Re: [GNC] Accounting Question re Balance Sheet

2022-01-25 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/25/2022 2:14 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: If your needs aren't that complicated, there is nothing wrong with contra-accounts however. Accountants use them fairly regularly. That's because accountants think in terms of debits and credits. All a "contra account" is is an account where the

Re: [GNC] Accounting Question re Balance Sheet

2022-01-25 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I think you'll have issues if you try to have different account types between parents and children. I vaguely recall a thread about that a few years ago. (And I might have even done it once myself) Some folks were making Top Level accounts for various properties and duplicating other parts of

Re: [GNC] Accounting Question re Balance Sheet

2022-01-21 Thread paul
[GNC] Accounting Question re Balance Sheet Paul As long as you post the initial estimates of the Sales fees etc that you make to Expense or Income accounts as appropriate as well as any interim or point of sale adjustments, then the approach you are using should be OK. You will need to preserve whatever

Re: [GNC] Accounting Question re Balance Sheet

2022-01-20 Thread davidcousens49
Paul As long as you post the initial estimates of the Sales fees etc that you make to Expense or Income accounts as appropriate as well as any interim or point of sale adjustments, then the approach you are using should be OK. You will need to preserve whatever your tax authority defines as the c

Re: [GNC] Accounting Question re Balance Sheet

2022-01-20 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/20/2022 2:55 PM, p...@kroitor.ca wrote: This isn't really a GnuCash question, but I thought I might ask you guys anyway as there's a broad variety of skills and experience here. Situation: a relative owns a house on a six acre property, plus several adjacent properties she's collected

Re: [GNC] Accounting Question re Balance Sheet

2022-01-20 Thread Jesse MacDougall
I Paul, each of the properties are to be listed in the chart of accounts so that your balance sheet is complete and accurate. Right now it's cloudy. So let's polish it up. The tax is (Sale Price - Cost Of Asset ) * 50%, that is all CRA cares about. Bookkeeping works out to a difference in the cos

[GNC] Accounting Question re Balance Sheet

2022-01-20 Thread paul
This isn't really a GnuCash question, but I thought I might ask you guys anyway as there's a broad variety of skills and experience here. Situation: a relative owns a house on a six acre property, plus several adjacent properties she's collected over the years. Under Canadian tax rules, the hou