Re: [GNC] Recording dividend payoffs

2019-04-23 Thread Justin Mathew via gnucash-user
Hi David and Andrien, ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Friday, April 19, 2019 5:05 PM, David Cousens wrote: > I certainly prefer the approach of declaring dividends as a contra acunt to > Retained Earnings and/or debiting it directly to Retained Earnings but it > will require closure of the

Re: [GNC] [GNC-dev] Recording dividend payoffs

2019-04-18 Thread Justin Mathew via gnucash-user
John, That was a punch line, and a very good one. I respect your experience and the time you have/are spending with GnuCash support (and perhaps even development). But just because I am new to accounting and you've spend a long time in accounting along with managing the company that pay divide

Re: [GNC] Column Width

2019-04-18 Thread Justin Mathew via gnucash-user
Yes, it's GTK bug. I had my doubts. I could never install gtk+3.0 package as mentioned in the wiki. There were some dependency issues. Debian Stretch doesn't have them yet. Anyway, I can manage it for now as Lithium/Buster is just around the corner. - Regards, Justin Mathew mjus...@protonmail.

Re: [GNC] Logging into the forum

2019-04-18 Thread Justin Mathew via gnucash-user
Thanks Derek. - Regards, Justin Mathew mjus...@protonmail.com Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Thursday, April 18, 2019 8:24 PM, Derek Atkins wrote: > Hi, > > Justin Mathew mjus...@protonmail.com writes: > > > Thanks Derek, > > Is there any reason why we

Re: [GNC] Column Width

2019-04-18 Thread Justin Mathew via gnucash-user
Hendry hendry.mich...@gmail.com > > To: Justin Mathew mjus...@protonmail.com > > Cc: Derek Atkins de...@ihtfp.com, "gnucash-user@gnucash.org" > > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > > Subject: Re: [GNC] Column Width > > > > > On 17 Apr 2019, at 11:48, Justin Math

Re: [GNC] Run GnuCash Upgrades Side-by-side With Older Versions

2019-04-18 Thread Justin Mathew via gnucash-user
y to directly install a new version without uninstalling an > old version. > > Kind regards, > > Greg Feneis > > On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 3:56 AM Justin Mathew via gnucash-user > wrote: > >> Can the OP or anyone update whether the portable version worked paralle

Re: [GNC] Run GnuCash Upgrades Side-by-side With Older Versions

2019-04-18 Thread Justin Mathew via gnucash-user
Can the OP or anyone update whether the portable version worked parallel to the installed version? - Regards, Justin Mathew mjus...@protonmail.com Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Tuesday, April 16, 2019 6:32 PM, Justin Mathew wr

Re: [GNC] Logging into the forum

2019-04-18 Thread Justin Mathew via gnucash-user
Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Thursday, April 18, 2019 4:10 PM, Derek Atkins wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, April 18, 2019 6:22 am, Justin Mathew via gnucash-user wrote: > > > Hi > > Can't I login to http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.co

[GNC] Logging into the forum

2019-04-18 Thread Justin Mathew via gnucash-user
Hi Can't I login to http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/ using my email address subscribed to mailing list and the password provided? I tried and it didn't work. Do I have to register a new account? - Regards, Justin Mathew mjus...@protonmail.com Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ___

Re: [GNC] Column Width

2019-04-17 Thread Justin Mathew via gnucash-user
GnuCash 3.5 complied from source into Bunsenlabs Helium (Debian Stretch). - Regards, Justin Mathew mjus...@protonmail.com Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Wednesday, April 17, 2019 7:00 PM, Derek Atkins wrote: > Justin Mathew mjus...@protonmail.com writes

Re: [GNC] Debian Files for GnuCash 3.4-x

2019-04-17 Thread Justin Mathew via gnucash-user
I am using 3.5 in Debian Stretch: compiled it from source. It's not walk in the park, but if you are interested I can share some info. - Regards, Justin Mathew mjus...@protonmail.com Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Wednesday, April 17, 2019 6:39 PM, bolds

Re: [GNC] Column Width

2019-04-17 Thread Justin Mathew via gnucash-user
ith ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Wednesday, April 17, 2019 4:59 PM, Michael Hendry wrote: > > On 17 Apr 2019, at 11:48, Justin Mathew via gnucash-user > > gnucash-user@gnucash.org wrote: > > Is there any way to enter dates from keyboard? Eg, if

Re: [GNC] Column Width

2019-04-17 Thread Justin Mathew via gnucash-user
k Atkins de...@ihtfp.com wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > On Wed, April 17, 2019 6:29 am, Justin Mathew via gnucash-user wrote: > > > I am wondering about this same thing as well. > > > If you expand the width by double clicking on the edge of the column, it > > > a

Re: [GNC] Column Width

2019-04-17 Thread Justin Mathew via gnucash-user
ail.com Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Wednesday, April 17, 2019 4:12 PM, Derek Atkins wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, April 17, 2019 6:29 am, Justin Mathew via gnucash-user wrote: > > > I am wondering about this same thing as well. > > If

Re: [GNC] Column Width

2019-04-17 Thread Justin Mathew via gnucash-user
matters), > this works. > > Jeff Abrahamson > https://www.p27.eu/jeff/ > https://www.transport-nantes.com/ > > On 17/04/2019 12:29, Justin Mathew via gnucash-user wrote: > > > I am wondering about this same thing as well. > > If you expand the width by double clicki

Re: [GNC] Column Width

2019-04-17 Thread Justin Mathew via gnucash-user
I am wondering about this same thing as well. If you expand the width by double clicking on the edge of the column, it adjusts to it's width but at the expense of the spreadsheet shifting right of the fold. - Regards, Justin Mathew mjus...@protonmail.com Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐

Re: [GNC] [GNC-dev] Recording dividend payoffs

2019-04-17 Thread Justin Mathew via gnucash-user
Maf, > Forget that bit. must have still been waking up. it is 2 separate txns on 3 > accounts Yes, 2 records on 3 accounts. and Dividend Declarations register will always be minus as stated in my prev email. This is because Dividend Declarations only take money out of the business. There is no

Re: [GNC] Recording dividend payoffs

2019-04-17 Thread Justin Mathew via gnucash-user
David, Thanks for joining the conversation. > If you make the Dividends Declared account a child account of Retained > Earnings ,i.e a contra account in accounting terms, any dividend amounts > will be automatically deducted from Retained Earnings as suggested on the > following site. > https://w

Re: [GNC] [GNC-dev] Recording dividend payoffs

2019-04-17 Thread Justin Mathew via gnucash-user
> > The definition of 'total income minus total expenses' works > > > > > > > > > only for sole > > > > > > > > > proprietorships where the business isn't a legal entity in > > > > > > &

Re: [GNC] [GNC-dev] Recording dividend payoffs

2019-04-16 Thread Justin Mathew via gnucash-user
; > > > > > > > > > Oh yes, GnuCash should be able fit in all business, because they > > > > > > > all > > > > > > > follow the same accounting principles. All we need to do is to > > > > > > > calcula

Re: [GNC] Recording dividend payoffs

2019-04-16 Thread Justin Mathew via gnucash-user
Oh yes, it does! As mentioned in my other email to John Ralls, the reason I started this thread in the dev mailing list is to figure out a fix for the software, at least for the next release. And I am not sure how did this topic get divided into two threads. - Regards, Justin Mathew mjus...@p

Re: [GNC] Recording dividend payoffs

2019-04-16 Thread Justin Mathew via gnucash-user
that is later > closed to Retained Earnings called “Dividends Declared” or simply > “Dividends”. I don’t see much advantage to it since you still have a > liability you can track either way. > > Regards, > Adrien > > > On Apr 16, 2019, at 9:04 AM, Justin Mathew via

Re: [GNC] Transaction Report with ver.3.5 not working?

2019-04-16 Thread Justin Mathew via gnucash-user
I am not sure I understand. > First, I can produce a complete list of all transactions for what ever dates > I want. How are your producing it? Do you mean opening an account register? - Regards, Justin Mathew mjus...@protonmail.com Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐

Re: [GNC] Recording dividend payoffs

2019-04-16 Thread Justin Mathew via gnucash-user
uit most sole traders / small businesses very well. > > From your description of 'owning a company with shares' / 'selling shares of > company' / 'issuing dividends' I honestly have no idea how the books should > look like, nor which chart of accounts should

Re: [GNC] Run GnuCash Upgrades Side-by-side With Older Versions

2019-04-16 Thread Justin Mathew via gnucash-user
Ah, well I couldn't get that point. I guess the only way for OP is to try a virtual box if running both version is equally important. - Regards, Justin Mathew mjus...@protonmail.com Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Tuesday, April

Re: [GNC] Run GnuCash Upgrades Side-by-side With Older Versions

2019-04-16 Thread Justin Mathew via gnucash-user
Sorry, disregard my below email. Take a look at this -> https://portableapps.com/apps/office/gnucash_portable It also says, "GnuCash Portable can run from a cloud folder, external drive, or local folder without installing into Windows. It's even better with the PortableApps.com Platform for eas

Re: [GNC] Run GnuCash Upgrades Side-by-side With Older Versions

2019-04-16 Thread Justin Mathew via gnucash-user
For which platform? - Regards, Justin Mathew mjus...@protonmail.com Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Tuesday, April 16, 2019 5:36 PM, David Carlson wrote: > Are there instructions somewhere on how to run a portableapps session? > > David Carlson > > On T

Re: [GNC] Recording dividend payoffs

2019-04-16 Thread Justin Mathew via gnucash-user
Maf, > you should keep replies on-list, others can contribute and maybe in the future > the thread can save a question being asked in the first place "reply All" > in your email client is a good way. Opps, I had read about it, but missed it in the heat of replying. Will keep that mind hencefo

[GNC] Recording dividend payoffs

2019-04-16 Thread Justin Mathew via gnucash-user
Hi, I am trying to record cash dividend payoffs in gnucash. As per accounting basics, the 'Retained Earnings' is the company's net profit (minus dividends as well). I also read this - https://www.double-entry-bookkeeping.com/capital/dividends/ which explained the same steps that I did. Or did