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
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
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
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
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
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
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