Re: [GNC] Forward payments

2018-06-29 Thread Tony Vanson
Thanks Colin That's done the trick. Cheers On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 2:15 PM, Colin Law wrote: > You can edit the transfer into the expense account and change the > recipient to be the asset acct. You will get a warning that you are > changing a reconciled transaction but it will not affect the r

Re: [GNC] Forward payments

2018-06-29 Thread Colin Law
You can edit the transfer into the expense account and change the recipient to be the asset acct. You will get a warning that you are changing a reconciled transaction but it will not affect the reconcile (just make sure you don't change the amount transferred). Colin On 29 June 2018 at 04:34, T

Re: [GNC] Forward payments

2018-06-28 Thread Tony Vanson
My thanks to all respondents. It is finally making sense to my befuddled brain. However I have one more spanner in the works. I had already transferred funds from my Current Assets:Bank account to Expenses:Staff. My Bank account has been reconciled. What, if any, process is available to transfer th

Re: [GNC] Forward payments

2018-06-28 Thread Stephen M. Butler
On 06/28/2018 12:25 AM, Tony Vanson wrote: > Thank you for your quick response. My Staff account is set up as an Expense > not as an Asset. In this particular case would I need to set up a new > account Current Assets:Staff - as a child account under Current Assets? > Cheers I would set it up as a

Re: [GNC] Forward payments

2018-06-28 Thread Maf. King
On Thursday, 28 June 2018 11:31:08 BST Tony Vanson wrote: > Thank you for your patience > Yes, I guess, in this instance, it could be considered as a type of > temporary loan for her to pay the bills. However, my thoughts are, that if > I change the current classification of Expenses:Staff to Curre

Re: [GNC] Forward payments

2018-06-28 Thread Tony Vanson
Thank you - short and sweet - and confirms that I need an additional asset account. Cheers On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 5:46 PM, Christopher Lam wrote: > You are effectively doing a split transaction. > > Assets:Bank -$1250 > Assets:Staff +$250 (sundries) > Expenses:Staff +$1000 (salary) > > As the

Re: [GNC] Forward payments

2018-06-28 Thread Christopher Lam
You are effectively doing a split transaction. Assets:Bank -$1250 Assets:Staff  +$250 (sundries) Expenses:Staff +$1000 (salary) As the staff member spends appropriately, transfer from Assets:Staff to Expenses:Various C On 28/06/18 18:31, Tony Vanson wrote: Thank you for your patience Yes, I

Re: [GNC] Forward payments

2018-06-28 Thread Tony Vanson
Thank you for your patience Yes, I guess, in this instance, it could be considered as a type of temporary loan for her to pay the bills. However, my thoughts are, that if I change the current classification of Expenses:Staff to Current Assets:Staff, when I pay her salary I'm decreasing an Asset (Ba

Re: [GNC] Forward payments

2018-06-28 Thread Maf. King
On Thursday, 28 June 2018 08:46:41 BST Tony Vanson wrote: > Thanks again. Normally the staff salary would be simply paid from my > Current assets:Bank Account to Expenses:Staff as they become due. > Similarly with the other payments from my Current:assets:Bank Account to > the various other expense

Re: [GNC] Forward payments

2018-06-28 Thread Tony Vanson
Thanks again. Normally the staff salary would be simply paid from my Current assets:Bank Account to Expenses:Staff as they become due. Similarly with the other payments from my Current:assets:Bank Account to the various other expense account: e.g. Expenses:Pool etc. etc. Cheers On Thu, Jun 28, 201

Re: [GNC] Forward payments

2018-06-28 Thread Maf. King
On Thursday, 28 June 2018 08:25:51 BST Tony Vanson wrote: > Thank you for your quick response. My Staff account is set up as an Expense > not as an Asset. In this particular case would I need to set up a new > account Current Assets:Staff - as a child account under Current Assets? > Cheers > Hi T

Re: [GNC] Forward payments

2018-06-28 Thread Tony Vanson
Thank you for your quick response. My Staff account is set up as an Expense not as an Asset. In this particular case would I need to set up a new account Current Assets:Staff - as a child account under Current Assets? Cheers On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 2:08 PM, Maf. King wrote: > On Thursday, 28 Jun

Re: [GNC] Forward payments

2018-06-28 Thread Maf. King
On Thursday, 28 June 2018 07:53:02 BST Tony Vanson wrote: > Hi all, > Hopefully someone can advise me how to treat the following problem which > stumps me. > I am using GNUcash 2.6.18 on Windows 10. > I shall be away for several months and have transferred credit from my > Savings account to my Sta

[GNC] Forward payments

2018-06-27 Thread Tony Vanson
Hi all, Hopefully someone can advise me how to treat the following problem which stumps me. I am using GNUcash 2.6.18 on Windows 10. I shall be away for several months and have transferred credit from my Savings account to my Staff account with a lump sum amount for her to pay her Salary, Electrici