Re: [GNC] Credit card reconciliation shows wrong total

On 23 June 2025 at 11:58, Boniforti Flavio said: > Hi all. > I'm back at this topic because I found something weird (maybe it's just my > bank, or it's every bank but I never paid attention to it). I received the > credit card invoice for the period 14.05.2025-15.06.2025 and the final > invoice am

Re: [GNC] Order of accounts when closing the book

On 10 June 2025 at 11:41, Michael or Penny Novack said: > On 6/10/2025 12:36 AM, Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) wrote: > > The Close the Book tool generates two transactions, one for all income > > accounts and the other for all expense accounts. The accounts are not in > > alphabetical order in eithe

Re: [GNC] Newbie: Gnucash credit card payment transactions don't make sense

On 24 May 2025 at 15:32, Deborah Robson said: > I’ve reviewed the concepts and tutorial and spent a couple of days > trying to figure out what’s going on with payments from ASSET:CHECKING > to CREDIT CARD accounts. This is happening with both credit cards, but I > have three examples from the same

Re: [GNC] Ubuntu PPAs (Launchpad)

On 20 May 2025 at 16:34, Brad Morrison said: > Hi Bruce, John, & others, > > Interesting topic! > > The fewer versions of GNUCash there are, the less work it is for > developers to reproduce issues AKA limiting possibilities reduces the work > involved in trying to reproduce & understand issue

[GNC] Defered payment account

Gnucash v2.61 on Windows 10, though I doubt whether either makes any difference. I recently had occasion to sign up for a Transport for London Road User Charge account. (This is for tunnel tolls and congestion / low emission zone charges). Under this account I get a monthly statement of charge

Re: [GNC] Fixed split to bill

On 14 April 2025 at 12:22, Peter Graham Eastwood said: > Hi > I want to split a utility bill to a fixed percentage for each person. It > occurs quarterly but I don’t necessarily need it to be a scheduled > transaction, though it could be. I just want to enter the (variable) bill > total and have i

Re: [GNC] what is best reconcile/update procedure?

On 19 January 2025 at 1:53, Ken Pyzik said: > All — First, I want to apologize for the length of this rant. We will > always agree to disagree on this subject. Please understand, I am a > retired 30 year bank auditor. I know the purpose of what a reconciliation > is. But what I don't understan

Re: [GNC] Log File?

On 15 January 2025 at 17:39, John McCann said: > I am a new user. Each time I close the program a .log file appears on my > desktop. How do I stop this? Actually it's each time you *open* a file. It goes in the same place you told Gnucash to put your data file, so if you put that somewhere el

Re: [GNC] Confusing language of money direction in headers of Scheduled Transaction Editor Template Transaction

On 16 December 2024 at 22:35, Chandler Sobel-Sorenson said: > Guys, this is funny because literally no one speaks like this.  I've also > been using GnuCash for years and never been confused like this before.   > > Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) wrote on 12/16/24 4:25 PM: > > Assets and Expenses: Deb

Re: [GNC] Postpone Reconciliation

On 19 November 2024 at 16:38, Michael Hendry said: > Hi, Barry, > > When the time comes to complete a reconciliation which has been postponed > because of lack of time or information, simply open the account to be > reconciled and click on the Reconcile button. You’ll be prompted for the > same

Re: [GNC] Oddities importing from Quicken

On 19 November 2024 at 16:39, Simon Roberts said: > Hi all, > > I'm hoping to get my personal accounts onto GNC (I'm using it for a small > business, so I'm tolerably familiar with it already). > > I exported a QIF from Quicken, and imported it. Lots of accounts were > created in GNC that map "w

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

On 06 November 2024 at 12:15, Stephen M. Butler said: > On 11/6/24 11:38, Kalpesh Patel wrote: > > Here is guide for small business documents retention time frames: > > https://www.uschamber.com/co/start/strategy/how-long-to-keep-business-do > > cume nts > Link returns 404 - Page not found Not if

Re: [GNC] Showing account totals as of today

On 28 October 2024 at 16:30, Boniforti Flavio said: > Hi Geoff. > Thanks for chiming in. > Of course I've already entered the future transactions with their > execution date (in the future). This is why I now see the "Total" value > for my checking account which is different from the real value of

Re: [GNC] Problem with auto generation of entries

On 23 October 2024 at 16:42, Geoff Jankowski said: > Hi All, (Again! I am trying to send it as plain text to see if the image > gets through the server) > > I have resent this with the image attached as suggested. Looks as though it's expecting a comma as the decimal separator, and you have use

Re: [GNC] Split Actions

On 21 October 2024 at 11:26, Michael or Penny Novack said: > On 10/21/2024 10:43 AM, interesse wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > can someone explain the meaning and consequences of the different > > actions that can be selected for each transaction split? > > What do they mean? > > > > Are they

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

On 27 September 2024 at 10:33, Chris Miller said: [...] > I also note that you may run into problems using rsnapshot on an NTFS > filesystem mounted CIFS, meaning you are an SMB client. If you are > "snapping" two files with names differentiated only by case, then these > will collide on case inse

Re: [GNC] Database storage

On 19 September 2024 at 12:31, Michael or Penny Novack said: > On 9/19/2024 11:16 AM, Roberts K wrote: > > In my experience the amount of data is relatively small (even for > > thousands of records) > > A bit of historical perspective is needed, particularly because our > heads have not yet abso

Re: [GNC] Monthly Reports

On 18 September 2024 at 10:19, Phyllis Bruce said: > These are the options I chose. Still no report. > > [image: image.png] > [image: image.png] I see you are restricting the report to Reconciled transactions. Is that what you want? ___ gnucash-use

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

On 10 September 2024 at 14:09, R Losey said: > Well, but think about it... after the password is entered, THEN what? The > "correct" password would have to be stored somewhere so that GnuCash could > verify what is entered is correct, and clearly saving the password in > clear text is not secure.

Re: [GNC] gnucash-user Digest, Vol 256, Issue 16

On 08 September 2024 at 18:28, David Carlson said: > Robert H > > It isn't July anymore and you didn't condense this according to the > directions so we do not know why you sent it. But did you really need to quote the whole thing? He probably did it by accident, given that (AFAICT) there was n

Re: [GNC] Scheduled Transaction with Currency Conversion

On 04 September 2024 at 13:19, rsbrux said: > We have monthly transactions where a payment in USD is credited to a CHF > bank account. The USD amount is fixed, but the CHF amount varies depending > on the conversion rate. As has been recommended on this list, I have > configured these as scheduled

Re: [GNC] Missing Digests?

On 08 August 2024 at 13:46, Derek Atkins said: > Hi, > > Have you checked the archives to see if there were actually messages you > missed? The traffic has been pretty low the last couple days due to the > DNS Signature Expiration. Well, yes. In any case if there are no messages, the digestifie

[GNC] Missing Digests?

Hi, I am subscribed to receive Digests. Is there something amiss with them? Of the current volume 257, I seem to have received numbers 1-5, 9 and now 12. I do not have any spam checking in place that would delete messages unseen, and the missing Digests are not in the spam folder. I conclude

Re: [GNC] GnuCash getting worse?

On 20 July 2024 at 6:19, Nate Bargmann said: [...] > Already GNC's column layout is opposite of the > manual check registers I've been using for 40+ years and that leads to > mistakes in one or the other for me so the last thing that is needed is > more ambiguity. Eh? I was brought up to believe

Re: [GNC] Exchange rate fluctuation changes historic amounts in P&L and BS

On 29 June 2024 at 22:05, G R Hewitt said: > Hello Everyone, > > Basics: > GnuCash 5.6; MacOS High Sierra 10.13.6 > Using Sterling as the base currency and Euros. > > The problem: > A few days ago I bought something in euros (€150) and paid for it in > sterling (£132.27) and the GnuCash system w

Re: [GNC] Balance sheet totals showing zeros?

On 28 June 2024 at 16:34, Ken McEvoy said: > I am the treasurer of a small nonprofit, and I have no > accounting background, and a I'm also a beginner with gnucash ... > > We have a very simple set of accounts; single currency, only a few income > and expense categories. > > When I run a balance

Re: [GNC] GNU cash error - cannot retreive stock price

On 20 June 2024 at 17:48, Emilio Lopez said: > Hello > > When I try to retreive the stocks price, I get this error message: > > [image: image.png] > > The translation from Spanish would be: error while retrieving the price: > Finance Error: unknown quote. > > Looking into the file BVB.pm, this

Re: [GNC] Error Importing Quicken Files Mac OSX

On 20 June 2024 at 11:50, Jim Johnson said: [...] > I have been looking for GnuCash 5.5 (5.6 is the current one on the > website) but was unable to find it on the website. > > Does anyone have any ideas? If you follow the link "More downloads" (4th bullet-point under "Download GnuCash 5.6") the

Re: [GNC] Default Transaction Date and Duplicate

On 08 June 2024 at 15:03, Dale Alspach said: > If I directly enter a transaction in a register, the default date for that > register gets reset to the date of the newly entered transaction. If I use > "duplicate" to create a new transaction, the default date is not reset. > Why? What do you mean

Re: [GNC] Delete acct + move txns - can't specify acct

On 03 June 2024 at 8:17, Derek Atkins said: > I presume the accounts have the same currency? > I honestly do not recall what algorithm is used to choose options there. Some experimenting (2.6.21, but it doesn't strike me as the sort of thing that would have changed) it appears to restrict to the

Re: [GNC] Finance Quotes Yahoo off the rails again?

On 26 March 2024 at 16:23, David G. Pickett said: [lots of stuff, so badly formatted as to be unreadable] PLEASE TRIM QUOTES ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists

Re: [GNC] Finance Quotes Yahoo off the rails again?

On 25 March 2024 at 4:13, David G. Pickett said: > Wow, the mail handler seems to hate ascii text!  Is it a side effect of > html email? > > I keep forgetting that to run stuff installed by flatpak you need flatpak > magic like this: flatpak run --command=gnucash-cli org.gnucash.GnuCash -Q > du

Re: [GNC] gnucash suggestions

On 19 March 2024 at 16:08, J. A. Harris said: [...] > (I have been repurposing currencies and do not > know how many times I have had to stop and figure out what "XTS",  "XXX" > or "AMD" actually represented.  Certainly any report I generate will be > confusing to anyone who will not know how I am

Re: [GNC] gnucash-user Digest, Vol 252, Issue 33

On 17 March 2024 at 22:47, Anon20x said: > Hi, > > Will you please unsub me from the mailing list, thankyou! Have you thought of following the instructions? [...] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > > or, vi

Re: [GNC] Error Retrieving Gold Price for Price Database

On 09 March 2024 at 16:35, john said: > XAU is a currency because ISO 4217 says it is, along with XBA (silver), Precious metals are coded as X followed by the relevant chemical symbol, so silver is XAG ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnuca

Re: [GNC] Removing Scheduled Transaction From a Closed Year

On 25 February 2024 at 10:43, David H said: [...] > But for the odd time that you don't want the Scheduled txns created, > granted rare, there's no way currently to say, no just this once please > don't create them. I've been in this situation myself but can't remember > exactly why or what I scr

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

On 11 February 2024 at 16:15, Jay McSkimming said: > GnC 5.5 > Mac OS Sonoma 14.2.1 > > Running a PNL for previous quarter, the report runs for incorrect dates > namely starting a month early and ending a month early. Similar results > for Cash Flow, Income etc. > > Seems to me that there’s a b

Re: [GNC] New user error (was: gnucash-user Digest, Vol 251, Issue 12)

On 07 February 2024 at 22:17, sunfis...@yahoo.com said: > Agreed. > > ⁣David T. followed by 15k of someone else's message including quotes about six levels deep featuring the whole of a messaage digest. Please trim ___ gnucash-user mailing

Re: [GNC] Change Printed Invoice

On 06 February 2024 at 9:27, Glenn Fowler said: > You can edit invoice.scm and replace "Invoice" with "Tax Invoice". All > invoices after will say "Tax Invoice". ... which no doubt contravenes the law if the invoice is NOT over 1000 ... > On Tue, Feb 6, 2024 at 2:42 AM Lester Bennett > wrote: >

Re: [GNC] SX

On 31 January 2024 at 9:17, Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) said: > On 2024-01-31 06:27, Gyle McCollam wrote: > > IIRC the calendar in SX used to show what transactions were due on each > > day when you moved the mouse to a date in the calendar, but it doesn't > > do that anymore. Is that correct or a

Re: [GNC] Template Transactions Behavior in Scheduled Transaction Editor

On 12 January 2024 at 23:36, Adrien Monteleone said: > That's moving beyond Scheduled Transactions and into a more general case > of Templates. I'm pretty sure I've already filed an RFE for that long ago. > > I see Scheduled Transactions as a special use case of Templates, though > Scheduled was

Re: [GNC] Two questions

On 08 January 2024 at 16:35, Barry Mahon said: [...] > 2. I subdivided an a/c to create a 2024 version, using the latest bank > account balance as the opening balance. All Ok, but the entries are in > red I cannot find in the help how to change that. This probably indicates you have the wrong

Re: [GNC] GnuCash getting worse?

On 28 December 2023 at 11:05, R Losey said: [...] > Since I've been on this mailing list (much less time than I've been using > GnuCash), I have always waited and watched this list for experiences with > the new version; it was thanks to this list that I heard about the extra > process problem wit

Re: [GNC] Nice to Have?

On 14 December 2023 at 14:09, David Carlson said: > Grace, > > Please remember to reply to the list. > > I am not sure how to respond to your specific issue, other users may be > able to help. > > > > On Thu, Dec 14, 2023, 2:02 PM Grace wrote: > > > All of my scheduled transaction are set

Re: [GNC] GNU Cash not performing math functions correctly on entry [SOLVED]

On 01 December 2023 at 9:56, Fred Tydeman said: > In GC of 4.14 using Automatic Decimal, 1/3 gets 0.33, while 1./3 gets > 33.33 That figures. Arguably it's correct. With "automatic decimal" active, the first of those means "0.01/0.03" and the second means "1/0.03" Just that people don;t expec

Re: [GNC] GNU Cash not performing math functions correctly on entry [SOLVED]

On 01 December 2023 at 0:27, Adrien Monteleone said: > It is working fine here on MacOS and Linux Mint. > > Can you replicate it with a fresh test book using all default settings? I can readily replicate it on my copy of 2.6.21: 1. Check the "automatic decimal point" setting (with 2dp) 2. Enter

Re: [GNC] Setting up an account for stocks

Please copy the list on replies. For one thing, this gives other people the chance to come in and help: you could have had further suggestions well before I got to see your message. On 28 November 2023 at 11:41, Max Hilbig said: > Hi Fred, > > Thanks for your response. > > My first email was

Re: [GNC] Setting up an account for stocks

On 27 November 2023 at 16:38, Max Hilbig said: > Hi, > > I am a newcomer to GnuCash and finding my way around this application. > Having set up various Assets, Equity, Expenses and Income accounts I am > now exploring the Stocks part of this application and have run into a > brick wall. I have tr

Re: [GNC] Hidden and duplicated accounts.

On 21 November 2023 at 18:37, David Kirkby said: > I have a couple of questions related to accounts, and my ability to see > them and delete them. > > 1) I have some accounts for fees - you can see PayPal (GBP), PayPal (USD) > and bank fees. > > [image: image.png] > > I remember creating some m

Re: [GNC] GnuCash_user: rounding errors and significant digits

On 08 October 2023 at 4:13, David Carlson said: > Because the broker charged 15,000.00 for 1,377.41 shares? Then the effective price paid per share wasn't the stated 10.89 but slightly more (approx 10.890003702601258884) ___ gnucash-user mailing list

Re: [GNC] GnuCash_user: rounding errors and significant digits

On 08 October 2023 at 1:06, Bruce McCoy said: [...] > What I do not yet understand is if GnuCash considers a price per share of > 10.89 to be a precise figure, why GnuCash does not calculate 1,377.41 * > 10.89 = 15,000.00 for Jeff. If GnuCash doesn’t, would we consider making > a change to GnuCas

Re: [GNC] No longer able to import OFX

On 24 September 2023 at 10:15, Mike St. Germaine said: > Hello, > At some point earlier in the year I started receiving the attached > message when attempting to import an OFX from Citizens bank (the > message is "found 1 previously imported transactions, no new > transactions" -- the number alway

Re: [GNC] Request for the addition of the SLE (Sierra Leone Leone (New)) currency...

On 15 September 2023 at 8:39, john said: > No, bug reports are helpful. We don't have any automated way to track > ISO4217 changes and none of the core team makes time to do it manually. There's always the "update newsletter"

Re: [GNC] Recovering

On 14 September 2023 at 21:30, Adrien Monteleone said: > I'm not clear on your question. > > Are you asking which file is your data file? > > Do a search with your file manager for anything ending in ".gnucash" > > Those are 'book files'. And unless you intentionally made more than one, > there

Re: [GNC] Import question

On 02 September 2023 at 11:07, R Losey said: [...] > Hi. The issue may be with the CSV (which stands for COMMA separated > values)... if the currency contains commas, it will confuse anything that > thinks it is separated by commas. No. A field in a .CSV file that contains a comma will be enclos

Re: [GNC] Today's search....for .lck

On 07 August 2023 at 16:05, Adrien Monteleone said: > Barry, > > At one point you advised you had GnuCash files in: > > C:\Users\Barry Mahon\Documents\Tax accounts and returns\ > > now, you are saying it is: > > C:\users\administrato\documents > > These are 2 separate locations and two separa

Re: [GNC] finance Quote Not working

On 06 August 2023 at 16:40, Fross, Michael said: > As an FYI, on my windows 11 installation, the default location where > GNUCash installs itself is: > > "C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash" > > and the full path to the CLI executable is: > > "C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\bin\gnucash-cli.exe" >

Re: [GNC] Cannot write to file

On 26 July 2023 at 12:29, Mahon Finbar said: > I have a message - > > "Could not write to file C: xxx check that you have permission to > write to this file and there is sufficient space to create it" > > The file is a report of annual P&L that I have open , but I am not > working on it

Re: [GNC] Accounts which are both Income and Expense accounts

On 24 July 2023 at 16:53, Chris Green said: > Is there a 'right' way to handle an account which gets payments in two > directions? > > E.g. I have good relations with a friend and we often buy things for > each other and settle up at the end of the month. Sometimes I owe the > friend some money,

Re: [GNC] How to record payments for several items paid with a single transaction?

On 23 July 2023 at 9:34, Chris Green said: [...] > I simply want to be able to able to have (conceptually) a multi-line > entry in the income sub-account called 'Collections at services' which > records two (or maybe more) amounts of cash paid in at one time. But aren't you supposed to record eac

Re: [GNC] Reply convention

On 18 July 2023 at 15:32, R Losey said: [...] > I don't think the rules can be "imposed", but if there were something in > the header or if there was something in the monthly reminder about the > etiquette of posting, that would be a big help to users that there is a > "right" way to post. You m

Re: [GNC] Transferring mutual funds

On 04 July 2023 at 16:29, AC said: > I recently moved some mutual funds from one brokerage to another. The > process did not involve a sale, it was just a transfer of control from the > old to the new. > > In my current books I keep mutual funds listed as subaccount under each > brokerage as such

Re: [GNC] How to revert to previous input mode?

On 01 July 2023 at 19:16, Pierre Fortin said: > On Sat, 1 Jul 2023 16:31:55 + Gyle McCollam wrote: > > >Pierre, > >you stated you have to: > >new method: > > +|-. TAB, TAB, p(long list with "Don't Autocomplete" at top, > > up-arrow, ENTER, pr(still long list with "Don't Autocomplete" at top,

Re: [GNC] quandary with proper entries for cost-of-goods-sold and inventory

On 17 June 2023 at 15:28, Stan Brown said: [...] > One important point: If you receive messages in a digest, you'll also > need to (a) edit the subject line, by copy/pasting the subject of the > individual message you're referring to, and (b) Delete all the text of all > the messages you're _not_

Re: [GNC] gunzip test.gnucash fails

On 02 June 2023 at 1:20, David G. Pickett said: > Now if only the digest email back was a readable as and, unmodified from, > the email out? Try the MIME-Digest. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription prefer

Re: [GNC] Finance:Quote again [sorry]

On 11 May 2023 at 16:48, Graham said: > Dear team > > Apologies if I am being particularly thick, but I can't get up to date > stock prices. The last ones on the system are from March. I've spent ages > with the documentation, so I uninstalled strawberry perl, re-run the > windows install online

Re: [GNC] How do I reply to a topic?

On 02 May 2023 at 11:16, Lipp F. said: > I am only getting the "gnucash-user Digest, Vol nnn" emails. How do I > reply to a topic or to a topic reply? Thx. It's trivial if you get MIME-digest rather than the text version. ___ gnucash-user mailing li

Re: [GNC] set up Gnucash on a new device

On 17 April 2023 at 18:38, Adrien Monteleone said: > Ah, forgot about the 'S' variant. If I'm not mistaken, it is also > possible to convert a regular installation to 'S', but you'd have to know > you did it. It won't be an accident. Other way round. You can install Windows in "S" mode (or get

Re: [GNC] credit account negative balance increases with payment

On 07 March 2023 at 18:50, R Losey said: > But it's not just the split transaction; EVERY charge is decreasing the > balance. It's like it thinks there was some huge overpayment and every > charge is reducing that balance. > > The attachment you provided doesn't have any payments, but every charg

Re: [GNC] Confusing version numbers

On 07 March 2023 at 10:36, Maf. King said: [...] > Major release 4. Update (bug fix) 1. Update 9.. Update 12. > > Update 900 is the "preview" to the next major version (5), and similarly > 901, 902. etc. follow on in sequence... 100 possible previews should be > enough! And if no

Re: [GNC] credit account negative balance increases with payment

On 06 March 2023 at 9:47, Custom Shots said: > The credit card starts as Liabiliies:CreditCard:"specificcreditcard" It's > not that charges are reducing the balance. Charges and Payments, both, > increase the balance owed. The other half of the transaction, calculates > correctly. Not on the scre

Re: [GNC] Gnucash,org url is now working

On 03 March 2023 at 7:31, Derek Atkins said: > Hi. > Indeed, it does appear that www.gnucash.org lost its brain and, although > responding, is not the gnucash website. I will notify Linas to ask what's > up. What appears to be up is the loss of an automatic redirect from http://www.gnucash.org

Re: [GNC] How to force y in reconcile field

On 02 February 2023 at 21:40, Xe Roy said: > It looks like the FINISH button only is active if there is zero > difference. I will have to wait for the next statement in order to > reconcile and get a zero difference. Yes, you can only "Finish" once you have verified a zero difference. That's the

Re: [GNC] How do I Upgrade from 2.6.12 to v4?

On 31 January 2023 at 21:19, Gyle McCollam said: > Martin, > Sorry to hear your PC is dying, but the upgrade is ot a complicated as you > think. 1st, what version of Windows are you running on the PC? Next it > is recommended that you upgrade to a version 3.x, then run under "Actions" > Check an

Re: [GNC] Is this a wacky idea?

On 29 January 2023 at 5:48, Tom Browder said: > On Sun, Jan 29, 2023 at 05:23 flywire wrote: > > > Anyone can run https://portableapps.com/apps/office/gnucash_portable in > > Windows without installing it. It is probably better than installing > > > It sounds great, but color me skeptical. I

Re: [GNC] GnuCash: What scheduled transactions can't do

On 28 January 2023 at 9:55, Kalpesh Patel said: > Not able to see the amount or the account name in the reminder pop for > the scheduled transaction is a huge bummer for me as well. > > > > I have multiple scheduled transactions to the same institutions on the > same date for different assets

Re: [GNC] Have I screwed up with my Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable?

On 25 January 2023 at 21:09, Dr. David Kirkby said: > On Wed, 25 Jan 2023 at 20:52, Fred Bone wrote: > > > On 25 January 2023 at 20:35, Dr. David Kirkby said: > > > > > On Wed, 25 Jan 2023 at 19:29, Dr. David Kirkby < > > > drkir...@kirkbymicrowave.co.uk&g

Re: [GNC] Have I screwed up with my Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable?

On 25 January 2023 at 20:35, Dr. David Kirkby said: > On Wed, 25 Jan 2023 at 19:29, Dr. David Kirkby < > drkir...@kirkbymicrowave.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > I have the attached transaction showing as owing $0.98 to Porkbun.com. > > The number 0.98 happens to be the difference between what this cost

Re: [GNC] Is it reasonable to have sub-accounts under Equity:Fixed Assets?

On 17 January 2023 at 16:11, Dr. David Kirkby said: [...] > I thought monthly might work better with trying to automate what will be a > tedious process. The GnuCash Scheduled Transactions could possibly be > useful there. While you could use SXs, given that you (presumably) know exactly what th

Re: [GNC] Website from WIki

On 14 January 2023 at 22:30, Fred Tydeman said: > I am doing a search (for T-bill) on the gnucash wiki. > I get the Search Results page (with 181 results). > On the left side of the page, I click on GnuCash Website. > That gets me: Apache2 Ubuntu Default Page > That seems wrong to me. > The URL i

Re: [GNC] Budget report fails in multiple currencies

On 07 January 2023 at 10:21, ml enquirer said: > Just to add that I was wrong that this could be solved by making budgets > with a single period. I *think* this problem arises for any multi-currency > sub-accounts and becomes visible when you have a book which has been > running for many years. In

Re: [GNC] Changing typeface using CSS (Windows 10)

On 21 December 2022 at 0:11, Adrien Monteleone said: > Terrence, > > You nearly had it right the first time. > > You need the "#" in front of the selector: > >"#gnc-id-main-window" > > The initial post you made left off the '#' sign at the beginning. If it is > not there in your CSS file,

Re: [GNC] Splitting a Transaction (Newbie Question)

On 17 December 2022 at 22:19, p.f.cuthb...@btinternet.com p.f.cuthbert@ said: [...] > So let us have an example: > > Payment by bank card (credit entry to Bank Account) of £7.24 comprising a > book (debit £5.25 to Entertainment) and some milk (debit £1.99 to > Groceries). [...] > If any kind rea

Re: [GNC] Reconciling credit card

On 13 December 2022 at 16:31, Mahon Finbar said: [...] > The other question is why does expenses:travel have 'rebate' as a column > heading?? What would you prefer? "Refund" is the most likely alternative I can think of, and "Rebate" is pretty close to synonymous. Anyway, it only has that if "f

Re: [GNC] Reconciling credit card

On 12 December 2022 at 15:44, Mahon Finbar said: > Another possibility? > > In March 2021 I was reimbursed 1,340.98 by an airline for a trip to > Japan which was cancelled due to Covid. > > In error I entered the reimbursement against my credit card, although I > had paid it from my bank. > >

Re: [GNC] Reconciling credit card

On 12 December 2022 at 11:09, Mahon Finbar said: > OK, I had forgotten you cannot attach images as pics. > > I did check the a/c and afaics, I didn't pay the CC 1000 extra, I'll > check again or adjust the preferences, or something. It's not your preferences (unless you want to switch to formal

Re: [GNC] Reconciling credit card

On 11 December 2022 at 14:58, Mahon Finbar said: > That is what I do, so why am I getting an increased -ve balance in the > balance column, like this? According to your accounts, you have overpaid the credit card by rather more than a thousand, so if you were to close the account you would be d

Re: [GNC] Reconciling credit card

On 11 December 2022 at 12:03, Mahon Finbar said: > OK, I have columns marked payment; charge; and balance. I find these non-formal labels confusing. > I translated them as payment to the bank/credit card company; spend on the > credit card and the balance after entries in one or the other. > >

Re: [GNC] Possible bug - Note added in Transfer window is ignored. Memo shown twice in Accounts

On 11 December 2022 at 11:04, Dr. David Kirkby said: > If I transfer funds between two accounts (in my case bank and PayPal), I > can leave both a note and a memo. I'm not sure of what's the difference > between these, but when I look at the accounts, I see the memo shown > twice, but the note is

Re: [GNC] Reconciling credit card

On 09 December 2022 at 15:58, Mahon Finbar said: > Hi, > I am sure this is explained somewhere, but I haven't been able to find a > simple explanation. > > I have a register of transactions in an a/c called credit card. > > I enter the data from the monthly statement, allocating them to various

Re: [GNC] New user: how to migrate Quicken checking account as a single, flat, checking account

On 04 December 2022 at 11:54, Scott Traurig said: > I do understand double-entry accounting and that it is the GnuCash > paradigm. > > What I didn't understand is that on the import GnuCash did create the > requisite checking account, plus all the expense accounts. I did not see > the checking ac

Re: [GNC] Accounting for a pre-paid electronic toll card

On 18 October 2022 at 22:54, Tony Vanson said: > I'm hoping that someone on this list can aid my befuddled brain to get to > grips with my problem. The tolling system here is not the automated ones > I'm used to. Here one needs to obtain an electronic card and, once done, > must be charged with a

Re: [GNC] new to Gnucash - help with general information

On 11 September 2022 at 9:59, Michael or Penny Novack said: > > >5. Geoff is also correct here that gnucash saves backup so you don't > >lose data, but backuping up to another media is always a good idea. > > > And asking this question "how do I back-up my gnucash data?" implies a > more

Re: [GNC] Mutual Fund Dividend After Sale

On 06 September 2022 at 14:56, Jack Frillman said: [...] > The stock issues it's dividends at the end of each quarter. The stock was > sold before the end of the quarter and the dividend was issued once the > new quarter was entered. > > Regards, > John Ralls > > So there is no reason for it to a

Re: [GNC] GC 3.11 crashes during "Check & Repair"

On 28 August 2022 at 16:53, David T. said: > I'm not an expert, but I'm pretty sure the price db doesn't have splits; > it's just a list of commodities, prices, and dates (asking with some other > housekeeping info). > > I believe that "113 of 304" is in reference to the splits within a given > a

Re: [GNC] Price editor

On 27 August 2022 at 10:37, john said: > Yes, we changed the name in 2.6.11 to make clear the difference between > the price database window and the price editor dialog. The latter is > opened with the Add and Edit buttons on the former. Eh? I have 2.6.21 and the Tools menu item is "Price Editor"

Re: [GNC] How to bulk import about 130 Securities entries?

On 16 August 2022 at 17:11, Robert Simmons said: > > running the *.gnucash through gunzip, add in the text, and run it back > through gzip > > As a connoisseur of bad ideas for adding data to GnuCash myself, I have to > point out that one should use a programming language that has a library > wit

Re: [GNC] gnucash-user Digest, Vol 233, Issue 50

On 14 August 2022 at 16:17, James Baxter said: > Is there an app to work with your cell/mobile phone. > Thanks James Baxter kangaro...@yahoo.com  > > Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android Kindly pay attention to: [...] > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re:

Re: [GNC] Third party OFX/CVS providers

On 08 August 2022 at 10:30, Adrien Monteleone said: > Kalpesh, > > Thanks for the links. I have a need for a PDF to CSV solution for other > software and this looks like it is a good fit for me. (folks may be > shocked how many large businesses in 2022 can't generate decent business > documents/d

Re: [GNC] gnucash-user Digest, Vol 233, Issue 22

On 08 August 2022 at 13:54, James Baxter said: > I am looking for something that I may have already. I have had Linux Mint > loaded on this laptop for about a month. also have been playing with > Gnucash about 3 weeks. still getting us to this, As I find it very nice > program. > As i dont kno

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