[GNC] US Based - have income in both USD and GPB - how to enter into GnuCash

2025-03-12 Thread Bruce Griffis
I started doing some online stuff for Prolific. They pay in both US dollar and GPB depending on where the researcher is located. My default currency is USD. How would I record an income transaction that is in GPB? Would I need to do a conversion based on USD to GPB on that day? ___

Re: [GNC] 1099's

2024-11-16 Thread Bruce Griffis
Reddit has a nice, older entry on that: https://www.reddit.com/r/GnuCash/comments/eqpkih/how_to_deal_with_usa_1099misc_in_gnucash/ I haven't stepped through it yet, but it looks like it can at least get you to a summary. BruceG (that other bruce over there, not the singy one and not the bitey

Re: [GNC] File Cabinet, 3-Ring Binders, Paper Records?

2024-11-08 Thread Bruce Griffis
Thanks for letting me know. I share my GnuCash file between an Ubuntu desktop and a Win11 laptop and rsync it to a Raspberry Pi SAMBA server. Looks like that would not be a good option for me On Fri, Nov 8, 2024, 11:31 AM Tom Balazs wrote: > > If I get receipts e-mailed, is there a way to link t

Re: [GNC] File Cabinet, 3-Ring Binders, Paper Records?

2024-11-06 Thread Bruce Griffis
If I get receipts e-mailed, is there a way to link them to an expense or asset? On 11/6/24 15:25, Liz wrote: On Wed, 6 Nov 2024 10:49:15 -0800 "Stephen M. Butler" wrote: Paper burns in a fire also.  So need offsite backup. I'd put some better filtering on your email to snag the good emails

Re: [GNC] Database backend for gnucash?

2024-10-12 Thread Bruce Griffis
Chapter 12 of the book "GnuCash 2.4 Small Business Accounting" section on Application Integration and Other Advanced Topics SQLite discusses OpenOffice Base, SQLite3 and ODBC drivers. It also goes a little bit into reporting using MS Excel with SQLite3 ODBC drivers.I haven't messed around with

Re: [GNC] To whoever explained the 4% safe withdrawal rule - thank you

2024-10-06 Thread Bruce Griffis
, which we can each take with a pinch of salt. I've written some initial thoughts below. If this is too off topic for the mailing list, feel free to email me off list if you want to talk more about this. (That's not just for Bruce, but for anyone interested.) On 2024-10-06 09:56, B

[GNC] To whoever explained the 4% safe withdrawal rule - thank you

2024-10-06 Thread Bruce Griffis
So I also misunderstood the 4% rule. I figured I would calculate it as I can take out 4% of my investments in 2024, then in 2025 take out 4% based on what I had in my portfolio as of 1/1/2025. And I misunderstood it. I recalculated based on 4% of what was in investments on the day I retired, th

Re: [GNC] Another "multi-account" logical issue - any advice on how to register this?

2024-10-02 Thread Bruce Griffis
Or in the case of reselling (which really is what we are doing when buying an item and eventually selling it) - I bought some diecast cars off an online seller. The price of each unit came in where I could make a profit selling it. However, each item had taxes, shipping and handling. And in resell

Re: [GNC] Another "multi-account" logical issue - any advice on how to register this?

2024-10-01 Thread Bruce Griffis
I'm going to have to read that publication. I am selling household items on eBay and think I would be considered a hobbiest. Sales will be less than 4k this year - and only if I were to sell a lot in 4th quarter. Can anyone recommend a VERY introductory guide to hobby and small business taxes in th

Re: [GNC] Database storage

2024-09-19 Thread Bruce Griffis
Slightly off topic. In my earliest working days we had a Honeywell mainframe, were bringing in an IBM mainframe and had a Tandem system for airline reservations. The Tandem wrote to two different disks at the same time so if there was ever a failure, no data would be lost. One day I came in and

Re: [GNC] Recommendations for hosting gnucash file - Google Drive, Microsoft 365, Local server?

2024-09-12 Thread Bruce Griffis
That is a really good solution! I'll need to look closer into how to keep the database concurrent across machines. I was just using a thumb drive. I then tried syncthing which worked really well. But syncthing can do Global discovery and uses relays to send files across the Internet using TLS encry

Re: [GNC] Recommendations for hosting gnucash file - Google Drive, Microsoft 365, Local server?

2024-09-12 Thread Bruce Griffis
I know this is veering off topic. My son just wrapped up his Bachelor's in Information Technology with a Cybersecurity focus. In one of the ybersecurity courses, we messed around on a project together. Kali Linux has some password cracking tools. We created a KeePass file with passwords and sto

Re: [GNC] Recommendations for hosting gnucash file - Google Drive, Microsoft 365, Local server?

2024-09-09 Thread Bruce Griffis
I'll need to take a closer look at CryptSync. I did go and install syncthing and am synchronizing GnuCash files for my family, my mom (I'm her Power of Attorney) and an eBay side hustle. Three sets of books. Three completely different sets of banks/credit cards/debit cards, ... I yoinked my Gn

[GNC] Recommendations for hosting gnucash file - Google Drive, Microsoft 365, Local server?

2024-09-07 Thread Bruce Griffis
I am running GnuCash 5.5 on my Ubuntu 24.04 desktop. I also have GnuCash installed on my Windows 11 laptop. Right now I just copy my most recent GnuCash file over to USB if I want to work on it using my laptop. I tried using Google Drive, but found the application hanging when using Google Driv

Re: [GNC] Investments - I want to play too! (figuring out money into holding account, purchase bond or stock index fund out of holding fund)

2024-09-03 Thread Bruce Griffis
Replying to myself in case other people have the same question. Once again, it was an RTFM issue, not a technical issue. https://gnucash-docs-rst.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guide/C/ch_invest.html section on Selling Shares spelled it out exactly. I'm good to go. On 9/2/24 16:02, Bruce Gr

[GNC] Investments - I want to play too! (figuring out money into holding account, purchase bond or stock index fund out of holding fund)

2024-09-02 Thread Bruce Griffis
So, I retired last year. I did a rollover IRA, moving money from a 401K into an individual IRA account. Investments are extremely simple. Just index stock funds and bond fund. I don't need to track my old 401K. However, I do want to track the money going in to my holding funds, then that money

Re: [GNC] Printable invoice tab/screen does not display the invoice to be printed

2024-08-19 Thread Bruce Griffis
ith > > > compositing disabled for webkitgtk will usually fix the blank report > > > problem. Use the following command in a terminal to start Gnucash and > > > see if the problem is corrected: > > > > > > WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 gnucash > > > > &

Re: [GNC] Printable invoice tab/screen does not display the invoice to be printed

2024-08-19 Thread Bruce Griffis
I run Ubuntu 24.04 on my desktop and have an NVidia card. I could not display reports in GnuCash. Worked fine on my Win11 laptop. Folks on this list gave me the following instructions: To start Gnucash in Ubuntu with an NVidia card, open Terminal application and enter: WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSI

[GNC] Beginner use case: Checking, Savings, Credit Card = how do I correlate a transaction in Checking Withdrawal to Savings Deposit or Credit Card payment?

2024-08-13 Thread Bruce Griffis
I'm trying to figure out the very basics of managing a checking account, savings account and credit card in GnuCash. I downloaded a csv of all checking transactions for a year and imported them. They look good and match up with my check register. Then I downloaded my savings for a year into a s

[GNC] Need help with eBay - tagging multiple sales into one payout hitting checking two business days later

2024-05-31 Thread Bruce Griffis
I’m looking for help in figuring out GnuCash for a small eBay reseller, basically selling items from home, but occasionally purchasing an item for resale. I’m looking at this from the perspective of viewing sales from the My eBay / Selling / Payments / Total Sales page. Under Assets, I have C

[GNC] GnuCash works on clean install of Ubuntu 24.04

2024-05-23 Thread Bruce Griffis
I saw the message on GnuCash not working on an upgrade to Ubuntu 24.04. Just wanted to say that it works on a fresh install. I wanted to go 24.04, so did a fresh install than restored /home from backups. While that works, if you have a lot of customized packages installed instead of just things fro