Re: [GNC] File Cabinet, 3-Ring Binders, Paper Records?

2024-11-06 Thread Kalpesh Patel
If you are on desktop version of MS Outlook then you can save single message as a .msg file and link that. Just keep in mind you will need MS Outlook to open those .msg files though... -Original Message- From: Stephen M. Butler Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2024 3:37 PM To: gnucash-use

Re: [GNC] File Cabinet, 3-Ring Binders, Paper Records?

2024-11-06 Thread Stephen M. Butler
On 11/6/24 15:08, Kalpesh Patel wrote: If you clicked on the link from the digest then your OS probably left out last three characters of the link ("nts" part). Looks like chopping off is an artifact of the list server ... cut and paste from below what is between two single quotes as a single

Re: [GNC] Stock Purchase Throws off Trial Balance

2024-11-06 Thread Murugan Mariappan
Can you try Check & Repair after the transaction and refresh the report Saludos Cordiales Murugan From: gnucash-user on behalf of Dr. Timothy B. Jones Sent: 06 November 2024 19:06 To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: [GNC] Stock Purchase Throws off Tri

Re: [GNC] GnuCash 5.9 on macOS 15.2 Dev Beta

2024-11-06 Thread davelist--- via gnucash-user
Yes, it also seems to work for me on macOS 15.1. I have not tried the 15.2 beta. Dave > On Nov 6, 2024, at 12:33 AM, William Prescott wrote: > > Thanks John, > > I've gotten one other confirmation. I'm going to update to 15.1 tonight. > > Best wishes, > Will > > On 2 Nov 2024, at 20:42, John

Re: [GNC] File Cabinet, 3-Ring Binders, Paper Records?

2024-11-06 Thread Bruce Griffis
If I get receipts e-mailed, is there a way to link them to an expense or asset? On 11/6/24 15:25, Liz wrote: On Wed, 6 Nov 2024 10:49:15 -0800 "Stephen M. Butler" wrote: Paper burns in a fire also.  So need offsite backup. I'd put some better filtering on your email to snag the good emails

Re: [GNC] File Cabinet, 3-Ring Binders, Paper Records?

2024-11-06 Thread Stephen M. Butler
On 11/6/24 12:32, Bruce Griffis wrote: If I get receipts e-mailed, is there a way to link them to an expense or asset? Either save/print the email as a document or save the (usually) attached pdf and then link it per the docs. On 11/6/24 15:25, Liz wrote: On Wed, 6 Nov 2024 10:49:15 -0800 "

Re: [GNC] Dealing with mutual funds

2024-11-06 Thread sunfish62--- via gnucash-user
According to H&R Block, determining your basis involves "generally the purchase price plus any commissions or fees paid." So, unless I'm missing something, no, your brokerage *won't* report a gain in this example, since gains are calculated against your basis, and not the price. And basis inclu

Re: [GNC] File Cabinet, 3-Ring Binders, Paper Records?

2024-11-06 Thread Kalpesh Patel
Making digital copies into cloud, albeit in a foggy one, is a lot easier than sending paper copies to Iron Mountain for safe keeping. Then there is cost of keeping digital copies vs physical copies. Most vendors -- at least credit cards, banking and investment houses -- provide digital copies of

Re: [GNC] Dealing with mutual funds

2024-11-06 Thread Boniforti Flavio
Hi David. I'm replying to your feedback as it's less text :-) I'll reply to Richard's afterwards as well - thanks to you both already! And a final note: GnuCash never stores the exchange rate. It calculates it > from the two (actual) amounts include in the transaction. Focusing on the > number the

Re: [GNC] Display colors

2024-11-06 Thread Liz
On Wed, 6 Nov 2024 09:41:17 -0500 Ed Greenberg wrote: > I would like some indication other than the title bar of where I am. > Perhaps colors in the green-bar areas or the top button bar, or some > other VERY NOTICEABLE indication. I have each of my 4 files open attached to a different corner

Re: [GNC] File Cabinet, 3-Ring Binders, Paper Records?

2024-11-06 Thread Stephen M. Butler
On 11/6/24 11:38, Kalpesh Patel wrote: Here is guide for small business documents retention time frames: https://www.uschamber.com/co/start/strategy/how-long-to-keep-business-docume nts Link returns 404 - Page not found ___ gnucash-user mailing list gn

Re: [GNC] File Cabinet, 3-Ring Binders, Paper Records?

2024-11-06 Thread Liz
On Wed, 6 Nov 2024 10:49:15 -0800 "Stephen M. Butler" wrote: > Paper burns in a fire also.  So need offsite backup. > > I'd put some better filtering on your email to snag the good emails > into known folders as they come in -- even if you don't read them. I agree with these suggestions. My ema

Re: [GNC] Stock Purchase Throws off Trial Balance

2024-11-06 Thread Patrick James via gnucash-user
What I have observed is that the trial balance report is based on some sort of "averaging," and not debits/credits. There are a few reports on this. Quoting John Ralls: ""Average Cost" in this case doesn't mean what normal people would think. The function finds all of the splits in all of the n

[GNC] Display colors

2024-11-06 Thread Ed Greenberg
I have four gnucash files, and I launch them from individual icons by specifying the filename.  (Me, my parents, my business and my test instance) I would like some indication other than the title bar of where I am. Perhaps colors in the green-bar areas or the top button bar, or some other VER

Re: [GNC] Newbie trouble deleting transaction

2024-11-06 Thread Keith McKenna via gnucash-user
R Losey wrote: I have never had any issue with it... it's kind of like a prompt at a terminal, waiting for input. I'm impressed that you don't foresee ever making any manual entries... Ionce did find a mistake that the bank had made. Once in 10 years is not a bad record, but it can happen. If

Re: [GNC] File Cabinet, 3-Ring Binders, Paper Records?

2024-11-06 Thread William Prescott
How long do you expect optical media to be supported. None of the last three computers I bought have an optical drive. External ones are available, for now at least. Long term archiving has to include a plan for migrating to new media as required. Best wishes, Will Burn RW optical discs and a

Re: [GNC] GnuCash 5.9 on macOS 15.2 Dev Beta

2024-11-06 Thread Seth Hamstead
Testing on macOS 15.2 developer beta 2 which was released this week and still getting crashes (report below). To be clear, I realize I am testing this on a beta and do not have any expectations for the GnuCash developers to necessarily fix this right now, I would bet that the issue is probabl

Re: [GNC] File Cabinet, 3-Ring Binders, Paper Records?

2024-11-06 Thread Stephen M. Butler
On 11/6/24 08:59, Adam Funk wrote: On 2024-11-06, Tom Balazs wrote: How do you store all the paperwork related to your bookkeeping? Sorry if this is a bit off topic. I now file all incoming (bookkeeping related) paper mail in a series of 3-ring binders. Occasionally, I move older statements to

Re: [GNC] File Cabinet, 3-Ring Binders, Paper Records?

2024-11-06 Thread dewaj
On Wed, 6 Nov 2024 11:29:32 -0500 Tom Balazs wrote: > How do you store all the paperwork related to your bookkeeping? Sorry > if this is a bit off topic. How do I do it??? Hmm... Well... Scan all documents on receipt, file paper away in a 1-year round-robin system, shred when they cycle round

Re: [GNC] File Cabinet, 3-Ring Binders, Paper Records?

2024-11-06 Thread Kalpesh Patel
If you clicked on the link from the digest then your OS probably left out last three characters of the link ("nts" part). Looks like chopping off is an artifact of the list server ... cut and paste from below what is between two single quotes as a single URI line. 'https://www.uschamber.com/co

Re: [GNC] File Cabinet, 3-Ring Binders, Paper Records?

2024-11-06 Thread Adam Funk
On 2024-11-06, Tom Balazs wrote: > How do you store all the paperwork related to your bookkeeping? Sorry if > this is a bit off topic. > > I now file all incoming (bookkeeping related) paper mail in a series of > 3-ring binders. Occasionally, I move older statements to an "archive" > folder and st

Re: [GNC] File Cabinet, 3-Ring Binders, Paper Records?

2024-11-06 Thread Patrick James via gnucash-user
Tom, I personally run paperless-ngx (FOSS and actively developed) on a Synology NAS (DS920+). Then I backup my data regularly to multiple locations, including online storage. Paperless-ngx allows for "Archive Serial Number (ASN)," which can be used to store the paper documents in order receive

[GNC] Stock Purchase Throws off Trial Balance

2024-11-06 Thread Dr. Timothy B. Jones
Greetings: I am on the 5.9 version of GCUCash for Windows. I have been doing stock trades since 2016 on the software without this issue. However today I made the following STOCK PURCHASE and entered it just as I have for years. (Bought 250 shares of GCI for $667.50) The transaction looks li

Re: [GNC] File Cabinet, 3-Ring Binders, Paper Records?

2024-11-06 Thread Michael or Penny Novack via gnucash-user
I try to avoid all the go-green, switch to digital statement appeals because I get so much junk in my email that it's hard to find the relevant/important stuff. I like getting statements etc. as paper mail. If using email (as opposed to webmail) your email client might be able to help with this

Re: [GNC] Dealing with mutual funds

2024-11-06 Thread Boniforti Flavio
Ah ok - that's fine with me then. F. https://www.instagram.com/boniforti_music https://soundcloud.com/boniforti_music https://bonny-j.bandcamp.com Am Mi., 6. Nov. 2024 um 22:50 Uhr schrieb sunfis...@yahoo.com < sunfis...@yahoo.com>: > No. $6 (real amount) and 13 GBP (another real amount) are en

Re: [GNC] File Cabinet, 3-Ring Binders, Paper Records?

2024-11-06 Thread David Carlson
While there is a way to link an e-receipt to a transaction, that may or may not survive a data file trip to a backup location. I prefer just having a known folder or group of folders for e-receipts. On Wed, Nov 6, 2024 at 2:38 PM Stephen M. Butler wrote: > On 11/6/24 12:32, Bruce Griffis wrot

[GNC] File Cabinet, 3-Ring Binders, Paper Records?

2024-11-06 Thread Tom Balazs
How do you store all the paperwork related to your bookkeeping? Sorry if this is a bit off topic. I now file all incoming (bookkeeping related) paper mail in a series of 3-ring binders. Occasionally, I move older statements to an "archive" folder and store them in another room. I don't really want

Re: [GNC] File Cabinet, 3-Ring Binders, Paper Records?

2024-11-06 Thread R Losey
I keep my paper copies in a 4-drawer file cabinet with 2 years per drawer; thus, I have 7 years of archive plus the current year. When a new year starts, I go through all the papers in the oldest year, sorting them into three piles: #1 - keep (papers that still need to be kept; things with warran

Re: [GNC] Dealing with mutual funds

2024-11-06 Thread sunfish62--- via gnucash-user
No. $6 (real amount) and 13 GBP (another real amount) are entered. The ratio between these two numbers will remain the same always. But if GnuCash reports the price as 0.4615384615 and your broker says it's .46, are you going to worry that your books don't match your broker? ⁣David T. ​ On N

Re: [GNC] File Cabinet, 3-Ring Binders, Paper Records?

2024-11-06 Thread Fred Bone
On 06 November 2024 at 12:15, Stephen M. Butler said: > On 11/6/24 11:38, Kalpesh Patel wrote: > > Here is guide for small business documents retention time frames: > > https://www.uschamber.com/co/start/strategy/how-long-to-keep-business-do > > cume nts > Link returns 404 - Page not found Not if