John,
Just to clarify. While I have accounting qualifications, I am not a
practising accountant and my judgement is primarily an opinion based on my
formal studies and my accounting experience in a small business in my
particular country. We all need to keep in mind that accounting, while
adhering
John,
I agree with you that making the accounts with child accounts have no
transactions is being unnecessarily restrictive and may not meet all
possible use cases but perhaps having the option of being able to restrict
it to that case if it suits an individual's purpose is a suitable
compromise.
Hi Stephen,
I agree with your wife about not including the Income Statement inside a
Balance Sheet. These serve different functions and it just makes a Balance
Sheet more complicated than necessary. From an accounting perspective you
should be able to evaluate a balance sheet fairly quickly and ha
Stephen,
It is generally a good idea to remove the previous version before installing
a new one. Gnucash will generally overwrite any existing files of the same
name, but you may be left with unnecessary files in some cases. Going from
3.1 to 3.2 should be OK as there are unlikey to be major chang
John,
The GnuCash wiki Installation instructions now link to the build
instructions for Ubuntu (and derivative distrubutions like Linux Mint)
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building which in turn has a link specifically
for building V3 on on Ubuntu16.04, 18.04 and derivatives which now hopefully
sh
Geert,
I tried this on Linux Mint 18.3 but had no changes from the default theme.
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Hi John,
If GnuCash is not built with Ninja, there is a cmake_uninstall.cmake file in
the top level of the build directory which seems to read the
install_manifest.txt file. The Makefile in the same level produced by CMake
has an uninstall target - not sure how it executes the commands in the
cmak
Stephen John, Geert
In accounting terms there are really only 3 basic account types:
Asset
Liability
Equity
These all *must *satisfy the basic accounting equation Assets=Liabilities
+Equity.
The two sides of this equation are what the German /European system defines
as Activa and Passiv
Geert,
The default theme is Mint-X. There is a Mint-X Dark GTK-3 theme available
as well and GnuCash comes up nicely in it. It is installable from the
Menu->Preferences->Themes dialog in the Cinnamon desktop. I would say on
Mint all you have to do is select a dark theme at the system level. There
John,
I'm using CMake v 3.5.1. Presumably the same or similar could be used to
create an uninstall target for Ninja. Their argument for providing a default
uninstall target seems a bit weak to me as you are not going to be issuing
the command in a build directory unless you really intend to uninst
John,
Just some further information. I rebuilt GnuCash with the -G Ninja option.
The build.ninja seems to contain a build uninstall target but it has no
commands. If I run
sudo ninja install
it installs GnuCash (in/usr/local the prefix I set with cmake) and creates
install_manifest.txt.
If i co
Geert,
I had realised the same thing about needing to uninstall before building and
shifted the section on uninstalling to before the section on Building on the
Wiki page and specifically mentioned using the previous version's build
directory. I might make the note clearer about retaining the buil
Stan,
The previous discussion on uninstalling related to Linux (the Ubuntu
distribution in particular) where users have built GnuCash from the source
code.
On Linux, if you use the particular Linux distribution's (Ubuntu, Debian,
Redhat, Centos etc.) supported version of Gnucash, it normally has
Stephen, Colin
I think there is a problem with the cmake creation of the scripts that do
the install, that is not installing the icons correctly. I just did an
uninstall of v3.2 on Ubuntu, deleted any gnucash files left in my install
location (/usr/local) relating to gnucash so that all directorie
Stephen, Colin
Just a correction to my last post. There is no problem with the icon
installation on Linux Mint 18.3. It seems to possibly be a problem with
Nemo (Linux Mint file explorer) rather than the installation. All of the
icon files are actually there but there is something with the permis
Hi Colin,
I'm responsible for m,ost of the update on the build Ubuntu. No problem for
me with a more generic page name at all. I had stuck with the names that
were there as I updated it with the more recent build instructions. I have
tried to generalise the page and make it a bit more user orient
Gnucash V3.2 is available in the Software Manager in Linux Mint 18.3
downloading from the flatpack form from the flathub
website(https://flathub.org/apps/search/GnuCash).
Installs OK and indistinguisable from my own build on my system. Can be
downloaded from the flathub site directly if you're not
Colin,
A correction. The latest LM 18.3 Software Manager now installs Gnucash 3.2
as a flatpack in /usr/bin. There are no identiable gnucash directories apart
from the user configuration.
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Hi Colin,
Sorry for the confusion. I had gone back to check where LM installed from
its software manager to check that it was into /usr/local and discovered it
was now using flatpack and didn't install in any manner I was previously
accustomed to. I appreciate that apt installs to /usr but my memo
Colin,
There is a link labelled issues to the Gnome bugzilla site on the flathub
GnuCash page which links to the now becoming defunct Gnome Bugzilla which is
being transferred to Gnome Gitlab and has a link to it,
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME . I could not find any reporting of issues
with flat
Dick,
All that is necessary is to copy the .gnucash file from that
directory to the new computer (usb stick is probably easiest) where
is the name you originally gave your Gnucash file. This is the
only file that it is necessary to copy to transfer to your new machine
You will find a lot of files
Thanks Liz,
I didn't think of the preferences.
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Hi Amish'
I can also confirm that the credit note has a bug for GnuCash 3.2 running on
Linux Mint 19 from the flat pack. I have created an Invoice for $100 for a
dummy company in a test file and then a credit note for the same dummy
company for $50. I have not used a tax table. After the two tran
As well as the internal funds transfer from Euro to USD in your Asset:bank
account are you also converting the corresponding income account in Euro to
an Income account in USD at the same exchange rate? If not this is a
possible spurce of any imbalance in the accounting equation.
David Cousens
Joe,
I've been using GnuCash on Linux Mint for approx 5 years with no problems.
The Software manager version is sometimes a little behind the current
GnuCash version but at present it has a flatpak GnuCash V3.2 available that
worked fine under LM18.3 and is working fine on LM19. I'm currently run
Johnnie
Use File ->Open from the menu and navigate to the location where you saved
the file. Hopefully you did not save the file to a read only CD. You should
have received a warning that the device could not be written to if you had
attempted to do that.
Open the file .gnucash where filename is t
Adrien,
The main function of the trial balance is to ensure the accounts are
numerically correct before any adjustments to the accounts are made before
producing the final financial statements. It should be just a straight
listing of the balance (credit or debit) of all accounts in the chart of
ac
Adrien,
>From what little I know of the automatic gains/loss calculations by default
the gain or loss on a transaction is created in an Orphan-Gains-CCC account
by default and the user has to reassign the gain or loss to an appropriate
income account.
See
https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v3/C/gnuca
Adrien, David,
The same issue occurs in Linux Mint 19(Tara) which is Ubuntu 18.04 based.
Nemo (file explorer) can see the mounted USB stick and access it directly
or via the /media// mount point for the device but the Gnucash file
open dialog neither sees the USB stick or /media// mount point whe
Adrien,
I do use Nabble and also get the user list posts by email but as I am in
Australia I sometiimes notice there is a long delay associated with being in
this timezone. I'm not sure where the moderators are located but, I tend to
post usually in the morning AEST (UTC -10:00) and my posts don't
John
I had considered writing a payroll plugin a few years ago but found that
finding my way around the Gnucash code made it difficult so I have great
respect for the business features that Derek has created so far. I started
to think more in terms of a separate payroll program which maintained it
Roger,
The most obvious thing to look for would be a missing decimal point in the
price. That it has calculated correctly for other transactions indicates an
input error.
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To be useful the logfiles should be being written as each transaction is
recorded rather than only at the end of a session. In the latter case if a
crash/programming fault causes Gnucash to exit abnormally the log file would
contain no useful information. Autosave should only be working on the main
Anita
The Wiki has a secion discussing it at
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Closing_Books
and the documentation tells you how to use the built in routine for it at
https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.6/C/gnucash-help/tool-close-book.html
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Don,
I think most of your points have been covered by subsequent posts from other
users. I think the confusion largely arises from historical accounting
practice where each period had a physical journal and each account had its
own physical ledger book and entries were hand made in ink (We won't
Hi Buster,
Customer jobs are not meant to be the same as Vendor jobs at least according
to
the Gnucash Help manual entries which seem to indicate that they are
separate
https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.6/C/gnucash-help/busnss-ar-jobs1.html and
https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.6/C/gnucash-help/busnss-
Hi Eneko,
The full accounting equation is
Assets = Liabilities +Equity+(Income -Expenses) where Income and Expense
accounts are temporary Equity accounts which record the changes in equity
during the current accounting period (usually a financial year).
You can rewrite this as Equity = Assets - L
Hi Ananda,
I have also been trying to connect to banks in Australia (CBA) but have had
no luck. Some years ago I received an email confirming that they had not
adopted/implemented the European online banking connection process (HBCI).
More recently emails to my bank asking about this have been to
Ananda,
The last post in this archive from Whirlpool forums mentions having created
a PHP script to download OFX files . I doubt he was using the HBCI interface
but was simply using the standard Netbank interface and supplying the data
needed to get the banks website to download the OFX files.
ht
John,
The simplest method would be to create a new file at the end of an
accounting period, export the chart of accounts and then reset the opening
balances to the closing balances in your old file. You would need to perform
any adjustments to the accounts depending on whether your accounting is
Hi Adrein,
I agree you would record the investment in a company as an asset. I don't
know about elsewhere in the world but when you start a sole owner private
company in Australia, you essentially become the only shareholder and the
value of the share is the paid up capital of the company and has
Hi Adrein,
I apologise if my comment appeared a bit flippant. The intention of my
comment about choosing any name was really that the actual name is less
important than the structural aspect of it being an asset account. The
general expectation would be that an investment in a business would
hopef
Hi Milan,
Have you looked at the Payables Ageing report and the Receivables Ageing
Report? You can click on the customer/Vendor to identify the company
involved and the amount to bring up a summary of the invoice involved. The
A/R and A/P accounts are really only meant to be used with the busines
Hi,
The most direct transaction to record this is:
Debit
Credit
Liability:DirectorsBusiness Expenses
Asset:LoansToDirector .
The most important thing is to ann
Hi Matt,
I have recently moved from having separate files ( at a time when my wife
had a business and our tax affairs were more complicated ) to now using a
single file (we are both retired and our tax affairs are now relatively
simple). I still need to keep track of somethings separately for tax
This is a bit off topic but for anyone with a historical interest in
accounting "Double Entry" by Jane Gleeson-White (Allen & Unwin 2011) is an
interesting read.
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Hi Michael,
This one takes accounting back to 7000BC and traces the major historical
developments from there forward to the GFC in 2010. It would appear that
writing may have developed from ancient accountants methods of keeping
counts of goods traded. The first cheques were written by Arab trader
Hi,
Gnucash is certainly capable of doing what you require. I use it to manage
separate accounts for my wife and myself and a joint accounst and separate
debit and credit cards. The first thing is to have you asset and liability
accounts match your actual bank accounts and ownership of them. You c
Hi
To my knowledge Gnucash does not have the ability to generate splits between
accounts for sharing expenses automatically. When you enter a transaction it
is usually in the register for the account you are drawing from. A default
account for the other split of the transaction is generally sugges
Hi Martijn,
Gnucash is capable of supporting both cash and accrual accounting. The
business features (accounts receivable and accounts payable) are explicitly
accrual accounting based however as they record the income at the time the
invoice is created normally on the date the service is rendered
Hi Marc,
Don has answered your first question fairly completely. Whether you treat
payments you have made on behalf of the company as a loan or a contribution
to equity really depends on your intention to pay back the amounts and the
timescale on which you intend to do it.
If it ASAP (e.g. you a
The gift card is clearly an asset. When you receive it it is income. In most
jurisdictions one would expect gift income to be not taxable however this
may not always be the case.
I generally have income streams that are both taxable and non-taxable so I
already have placeholder subaccounts of Inco
Hi Morris,
On Linux Mint 18.2 the help files are located in
/usr/share/docs/gnucash-docs. The display of the tutorial guide and manual
by Gnucash uses the gnome Yelp help browser. It may be this is not installed
in the raspberryPi Linux version.
http://archive.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs-museum/sna
Macho,
>From an accounting perspective, the interest charge is not incurred until
the original invoice is overdue past the agreed date and should be recorded
as such at that time, while the original sale is recorded at the date at
which it occurred.
On this basis, I think it would be most appropr
Hi Colin and John_Mike,
"Gnucash has no relationship with Nabble". This is not quite correct. As
well as replying to the mailing list emails from gnucash direct to your
email, the posts by email are also displayed in a Nabble version of the
Forum at http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-Us
Hi Colin and John_Mike,
I also just imported the Coa from Dropbox. Just save the coA to Dropbox
Again same procedure on Android 3 bars->Settings->
AccountPreferences->Import GnuCash XML When the OPEN FROM menu comes up
select the DropBox and then the file.
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Hi Derek,
Thanks for the clarification re Nabble. I am very grateful to Nabble for
taking the mailing list on as I find it much easier to follow threads on
Nabble. My reference to "relationship" was really only about the ability to
access the mailing list from Nabble and not with respect to its o
Greg, Mike,
I have no problem accessing the gnucash export files in Dropbox from my
Android phone as I indicated in an earlier post.
Dropbox has a daemon which you have to download and install on Linux to sync
with the server. There is usually a version available via the Software
manager on Linu
Robert,
Would the Credit Note facility not suit to record what essentially becomes a
reversal of part of an Invoice which would be included in the Customer
report? The discussion of the implementation is not all that clear in the
manual
(https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.6/C/gnucash-help/busnss-ar-i
Hi George,
How you record these items will depend a great deal on the exact nature of
the item and the nature of the future benefit you receive from them.
In the case of a pension the future value may be different from simply the
paid in value of the contributions. Depending on the nature of the
Dennis,
Doesn't a transaction report run on your checkbook account do that. You can
run it unfiltered or only select the transactions that go to another
specified account?
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