Re: [GNC] Modifying the Register

2024-12-23 Thread Michael or Penny Novack via gnucash-user
"Closing the books" is a formal accounting procedure originating primarily in the days of manual accounting in paper ledgers. As others have pointed out, Gnucash carries out the necessary calculations in its reports so there is no real need to carry out the formal procedure. For the (VERY COMMON

Re: [GNC] Modifying the Register

2024-12-23 Thread David Cousens
Greg, "Closing the books" is a formal accounting procedure originating primarily in the days of manual accounting in paper ledgers. As others have pointed out, Gnucash carries out the necessary calculations in its reports so there is no real need to carry out the formal procedure. In accounting p

Re: [GNC] Modifying the Register

2024-12-23 Thread David Cousens
Greg, The main way to do this is to use the key to move to the next field which includes the memo lines. Just enter data in the memo fields (in the description column on the second and subsequent lines of the transaction). Shift- moves backwards through the fields of the transaction. completes t

Re: [GNC] Closing books (was Re: Modifying the Register)

2024-12-23 Thread G Elevich
My bad. It's one of those things I am a stickler about, too! Thanks, greg On Sun, Dec 22, 2024 at 1:06 PM Stan Brown wrote: > On 2024-12-21 10:29, G Elevich wrote: > > While I have your attention. I am not a business owner, and I don't have > > any special year end close out or reporting to do.

[GNC] Gnucash 5.10 forgets account associations

2024-12-23 Thread Peter West via gnucash-user
5.10 on Mac Sonoma 14.7.1 Build ID: 5.10+(2024-12-14) Gnucash is remembering my memo entries, and giving sensible completions, whether at top level or line entry level. However, it seems to have forgotten the account associated with the line entry item. This is a serious drawback. Has anything

Re: [GNC] GnuCash Won't Start Widnows

2024-12-23 Thread Jonathan A. Cohen
John, I use WinMerge all the time. Excellent program. I have tried a handful of backup files from before the start of the problem. None are working. Wonder if this is an application issue? I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling 5.8, 5.9, and 5.10 without success. Any other ideas before I

Re: [GNC] GnuCash Won't Start Widnows

2024-12-23 Thread Jonathan A. Cohen
I tried Notepad++ XML Tools. Check errors found nothing. The validation cannot seem to understand the schema. John, is there anything else I can try myself before I decide whether to send it to you? Thank you, Jonathan Jonathan A. Cohen jco...@urgrad.rochester.edu On

Re: [GNC] GnuCash Won't Start Widnows

2024-12-23 Thread Jonathan A. Cohen
Any idea what I should look for in the XML? I have some technical expertise, so could write some python to examine, if there is anything systematic. Jonathan A. Cohen 26 Patriots Drive Canton, MA 02021 781-929-8204 jco...@urgrad.rochester.edu http://www.linkedin.com/in/

Re: [GNC] GnuCash Won't Start Widnows

2024-12-23 Thread Jonathan A. Cohen
Thanks, Steve. Uncompressing did not solve the problem. I did try jing per https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/GnuCash_XML_format But I do not understand the results. Both of these were run on the uncompressed version: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-23\jing-trang\build>java -jar jing.jar -c https://githu

Re: [GNC] Closing books (was Re: Modifying the Register)

2024-12-23 Thread R Losey
On Sun, Dec 22, 2024 at 12:10 PM Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) < stan...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > On 2024-12-21 18:54, R Losey wrote: > > However, some people enjoy zeroing Income and Expenses each year to > Equity > > (I learned about it last year, and tried it, and I really like the > benefits > > I g

Re: [GNC] Modifying the Register

2024-12-23 Thread R Losey
On Sun, Dec 22, 2024 at 11:09 AM Michael or Penny Novack via gnucash-user < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > > > > If you wanted to reorder the splits, it appears that GnuCash always sorts > > them so that the debits are first and the credits afterwards. When there > > are multiple debits or cre

Re: [GNC] Modifying the Register

2024-12-23 Thread R Losey
On Sat, Dec 21, 2024 at 11:12 PM Brook Milligan wrote: > > > On Dec 21, 2024, at 19:54, R Losey wrote: > > > > [As people here have pointed out, the only small drawback is that you > > generally don't want to have income/expenses on 31 Dec - so that when > > reports are run, the end of December

Re: [GNC] Migrating invoice printing mods from macOS GC 3.7 to 5.10

2024-12-23 Thread Axel Essbaum
Thank you Geert, the path you gave me is correct, including the 2.2! Kind regards, - Axel — Axel Essbaum a...@essbaum.com > On 23 Dec 2024, at 14:45, Geert Janssens wrote: > > Op maandag 23 december 2024 10:49:46 Midden-Europese standaardtijd schreef > Axel Essbaum: > > Long-time GC user

Re: [GNC] Migrating invoice printing mods from macOS GC 3.7 to 5.10

2024-12-23 Thread Geert Janssens
Op maandag 23 december 2024 10:49:46 Midden-Europese standaardtijd schreef Axel Essbaum: > Long-time GC user here, seeking to migrate from GC 3.7 on macOS Catalina to > GC 5.10 on macOS Sequoia. > > In GC 3.7 I made changes to the following file to modify how invoices were > printed. I added some

[GNC] Migrating invoice printing mods from macOS GC 3.7 to 5.10

2024-12-23 Thread Axel Essbaum
Long-time GC user here, seeking to migrate from GC 3.7 on macOS Catalina to GC 5.10 on macOS Sequoia. In GC 3.7 I made changes to the following file to modify how invoices were printed. I added some CSS and some text at the bottom of the invoice to include bank payment info, etc. Can someone t