Re: [GNC] GNUCash beginner setup

2020-04-09 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Not sure, but that might simply be a screen update bug. I don’t often get an Imbalance situation (usually hitting [Enter] at the wrong time) but when I do, I almost always edit from the Imbalance transaction and never had a balance issue. I don’t recall if the real target account register was op

Re: [GNC] GNUCash beginner setup

2020-04-08 Thread Stephen M. Butler
Bottom line -- Enter them as you are paid.  The CSV import should "see" the deposits and match them during the import.  If it doesn't, it is a simple matter to remove that entry and keep the more detailed manually entered transaction. On 4/8/20 12:23 PM, jess wrote: > Thanks for the patience and

Re: [GNC] GNUCash beginner setup

2020-04-08 Thread jess
Thanks for the patience and help, I appreciate it. If I may ask another account setup questions, how do you propose to handle income tax and other contributions from your salary slips? I am a salaried individual with regular monthly income. The salary slips reflect the gross income which contains

Re: [GNC] GNUCash beginner setup

2020-04-08 Thread David Carlson
Glad you were able to make it work. You can modify the procedure to your liking, that is one feature of GnuCash. On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 1:04 PM jess wrote: > Thanks David. > > Here's the simple procedure which I did. I manually navigated to the > "Checking Accounts" where the transactions were

Re: [GNC] GNUCash beginner setup

2020-04-08 Thread jess
Thanks David. Here's the simple procedure which I did. I manually navigated to the "Checking Accounts" where the transactions were imbalanced (based on date and amount). I assigned an Expense account (in my case all of them were withdrawals) and the transaction disappeared from the "Imbalanced EUR

Re: [GNC] GNUCash beginner setup

2020-04-08 Thread David Carlson
Jess, The procedure that I follow is to first open the Imbalance-USD account (I am in the USA) in the Auto-Split-Ledger view. Then I select the transaction that I want to fix. It probably already has a split line for the bank or credit card account where the money was spent. Then I Tab repeated

Re: [GNC] GNUCash beginner setup

2020-04-08 Thread jess
I did check out the "Split View" too. But, I could not settle them in the "Imbalanced EUR" account even in the "Split View". -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucas

Re: [GNC] GNUCash beginner setup

2020-04-08 Thread jess
Thanks Michael, this makes sense! -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/

Re: [GNC] GNUCash beginner setup

2020-04-07 Thread David Carlson
Denz, Do you use the 'Basic Ledger View'? In that view you do not see any split lines, only an indication that they exist. Switch to either one of the other views to see the split lines. On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 6:02 PM David Carlson wrote: > Maybe I should have mentioned that I do that acciden

Re: [GNC] GNUCash beginner setup

2020-04-07 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I’ve done this many times, but on purpose. (I’m in the middle of such an exercise right now) From time to time, I refactor some expenses to better reflect how I want to keep track of things. I may only need to move a subset of transactions from one account to another. I do a Find to obtain my

Re: [GNC] GNUCash beginner setup

2020-04-07 Thread David Carlson
Maybe I should have mentioned that I do that accidentally all too often...😐 On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 5:59 PM David Carlson wrote: > Michael, in fact, you *Can* change the "home' account line. You will know > that it worked when the transaction disappears from the register view. > > I don't recomm

Re: [GNC] GNUCash beginner setup

2020-04-07 Thread David Carlson
Michael, in fact, you *Can* change the "home' account line. You will know that it worked when the transaction disappears from the register view. I don't recommend that because you cannot see what you just did and there is no warning that the transaction will disappear or chance to discard the edi

Re: [GNC] GNUCash beginner setup

2020-04-07 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 4/7/2020 4:30 PM, jess wrote: The opening balance in the previous message refers to the current balance I have on my bank account in real life. I was able to solve this too. It works for resolution if the imbalanced transactions are assigned an account inside the checking account transaction

Re: [GNC] GNUCash beginner setup

2020-04-07 Thread David Carlson
In any register view you can highlight the account name in a split line if you are in the Auto-split ledger or transduction journal view, right click and select any account name in the drop-down list. If you happen to be in the only split line of a transaction that is the same as the current accou

Re: [GNC] GNUCash beginner setup

2020-04-07 Thread jess
The opening balance in the previous message refers to the current balance I have on my bank account in real life. I was able to solve this too. It works for resolution if the imbalanced transactions are assigned an account inside the checking account transaction list. If you try to assign the acco

Re: [GNC] GNUCash beginner setup

2020-04-07 Thread Adrien Monteleone
By ‘opening balance’ do you mean in the account register (1st transaction) or when doing a reconciliation? Regards, Adrien > On Apr 7, 2020 w15d98, at 10:14 AM, denz wrote: > > Thanks David and Adrian. I have an update for you. > > I was able to get things working now and categorisation work

Re: [GNC] GNUCash beginner setup

2020-04-07 Thread denz
Thanks David and Adrian. I have an update for you. I was able to get things working now and categorisation works better and closer to my desirable behaviour. The only difference between earlier and now was the time sequence on how I imported the transactions.Earlier, I imported the statements in

Re: [GNC] GNUCash beginner setup

2020-04-03 Thread David Carlson
Denz, Could you share which version or build of GnuCash you are using and in which operating system? I believe there has been a major change to the csv importer in recent releases, so there may be a new bug [never happens]. David Carlson On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 2:42 PM Adrien Monteleone < adrien

Re: [GNC] GNUCash beginner setup

2020-04-03 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Does assigning it properly on import 2 still result in an improper match with import 3? (maybe that transaction is pesky for some as yet unknown reason) Otherwise, you’ve got me stumped then. Hopefully someone else can help. Regards, Adrien > On Apr 3, 2020 w14d94, at 2:16 PM, denz wrote: >

Re: [GNC] GNUCash beginner setup

2020-04-03 Thread denz
> Same ’Note’ or same ‘Description’? I thought it was keying off ‘Description’. Sorry, same 'Description'. > Do you mean, in 5 different imports, the assignment is different each > time, or in the same import? (creating 5 different transactions) Here's an example, Import 1 has the 5 same tra

Re: [GNC] GNUCash beginner setup

2020-04-03 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Same ’Note’ or same ‘Description’? I thought it was keying off ‘Description’. Do you mean, in 5 different imports, the assignment is different each time, or in the same import? (creating 5 different transactions) Do those transactions have more than 2 splits? If so, do the additional split lin

Re: [GNC] GNUCash beginner setup

2020-04-03 Thread denz
> Looking over your sample file info again, are these multi-currency transactions that aren’t being learned? Hi Adrien, Not really - they are just single currencies. I was surprised that the ex= pense account assignment was not done properly for the same transaction v= alue. I looked into the =2

Re: [GNC] GNUCash beginner setup

2020-04-03 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Looking over your sample file info again, are these multi-currency transactions that aren’t being learned? The importer is not yet reliable with multiple currencies. Exchange rates are difficult enough for it to handle properly. I wouldn’t be surprised if it also can’t always figure out account

Re: [GNC] GNUCash beginner setup

2020-04-03 Thread denz
> It sounds like you did not do the account assignments during the import process, but after. The training only works during the import process, and only for that particular bank account. I did the account assignments during the import process, in small batches. Yet, for the same bank account

Re: [GNC] GNUCash beginner setup

2020-04-03 Thread denz
> Did you conduct the imports in a single pass or did you import one month (or so) at a time? The recommended procedure for several reasons (training the importer among them) is to import in small batches. I did my import process in small batches. > For clarity and consistency, GnuCash doesn’t

Re: [GNC] GNUCash beginner setup

2020-04-03 Thread David Carlson
It sounds like you did not do the account assignments during the import process, but after. The training only works during the import process, and only for that particular bank account. David Carlson On Fri, Apr 3, 2020, 11:46 AM Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > Did

Re: [GNC] GNUCash beginner setup

2020-04-03 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Did you conduct the imports in a single pass or did you import one month (or so) at a time? The recommended procedure for several reasons (training the importer among them) is to import in small batches. For clarity and consistency, GnuCash doesn’t have ‘categories’. GnuCash has ‘accounts’ whi

[GNC] GNUCash beginner setup

2020-04-03 Thread denz
Dear all, I am a new user to GNUCash and I have read the Help Manual [0] and some popular video tutorials [1]. I have also played around with the software. I am now planning to transition to use an accounting software for full time. Current Situation I have 3 checking bank accounts with prior