Re: [GNC] Dealing with escrow account

2023-11-01 Thread Edwin Booth via gnucash-user
Got it. Thanks! Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Wednesday, November 1, 2023, 12:03 AM, Stephen M. Butler wrote: I treat it like another asset account.  The monthly escrow amount goes in and when the escrow pays out it comes out as an expense. So your monthly payment out of your checking

Re: [GNC] I need basic help

2023-10-25 Thread Edwin Booth via gnucash-user
, Edwin Booth via gnucash-user wrote: Thank you. I’ll try it that way.  Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Thursday, October 19, 2023, 11:26 AM, Steve Butler wrote: On Wed, Oct 18, 2023, 23:04 Edwin Booth wrote: Steve, Thanks for getting back to me! It seems that I need to first delete my

Re: [GNC] I need basic help

2023-10-25 Thread Edwin Booth via gnucash-user
Mail for iPhone On Thursday, October 19, 2023, 12:24 PM, Edwin Booth via gnucash-user wrote: Thank you. I’ll try it that way.  Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Thursday, October 19, 2023, 11:26 AM, Steve Butler wrote: On Wed, Oct 18, 2023, 23:04 Edwin Booth wrote: Steve, Thanks for

Re: [GNC] I need basic help

2023-10-21 Thread Edwin Booth via gnucash-user
Thanks again to all! But here’s a simple question that I need the answer to so I may start entering expenses. I have set up an account hierarchy tree and now I want to assign expense accounts to specific transactions that I made with my credit cards. But I wish to add some accounts to the basic

Re: [GNC] I need basic help

2023-10-20 Thread Edwin Booth via gnucash-user
Thank you Michael. The ancient history of these terms is really interesting. I don’t really “get it” yet but I see the idea here. Very hard to set aside the use of credit and debit in the modern sense and use them in a very different way. Counter intuitive.  Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone O

Re: [GNC] I need basic help

2023-10-19 Thread Edwin Booth via gnucash-user
I am working my way through the tutorial. One of the things it says near the beginning is that one should set up a practice file. I need to wrap my head around the whole “debit/credit” concept. Thanks for your help. Everyone’s comments and suggestions are quite helpful.  Edwin Sent from Yahoo M

Re: [GNC] I need basic help

2023-10-19 Thread Edwin Booth via gnucash-user
Thank you. I’ll try it that way.  Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Thursday, October 19, 2023, 11:26 AM, Steve Butler wrote: On Wed, Oct 18, 2023, 23:04 Edwin Booth wrote: Steve, Thanks for getting back to me! It seems that I need to first delete my newly downloaded file from GnuCash an

Re: [GNC] I need basic help

2023-10-18 Thread Edwin Booth via gnucash-user
Steve, Thanks for getting back to me! It seems that I need to first delete my newly downloaded file from GnuCash and re-import it but first assign all the transactions to various accounts. I have gone through the process (I think) of creating a hierarchy of accounts (though I will surely want to