Re: [GNC] support for a new company

2025-01-13 Thread David Cousens
Bob, The easiest way to do it is if you have the closing balances in your prvious set of books at some fixed date. If possible get a Balance sheet as of that date in your previous accounting system. the totals on it should satisfy total Assets = Total Liabilities + total Equity. If not you need to

Re: [GNC] Any Suggestions for Exporting TXF to TurboTax

2025-01-13 Thread sunfish62--- via gnucash-user
Does the TXF report help? ⁣David T. ​ On Jan 14, 2025, 12:00 AM, at 12:00 AM, Jediator wrote: >How difficult is to enable export of TXF data in GnuCash?  Any >suggestions of how to do this for simplifying data import in TurboTax?  > >Just want to hear from fellow GNC users who've done this be

Re: [GNC] support for a new company

2025-01-13 Thread Michael or Penny Novack via gnucash-user
On 1/13/2025 6:13 PM, bullish bob bagley via gnucash-user wrote: b.  we started in 1989.  been with qb for decades.moved to linux and want to stay with gnucash., paid in cash is because i make a lot of market mistakes,     net income--I put the ? there because I wasn't sure of the net incom

Re: [GNC] support for a new company

2025-01-13 Thread bullish bob bagley via gnucash-user
b.  we started in 1989.  been with qb for decades.moved to linux and want to stay with gnucash., paid in cash is because i make a lot of market mistakes,     net income--I put the ? there because I wasn't sure of the net income and total equity showing since my bank balance did not carry fo

Re: [GNC] support for a new company

2025-01-13 Thread Michael or Penny Novack via gnucash-user
On 1/13/2025 3:18 PM, bullish bob bagley via gnucash-user wrote: On the equity side of my balance sheet How do i set up my beginning numbers  (i followed your instructions to do the equity opening balances for my bank accts) for my Equity Entries     Capital Stock     Add Paid in Capital     R

Re: [GNC] Fwd: GNC won't open my data

2025-01-13 Thread Bruce Olson via gnucash-user
On Thu, December 12, 2024 4:06 pm, Bruce Irving wrote: I have been using GNC for several years on my Linux operating system. I have been using the Flatpak version, most recently 5.9. Recently, discovered that Mx-Linux has 5.9 in its testing section. Downloaded it but it would NOT open my data f

[GNC] Any Suggestions for Exporting TXF to TurboTax

2025-01-13 Thread Jediator
How difficult is to enable export of TXF data in GnuCash?  Any suggestions of how to do this for simplifying data import in TurboTax?  Just want to hear from fellow GNC users who've done this before.  Thanks a lot! ND ___ gnucash-user mailing list gn

Re: [GNC] Keyboard shortcut for "New Bill" (Business > Vendor > New Bill)

2025-01-13 Thread Murugan Mariappan
Eric You have to create your own accelerators by amending the accelerator file. you can check the following link to get an idea https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Keyboard_Shortcuts#Accelerators In your case, for example the following line will create a shortcut for Ctrl+b to open a new bill (gtk

Re: [GNC] screwed up my cash acount

2025-01-13 Thread G R Hewitt
If you have a MAC Time Machine does all the grunt lifting out of backing up; many a time it has saved hours of work of one sort or another for me. For Windows I use Macrion Reflect Free; this has the advantage of being able to mount a backup as a drive and drill down to the file you need - more-or-

Re: [GNC] screwed up my cash acount

2025-01-13 Thread G R Hewitt
I think No. 2 could be 'Reconcile each month' and don't let them build up. Much less of a chore if you do it once a month than try to do 12 months worth, or whatever. On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 at 17:23, Mark at Lorimark wrote: > I have had to do this from time to time when trying to reconcile > transa

Re: [GNC] support for a new company

2025-01-13 Thread bullish bob bagley via gnucash-user
My automatic setup has these entries in the column under assets but how do i put in my yr end numbers for 09.30.2024 to begin the last quarter of 10.01.2024 --12.31.2024?   Thank you...b³ On 1/13/25 2:18 PM, bullish bob bagley wrote: On the equity side of my balance sheet How do i set up my

[GNC] support for a new company

2025-01-13 Thread bullish bob bagley via gnucash-user
On the equity side of my balance sheet How do i set up my beginning numbers  (i followed your instructions to do the equity opening balances for my bank accts) for my Equity Entries     Capital Stock     Add Paid in Capital     Retained Earnings         net income ? I have the manual book

[GNC] Keyboard shortcut for "New Bill" (Business > Vendor > New Bill)

2025-01-13 Thread Eric Chapman
I have tried to search online, but haven't found this. Is there a keyboard shortcut for "New Bill" (Business > Vendor > New Bill)? Thank you! -- Eric Chapman GnuCash 5.4.2 on MacOS 14.7.2 Sonoma running on an Apple M3 Max computer. ___ gnucash-user m

Re: [GNC] screwed up my cash acount

2025-01-13 Thread Michael or Penny Novack via gnucash-user
On 1/13/2025 12:51 PM, Steve Butler wrote: Make liberal use of FILE: SAVE AS. The default has backups made automatically using your file name as the base name then adding date and timestamp. There are stored in the same place as your file. It also stores log files there in a similar manner wi

Re: [GNC] screwed up my cash acount

2025-01-13 Thread Michael or Penny Novack via gnucash-user
On 1/13/2025 12:37 PM, bullish bob bagley via gnucash-user wrote: ok mark, how do you make a backup in gnucash?  extremely new to it.  Thank you How do you make a backup of all the other user data on your computer? <> You should not be looking at different backup of user data from each appl

Re: [GNC] screwed up my cash acount

2025-01-13 Thread Steve Butler
Make liberal use of FILE: SAVE AS. The default has backups made automatically using your file name as the base name then adding date and timestamp. There are stored in the same place as your file. It also stores log files there in a similar manner with a .log extension. On Mon, Jan 13, 2025,

Re: [GNC] screwed up my cash acount

2025-01-13 Thread Mark at Lorimark
Hi Bob, Your 'file' should just be a single file like; my-file.gnucash and it should be located on your drive somewhere and should end with '.gnucash' extension. If you click on 'help->about' it should tell you where your files are stored. Go to that location and find the (one) file which

Re: [GNC] screwed up my cash acount

2025-01-13 Thread bullish bob bagley via gnucash-user
ok mark, how do you make a backup in gnucash?  extremely new to it.  Thank you On 1/13/25 11:22 AM, Mark at Lorimark wrote: I have had to do this from time to time when trying to reconcile transactions and trying to reconcile accounts.  I too have 'fooled around so much' and made a mess of thi

Re: [GNC] New Accounts

2025-01-13 Thread David Warren
You use thus word "program" Most of us, I would guess, have set up gnucash "files" or "chart(s) of accounts" in a 1:1 relations between files and legal entities. Ie for a person's various accounts that comprise his total activity and net worth as a person, one file. (for me I call that "dw.gnucash

Re: [GNC] screwed up my cash acount

2025-01-13 Thread Steve Butler
#2. Take smaller steps with #1 at major milestones. On Mon, Jan 13, 2025, 09:23 Mark at Lorimark wrote: > I have had to do this from time to time when trying to reconcile > transactions and trying to reconcile accounts. I too have 'fooled > around so much' and made a mess of things. I have re

Re: [GNC] New Accounts

2025-01-13 Thread Steve Butler
The answers depend on how you want to proceed. If the two Bitcoin accounts are separate businesses, then you may want to keep their transactions in their own file (sorta like having different spreadsheets) but using the same program. However, if these are all personal accounts, then just set them

Re: [GNC] screwed up my cash acount

2025-01-13 Thread Mark at Lorimark
I have had to do this from time to time when trying to reconcile transactions and trying to reconcile accounts. I too have 'fooled around so much' and made a mess of things. I have reconciled a whole year's worth of transactions only to find I just butchered two accounts. I've adopted two pr

[GNC] screwed up my cash acount

2025-01-13 Thread Richard Danielson
Hello, GC 5.9 on a mac mini using sonoma 14.6.1.  I made a futile attempt to balance my cash starting with the credit line account and then going to cash.  Used the bank statements to guide my entries.  The problem was that there was an entry in the credit line statement which didn't show up

Re: [GNC] New Accounts

2025-01-13 Thread promethean--- via gnucash-user
-- Secured with Tuta Mail: https://tuta.com/free-email Jan 13, 2025, 12:01 PM by gnucash-user@gnucash.org: > I have a very basic question. I am new to GnuCash since Quickbooks will not > run on Linux and I want to have my own ledger as opposed to a cloud solution. > I have three different ba

[GNC] New Accounts

2025-01-13 Thread promethean--- via gnucash-user
I have a very basic question. I am new to GnuCash since Quickbooks will not run on Linux and I want to have my own ledger as opposed to a cloud solution. I have three different banks that I have checking accounts with. One I use just for personal/household use. The other two I have set up specifi

Re: [GNC] How do i select my checking acct to be able to print it transaction report? Under: reports, transaction report: No acct selected????????

2025-01-13 Thread bullish bob bagley via gnucash-user
A great deal of success and a few failures. turned on computer this morning and go to gnucash in linux mint cinnamon, and i get this: bbbsiaccounting is no longer a file under Gnucash in linux If i click open anyway, i do get there, but that is probably not the proper way to do it. For the