Re: Handling religious organization 'earmarked' funds and in-kind contributions

2017-05-25 Thread Maf. King
Hi Anita, That sounds right to me - unless anyone knows of an automated way to do this in a more recent GC - last time I started a new year empty boo was probably still in the GC 2.2.x days, and there's been a lot of changes to GC since then! Maf. On Thursday, 25 May 2017 13:07:25 BST Anita

Re: Handling religious organization 'earmarked' funds and in-kind contributions

2017-05-25 Thread Anita Graves
Maf, I have already created an account summary of the previous file, so have the balances forward to enter in the new one and don’t mind using the Equity:Opening Balances account, but I also have separate asset subaccounts under that for cash, bank account (current), etc. I will then manually e

Re: Handling religious organization 'earmarked' funds and in-kind contributions

2017-05-25 Thread Maf. King
Hi Anita, sorry if I missed your point. It is quite a few years since I started a new year with an empty file, but IIRC, the only way to carry account balances forward is to manually create the transactions to Equity:Opening Balances in the new, blank file. So all your asset & liability accoun

Fwd: Handling religious organization 'earmarked' funds and in-kind contributions

2017-05-25 Thread Anita Graves
age: > > From: Anita Graves > Subject: Re: Handling religious organization 'earmarked' funds and in-kind > contributions > Date: 25 May 2017 at 2:11:07 PM GMT+3 > To: "Maf. King" , Gnucash Users > > Hi again, folks! This message is about ‘earmarked’ fund

Re: Handling religious organization 'earmarked' funds and in-kind contributions

2017-05-25 Thread Maf. King
Hi Anita. why would you expect a change in the opening balance account? At the start of the year, you have some money (say €100), which shows up in an asset account as you say, transferred from Equity:OpeningBalances. You spend most of the money - so asset drops to €14, and expenses:whatever is

Re: Handling religious organization 'earmarked' funds and in-kind contributions

2017-05-25 Thread Anita Graves
Hi again, folks! This message is about ‘earmarked’ funds for the religious organization for which I keep the accounts. It is a corporation without share capital but not a non-profit corporation. We are in Cyprus and the laws here are similar to British laws. We do pay taxes, but we have not

Handling religious organization 'earmarked' funds and in-kind contributions

2017-05-18 Thread Anita Graves
Yes, you are right…I forgot to cc the list and I will do so by forwarding our exchange of emails to the list and ask Mike Novak to take a look at my questions. By the way, we have a cultural issue: You apparently are British, and I am American, so that’s why I didn’t get the ‘widget’. Thanks