Re: [GNC] General Ledger amounts missing

2021-11-05 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 11/5/2021 11:22 AM, Sharon Sydnor wrote: Gyle, yes thank you I considered that and did set the correct start and end dates and also thought to look to the PREFERENCES of the entire program and there is a place there to also set the start and end dates and select if they are RELATIVE or ABSO

Re: [GNC] Double entry bookkeeping for purchases to be paid at later date

2021-11-07 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 11/7/2021 10:36 AM, Stan Brown wrote: On 2021-11-07 07:11, Sharon Sydnor wrote: I am only experienced in basic bookkeeping but irrespective of what type of payment you intend to make, you have bought something you intend to pay for later hence IT IS a LIABILITY -so your second account WILL

Re: [GNC] Report printing of annual transactions

2021-11-07 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
So how do I print a report that has every transaction for the yearly accounting period January 01 through December 31 of any given year by account number? If new to gnucash, I strongly suggest looking at all of the reports you think you might want/need. Not just by the names gnucash gives

Re: [GNC] Stock transaction research

2021-11-27 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
I have all the records, but not all are in or available in digital form, so I have been laboriously entering them in a spreadsheet. Would it be worthwhile to set up a new data file just for those stocks and import/hand enter them in Gnucash instead? (I suspect any IRS auditor would be more imp

Re: [GNC] Can one handle electricity?

2021-11-30 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 11/30/2021 5:17 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: I am still not a user. My accountant does not use it, but says as long as it can export cvs files, he is happy to. So I really have not excuse not to start using it - other than the burden of learning another piece of software. Besides exporting fi

Re: [GNC] clearing reconciled transactions

2021-12-02 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/2/2021 8:36 AM, Billie-Internet wrote: Good Morning, My question seems simple but I am probably not searching the right key words. Current gnucash 4.4 on windows 10. When reconciling the checkbook, sometimes I need to clear all the transactions that are checked and start over. To this po

Re: [GNC] read-only accounts

2021-12-03 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/3/2021 10:27 AM, Glenn Fowler wrote: Hi, What about just making the file read only with no write permission? On Fri, Dec 3, 2021 at 9:17 AM Mattia Rizzolo wrote: THAT is looking in the right direction. If you want to "freeze" the books as of a certain state make a copy of the file tha

Re: [GNC] Where would enter revenue that could be paid to shareholders?

2021-12-05 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/5/2021 7:19 AM, Michael Hendry wrote: On 5 Dec 2021, at 11:39, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: If a company can potentially pay out X pounds, but has not paid out any at all, where would that be entered in GnuCash? I assume its a liability, but should it be entered into liabilities, or perhaps r

Re: [GNC] Bitcoin is legal currency in El Salvador - why not

2021-12-08 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
Things change quite quickly in the crypto currency scene. 1) The Royal National Lifeboat Institute (RNLI) was the first major charity in the UK to accept donations by bitcoin https://rnli.org/support-us/give-money/bitcoin-donations 2) Newegg, which is a pretty large company, accepts bitcoin

Re: [GNC] An automated depreciation calculator would be really helpful.

2021-12-09 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/8/2021 7:50 PM, Gyle McCollam wrote: What I do is set up a placeholder account for the asset. I set up sub accounts for the actual asset purchase and another for the depreciation of the asset. You could then set up a scheduled transaction to record the depreciation each month, quarter,

Re: [GNC] Directors loan - do I need an expense account?

2021-12-09 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/9/2021 2:04 PM, Gyle McCollam wrote: If the loan is to the company, as stated in your original email, it is a liability of the company. Stan is incorrect, but if the company makes a loan TO the director, then it would be an asset of the company and he would be correct. I will repeat th

Re: [GNC] Bitcoin is legal currency in El Salvador - why notadd BTC?

2021-12-09 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/9/2021 4:20 PM, David G. Pickett via gnucash-user wrote: I would think you can treat it as a security and probably get quotes imported just like for stocks.  But I suppose that begs the question of how easily you could receive BTC or the like into one of your security accounts.  Does GNUC

Re: [GNC] Bitcoin is legal currency in El Salvador - why notadd BTC?

2021-12-10 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
Michael, it seems your concern with bringing in quotes is that Bitcoin is not sufficiently liquid or available for public trading? In a former life I traded Bitcoin and I can tell you ... NO ... I was NOT discussing the liquidity of "bitcoin". That should have bee clear enough but a

Re: [GNC] Directors loan - do I need an expense account?

2021-12-10 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/10/2021 10:18 AM, Gyle McCollam wrote: This is a lot different than your first explanation. Under these circumstances where you sold the company electronic equipment, it is indeed just an expense. On the company's books, it is the same as if the company had bought the equipment from any

Re: [GNC] Does anyone produce a "UK balance sheet" (FRS 102) ?

2021-12-11 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
Dr Kirby, I do not understand  what you are saying (about what gnucash does or not do) nor why you think the developers need to :do something"in order to produce a Balance Sheet  report. I strongly suspect that that your "problem" has more to do with how you choose to set up your CoA (your acc

Re: [GNC] Coloring the Action field

2021-12-16 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
It might perhaps be better to describe WHAT you want to accomplish instead of asking about possibilities for the first HOW that came to your mind. Why? Because there might be other "hows" even simpler. On 12/16/2021 2:25 AM, AC wrote: For example, I have a couple loans that are paid fixed am

Re: [GNC] Coloring the Action field

2021-12-16 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/16/2021 5:58 PM, David T. via gnucash-user wrote: I use something like Michael's approach with paychecks, but my simple workaround is that I enter the correct amount deposited to my checking account (that *is* what I'm most interested in!), using a previous pay transaction as the template

Re: [GNC] Coloring the Action field

2021-12-17 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/17/2021 1:06 AM, AC wrote: I DO NOT want to open yet another register every time I want to look for transactions that need to be updated. I prefer just to skim through the checking account register which has a variety of transactions both fully documented and some that are awaiting doc

Re: [GNC] Beginner Accounting Question Using GnuCash

2021-12-17 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/17/2021 6:48 AM, Patrick Skelton wrote: Hi, David, Thank you for that. I have actually just kind-of worked that bit out but I would like the £8 spent on paper to become an asset. Is it simply then a case of entering a transfer from Expenses-Stock Purchases to Assets - Stock on Hand? Kind

Re: [GNC] Beginner Accounting Question Using GnuCash

2021-12-17 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
You are doing things correctly. Your question " Is there a better way to do these transactions so that I could ask the question: how much have I spent on stock this month?" isn't about what accounts to have or how to enter the transactions (of your little example -- and BTW, that's a good way

Re: [GNC] Beginner Accounting Question Using GnuCash

2021-12-18 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/17/2021 6:44 PM, David H wrote: Hi David, Thanks, my bad I was thinking in terms of my personal Gnucash book not realising it was more appropriate to be thinking in terms of business books in Patrick's case. Lesson learned, glad I'm still learning after all this time :-) Not quite. It is

Re: [GNC] How to remove oldest transactions

2021-12-18 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/18/2021 1:40 PM, Gyle McCollam wrote: Yes, you can close the book and it will zero out income and expense accounts, but it does not remove any transactions and it will not reduce the size of the file. In fact, since it creates entries in all the expense and income accounts, the file wil

Re: [GNC] How to remove oldest transactions

2021-12-18 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/18/2021 3:16 PM, D. wrote: Thank you Michael for stepping in. You've summarized the process to which I was alluding. I'll note that deleting old transactions using a keyboard shortcut is going to throw the balances off for every account that the deleted transactions touched, so you'll e

Re: [GNC] (no subject)

2021-12-19 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/19/2021 2:11 AM, Jesse MacDougall wrote: I am trying to add a "label"(not sure if that is the right word) on Income Statement "Cost of Goods Sold" and put accounts under COGS. Like there is with "Total Revenue". What is happening is COGS is a parent account with sub accounts but I want to

Re: [GNC] 4.9 on Ubuntu 20.04 not saving preferences

2021-12-20 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
And it goes without saying. after identifying the names of the files, check the permissions. This symptom (not saving changes) could be not having write access. Long time ago when I was first using gnucash, I had the problem of not being able to save user preferences and that's what it turned o

Re: [GNC] Tracking capital gains, commissions and the Trial Balance report

2021-12-21 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/20/2021 9:34 PM, Daniel Torstenson wrote: Hi, I've been looking into tracking my capital gains and commissions for a brokerage account, and I'm running into an issue that I see others have run into. Namely, I'd like to account for my commissions and also keep track of my capital gains, as

Re: [GNC] Another Beginner Accounting Question

2021-12-22 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/22/2021 6:20 AM, Patrick Skelton wrote: Just when I was thinking I had accumulated all the pieces of the jigsaw I need, I discovered the A/R account. I have a shop that charges 50% margin on whatever they sell. So, if they sell one candle for £12 then I will invoice them only for £6. They

Re: [GNC] Real Estate property-segregated costs tracking

2021-12-28 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/27/2021 10:26 PM, Juan F. Saa wrote: Does anyone use GnuCash to keep track of wholesaling/flipping of Real Estate properties? In Quickbooks this is done by entering each property as a 'class', as described here That's an "add on" to standard double entry bookkeeping. Standard double ent

Re: [GNC] difficulties with managing accounts with lots of split transactions

2021-12-28 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/28/2021 5:39 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: Personally I use #2 as Transaction Journal & Double Line mode 24/7. The always visible detail doesn't bother me and I generally like to have it instantly available without having to change modes, but I understand mileage varies. Regards, Adrien

Re: [GNC] how to find where to move file

2022-01-03 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/2/2022 10:35 PM, Chuck wrote: Hi: guess I am just thick OK, so I am 89 years young so maybe the wiki I looked in is wrong? Finding the place in my updated version of Linux Ubuntu is my problem, Help would be appreciated. Chuck I'll tell you the "trick" I use when going to a new syste

Re: [GNC] Closing Books - Pros & Cons

2022-01-03 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
First of all, it won't result in "inaccuracies" as long as you understand the effective dates of reports relative to closing.. Pro --- traditional process, as you said, makes the balances of the temporary accounts (income , expense) related to the current period. A closed set of books is easie

Re: [GNC] Cash Basis Accounting

2022-01-06 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/6/2022 3:02 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Thu, 6 Jan 2022, R. Victor Klassen wrote: The only problem being if you want to send the invoice to your customer, it says “invoice in progress”. Since I don't use GC to prepare client invoices it's not an issue for me. I use LaTeX for invoices.

Re: [GNC] Cash Basis Accounting

2022-01-07 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
Michael, I have a sole professional services consulting practice, B2B, with clients. No product sales. My approach to cash accounting has worked for me for more than two decades; it might not work as well for others. Regards, Rich I understood what you were doing worked for you. I was

Re: [GNC] Period Ends

2022-01-08 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/7/2022 12:21 PM, Jesse MacDougall wrote: Thanks for clarifying that Gyle. Interesting. Yes definitely never post to past periods. Move forward. You can prevent, or at least detect violations of this by making a year end copy of the file to read only medium (well, write once medium). I us

Re: [GNC] Bill - Book Item lines to different Customers.

2022-01-09 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/9/2022 6:56 PM, Allan Belcher wrote: Is it possible to allocate individual line items in a bill to different customers? Regards, Allan You might perhaps begin by describing what you are trying to do from a business perspective. In other words, at least to me it is totally unclear wha

Re: [GNC] Bill - Book Item lines to different Customers.

2022-01-10 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/10/2022 1:49 AM, Allan Belcher wrote: OK actual reason. Horse Agistment business. The farrier comes and reshoes 3 horses, each belonging to a different person. The farrier gives me 1 bill for the complete job. When I enter the bill I want to be able to enter 3 lines, each for "reshoing

Re: [GNC] Bill - Book Item lines to different Customers.

2022-01-10 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
Exactly.. So you don't know how the features work. And that might actually be an advantage GnuCash has a chargeback feature that allows you to select items from a vendor bill and automatically charge them back to a customer. Selected line-items from the bill to auto-populate into the invoi

Re: [GNC] Lodging a cheque to an a/c - 'cash in wallet'??

2022-01-17 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/17/2022 12:19 PM, R. Victor Klassen wrote: I generally use a two step process. First the cheque goes into “undeposited cheques”. And the appropriate income account is credited. Then when I make a deposit I may be depositing cash and multiply cheques in a single transaction with the ban

Re: [GNC] Accounting Question re Balance Sheet

2022-01-20 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/20/2022 2:55 PM, p...@kroitor.ca wrote: This isn't really a GnuCash question, but I thought I might ask you guys anyway as there's a broad variety of skills and experience here. Situation: a relative owns a house on a six acre property, plus several adjacent properties she's collected

Re: [GNC] Split transaction

2022-01-22 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/22/2022 9:05 AM, David Carlson wrote: Heidi, One day last month you went to the grocery store and bought $200.00 worth of groceries, paying for them with your credit card. Another day you went to the furniture store and bought two chairs, paying with your credit card. Those two separate t

Re: [GNC] Accounting Question re Balance Sheet

2022-01-25 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/25/2022 2:14 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: If your needs aren't that complicated, there is nothing wrong with contra-accounts however. Accountants use them fairly regularly. That's because accountants think in terms of debits and credits. All a "contra account" is is an account where the

Re: [GNC] Canadian Mortgage

2022-01-31 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/30/2022 9:40 PM, Al Maloney wrote: Victor Thanks. What you say about formulae and bank practice makes sense to me. Your advice says to me: "Don't sweat the small stuff". Al Maloney Velox Versutus Vigilans Speaking as somebody who has written software to produce mortgage amortization tab

Re: [GNC] Don't get this at all

2022-02-01 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 2/1/2022 2:46 AM, Don Robertson wrote: Well, I guess it isn't for me. I think computers should save people time. If I need to open my bank page in my browser and copy the transactions manually into Gnucash  and make a bill, post it, and pay it  for every packet of paperclips doesn't wor

Re: [GNC] Managing multiple vehicles

2022-02-03 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
I've read that using other softwares one can benefit from "category" to better filter the information you want and create reports, I've tried using the description field for that using a simple structure like Expenses:Gas and placing the vehicle details as description but it just doesn't work,

Re: [GNC] Canadian Mortgage

2022-02-03 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 2/3/2022 2:51 PM, David G. Pickett via gnucash-user wrote: .. My last code change at Bank of America was to add a very tiny bit to balance transfer fees so that cent was not lost, not to satisfy the bank, but to satisfy testers validating a huge software update. LOL and among othe

Re: [GNC] Managing multiple vehicles

2022-02-04 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
It's not so much filtering, more grouping of cost components by say Tractor using your example. I use quickbooks classes to do exactly that on the farm. It's an essential management feature described in https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113772#c6 but it's not offered in GnuCash and the w

Re: [GNC] Managing multiple vehicles

2022-02-06 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
Actually I just stumbled on another problem, maybe you could clear something for me? >From what I can tell, I'll place COGS of a certain fixed asset that were payed in cash under expenses on GnuCash, like "expenses:cow feed" for example. And these expenses would constitute a transaction liste

Re: [GNC] cannot open data file

2022-02-13 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 2/13/2022 10:12 AM, suk wah Bernstein wrote: thanks for help. You didn't bother to tell us your OS (makes a difference on how you find lost files) This isn't really a gnucash question but more of a "I think I know the name and/or extension of a file but can't find it" (don't know the full

Re: [GNC] Company name on a receipt and Balance Sheet

2022-02-15 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 2/15/2022 9:34 AM, Ian D Henry wrote: When I use the Balance Sheet in Assets and Liabilities tab or Receipt under the Business tab, the name of the business is not shown. I want the receipt to show who received the money. I can't find anything in chapter 9 of the manual to help me. I would

Re: [GNC] mortgage calculator

2022-02-19 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 2/18/2022 2:42 PM, Alan Schold via gnucash-user wrote: Is there a way to get the mortgage repayment module to account for regular extra monthly payments? Now the calculations proceed as if I'm just paying the basic mortgage amount, and I have to recalculate the principal balance each month.

Re: [GNC] Automatic sales tax

2022-02-20 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 2/20/2022 4:33 PM, Don Robertson wrote: Seems most other software will do this - Xero, MYOB etc. For open source fans, Kmymoney seems pretty good. And before you start mailing me personally, if you don't want to hear what people think of your software, perhaps you should consider removing

Re: [GNC] Automatic sales tax

2022-02-21 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 2/20/2022 7:58 PM, David Carlson wrote: Here in Illinois it varies by county, city, merchandise category, service category, seller category and sometimes by such arcane variables as library district (well, that last one may be a slight exaggeration). And not only is it that complex, but th

Re: [GNC] Automatic sales tax << slightly off topic (but mail related) >>

2022-02-21 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 2/21/2022 1:09 PM, Stephen M. Butler wrote: Here in Washington state the state does post an address file to assigns rate codes by address.  In at least one case two houses with the same zip+4 are in different location codes.  Most web hosts POS systems can only go down to the zip code level

Re: [GNC] (no subject)

2022-02-22 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 2/22/2022 1:31 PM, Steve Butler wrote: Please plan a compressive backup strategy for your entire system. Include email, Libre Office documents, other misc files and not just GnuCash. That way it won't matter where files are "hidden" as you will have a complete backup strategy that isn't spec

Re: [GNC] GnuCash multi-user request

2022-02-23 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 2/23/2022 3:48 AM, Andreas van Rensburg wrote: Hi - is it possible to have multi-user access to a file and how does one set this up? Regards Andreas Multiple SEQUENTIAL users is supported (if they all have access to a shared data location where the gnucash data file is stored. Multiple

Re: [GNC] Automatic sales tax

2022-02-28 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 2/28/2022 2:50 AM, Sebastian Naumann wrote: Hi John, sorry, but I tend to disagree with your statement that "[...] most states consider the location of the seller to be the nexus...". Actually the second part of the statement is correct: Most states are destination based, meaning the locat

Re: [GNC] Automatic sales tax

2022-02-28 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
It's incredibly complex. And Australians have all been led to believe that we have the most complex tax system on the planet. Liz The reason is that here in the US sales tax is not national. The US is a federation of states and commonwealths. You would not be surprised if 50 countries had

Re: [GNC] Close books or start over?

2022-03-01 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/1/2022 5:14 PM, Leo Bolta via gnucash-user wrote: Hello, I moved from my home country about 4 months ago and did keep track of expenses from the day that I left. Would now like to start tracking again using the program but wondering what would be the most practical way to begin again. If

Re: [GNC] Keeping tenant accounts on Gnucash - periodic 'rent owing' ?

2022-03-04 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/4/2022 4:46 PM, arthur brogard via gnucash-user wrote: We intend to start using gnucash to keep an account of our rental property. This is our first for everything: having a rental, keeping accounts, using gnucash. We can open an account for the property and enter all amounts received as we

Re: [GNC] accounts receivable for rent..

2022-03-05 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/5/2022 4:03 AM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: On 3/5/22 12:50 AM, arthur brogard via gnucash-user wrote: We have only one property.  Only one tenant.  Simplest possible case I guess. I'm thinking I must: . Create an 'accounts receivable'  account.That would be an income account I guess.  'Othe

Re: [GNC] reports

2022-03-06 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/5/2022 9:29 PM, Charles Simcox wrote: What report & how do I use reports o generate a report by selecting specific accounts & some of their daughters not necessarily he whole account? Possibly confused about the process. In gnucash, you don't PRE select the options you want for the report

Re: [GNC] reports

2022-03-07 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/6/2022 9:03 PM, Chuck wrote: Hi: Thanks for all the help, hints & so on. What do you think is the best option to generate a custom report? Chuck It depends. Consider that I was a pro (and though not fluent in LISP, can read most anything -- SCHEME is a LISP dialect). But even so, when I

Re: [GNC] IRA/401K income detection

2022-03-10 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/10/2022 2:15 PM, Stan Brown wrote: If you make out a check to "cash" and cash it at the bank, is that income? No, of course not. Your net worth is the same before and after cashing that check. The same is true of making a withdrawal from your IRA. Despite the fact that the tax laws treat i

Re: [GNC] IRA/401K income detection

2022-03-14 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/13/2022 10:28 PM, David G. Pickett via gnucash-user wrote: I understand that one characteristic/weakness of the double entry system is that you cannot tag a transfer with an income or expense account.  Still, accounting programs help prepare 1099R's, so there must be a way.  Keeping defer

Re: [GNC] IRA/401K income detection

2022-03-16 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/16/2022 10:48 AM, David G. Pickett via gnucash-user wrote: OK, not anything like an accountant, so my books have just asset, liability, income, expense.  Equity might be a better place for the IRA/401K, since it is an asset with a varying value and an attached tax liability TBD.  So, how

Re: [GNC] IRA/401K income detection

2022-03-16 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/16/2022 6:09 PM, D. via gnucash-user wrote: Adrien, Overall, I think you're right, but I believe the tax features you're referring to are used to calculate taxes for a business? The issue with deferred income-- and this has been true for as long as I can remember-- is that when Joe Retire

Re: [GNC] IRA/401K income detection

2022-03-16 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/16/2022 7:03 PM, Gyle McCollam wrote: Michael has the right approach. Recording this when taking income involves 4 account. However, don't forget that if it is coming from a Roth IRA there is no tax. 401K and Traditional IRA will involve a tax liability, but that is a whole other anima

Re: [GNC] IRA/401K income detection

2022-03-17 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/16/2022 8:49 PM, D. wrote: Michael, I think I get what you're saying. In my own case, I've taken to separating the pretax streams into their own income accounts, which seemingly addresses some of your points. But one of the big selling points of IRA/401Ks is that they earn money tax de

Re: [GNC] IRA/401K income detection

2022-03-17 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/17/2022 4:41 PM, David G. Pickett via gnucash-user wrote: Lots of fun interest here!  Not exactly looking for accounting advice, except how to properly encode this well understood activity so it generates a tax report item. Can we devise a GNUCash programatic enhancement of the double

Re: [GNC] Report - Income Statement - Layout problem

2022-03-17 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/17/2022 5:49 PM, Carl-Kensaku HERBORT wrote: Dear everyone, Thank you all for being here to help new users like me. I am having problems with the "income statement" report ("compte de resultat" in french). The columns of the revenue part and the columns of the expense part are not aligne

Re: [GNC] Report - Income Statement - Layout problem

2022-03-18 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
B. WIDTH AND COLUMNS ALIGNMENT Maybe I didn't use the right words: I don't care about things being pretty (color, lines, etc). The report is messed up in its basic structure. Maybe showing you is better. I don't know if I can send a picture as attachment on the mailing list. I will try sen

Re: [GNC] Account not showing in Income Statement

2022-03-19 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/19/2022 6:08 PM, Sean Perlmutter wrote: Hi Gnu people, I’m having a weird issue. Am preparing my Income Statement and have a certain expense account highlighted to be included, but it’s not showing up. I have tried unhighlighting, applying, then highlighting and applying again, to no ava

Re: [GNC] Report - Income Statement - Layout problem

2022-03-20 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/20/2022 5:21 AM, Carl-Kensaku HERBORT wrote: Hello again, I have tried a more recent version on MacOS (Version 4.9 / build ID 4.9+(2021-12-18) / Finance::Quote:-). It solves the first problem of string translation. But the second problem is still there: the width and column alignment o

Re: [GNC] Report - Income Statement - Layout problem

2022-03-20 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/20/2022 12:51 PM, Carl-Kensaku HERBORT wrote: Hello, The effective nesting level is the same. No, I don't need an option to justify columns. I just need the income statement report to look as normal as the balance sheet report (see screen capture). I really don't need anything more. Hav

Re: [GNC] Have you abandoned gnuCash email list? U were so helpful!

2022-03-21 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/21/2022 2:58 PM, Fran_3 via gnucash-user wrote: even though I wish it could also generate reports on a cash basis... as opposed to an accrual basis... but I can get there by exporting select gnuCash accounts and Transaction Reports to cvs files and then loading them into Google Sheets

Re: [GNC] GNC] Question about Assemblies

2022-03-22 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/22/2022 9:46 AM, davidvernonl...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Derek, I meant that a half decent accounting system which has an inventory system would have those features, and am sorry if my statement was misunderstood. I use GnuCash to maintain a set of accounts for a boat club with nearly 100 mem

Re: [GNC] Report - Income Statement - Layout problem

2022-03-23 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/23/2022 9:48 AM, Carl-Kensaku HERBORT wrote: I already have to use two separate software: an ERP/CRM for invoicing and daily accounting and GnuCash for heavier monthly/yearly accounting, mainly to produce the Income Statement Report and Balance Sheet report (or so was my plan). I didn't k

Re: [GNC] How To Account For Mortgages With Redraw Amounts?

2022-03-28 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/28/2022 4:26 PM, arthur brogard via gnucash-user wrote: That's brilliant, David.  Thank you. I'll get to it, see how I go.  Main  hassle might be undoing what I've already done. Perhaps we can make copies of a set of books and play with the copy until satisfied? regards, d Absolutely -

Re: [GNC] Some questions about reports

2022-04-06 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 4/6/2022 8:15 AM, Chris Green wrote: Since I was producing reports for a number of non-profits I will break your several questions apart. I will be mainly describing solution sin terms of how I did it, not necessarily all remaining within gnucash. But since ONE of your questions is specific

Re: [GNC] Some questions about reports

2022-04-06 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
OK, yes, it was what I was thinking of doing - that is simply concatenating the two reports (in HTML) with appropriate editing to turn them into a single HTML document. I can do this OK (though I don't really like editing raw HTML). My only question then is what report do I need for the bank

Re: [GNC] Import overwrites transaction description

2022-04-09 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 4/6/2022 3:53 PM, Ed Reeder wrote: Example: I have previously entered a check into gnucash: Num=205, Description=Smith Plumbing, Withdrawal=100.00 My bank's OFX transaction has: CHECK -100.00 205 CHECK # 205 When I import the OFX file and and match its transaction with the

Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions feature or bug?

2022-04-12 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 4/12/2022 10:55 AM, Dale Alspach wrote: I had a scheduled transfer to savings that I disabled for a few months. When I re-enabled the scheduled transfer I did not change the start date. I was very surprised to find that when it ran that it entered transactions for all of the months when it was

Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions feature or bug?

2022-04-12 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 4/12/2022 3:07 PM, Dale Alspach wrote: Unless one lives in a science fiction world with time travel available one does not normally *schedule* something to occur in the past. :) If this is kept as a feature then perhaps the name should be changed to "automatic transaction creation tool". Da

Re: [GNC] Unusual book need

2022-04-15 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 4/15/2022 5:00 AM, Jeff wrote: I need to move transactions from from one set of books to another one. I didn't realize while entering transactions in my dads books that they should have gone into mine.  My dad opened a bank account that I did not know about until I started entering charges

Re: [GNC] Unusual book need

2022-04-16 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 4/16/2022 1:32 AM, Jeff wrote: David, I like your approach the best. Even though the transactions are in a joint account between my son and father, I am legally responsible for my sons activities.  And all of the transactions apply to my farm, not Dads. Again, I am asking you to be speci

Re: [GNC] File browser file type filter and bookmarks

2022-04-21 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
Just because you can do something doesn't mean that you should. In this discussion I saw reference to the possibility of having two sets of books open at the same time and how much easier that would make it when a transaction spans the books There is a down side to that convenience you should

Re: [GNC] Question about transfers

2022-04-22 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 4/22/2022 6:24 PM, Brad wrote: ...but I need an even number of entries to follow double-entry accounting rules. Two entries to transfer the funds from one account to another, and then one to show the funds going to the property tax expense. Oh, and I guess two more when I write the check

Re: [GNC] Question about transfers

2022-04-23 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 4/22/2022 11:35 PM, john wrote: Quicken isn't really an accounting app. Intuit's offering in that space is Quickbooks. That means that how you used Quicken isn't directly transferable to GnuCash. If being able to use a Free Software alternative to Quicken the same way you use Quicken is imp

Re: [GNC] Whole life insurance

2022-04-23 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
Not just "whole life" but any "cash value" policy. The point here is that such insurance contracts have both a pure insurance component and an investment component and may have associated "rights" which also can be thought of as having value (that might also be true of term insurance, no cash

Re: [GNC] Whole life insurance

2022-04-24 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
An exception to the previous (one where you WOULD be able to separate out the "cost of the insurance component"). Split dollar life insurance. This is something an employer might include in the compensation package. Especially as serves as an incentive for the employee to stay at least until

Re: [GNC] Whole life insurance

2022-04-24 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
However, I still have no idea how to do the future death benefit. It is not an asset of mine. It might be an asset of my wife (if I die first). The death benefit is not an asset of anybody (yet). And yes, it could result in an asset in YOUR books. Sorry, but death is no excuse for not payi

Re: [GNC] Why does an Equity account have to be of Currency type?

2022-04-25 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
But question is more general.  Let's say I join Robinson Crusoe on a remote island and we decide our economy will be denominated in silver coins (of which I had 12 in my pocket when I washed ashore on his island).  If I were to do my accounting in GnuCash I would need to start with an Opening B

Re: [GNC] How to manage multiple accounts (as in separate gnucash databases)?

2022-04-26 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 4/26/2022 11:25 AM, Chris Green wrote: I have several gnucash accounts files (sqlite databases in my case) spread around my system. When I go to a specific directory and run GnuCash I just want it to see only the database[s] in that directory. Is there a way I can tell gnucash to forget abou

Re: [GNC] How to manage multiple accounts (as in separate gnucash databases)?

2022-04-27 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
My ideal would be for GnuCash to look for account files in the current directory, if there is only one then open that one, if there are more then offer me a list to choose from. Are you serious? Assume this was a different application, say a "word processor". You are saying that when you s

Re: [GNC] How to manage multiple accounts (as in separate gnucash databases)?

2022-04-27 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
I have lots of other information associated with the GnuCash data which I keep in the same directory. E.g. there are copies of cheques deposited and GiftAid records. So my way of working is to go (in a terminal window) to that directory and then run programs as needed from there. That is not

Re: [GNC] N00b accounting q: opening balances

2022-04-30 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 4/30/2022 10:32 AM, John Edward Hynes wrote Hi list,I’m very new to accounting and gnucash.  In setting up a hypothetical business, I have a question about opening balances:I entered $1000 in the equity opening balances account, transfer to current assets checking.  I als

Re: [GNC] file storage location

2020-06-15 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 6/15/2020 11:07 AM, Jamie Tolbert wrote: new user here, seems like all the files are in my document storage folder, I'd like to move them to their own separate folder, is that possible? In a way, that you say you have this problem, implies that you are not yet comfortable with using your

Re: [GNC] Bulk moving transactions

2020-07-01 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 6/30/2020 4:46 PM, V. Vatsal via gnucash-user wrote: Hello, I am running GnuCash on Mac. Somehow a month’s worth of credit card transactions ended up in the top level Bank Accounts account. Is there some quick way to move or edit them to the appropriate credit card account? It’s not possib

Re: [GNC] Bulk moving transactions

2020-07-01 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 7/1/2020 12:07 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: I’ve twice now seen the advice to delete the account as a bulk move operation. Yes, that does work. However, this appears to be a parent account. Can a parent account be safely deleted without affecting the sub accounts? I guess I could try, just

Re: [GNC] Register entry method. was: Bulk moving transactions

2020-07-01 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 7/1/2020 5:24 PM, David Carlson wrote: Maybe I don't know the correct terminology. I envision the currently selected transaction automatically appearing in a data entry window instead of in the register. What do you see when you are entering a "split" transaction? That is a "view" you are

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