Re: [GNC] Where to charge? Ins pays us, we pay vendor.

2020-02-11 Thread Christopher Lam
Search archives for "trust accounts" On Wed, 12 Feb 2020, 7:34 am Fran_3 via gnucash-user, < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > In the case at hand...The initial expanse was medical billed and billed > to the patient.The insurance company sent the money for the medical bill to > the patient.The

Re: [GNC] Where to charge? Ins pays us, we pay vendor.

2020-02-11 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I could be misunderstanding, but it appears that you are expensing someone else’s expenses, not those of your own business operations. That generally isn’t correct. Expense accounts in your business’ books are for money spent in the operations of *your* business. That is, things like rent, util

Re: [GNC] Where to charge? Ins pays us, we pay vendor.

2020-02-11 Thread Fran_3 via gnucash-user
In the case at hand...The initial expanse was medical billed and billed to the patient.The insurance company sent the money for the medical bill to the patient.The patient aid the medical provider. So we have 3 transactions to record...1- The Medical Bill charged to AP & Med Exp2 - The Ins reim

Re: [GNC] Where to charge? Ins pays us, we pay vendor.

2020-02-11 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 2/11/2020 11:47 AM, Fran_3 via gnucash-user wrote: When an insurance claim occurs the insurance pays us and we pay the vendor. How to we charge the deposit from the insurance company and the payment to the vendor? I considered setting up an Expense Account named Insurance Transactions or Ins

Re: [GNC] Account Currency Screwed Up Again!

2020-02-11 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Thanks for the explanation. Regards, Adrien > On Feb 11, 2020 w7d42, at 1:20 PM, John Ralls wrote: > > The transaction currency in which the value field of every split is > denominated is determined by the account in whose register one creates the > transaction. If that account is in a non-cu

Re: [GNC] Account Currency Screwed Up Again!

2020-02-11 Thread John Ralls
The transaction currency in which the value field of every split is denominated is determined by the account in whose register one creates the transaction. If that account is in a non-currency commodity then the currency of first parent account denominated in a currency is used. So in rsbrux's c

Re: [GNC] Where to charge? Ins pays us, we pay vendor.

2020-02-11 Thread Adrien Monteleone
This is an accounting question and is a bit more than generic, you’d need to ask a local CPA. Some questions to clear up before you ask them: 1. Do you record an asset to reflect the pending claim until paid? (also, what happens if it isn’t paid? see #3) 2. Or is this just a passthru? (like s

Re: [GNC] Account Currency Screwed Up Again!

2020-02-11 Thread Adrien Monteleone
My understanding is that the controlling factor is the currency of the parent, not where you enter the transaction. But I could be mistaken. The tree organization is really user dependent. I think the Guide uses a slightly different organization where bank/brokerage lies below with a separate

[GNC] Where to charge? Ins pays us, we pay vendor.

2020-02-11 Thread Fran_3 via gnucash-user
When an insurance claim occurs the insurance pays us and we pay the vendor. How to we charge the deposit from the insurance company and the payment to the vendor? I considered setting up an Expense Account named Insurance Transactions or Insured Events or whatever... Then allocating the insurance

Re: [GNC] GNUCash XML format compatibility

2020-02-11 Thread Derek Atkins
Colin Law writes: > On Mon, 10 Feb 2020 at 15:21, Wirawan Purwanto wrote: >> >> Hi David, thanks for clarification. For every major release (either >> 2.x or 3.x series), is there a guarantee for file format >> compatibility? > > Upwards, yes I believe so. Any migration necessary would be handl

Re: [GNC] Account Currency Screwed Up Again!

2020-02-11 Thread rsbrux via gnucash-user
It was probabably due to my placing the securities accounts under accounts in CHF and entering the first transactions in the securities accounts instead of in the associated accounts for purchase & sale (see my reply to John Rails).  Stock quotes retrieved from Yahoo as json do show the correct

Re: [GNC] Account Currency Screwed Up Again!

2020-02-11 Thread rsbrux via gnucash-user
There were two different parent accounts, both in CHF.  I guess that is the source of my problems, although I had previously managed to have securities with different currencies under them. ISTR reading somewhere that securities in GC take their currency from the account in which the first tran