p2x modelling in gnc, help me think, please

2018-02-07 Thread Wm via gnucash-user
Background: I am a p2x investor, I like it, it is fun and may do some good to far away people and get me a better return on my money than more conventional investments ... or I could lose it all. Ho hum. the gnc point is how best to model a p2x investment. my p2x investments involve hundreds

Keeping track of sales and expenses for a specific craft show

2018-02-07 Thread ravenkwill
My wife is an artist, and is beginning to do craft shows. I want to be able to track the profitability for each show by collecting expenses and sales. I've read through the manuals about jobs, but that doesn't seem to be quite right. Do I need to create a separate sub-account for each fair? That se

Cash Flow View

2018-02-07 Thread Sean Ford
Hi, Does GnuCash include a "cash flow" view, i.e., a simple line showing projected balance over time based on recurring expenses and income? Thank you! ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to

Re: can't change preferences [SOLVED]

2018-02-07 Thread Graham Menhennitt
On 05/02/2018 22:54, Geert Janssens wrote: Op zondag 4 februari 2018 09:48:49 CET schreef Graham Menhennitt: Hi GnuCashers, I'm running GnuCash 2.6.19 on FreeBSD 11-stable. Everything seems to work correctly except that I can't change any preferences. I try to click on the tick boxes/radio butt

Accounting rules

2018-02-07 Thread Bert Heijne
Hello everyone, As a new be to bookkeeping and Gnucash. I have some questions about accounting. I already did some work with GC and read the manual. My company is a rental of party material and we have some attractions that we rent and we exploit the attractions. So we have invoice and bills,

Re: Instructions for GST India

2018-02-07 Thread Deva -
Frank, Read the wiki and spent better part of my day trying to generate a template, but I am sorry to say I give up. The wiki assumes one is familiar with xml and how gnucash uses xml - neither of which I am comfortable with. Here’s what I tried - First I tried to look at my raw xml datafile

Re: Scheduled Transactions

2018-02-07 Thread cicko
Hi, Dennis, I don't think that scheduled transactions can even be exported from Quicken into .qif file. Therefore, it is almost certain that they won't be found in GnuCash after import. This only depends on what you consider the scheduled transactions to be. If you are using Bill and Income Remin

Re: Scheduled Transactions

2018-02-07 Thread Colin Law
On 7 February 2018 at 12:23, cicko wrote: > Hi, Dennis, > > I don't think that scheduled transactions can even be exported from Quicken > into .qif file. Therefore, it is almost certain that they won't be found in > GnuCash after import. This only depends on what you consider the scheduled > tran

Re: Scheduled Transactions

2018-02-07 Thread Alen Siljak
Yep, It would be fantastic if I could pick which transaction to enter and ignore all others from the Since Last Run window. With not-so-strictly-dated transactions I have to set the due date to the latest when they usually occur, and then add a reminder ahead so that I can enter

Re: Cash Flow View

2018-02-07 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 2/6/2018 11:56 AM, Sean Ford wrote: Hi, Does GnuCash include a "cash flow" view, i.e., a simple line showing projected balance over time based on recurring expenses and income? Thank you! ___ Are you asking whether gnucash can produce cash flow r

Actual values in Budget Report are incorrect

2018-02-07 Thread ToniMod
I've started using GnuCash for the first time in January 2018. I registered many transactions from 1 January to 7 February and I have keyed in 12 months budget values for all P&L accounts. The Budget Report, on 12 months, shows correct values for each month on the budget column. So no issues with

Re: Keeping track of sales and expenses for a specific craft show

2018-02-07 Thread Ronal B Morse
On 02/05/2018 05:59 PM, ravenkwill wrote: My wife is an artist, and is beginning to do craft shows. I want to be able to track the profitability for each show by collecting expenses and sales. I've read through the manuals about jobs, but that doesn't seem to be quite right. Do I need to create

Re: Instructions for GST India

2018-02-07 Thread Amish
On Tuesday 06 February 2018 08:02 PM, Frank H. Ellenberger wrote: Hi, Am 06.02.2018 um 13:07 schrieb Deva -: And yes, it can certainly go on the wiki for those looking for help. I wish I had something like that to guide me when I was doing the same, but with trial and error, I got to what I wa

Re: Instructions for GST India

2018-02-07 Thread Amish
On Wednesday 07 February 2018 05:52 PM, Deva - wrote: Frank, Read the wiki and spent better part of my day trying to generate a template, but I am sorry to say I give up. The wiki assumes one is familiar with xml and how gnucash uses xml - neither of which I am comfortable with. I have crea

Re: Keeping track of sales and expenses for a specific craft show

2018-02-07 Thread C M Reinehr
Ravenkwill, I would suggest setting up your chart of accounts to record the revenues & expenses and then use the notes field of each entry to identify the specific craft show. Later, you can then use the notes field as a filter when running profit & loss reports, or specific views. CMR On

Re: Keeping track of sales and expenses for a specific craft show

2018-02-07 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 2/7/2018 12:22 PM, C M Reinehr wrote: Ravenkwill, I would suggest setting up your chart of accounts to record the revenues & expenses and then use the notes field of each entry to identify the specific craft show. Later, you can then use the notes field as a filter when running profit & lo

Re: p2x modelling in gnc, help me think, please

2018-02-07 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Go to Preferences > General > Numbers. You can increase your decimal precision. Did that solve the small fraction issue? As for modeling the investment, I’m not familiar with p2x. I’ll let someone else chime in who is. On that note, I tried looking it up but didn’t come up with anything useful

Re: Accounting rules

2018-02-07 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Bert, I’ll tackle the 2nd question first… Just change the unused customer info to match that of another real customer you need to input. If you don’t have one you need to add yet, just name it ‘use next’ or something similar to alert you in the Customer Overview that you have a customer number

Re: Cash Flow View

2018-02-07 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I second Mike’s comments generally. What would probably address most concerns in this regard is a default multi-column report that included the basics—Income Statement, Balance Sheet, and perhaps Income/Expense graphs. This would be auto-opened and up to date. If a seasoned/power user didn’t wa

Re: Actual values in Budget Report are incorrect

2018-02-07 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Looks like a bug. Please file a bug report. I see the same thing. I noticed this when setting up my budget, but I knew I hadn’t entered some transactions yet. Now that I’m caught up, I checked the report and sure enough the actuals are not accurate. Some transactions are missing in the calcula

Annual High Balance Report?

2018-02-07 Thread Keith Bellairs
The US requires a report showing the highest balance in each foreign (non-US) account during the previous year. FinCEN From 114 (FBAR) (superseding TD F 90-22.1) Is there a way to generate that info? Keith ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnuc

QBO and QFX files VS QIF and OFX files ?

2018-02-07 Thread Fran_3 via gnucash-user
Our bank offers QBO and QFX files but I see gnuCash works with QIF and OFX files. Are QBO and QFX files imprtable into gnuCash? Thanks for any help ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to u

mailing list

2018-02-07 Thread Graham Jacks
A few days ago I asked you a question about GnuCash, as I was wondering whether to start using it. Since then I seem to have been put on your mailing list, and have been seeing a lot of email messages about issues related to GnuCash which mean nothing to me. After studying GnuCash, I don’

Re: mailing list

2018-02-07 Thread Kurt Padilla
Graham, Please check your inbox for instructions on how to unsubscribe. These should have been automatically emailed to you when you signed up for the mailing list. Kurt On Wed, Feb 7, 2018, 16:45 Graham Jacks wrote: > A few days ago I asked you a question about GnuCash, as I was wondering > w

Re: mailing list

2018-02-07 Thread C M Reinehr
Likewise, there is a link to instructions as to how to manage your subscription in the signature of every list email: gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are

Re: Creating and Posting an Invoice

2018-02-07 Thread Cliff McDiarmid
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2018 at 11:55 PM From: "Adrien Monteleone" To: "Gnucash Users" Subject: Re: Creating and Posting an Invoice >That’s the same account. >Accounts Receivable is a Current Asset account. That is what the invoice posts to. (other than the chosen Inco

Re: Accounting rules

2018-02-07 Thread Bert Heijne
Adrien, Q1 has been answered. was easy so have don that. Q2 - I'm Dutch [Hollander] and you have it quite right. Q1- My story is that we own some attractions carousel's, a train and other smaller stands with food. We Have 2 VAT categorized for us , the low one 6% and high 21% Most of the time

2.7.4 install

2018-02-07 Thread Michael via gnucash-user
Hello all, I haven't seen much about 2.7.4, so maybe this is not the place.  Anyway I was able to install on linux using cmake (first time for me).  Went reasonably well given all.  It worked! Used yahoo as json for quotes as the financial data file is set up that way.  Overall, seems to be a l

Re: QBO and QFX files VS QIF and OFX files ?

2018-02-07 Thread John Ralls
Dunno what a QBO is, but QFX and OFX are the same thing. The import menu item in GnuCash is even called OFX/QFX. Regards, John Ralls > On Feb 7, 2018, at 12:33 PM, Fran_3 via gnucash-user > wrote: > > Our bank offers QBO and QFX files but I see gnuCash works with QIF and OFX > files. > Are

Re: Revising entries that have already been reconciled

2018-02-07 Thread Jim Kellar
Very good. Thanks David. Jim On Sun, Feb 4, 2018 at 2:58 PM, David Carlson wrote: > Jim, > > If you change a split line that does not have a "y" in reconcile box, it > does not affect other split lines that do. Thus you can redirect a > reconciled bank transaction to a different target account

Online quotes fetching the wrong price

2018-02-07 Thread Justin Smith
Hi, I use gnc to track my stock portfolio of mostly Australian ASX stocks. After yahoo closed their quoting service I set up alphavantage as per the instructions in the gnc FAQ (with key etc). I've just noticed that the online quotes for *all* my ASX stocks are now in USD, and that they are meani