Re: budget

2017-09-21 Thread Gour
On Wed, 20 Sep 2017 20:48:03 -0400 Phil Longstaff wrote: > There is no automatic carry over. That would be a cool feature to enable so called 'envelope budgeting', iow. creating yearly budget with a monthly estimation and then being able to see how one does perform during the year... Sincerely

Re: budget

2017-09-21 Thread Dennis Powless
Thanks, I figured it out, I just added the carryover to the actual expenses from the previous month net. I find the budget feature difficult to use in gnucash, so made my own is LibreOffice. I use the reports in gnucash quite a bit to get data for the budget, only a few data points each pay perio

Re: budget

2017-09-21 Thread Gour
On Thu, 21 Sep 2017 06:21:53 -0400 Dennis Powless wrote: > Thanks, I figured it out, I just added the carryover to the actual > expenses from the previous month net. I find the budget feature > difficult to use in gnucash, so made my own is LibreOffice. I use > the reports in gnucash quite a bi

Re: Deleting an invoice or credit

2017-09-21 Thread Derek Atkins
John Morris writes: > Hi Derek, > I'm noticed the problem in the Easy Invoice report in the past. I > don't have time right now to confirm the problem still exists. Given > the current state of development, I have no confidence that the > problem has been eliminated. If you change the ID of th

Re: budget

2017-09-21 Thread Dennis Powless
I set up and 'programmed' a spreadsheet in LibreOffice. One sheet has discretionary spending with cells for amounts for that time period. I used the transaction report and limited it to the bank accounts used, certain expense accounts and some transfers to fit my needs. I then ran these and just

Re: budget

2017-09-21 Thread Phil Longstaff
I find envelope budgeting good for some expense types but not as good for others. For something like groceries or rent which are even over the year, it is good. For something like a trip which has 0 expense for most months but a large expense in 1 month, it is not as good because to make it work ou

Re: Unit Trusts assistance development

2017-09-21 Thread Aaron Laws
On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 3:27 PM, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) < hyl...@conacher.co.za> wrote: > > John, whilst I respect your contribution i.t.o. development of GnuCash, I > feel you certainly need to take a refresher course in customer service. Whereas gnucash is Free Software (I'm not talking abou

Re: budget

2017-09-21 Thread Gour
On Thu, 21 Sep 2017 09:50:45 -0400 Phil Longstaff wrote: > I find envelope budgeting good for some expense types but not as good for > others. :-) > For something like groceries or rent which are even over the year, it is > good. For something like a trip which has 0 expense for most months bu

Re: budget

2017-09-21 Thread Matthew Pounsett
On 21 September 2017 at 09:50, Phil Longstaff wrote: > I find envelope budgeting good for some expense types but not as good for > others. For something like groceries or rent which are even over the year, > it is good. For something like a trip which has 0 expense for most months > but a large e

RE: Deleting an invoice or credit

2017-09-21 Thread rmomxtx
I found the regex options in the dropdown menu, matches regex and does not match regex. The system requires something in the search criteria window. Not being sure what to put I typed "regex." Seems to work even with Invoice ID/contains/"regex" but to get results I had to hit the find button twice.

RE: Deleting an invoice or credit

2017-09-21 Thread Derek Atkins
Hi. As I said in my original reply: [Matches Regex] . You should type '.' (without the quotes) -- as I said in my reply. Regex == Regular Expression If you want them in a journal format, open your A/R account. -derek On Thu, September 21, 2017 2:42 pm, rmom...@gmail.com wrote: > I found th

RE: Deleting an invoice or credit

2017-09-21 Thread rmomxtx
That worked. Clearer answer. The "." in the original looked like a period at the end of your sentence. 😉 Thanks! -Original Message- From: Derek Atkins [mailto:de...@ihtfp.com] Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2017 1:47 PM To: rmom...@gmail.com Cc: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: RE: De

Re: GnuCash: Multiple Views Of Data

2017-09-21 Thread Cindy Doughty
For reports with keywords, try using the multi column report in the post This may help with Quicken Classes - new report with multiple column Doug Doughty On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 5:56 PM, DaveC49 wrote: > Hi Charles, > > Take a look at report options and customization. > https://www.gnucash.