Re: [GNC] Don't get this at all

2022-01-31 Thread Don Robertson
Well, I guess it isn't for me. I think computers should save people time. If I need to open my bank page in my browser and copy the transactions manually into Gnucash  and make a bill, post it, and pay it  for every packet of paperclips doesn't work for me. Or I have to manually split eac

Re: [GNC] Don't get this at all

2022-01-31 Thread davidcousens49
Don Don, If you are recording a purchase you made it would be a credit to your bank account and a debit to the expense account. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https:/

Re: [GNC] Don't get this at all

2022-01-31 Thread Derek Atkins
Hi, On Mon, January 31, 2022 8:54 pm, Don Robertson wrote: > Hi - I have been looking at Gnucash for a while and would like to use it > for my very simple business. But I am just finding it so complicated and > counter intuitive I am thinking I might just use a spread sheet. Yes, it > is that simp

[GNC] Budgeting problem

2022-01-31 Thread Paul Warthe
Hello All, I'm back to pick your brains on a problem I'm having with the budgeting feature. First time I have used it, so here goes. (Windows 10, GC ver. 4.9) I have an account "Food" with 2 sub accounts "Groceries" and "Restaurants". Each sub account has further sub accounts of the names o

[GNC] Don't get this at all

2022-01-31 Thread Don Robertson
Hi - I have been looking at Gnucash for a while and would like to use it for my very simple business. But I am just finding it so complicated and counter intuitive I am thinking I might just use a spread sheet. Yes, it is that simple. In the past I have used Quicken and MoneyWorks, so I am not

Re: [GNC] Canadian Mortgage

2022-01-31 Thread Edward Doolittle
I do the calculations outside of gc then import (actually, type by hand, because I only do three years at a time). Having approximate future transactions in the file may affect some reports, but reports should be regarded as correct only up to the reconciliation date of all the relevant accoun

Re: [GNC] Warning account contains splits whose reconcile date is after statement date

2022-01-31 Thread Christopher Lam
In more recent builds (4.9 onwards I think) you can view the reconciled date in the transaction report display options. On Tue, 1 Feb 2022, 3:39 am Cricket Onebit, wrote: > I get this warning each time I reconcile my credit card statement. It's > happened for several months now. > > The balance

Re: [GNC] Canadian Mortgage

2022-01-31 Thread R. Victor Klassen
Happily, in Canada, Escrow is not nearly as common a practice as in the US. So that complication likely does not apply. But since this thread wandered off into the question of banks making money off the rounding (in Australia), there was a case in Canada - back in the 70s or 80s, as I recall

Re: [GNC] Warning account contains splits whose reconcile date is after statement date

2022-01-31 Thread David Carlson
If that is the exact wording of the warning then the offending reconciled split may be in a different account. One thing you could try is to open Tools > General Journal and select View > Filter by.. > Status and uncheck everything except Reconciled. If there really is an oddball that should make

Re: [GNC] Warning account contains splits whose reconcile date is after statement date

2022-01-31 Thread davidcousens49
It is not necessarilya problem at all. It is just a warning that your current reconciliation has splits which affect other accounts which may have already been reconciled. Unless you have had to change the split to the account you are currently reconciling to achieve the reconcilaition which could

[GNC] Warning account contains splits whose reconcile date is after statement date

2022-01-31 Thread Cricket Onebit
I get this warning each time I reconcile my credit card statement. It's happened for several months now. The balance is fine. There was a bit of confusion over similar lines, but the balances are now fine. (it was a really good series of $10.19 books.) The latest statement was Jan 10. The last tr

Re: [GNC] Split transactions involving multiple currencies

2022-01-31 Thread john
> On Jan 30, 2022, at 11:34 PM, Koen Martens wrote: > > > > On 30-01-2022 17:15, john wrote: >> Looks like you entered the exchange rate backwards, i.e. 10.2 EUR = 1 SEK >> instead of the other way around. > > *doh* yes, that's it of course. I guess I got confused, because for the basic >

Re: [GNC] Canadian Mortgage

2022-01-31 Thread Stan Brown
On 2022-01-31 07:00, Michael or Penny Novack wrote: > > Speaking as somebody who has written software to produce mortgage > amortization tables, don't sweat it. It would be close to impossible for > you to exactly match what the bank has. The problem is that there are > simply too many places wh

Re: [GNC] Canadian Mortgage

2022-01-31 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/30/2022 9:40 PM, Al Maloney wrote: Victor Thanks. What you say about formulae and bank practice makes sense to me. Your advice says to me: "Don't sweat the small stuff". Al Maloney Velox Versutus Vigilans Speaking as somebody who has written software to produce mortgage amortization tab

Re: [GNC] Canadian Mortgage

2022-01-31 Thread David Carlson
If there is a way (and there definitely is) to congregate between two cents and six cents of rounding losses per account times millions of accounts per year, count on bankers to find it. On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 3:56 AM Liz wrote: > On Sun, 30 Jan 2022 21:40:37 -0500 > Al Maloney wrote: > > > Th

Re: [GNC] Crash getting online transactions

2022-01-31 Thread Jon Schewe
On Sun, 2022-01-30 at 12:56 -0500, David Reiser wrote: > > On Jan 30, 2022, at 12:52 PM, Jon Schewe < > > jpsch...@mtu.net > > > wrote: > > > > I've recently found that getting online transactions for my savings > > account crashes GnuCash. Getting the checking account and credit > > card > > acco

[GNC] File Locations

2022-01-31 Thread Jan Herdsman
I am using an iMac, I would like to be able to save my GNU file in a cloud or other location than my hard drive, Also don't know where the location or name of any backup files are, All I can see is log files and one LCK file and the gnucash file, all in My Documents. If possible I would also like t

Re: [GNC] Canadian Mortgage

2022-01-31 Thread Liz
On Sun, 30 Jan 2022 21:40:37 -0500 Al Maloney wrote: > Thanks. > What you say about formulae and bank practice makes sense to me. > Your advice says to me: "Don't sweat the small stuff". Some years ago, in Australia a number of people took to the courts to get the banks to recalculate their mort