placeholder account should not have child/subaccounts,
> > although I don't think GnuCash actually prevents this. In this case, the
> > parent account total is the sum of th
On 06/27/2018 04:41 PM, DaveC49 wrote:
> Stephen,
>
> As an accountant I would prefer to have parent accounts as placeholder
> accounts which cannot be the target of transactions directly (this can be
> set in the edit Account dialog and marks the account as read only) as the
> placeholder total
Sorry. I misunderstood, and I appreciate your correction and clarification.
On June 28, 2018, at 10:30 AM, John Ralls wrote:
David T:
No, he didn’t. He said that it’s poor accounting practice and since unlike you
and me he’s a licensed accountant we should respect his judgement. He also said
David T:
No, he didn’t. He said that it’s poor accounting practice and since unlike you
and me he’s a licensed accountant we should respect his judgement. He also said
explicitly that GnuCash doesn’t enforce that and he correctly described how
GnuCash handles placeholder accounts having transac
On 6/28/2018 9:39 AM, D via gnucash-user wrote:
Before you convert an existing parent account to a placeholder (by checking
the placeholder checkbox in the Edit Account dialog), you will need to
transfer any transactions into it to an appropriate child/sub-account. My
experience is that a placeh
David,
You've now misstated twice that Placeholder accounts cannot have transactions,
and I feel it is important to make it unambiguously clear to anyone reading
this thread that there is nothing in Gnucash that prevents placeholder accounts
from having transactions.
Setting an account as a p
On Thursday, 28 June 2018 11:31:08 BST Tony Vanson wrote:
> Thank you for your patience
> Yes, I guess, in this instance, it could be considered as a type of
> temporary loan for her to pay the bills. However, my thoughts are, that if
> I change the current classification of Expenses:Staff to Curre
Thank you - short and sweet - and confirms that I need an additional asset
account.
Cheers
On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 5:46 PM, Christopher Lam
wrote:
> You are effectively doing a split transaction.
>
> Assets:Bank -$1250
> Assets:Staff +$250 (sundries)
> Expenses:Staff +$1000 (salary)
>
> As the
Hi Dave
It's nice to have input from someone in the know.
I have used the placeholder flag to tag accounts which are now closed,
e.g. closed bank accounts, loans paid off, old unused expense
categories. This is not expressly disallowed by the UI, and the
advantage here is the account does not
You are effectively doing a split transaction.
Assets:Bank -$1250
Assets:Staff +$250 (sundries)
Expenses:Staff +$1000 (salary)
As the staff member spends appropriately, transfer from Assets:Staff to
Expenses:Various
C
On 28/06/18 18:31, Tony Vanson wrote:
Thank you for your patience
Yes, I
Thank you for your patience
Yes, I guess, in this instance, it could be considered as a type of
temporary loan for her to pay the bills. However, my thoughts are, that if
I change the current classification of Expenses:Staff to Current
Assets:Staff, when I pay her salary I'm decreasing an Asset (Ba
Stephen,
As an accountant I would prefer to have parent accounts as placeholder
accounts which cannot be the target of transactions directly (this can be
set in the edit Account dialog and marks the account as read only) as the
placeholder total should then be the sum of its active child accounts
On Thursday, 28 June 2018 08:46:41 BST Tony Vanson wrote:
> Thanks again. Normally the staff salary would be simply paid from my
> Current assets:Bank Account to Expenses:Staff as they become due.
> Similarly with the other payments from my Current:assets:Bank Account to
> the various other expense
Thanks again. Normally the staff salary would be simply paid from my
Current assets:Bank Account to Expenses:Staff as they become due.
Similarly with the other payments from my Current:assets:Bank Account to
the various other expense account: e.g. Expenses:Pool etc. etc.
Cheers
On Thu, Jun 28, 201
On Thursday, 28 June 2018 08:25:51 BST Tony Vanson wrote:
> Thank you for your quick response. My Staff account is set up as an Expense
> not as an Asset. In this particular case would I need to set up a new
> account Current Assets:Staff - as a child account under Current Assets?
> Cheers
>
Hi T
Thank you for your quick response. My Staff account is set up as an Expense
not as an Asset. In this particular case would I need to set up a new
account Current Assets:Staff - as a child account under Current Assets?
Cheers
On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 2:08 PM, Maf. King wrote:
> On Thursday, 28 Jun
On Thursday, 28 June 2018 07:53:02 BST Tony Vanson wrote:
> Hi all,
> Hopefully someone can advise me how to treat the following problem which
> stumps me.
> I am using GNUcash 2.6.18 on Windows 10.
> I shall be away for several months and have transferred credit from my
> Savings account to my Sta
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