Re: [GNC] First time with Quickbooks difficulty

Hello Stephen Welcome to GNUCash. I am a Linux user and a GNUCash user for one organisation but not so for another - mainly because of the use of Quickbooks by that organisation for many years. For that organisation, I run Quickbooks in a Virtual Machine (I use Oracle Virtualbox)

Re: [GNC] Non Cash Donation

Hi Ross I would normally consider the donation as Donation: Income in Kind I hope that is of some help. Many others here may have better ideas. Cheers. Hop On Sun, 13 July 2025, 10:22 pm Ross Laver, wrote: > A member of our Non-Profit organization purchased Postage ($73) but does > not wish to b

Re: [GNC] totals for a parent account and all its children

Hi Tim Your question has created a lot of discussion but I'm uncertain as to whether it has answered your question. As I understand it, you wanted a report listing (parent) accounts and sub accounts (or "children" accounts) together with their various totals. Have you tried the

Re: [GNC] Accessing data on a windows share fro a link app

Sounds like it might be a permissions issue. Hop On Wed, 19 Feb 2025, 7:01 pm griffin, wrote: > I sometimes use my linux laptop to run GnuCash, but my data is held n a > share on Windows 10. GnuCash can't access that. Is that how it is, or > how can I make it work? > > Thanks. > > -- > If you ne

Re: [GNC] porting Gnucash from W10 to Linux Mint

What Doug said! But I also use Fedora with no issues. Happy with both! Cheers Hop On 25/1/25 14:39, David Carlson wrote: I am not sure which version of Mint you are using, but the Mint release 22.1 cinnamon that I am thinking of trying soon the software manager shows a choice of e

Re: [GNC] Absolute and relative pointers to associated items

Hakon This may also be of help: [1]https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2019-March/083171.h tml Cheers Hop On 19/1/25 12:25, Jim DeLaHunt wrote: Håkon: You ask a good question, and I fear the documentation does not describe the present link path hea

Re: [GNC] ANNOUNCE: GnuCash 5.10 Released

Thanks John and all others involved in the development and maintenance of GnuCash. It is a great application and has made keeping accounts for a small not-for-profit charity a breeze and enabled them to get away from pen & paper. Wishing all those who celebrate it a Merry Christma

Re: [GNC] ANNOUNCE: GnuCash 5.9 Released

Absolutely agree with the others - to the developers: thank you! Merci! Thanks also to Murugan - for pointing out we can make donations to the development team via SourceForge. Here's the link from SourceForge for others who would like to contribute: [1]https://www.paypal.com/dona

Re: [GNC] Backup Solution - Linux Desktop to Synology NAS

Hi Dennis This is after the fact, but I use a program call SyncThing - it syncs my PC's (2 laptops, 1 desktop) which all run Linux and as well, there is third party SyncThing app for my Synology NAS. Syncing is not really the same as backing-up but, as I have effectively have the sa

Re: [GNC] Single or Double Line View

Hi Nathan You can select view preferences via Edit, Preferences, Register Defaults - here you can switch off double line view. Cheers Hop On 18/9/24 03:32, Nathan Rosenthal wrote: I am getting the Double Line View most of the time when I open an account. I go to the Vi

Re: [GNC] Heidi still can't Edit company name.

Hi Heidi I use Linux so I'm not sure if your situation will be the same but if I go to File, Properties, Business I can change lots of Company details including the company name. Cheers Hop On 16/9/24 09:09, halatch1008 via gnucash-user wrote: I keep asking the same question

Re: [GNC] importing or pasting reports into spreadsheets

Hi David When you paste into Calc (I'll assume you are using Ctrl-v), you should get an Import options screen pop up in which you can tick a box "Detect special numbers (such as dates). I find this works for me (using different versions of Linux on differing hardware) I hope that helps! Cheers Hop

Re: [GNC] How to get a report in a format which is easy to edit?

You just need CUPS-PDF installed as a print driver for producing pdf files. On Wed, 6 Mar 2024, 9:12 pm Alan Hopkins, wrote: > Glad to hear it > > On Wed, 6 Mar 2024, 8:43 pm Chris Green, wrote: > >> On Wed, Mar 06, 2024 at 08:01:36PM +1100, Alan Hopkins wrote: >> &

Re: [GNC] How to get a report in a format which is easy to edit?

Glad to hear it On Wed, 6 Mar 2024, 8:43 pm Chris Green, wrote: > On Wed, Mar 06, 2024 at 08:01:36PM +1100, Alan Hopkins wrote: > > Chris > > > > Are you "printing to file" or are you doing something else? As Adrien has > > pointed out, you have not re

Re: [GNC] How to get a report in a format which is easy to edit?

As an afterthought Chris, check to see if you have Ghostscript installed - it effectively provides a pdf printer (with editable files) On Wed, 6 Mar 2024, 8:01 pm Alan Hopkins, wrote: > Chris > > Are you "printing to file" or are you doing something else? As Adrien has >

Re: [GNC] How to get a report in a format which is easy to edit?

Chris Are you "printing to file" or are you doing something else? As Adrien has pointed out, you have not really given us enough info to help you. Most Linux systems I am aware of allow printing to file & selecting file type as pdf. I have not encountered a pdf from this method which couldn't be

Re: [GNC] How to get a report in a format which is easy to edit?

Chris I support Adrien here - he is trying to assist you to get to the end-point you want. HTML reports can be imported into any decent word processing software. You don't need to edit the HTML code. And you can make financial reports look great using a spreadsheet - I've been doing that for dec

Re: [GNC] Start and End of Quarter Dates Incorrect - a Bug?

PS Using start of accounting period to end of accounting period seems to work OK, so it just looks like the Quarter is out. I haven't tried it, but if you have a whole lot of reports to do for the last Q, it might be easier to set the accounting period once in GNC Preferences so yo

Re: [GNC] Start and End of Quarter Dates Incorrect - a Bug?

Hi Jay GNC 5.5 and PCLinuxOS here - the same thing occurs for me too. So I just use the to & from dates to set it right. But it does appear to be a bug as it was working correctly before 5.5. I will check later (tomorrow) to see if my install on another machine running Fedora 38

Re: [GNC] Change Printed Invoice

Yep - it is as easy as John says. And I can clarify there is no issue in Australia with having "Tax Invoice" on invoices below $1000. Go to the supermarket or buy fuel and the machine docket will say Tax Invoice no matter what you spend because it will indicate how much , if any, Goods & Services T

Re: [GNC] No such file or directory error finding libgnc-expressions-guile.so

orking again. On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 5:36 PM Alan Hopkins <[1]hopp...@gmail.com> wrote: I am using GnuCash on Fed38 too. I seem to remember when I installed it via the Software Centre it didn't install properly (ie some dependencies were missing) so I uninstalled, updated

Re: [GNC] No such file or directory error finding libgnc-expressions-guile.so

I am using GnuCash on Fed38 too. I seem to remember when I installed it via the Software Centre it didn't install properly (ie some dependencies were missing) so I uninstalled, updated all and reinstalled via CLI and it runs like a dream. Maybe do what I did? Hope that is of some help Cheers Ho

Re: [GNC] Have I got my USD accounts set up wrong?

Hello David We receive and pay for a multitude of currencies. This made life complicated for a small business so we decided to use a FX service - we use OFX because we managed to get to them in their early days and were offered a special continuing deal. However, there are quite

Re: [GNC] Australian Accountants familiar with GNUCash

Wed, 25 Oct. 2023, 9:27 pm flywire, wrote: > > > > https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2023-October/109255.html > > Alan Hopkins wrote: > > > I know an accountant who has, for at least one business, accepted > printed > > P&L & Balance Sheet f

Re: [GNC] Australian Accountants familiar with GNUCash

Hello Michael That's a very common story with accountants in Australia these days - they have often put themselves into a relationship with Xero, MYOB or Reckon and prefer you to use "their" system. Unfortunately, I don't know of the existence of any such list I know an accountant

Re: [GNC] ANNOUNCE: GnuCash 5.4 Released

I'll second that. I hope you guys go to the blood bank because your blood is definitely worth bottling!! On 25/9/23 07:47, Jediator wrote: Thanks John and the GC team for all your hard work and dedication! On 9/24/23 5:26 PM, John Ralls wrote: The GnuCash development t

Re: [GNC] Expenses by Account

Hello Tom It's fairly straightforward, if I understand you correctly. There are several ways to achieve this but possibly the easiest is to choose the Income Statement (MultiColumn) report, then in the report Options go to the Accounts tab and select Clear All then scroll though y

Re: [GNC] Why does "Managed Document Link" send me to the wrong directory?

Oops... sorry. I see you have changed the path head in preferences - apologies for the confusion Not sure what is happening there as it works ok on linux for me. Cheers Hop Sent from my unbelievably smart phone On Sun, 25 Dec. 2022, 10:40 pm Alan Hopkins, wrote: > Hi David > Merry Chr

Re: [GNC] Why does "Managed Document Link" send me to the wrong directory?

Hi David Merry Christmas. You change the default attachment location in preferences. You appear to be changing it as per individual file which is ok if the attachments are all in different locations I'm not at my computer right now otherwise I could tell you exactly where All the best - & I just

Re: [GNC] Printing/Exporting Invoices to PDF

Hello Waltr Choose Print and then print to a file of type pdf. Hope that helps Alan On 14/9/22 01:27, Waltr via gnucash-user wrote: Dear gnucash users: I have recently upgraded from 3.11 to 4.11. I have also recently been using the 3.11 Invoice "Export" button to export these invo

Re: [GNC] Default Accounting period permanent change (Ver 4.6 still..)

Hi Doug Nice to hear from another Aussie PCLOS & GNUCash user! I have the same version of GNC as you (as that's what is in the repo!) - I haven't been using GNC for long but I set the accounting period in the Preferences as Absolute to 1st July 20 to 30 Jun 21 (ie last fin year) a

Re: [GNC] Tax and Budget Reporting

Hi there I may not have fully understood but you just run a transaction report on your bank accounts (select you bank accounts in Options)? That will give you deposits & withdrawals including tax. If you want to know the totals for specific accounts (eg donations) you can just filt

Re: [GNC] Accounting for GST in Australia

. regards Nathan On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 5:23 PM Alan Hopkins <[1]hopp...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi Nathan Are you using GnuCash to generate your bills & invoices? If not, when making entries directly into your accounts you won't see the GST automatically. When ent

Re: [GNC] Accounting for GST in Australia

Hi Nathan Are you using GnuCash to generate your bills & invoices? If not, when making entries directly into your accounts you won't see the GST automatically. When entering invoices & bills you need to check the Taxable? & Tax Included? columns Otherwise, when making direct ent

Re: [GNC] Transparent background on selected Transfer choice

Hello all I am using PCLinuxOS KDE5 with GNUCash 4.2 and have had the same issues with the transparency. The default style for Gnome/GTK applications was Breeze so I changed it to Adwaita and the problem has gone. I wasn't that happy with the "look" though so I have since changed th

Re: [GNC] Question about Profit-Loss Report

Hello Howard I agree with both Michaels - you need to understand the difference between accounting records & reports prepared on an accruals basis vs a cash basis. You should do some reading on basic accounting. GNUCash used for business uses the accrual basis - (invoices are regi

Re: [GNC] How do I get the 3D Interface look - Take 2?

Hi Viking Perhaps this link might help you: [1]https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Diagrams_-_Windows Looks like it is in \AppData\Roaming\GnuCash ... but I don't use Windoze HTH Cheers Alan On 15/3/21 8:23 pm, viking wrote: Parker Graham-2 wrote I wo

Re: [GNC] Moving to Linux

This link identifies file locations https://lists.gnucash.org/docs/C/gnucash-guide/basics-migrate-settings.html Hope that helps. Alan On Sat, 13 Mar. 2021, 9:16 pm Stephen C. Camidge, wrote: > I am moving my data from Mac OS to Linux Manjaro. > > I copied over the datafile, no problem. > > How

Re: [GNC] Best way to close unpaid invoices?

ot* of type 'AR/AP'. (there can be only 1 of > each of those) > > With the method listed below, the Business Features (and their reports) > 'think' the customer paid when they did not. > > See my other reply describing how to close these out properly in GnuCash. >

Re: [GNC] Best way to close unpaid invoices?

Hi all I'm new to GNU Cash but I just tested a method that worked and I think is valid. I went to the client's invoice and paid the full amount ($120) which then was entered by GNUCash into the Accounts Receivable. I then went into the Accounts Receivable account, located the paym