Re: [GNC] Accounting Modules

On 11/27/18 1:13 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: Op dinsdag 27 november 2018 00:17:06 CET schreef John Ralls: On Nov 27, 2018, at 6:35 AM, Stephen M. Butler wrote: The other big issue is that your description of the various modules in a business accounting system is for *big* business. That’s not

Re: [GNC] Accounting Modules

On 11/27/18 4:46 AM, Robert Heller wrote: At Tue, 27 Nov 2018 10:13:37 +0100 Geert Janssens wrote: Op dinsdag 27 november 2018 00:17:06 CET schreef John Ralls: On Nov 27, 2018, at 6:35 AM, Stephen M. Butler wrote: The other big issue is that your description of the various modules in a

Re: [GNC] Accounting Modules

fic rules for their areas. Trying to do something to handle all cases out of the box is a recipe for early death by a thousand cuts. -- Stephen M Butler, PMP, PSM stephen.m.butle...@gmail.com kg...@arrl.net 253-350-0166 --- GnuPG Fingerprint: 8A25 9726 D439 7

Re: [GNC] Accounting Modules

ry). Michael D Novack I C plus plus. -- Stephen M Butler, PMP, PSM stephen.m.butle...@gmail.com kg...@arrl.net 253-350-0166 --- GnuPG Fingerprint: 8A25 9726 D439 758D D846 E5D4 282A 5477 0385 81D8 ___ gnucash-us

Re: [GNC] Accounting Modules

On 11/27/18 3:11 PM, David Cousens wrote: Robert, Geert, On Tue, 2018-11-27 at 07:46 -0500, Robert Heller wrote: At Tue, 27 Nov 2018 10:13:37 +0100 Geert Janssens wrote: Op dinsdag 27 november 2018 00:17:06 CET schreef John Ralls: On Nov 27, 2018, at 6:35 AM, Stephen M. Butler wrote

Re: [GNC] Accounting Modules

e used to compare GL transactions with the budget ones. Would you care to add your high-level overview to the wiki? On Tue, 27 Nov 2018 at 05:37, Stephen M. Butler <mailto:kg...@arrl.net>> wrote: I was both excited and dismayed to learn that GnuCash has "Fixed Assets".  Exc

Re: [GNC] new user help

pull down QFX type transaction files and import those. If you want to pursue this, let's go off list and work up a list of what you need accomplished.  My email and phone are below. --Steve -- Stephen M Butler, PMP, PSM stephen.m.butle...@gmail.com kg...@a

Re: [GNC] Working with compound interest on varying amounts

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Re: [GNC] How to automate $ value on the contra account when editing a transaction

ould you explain that in a bit more detail? Regards, John Ralls -- Stephen M Butler, PMP, PSM stephen.m.butle...@gmail.com kg...@arrl.net 253-350-0166 --- GnuPG Fingerprint: 8A25 9726 D439 758D D846 E5D4 282A 5477 0385 81D8 ___

Re: [GNC] Working with compound interest on varying amounts

ash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. -- Stephen M Butler, PMP, PSM stephen.m.butle...@gmail.com kg...@a

Re: [GNC] Help with Macbook

again and it should run. I hope I got the technically correct words to convey the message. -- Stephen M Butler, PMP, PSM stephen.m.butle...@gmail.com kg...@arrl.net 253-350-0166 --- GnuPG Fingerprint: 8A25 9726 D439 758D D846 E5D4

Re: [GNC] Install Gnucash on Debian

the build tools and dependency list.  I copied them line by line and ran in a terminal environment.  I haven't taken the time to build a shell script to load them all. holler on the list if  you run into problems.  I'm using a patched 3.3 on Ubuntu 18.04. --Steve -- Stephen M Bu

[GNC] Manint Brach on GitHub

John, Is the maint branch (3.3-153) the official 3.3 release? I see that master branch is at 3.3-159.  I presume that is the current work for 3.4. --Steve -- Stephen M Butler, PMP, PSM stephen.m.butle...@gmail.com kg...@arrl.net 253-350-0166 --- GnuPG

Re: [GNC] Ubuntu 18.04 deb package

On 12/5/18 5:17 PM, Stephen M. Butler wrote: Warning -- this is my first foray into creating a .deb package. Beware, it worked on my machine.  It will probably fail on yours! <> I used checkinstall to create the package (and have it install on my machine).  I accepted all the defaul

Re: [GNC] Manint Brach on GitHub

ll work for them. Feel free to keep nudging me in the right direction.  I'd hate to end up in a quagmire of my own making! -- Stephen M Butler, PMP, PSM stephen.m.butle...@gmail.com kg...@arrl.net 253-350-0166 --- GnuPG Fingerprint: 8A25 9726 D439 7

Re: [GNC] How to automate $ value on the contra account when editing a transaction

ed, you have. Regards Dave W Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. -derek -- Stephen M Butler, PMP, PSM stephen.m.butle...@gmail.com kg...@arrl.net 253-350-0166 --- GnuPG Fingerprint:

[GNC] Custom report on Windows

unknown file:    ?: 0 [scm-error misc-error #f "~A ~S" ("no code for module" (gnucash main)) #f] ERROR: no code for module (gnucash main) * 14:25:49  WARN Could not spawn perl: Failed to execute child process (No such file or directory) Does this mean Perl isn't loaded

Re: [GNC] Custom report on Windows

On 12/8/18 1:30 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: Op vrijdag 7 december 2018 23:35:00 CET schreef Stephen M. Butler: The custom balance sheet (formatted) report that you folks helped my configure on Linux, my wife now wants on her Windows 10 box. From my research, it appears that both the config

Re: [GNC] Adding custom reports

Don’t know if this is relevant, but the wiki-config page indicated what files are in GTK_config_home. My GTK_config_home (appdata/local/gtk3.0) is empty. If someone can help, it would be appreciated. Did you make sure to tell MSWord to save the files as plain ASCII (not UTF8!) text? Regards, John Ralls

Re: [GNC] GNU crashes when any Report is selected

ferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List

Re: [GNC] GNU crashes when any Report is selected

file on the way to the printer.  Ubuntu got them all the way to the printer. Neither system involved GnuCash.  So, my take is that it is a Windows 10 problem that I'm sure Microsoft will put the blame on the printer! -- Stephen M Butler, PMP, PSM stephen.m.butle...@gmail.com kg...@arrl.

Re: [GNC] TRANSFER transactions

er, there is a box to specify the parent account - the rest should be obvious. You'll have to do that for each account you wish to re-parent. HTH, Maf. I've done this several times and it works well. --Steve PS  Perhaps more cunning than deleting the account and watching the transa

Re: [GNC] Reconciling different periods?

duplicate transaction and mark it as reconciled, or to miss digit transpositions and other typing errors. Best of luck! Michael -- Stephen M Butler, PMP, PSM stephen.m.butle...@gmail.com kg...@arrl.net 253-350-0166 --- GnuPG Fingerprint: 8A25 9726 D439 758D

Re: [GNC] Reconciling different periods?

lease see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. -- Stephen M Butler, PMP, PSM stephen.m.butle...@gmail.com kg...@arrl.net 253-350-0166

Re: [GNC] XML File

On 12/17/18 1:13 PM, Jack Lockard wrote: Is there any way to convert a compressed XML file back to an uncompressed one? Jack __ I use gunzip -- but any unzip utility should do the job. -- Stephen M Butler, PMP, PSM stephen.m.butle...@gmail.com kg...@arrl.net 253-350-0166

Re: [GNC] Fixing bad Bayesian data

iple times each month to keep the number of transactions low. Anyway, if you decide to clear everything out, the above is a nice and easy way to do that. --Steve -- Stephen M Butler, PMP, PSM stephen.m.butle...@gmail.com kg...@arrl.net 253-350-0166 ---

Re: [GNC] Reconciling duplicate entries of same transaction

On 10/13/24 11:00, Art Chimes wrote: A credit card reconciliation has given me a discrepancy of several hundred dollars. The account was reconciled a month or two ago, but the I couldn’t get the latest statement to work. So I have laboriously been working my way backwards to see where the problem

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

On 11/4/24 08:26, William Prescott wrote: Electrons move very slowly in copper, about 1 cm/sec. The question is the signal speed in copper, which is about half the speed of light. I got this from a couple I think you are missing a decimal point and a few zeros between said point and the 1.  Th

Re: [GNC] Loan repayments created not matching

On 11/4/24 11:09, Jason Seegers wrote: Basically, it is the system not posting what it says it will which I can't wrap my head around. I am not expecting the calculation to be the same as the bank, this is simply that the software is posting a different amount to what it tells me and the reali

Re: [GNC] GnuCash 5.9 build failing on Linux MInt 22

"   libofx libofx-dev" sudo apt-get install libofx-dev echo "   xsltproc" sudo apt-get install xsltproc echo " Database backend support" echo "   libdbi1 libdbi-dev libdbd-pgsql libdbd-mysql libdbd-sqlite3" sudo apt-get install libdbi1 libdbi-dev libdbd-pgsql

Re: [GNC] Error deleting scheduled transaction spl

t that split?  Has variables?  If the above scenario isn't what your doing can you post the detail steps. I'm running with a cmake with -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Asan and -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug so I should be able to get a good stack dump if I can make it fail on Ubuntu. Stephen M Butler

Re: [GNC] Cash Account

On 10/1/24 10:31, R Losey wrote: On Tue, Oct 1, 2024 at 12:23 PM Chris Miller via gnucash-user wrote: Hi Stephen and R, >> Isn't that just a bit like stating that "your brother is a person, and your >> wife is a person, so what's the difference? They are all persons?" I wo

Re: [GNC] Cash Account

On 10/1/24 10:04, R Losey wrote: On Tue, Oct 1, 2024 at 11:44 AM Chris Miller via gnucash-user < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: Hi Folks, These are GnuCash questions; not accounting questions: * How do "Cash", "Bank" and "Asset" accounts different from each other? They are all assets

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

s a single URI line. 'https://www.uschamber.com/co/start/strategy/how-long-to-keep-business-documents' Yup, that works. -Original Message----- From: Stephen M. Butler Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2024 3:15 PM To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: Re: [GNC] File Cabinet, 3

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

"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 email has many many fi

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

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?

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] Postpone Reconciliation

On 11/19/24 07:12, SFR via gnucash-user wrote: Hi, I am looking for (more) information on how the 'postpone' action works in a reconsiliation. Does it follow along as you are entering transactions or do you have to 'reconcile selection' after a set of transactions, to be able to restart at th

Re: [GNC] Postpone Reconciliation

On 11/20/24 06:14, SFR via gnucash-user wrote: Sounds good, but I have found myself in a resumed recon, at a point well behind where I left off. Maybe I continued after a 'postpone' order and didn't postpone again. Is there a risk that the first postpone is not overridden if I postponed twice?

Re: [GNC] Accounting for Income and Expenses from Multiple Business Locations

Are there intra-city transactions?  If not, the simple solution is to have one set of books per store.  However, that does make it hard to roll up to a grand total for the entire business. The next approach would be to have a high-level account for each location within ASSETS, LIABILITIES, EQU

Re: [GNC] CSV importer Debet/Credit issue

save the configuration so it will be easy to use the next time. Stephen M Butler stephen.m.butle...@gmail.com kg...@arrl.net 253-350-0166 --- GnuPG Fingerprint: 8A25 9726 D439 758D D846 E5D4 282A 5477 0385 81D8 On 12/7/24 12:01, Koos Pol wrote: Hi, The CSV

Re: [GNC] Postpone Reconciliation

k statement, before reconciliation. If you do an import of transaction the default is to mark them as "cleared" so you don't have to manually do that at reconciliation time. Thanks all for the clarifcations. Barry On 20/11/2024 17:57, Stephen M. Butler wrote: On 11/20/24 06:

Re: [GNC] Do I Have Use for Liability Acounts

On 1/17/25 10:31, Griffin wrote: I am using Gnucash for my home accounts. I won't be trading for the foreseeable future as all my retirement money was stolen in a scam. Oh.  Sorry about that.  Thankfully mine is still sitting in the IRA and Roth accounts. Do I need to use liability accoun

Re: [GNC] Use of Desktop [Off Topic: was Log File?]

1.  Desktop Folder resides on disk just like every other folder in the file system hierarchy. 2.  It has a directory listing just like every other folder. 3.  The advantage is that the directory content is displayed on the console/terminal/screen automatically without needing the File Explorer

Re: [GNC] How to "Reserve" money?

Almost sounds like an escrow account that your mortgage company might have you pay into monthly in order to pay your insurance and property taxes. In my case I convinced the mortgage company to trust me!  (Owed less than 50% of the house value.)  So I set up the bank savings account as a paren

Re: [GNC] QFX import leaves out some transactions

On occasion I have noticed this also.  When I roll back to the prior save point and retry the import, then, and only then, do I notice that those lines are not checked for import.  Somehow the import thinks it has already seen this transaction and automatically unchecks it.  I can force it to c

[GNC] "31 tests failed out of 128" in Ubuntu 24.04

*Dong Lin* c54e-gnucash at yahoo.com /Sun May 4 16:41:57 EDT 2025/ With release 5.11 under U

Re: [GNC] GNUCash Ver 5.5 & 5.11 - Parse error wgen opening GNUCASH File

On 5/1/25 09:06, John Ralls wrote: On May 1, 2025, at 02:42, Maf. King wrote: On Wednesday, 30 April 2025 02:29:03 BST s.singh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Installed ver 5.11 & started the App & am getting this Parse error. I tried with Ver5.6, Ver 5.7 etc & same error. See attached. I'd try a

Re: [GNC] Cannot build GNUCash 5.10 for GNU/Linux

ude It is maybe related to Boost version 1.88.0 but maybe on something different. On 4/22/25 1:41 AM, Stephen M. Butler wrote: I just did a successful build of v5.10 on Linux.  Ubuntu 24.10. I'm doing this via git and checkout of 5.10. Also successful was a build of the most recen

Re: [GNC] Partial use of reconciliation

On 4/24/25 11:36, Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) wrote: I've never used reconciliation because I get real-time transactions from all my credit cards and my bank, so if there's something wrong I deal with it before the statement arrives. But recently I realized there's one _piece_ of reconciliation I

Re: [GNC] Question about CSV imports

I just tried in 5.11-3 and it read '11-April-2025' just fine.  Did you pick the d-m-y format for date? On 4/29/25 13:03, David Carlson wrote: I am having an issue with CSV transaction imports in both the old version in release 4.8 and the new version in release 5.11. I am trying to import a c

Re: [GNC] CSV import credits showing as zero

On 5/1/25 05:09, Graham Eastwood wrote: Hi Tried to reconcile from a csv import for the first time. The process works fine, but a number of credits are coming in as zero. The csv file shows that they are non-zero and correctly in the credit field. Any ideas? Regards Graham Graham, I do a coupl

Re: [GNC] Cannot build GNUCash 5.10 for GNU/Linux

I just did a successful build of v5.10 on Linux.  Ubuntu 24.10. I'm doing this via git and checkout of 5.10. Also successful was a build of the most recent set of updates via a git pull that gives me v5.11-3. Stephen M Butler stephen.m.butle...@gmail.com kg...@arrl.net 253-350

Re: [GNC] How to change a scheduled transaction amount

On 3/1/25 19:48, Edwin Booth wrote: Hi All, I get a Social Security payment each month (let’s hope it will continue under this awful administration!). The monthly amount changes each January Same here for both my wife and I I hope I explained my problem well and that someone can help me with

Re: [GNC] Report gives black screen

On 3/1/25 19:12, Richard Dawson wrote: Using 5.1, flathub version.  Installed on Kubuntu 24.04. When I opened the report Gnucash immediately opened a new tab labeled "transaction report" that was completely black.  I proceeded to select options.  When I closed the options window the screen rem

Re: [GNC] No reports

There are so many things that might have happened.  Is this a case of you clicked on the report and it came up blank?  If so, go to the Options menu item (on the top bar).  Click on that and fill in the numerous pages of options available for each report (each report will have a different set o

Re: [GNC] Reconcile Info: Starting Balance

atch those before I finish the reconciliation.  Yes, in most cases I have to postpone and then correct the dates on the transactions before restarting the reconciliation. Stephen M Butler stephen.m.butle...@gmail.com kg...@arrl.net 253-350-0166 --- GnuPG Fin

Re: [GNC] Help!

Equity:Opening Balance account to make everything "balance". Sorry, I'm on the West Coast so 3 hours off from you. Stephen M Butler stephen.m.butle...@gmail.com kg...@arrl.net 253-350-0166 --- GnuPG Fingerprint: 8A25 9726 D439 758D D846 E5D4

Re: [GNC] Import troubles

The importer thinks it has seen the first line before and is telling you that it made a choice to not import it.  In that picture you can override the importer and tell it to either import as new (first box) or match to the existing entry (third box). The importer is giving you the option on t

Re: [GNC] deleting empty items in a split

I find that viewing the transaction from the account for one of the non-zero splits (and showing all splits) that I can click on the extraneous split so it is in focus and then click the delete menu item in the top bar.  Or, right click while hovering over that split and select the Delete Split

Re: [GNC] Defered payment account

do I always take advantage of the float. Stephen M Butler stephen.m.butle...@gmail.com kg...@arrl.net 253-350-0166 --- GnuPG Fingerprint: 8A25 9726 D439 758D D846 E5D4 282A 5477 0385 81D8 On 5/12/25 10:09, R Losey wrote: I had several non-credit card liab

Re: [GNC] New to XML; recreating some unsaved work

On 5/16/25 07:34, Michael or Penny Novack via gnucash-user wrote: However, that doesn't apparently save to the data file. I was working on my books last night, but the computer restarted due to an update and the master file was not saved. So now I have the master file time-stamped at 7 am yes

Re: [GNC] Percentage Report

On 5/22/25 08:38, GTI .H wrote: Hello flywire, Thanks for the answer. Why do you think I don't use investment portfolio monitoring tools? I use this and many other third-party tools and others that I developed myself with the help of AIs. The issue here is WITHIN GnuCash, it is not about solvi

Re: [GNC] How to find the transaction entered one minute ago

On 6/2/25 11:06, sunfish62--- via gnucash-user wrote: Michael, As I understood it, the GnuCash "General Ledger" shows all transactions in one register. In my copy of GnC it is called "General Journal".  My wife, the accountant of the family, agrees that the correct terminology is "Journal".

Re: [GNC] Order of accounts when closing the book

On 6/10/25 08:41, Michael or Penny Novack via gnucash-user wrote: On 6/10/2025 12:36 AM, Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) wrote: The Close the Book tool generates two transactions, one for all income accounts and the other for all expense accounts. The accounts are not in alphabetical order in either

Re: [GNC] Split Transactions

Then again, you could always pick "Don't AutoComplete" rather than accept an existing transaction. On 7/9/25 09:07, Steve Butler wrote: Yes and No. They are in that account register as the most recent version of that transaction.  So in that sense they are stored. However, if you modify it

Re: [GNC] Credit card reconciliation shows wrong total

On 6/24/25 14:39, Liz wrote: On Tue, 24 Jun 2025 13:27:46 +0200 Boniforti Flavio wrote: I mean: the item on my CC invoice is still 13.98 but the total amount due is rounded up... which is unfair, as we're all doing digital payments... F. Do you then have a 0.02 balance in your favour? What h

Re: [GNC] Problem--probably simple for ya'll, but not me!!!!!!

Does this account have sub-accounts? On 7/21/25 17:21, bullish bob bagley via gnucash-user wrote: in gnucash 5.12,  Under Accounts, Current Assets, I have a cash acct with a balance of $21,852.30 If click on that cash acct with the blue line highlighted on it---it shows my entries from begin

[GNC] Bug 799249 Update

Just had a crash related to *Bug 799249* - Crash while switch to recently opened file Uploaded output from coredumpctl gdb -1 Surprised me as it had been a long time since this happened. ___ gnucash-u

Re: [GNC] Scheduled transaction for end of the day - bank interest

On 8/1/25 20:38, G R Hewitt wrote: I tend to agree with your sentiment. I have been following the thread with interest (no pun intended), and all the convoluted processes suggested are all well and good, but the simplest and easiest thing to do would be to input the transaction(s) manually the n

Re: [GNC] Budget Report hassle

On 7/29/25 16:06, Norm Samuelson wrote: I have been trying to eliminate a few accounts from the Budget Report. I open the budget report, then click on Options, then Accounts. Most of the accounts are highlighted. I want to de-select a few of them.  But when I click on one, it seems to de-sel

Re: [GNC] Import csv transactions in GnuCash 5.12

Interesting.  I took an existing CSV transaction file that I imported earlier this morning, changed the dates, changed the amount sign (added a negative) to three of the transaction and left the next three as positive values.  Removed all lines after that. Did the import and the import correct

Re: [GNC] Report Question

gest I use?  There are too many to try them > all. > > Thank you, > > Joe Transactions.  You can select which accounts on which you want to report by appropriate selections on the options menu.  You can pick how you want to sort them, group them, with/without totals and with/without th

Re: [GNC] CSV to QIF for Citibank

at news. >> > I don't subscribe to their business service, and I'm offered multiple file > formats. Perhaps it's because I'm using their Costco card. I use their Costco card and only get CSV and TXT (tab delimited). -- Stephen M Butler, PMP, PSM ste

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