Re: [GNC] Goods and Services Tax - GST

2020-04-01 Thread Christopher Lam
As long as your accountant is happy with it. On Wed, 1 Apr 2020, 7:14 pm JV, wrote: > Thankyou! I obviously have a lot to learn about accounting still! I'll > have a play with this to see if it fixes my issues. It seems to from a > quick test data file I created. On your other point, under E

Re: [GNC] Goods and Services Tax - GST

2020-04-01 Thread JV
Thankyou!  I obviously have a lot to learn about accounting still! I'll have a play with this to see if it fixes my issues.  It seems to from a quick test data file I created.  On your other point, under Equity I created an account structure as follows: Equity     Owner's equity         Owner'

Re: [GNC] Goods and Services Tax - GST

2020-04-01 Thread Christopher Lam
Bingo. Everything is wrong about it :) You should probably input this purchase from the bank account or credit card that you used to pay for it. It should be similar to: [image: image.png] On Wed, 1 Apr 2020 at 10:30, JV wrote: > I've attached a screenshot which shows the purchase data of a ty

Re: [GNC] Goods and Services Tax - GST

2020-04-01 Thread Christopher Lam
Please remember to cc the mailing list for all replies. Now we've established you are on credit-accounts, the amounts showing negative means you have likely entered the GST on Purchase data incorrectly. On Wed, 1 Apr 2020 at 09:58, JV wrote: > Thanks for your help. I wasn't aware of the Prefer

Re: [GNC] Goods and Services Tax - GST

2020-04-01 Thread Christopher Lam
Hi (Screenshot containing private data snipped) The first rule here is that support emails are always public because others may want to help. It seems you have set the Preferences > Accounts > Reverse Balanced accounts to 'Credit accounts' which is fine. It also seems that the GST Paid and GST

Re: [GNC] Goods and Services Tax - GST

2020-04-01 Thread Christopher Lam
Maybe you can share your account structure or a data file with sample data, and we can try make it work? The documentation is still behind the reporting capability. On Wed, 1 Apr 2020, 4:08 pm Jacob Verbeek, wrote: > Hi, > I'm a new user of GNUCash for my fledgling consulting business. I love >

Re: [GNC] Goods and Services Tax - GST

2020-04-01 Thread Jacob Verbeek
Hi, I'm a new user of GNUCash for my fledgling consulting business.  I love the program but can just not get GST to work the way I want to (New Zealand).  I've read all the documentation I can find on it. I've gone with the 3-account system but GNUCash seems to just add up the absolute value o