Re: [GNC] How to code merchant refunds

2021-03-24 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/24/2021 10:48 AM, Mike via gnucash-user wrote: So you suggest I go to the original entry and reduce the amount spent by the amount refunded? Mike No, well not if you want to keep books properly. a) You should enter a transaction to record this. Normally, when you incur an expense, was

Re: [GNC] asset discrepancy in change of year

2021-03-27 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
That could be interesting for 2021 since I bought quite a few USD to invest in a mutual fund but for 2020 there are just 2 currency conversion and nothing large enough to "hide" a profit of 22.8 EUR.  In 2020 I only bought funds in EUR and not sold anything. No sale, nothing to record, ri

Re: [GNC] Income not appearing in P&L report

2021-03-30 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
I get reimbursed  a certain amount of electricity costs each month, as a separate transaction in to my bank a/c. I enter them as income:reimbursement in the gnucash transaction. However, nothing appears in my P&L report under 'reimbursement' but if I click on the headline in the report they

Re: [GNC] Confused Entering A Refund To Credit Card Account

2021-03-30 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/30/2021 4:06 PM, Jack Frillman via gnucash-user wrote: I tried adding the minus sign and I still got the Unbalanced-USD thing but that doesn't I was doing it correctly. Entering these split transactions had been the biggest issue I have encountered switching to GNUCash. Amounts ending u

Re: [GNC] Confused Entering A Refund To Credit Card Account

2021-03-30 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
I'm going to break into bits as there are several things here What's confusing me is that I was not forgetting to add any transactions in the split. GNUCash kept doubling the amount of the total and subtracting all my split transactions from that doubled total it invented and adding the diffe

Re: [GNC] Confused Entering A Refund To Credit Card Account

2021-03-31 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
I buy a pair of socks for $5 and a hammer for $10 and sales tax of $0.24 for a total $15.24. There's a split transaction that comprises of three items: Socks  $5.00  makes an enter into the clothing account <- that's what I call split 1 Hammer $10.00 makes an entry into the tools account

Re: [GNC] Income not appearing in P&L report

2021-03-31 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/31/2021 3:45 AM, Mahon Finbar wrote: Thanks both. Thanks for the 'accounting' way of doing it and I will try some of the proposals. My case is a little bit different; just to clarify - I pay a fixed amount per month, as many utilities suppliers offer, but, my supplier cannot (yet) hand

Re: [GNC] Income not appearing in P&L report

2021-03-31 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
PS --- This is another situation where I will help with what are essentially accounting questions as opposed to gnucash questions. I have before said that I will help non-profits. I want to add to that, I will help with "elder specific"  issues. Not that the person being helped an accounting p

Re: [GNC] Confused Entering A Refund To Credit Card Account

2021-03-31 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
So many are responding to this "accounting for sales tax" question as if it were unreasonable to want to know what was spent on sales tax. a) The taxes imposed are part of the expense of whatever. TRUE, and that is how I would do it regardless of needing to know what was sales tax. b) BUT ---

Re: [GNC] Tax deferred account transfers suggestion

2021-04-02 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 4/2/2021 2:44 PM, David G. Pickett via gnucash-user wrote: It'd be nice if the transfers from tax deferred accounts (401k, IRA) to not tax deferred showed as taxable income on the tax report.  Reverse transfers might also be listed as tax deductions. It would help you to understand the iss

Re: [GNC] Frustration

2021-04-05 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 4/4/2021 9:05 PM, David H wrote: AM going to continue to add to the historical accounts and use the reports for the annual tax returns, seems like the easiest option. My other question was again what I thought should be a simple solution. Saving data, I have attempted multiple

Re: [GNC] Frustration (recently used files)

2021-04-05 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 4/5/2021 1:03 PM, D. via gnucash-user wrote: Stan, I'm going to wager that Andrew is on a Mac, because he said that when he clicked one account, another opened. This strongly implies the oddity that Mac users cannot double click on a GnuCash file in Finder and have that file open. It will

Re: [GNC] Tax deferred account transfers suggestion

2021-04-06 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 4/5/2021 8:57 PM, David Carlson wrote: David P, What verb would you use to declare that transactions in or out of a particular account should appear in a tax report as part of the total that should appear, for example, on a certain line on form 1099-R from a certain custodian. The tax schedule

Re: [GNC] Hand-over on Succession or Short Term Absence

2021-04-09 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 4/9/2021 8:34 AM, D. via gnucash-user wrote: I'll jump in just to say Computers do not know who owns them. That means that what you need to do to transfer to another person's computer is in no way different from transferring to another computer that you yourself own.  So this is NOT a dif

Re: [GNC] program won't load account file

2021-04-11 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 4/11/2021 3:04 PM, Tom Murphy wrote: After a recent Windows update when I open Gnucash I get an error message that reads "No suitable background data was found for (my file name.gnucash). I upgraded to version 4.5 but still couldn't load the file. What could be the problem? Tom Murphy

Re: [GNC] Book setup

2021-04-12 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 4/12/2021 1:37 AM, Rogier F. van Vlissingen wrote: I am having to setup the books for a corporation, starting 2020 in GnuCash. I have used it years ago, but now I am having a challenge. Specifically, this is about the opening balances on 1/1/20, carried over from the final books as of 12/31/1

Re: [GNC] Inserting the Beginning Balances of Accounts in Gnucash

2021-04-22 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 4/22/2021 2:30 PM, Jose A. Lorido III wrote: Hi Derek, Thanks for your advice, however, I'm still not sure what to do with the balances I had on 12/31/2020 in my Equity Accounts (Additional-Paid-In-Capital, Opening Balances, and Retained Earnings accounts) and how to add them to the beginning

Re: [GNC] Thinking about Moving to MacOS from Win 10

2021-04-27 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 4/26/2021 12:44 PM, Jack Frillman via gnucash-user wrote: Just copy the main data file. I copy it from my iMac to my Linux laptop for a backup and to a Windows 10  laptop for a backup to my Linux laptop. Any reports you create will require copying a different file though. Just a suggestio

Re: [GNC] Separate file for each financial year vs single file

2021-04-30 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 4/30/2021 12:52 AM, Pankaj Jangid wrote: I have observed that as the file grows in size, GnuCash becomes slightly slow. That is obvious because it take more processing to load and search through data when size is more. I have a small business. But in future, I likely to have more transactions

Re: [GNC] Two versions, same computer

2023-03-22 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
Perhaps I expressed myself badly. I had to decide between two options, yes, but you put them both in your item 1. Since nobody was confident enough in 1(a) to advocate it, I followed David's advice and did 1(b). I have been keeping out of this because anybody experienced enough to put progra

Re: [GNC] Two versions, same computer

2023-03-23 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/22/2023 4:56 PM, R Losey wrote: It may not just be a matter of separate directories... an install program may put things (like DLLs for MS Windows) in some common directories. This is not the place for this sort of techie stuff except to point out that this sort of expertise/experience i

Re: [GNC] Modify Balance Sheet report in 4.13?

2023-03-23 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/23/2023 7:01 PM, Stan Brown wrote: I'm setting up a local nonprofit with GnuCash books. It's a bare-bones organization, with no liabilities. When I run a Balance Sheet report in 4.13, there's a final line, "Total for Liability and Equity". Of course that's appropriate in most cases, but in

Re: [GNC] Site certificate expiry warning

2023-03-24 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/24/2023 7:16 AM, Michael Hendry wrote: I’ve been promoting GnuCash to incoming Rotary Club Treasurers, and I’ve just been informed that www.gnucash.org is being flagged up as dangerous because its site certificate expired recently. I can get through by overriding the warnings, but I don’t

Re: [GNC] Modify Balance Sheet report in 4.13?

2023-03-24 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/23/2023 7:01 PM, Stan Brown wrote: I'm setting up a local nonprofit with GnuCash books. It's a bare-bones organization, with no liabilities. When I run a Balance Sheet report in 4.13, there's a final line, "Total for Liability and Equity". Of course that's appropriate in most cases, but in

Re: [GNC] Site certificate expiry warning

2023-03-24 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/24/2023 9:30 AM, Simon Roberts wrote: On this, I would disagree. The certificate verifies that the *connection* has not been usurped by a "man in the middle" attack, and thereby that the target site is the one you believe it to be. The certificate says absolutely nothing about the quality

Re: [GNC] Reporting Woes - Newbie incompetence

2023-03-24 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
The end of the UK Tax Year approaches and I am thinking about my tax return. When I used Quicken there was a report that listed every transcation in particular accounts which was useful since not all my accounts are related to the Return. I had been hoping to do the same in GNU but I don't see

Re: [GNC] Error in "Close Book" help text

2023-03-24 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/24/2023 5:48 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: When you first click 'New' or 'File a Bug', you get the option to select Documentation. (see screenshot) I'm not sure if you can move it after filing, but if not, one of the devs can do that for you. Care should be used in defining this bug. The

Re: [GNC] Error in "Close Book" help text

2023-03-25 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/25/2023 4:28 AM, David T. wrote: Michael, As a past documentation contributor, I'd assume any person taking up this bug would attempt to document the functionality of the newly added feature, regardless of the initial bug request. David T. What I meant is that it is easy for those ine

Re: [GNC] Modify Balance Sheet report in 4.13?

2023-03-26 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/26/2023 11:35 AM, Stan Brown wrote: Thanks for this, Adrien. As I look further into it, there are some other changes I'll need to make too, so I think exporting to Excel and then editing the HTML may be easier overall. Keeping books for organizations I was always exporting and editing. Kee

Re: [GNC] Exporting reports to spreadsheet

2023-03-29 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
When I Export a report I've been supplying a windows extension of ".ods". Which I assumed would cause that exported report file to open in some OpenDocumentSpreadsheet application, in my case: LibreOffice Calc. But it doesn't do that. I double-click the file to open it in the default applic

Re: [GNC] Exporting reports to spreadsheet

2023-03-29 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On Mar 29, 2023, at 3:03 PM, George Riner wrote: Yeah... isn't that curious? Gnucash writes out HTML regardless of any windows filename extension you supply. But if the filename I supply ends with the extension ".xlsx" then surprise! - it opens in LibreOffice Calc with an opening dialog bo

Re: [GNC] Site certificate expiry warning

2023-03-30 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
"Here are the criteria for a URL to rate as good in page experience status in Google Search:: - *Failed:* The URL is served using HTTP, not HTTPS. So it seems to me that the argument that a website does not collect personal information, so does not need HTTPS, is flawed. You can argue the tec

Re: [GNC] Edit problem

2023-04-03 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 4/3/2023 8:11 AM, Fred Tydeman wrote: I change the USD trading split to 53.49 and click on Enter and it reverts back to 53.25 I  know what I would do if faced with the problem of trying to keep multiple currencies in one set of books and every now and then having small out of balances resul

Re: [GNC] Company plan for stocks and stock options

2023-04-07 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 4/5/2023 9:01 AM, Wolfgang Paul Rauchholz wrote: Hi Stan / Murugan all, Thanks for picking up and providing your insight. That was very helpful. I would assume that options and stocks I have not exercised yet cannot get managed in gnucash? Only when exercising options into stocks or selling s

Re: [GNC] How to run Year End Procedures for the Tax Year (UK end 5 April 2023), and start new Data set for the New Tax Year starting 6 April 2023

2023-04-07 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 4/7/2023 10:58 AM, Gyle McCollam wrote: 1st , you should run your yearend reports before you "Close" and if you need to rerun at some future point, you could just delete the "closing" entries and rerun any reports then reclose after. As for not closing, when you run reports for the next fis

Re: [GNC] How to run Year End Procedures for the Tax Year (UK end 5 April 2023), and start new Data set for the New Tax Year starting 6 April 2023

2023-04-07 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
That's certainly possible, and I agree it's much better than undoing things. But there's a very large caveat: When you open GnuCash, it opens the file you were working on most recently. So you need to be very sure that you have opened the file you intended to, after you have finished whatever

Re: [GNC] Calculating IRR of an investment account

2023-04-08 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 4/8/2023 10:27 AM, Stan Brown wrote: Thunderbird autosaves drafts, and they do not disappear automatically from the Drafts folder after you send the message. You have to delete them manually. (It's bad design, I agree, because it leads to confusion. But there it is: we get what we pay for.)

Re: [GNC] How to import PayPal transactions in to GC

2023-04-10 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On match transactions I then get a lot of errors about new, unbalanced need acct to transfer. Example: Date 6/4/2023 Amount 2.34 Description: Sale 001 Comments: New, UNBALANCED (need acct to transfer -2.34) What is this error all about? I have to right click on and select a transfer acc

Re: [GNC] How to import PayPal transactions in to GC

2023-04-11 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
As others have mentioned, you should read up on the rules of double entry bookkeeping. If GnuCash cannot identify the proper account, it puts it in the account call "Unbalanced" - this account should BTW always be ZERO Anything in "unbalanced" is a mistake somewhere. A little closer to re

Re: [GNC] How to run Year End Procedures for the Tax Year (UK end 5 April 2023), and start new Data set for the New Tax Year starting 6 April 2023

2023-04-11 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
/path/to/gnucash --nofile That will invoke GnuCash without any Book/Ledger open, but you will have the four most recentl entries in GnuCash's File menu, so you can choose to open whichever one of the four you want to, rather than having to hard-code any particular file at every startup time, or

Re: [GNC] Registering Off Balance Sheet in GNUCash

2023-04-11 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 4/11/2023 10:25 AM, Murugan Muruganandam wrote: I wanted to input off balance sheet items in gnucash , contingent asset and contingent liabilities. any of you have done this with existing account structure? Yes, some of us might have very significant amounts of what is in effect our inco

Re: [GNC] New GnuCash file and importing Chart of Accounts

2023-04-11 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
5. Enter a transaction to make all the starting balances in the new file match the ending balances from the old file, referring to the report you saved in step 1. Yes, you could use a single, massive transaction split on both the debit and credit side. Or you could use two massive transacti

Re: [GNC] gnucash 4.8 does not save settings

2023-04-14 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 4/14/2023 7:17 AM, Carsten Hütter wrote: Hi Papa Oz! First of all: I'd recommend updating to a more current version both of GnuCash (latest 4.x is 4.14 from 2023-03-25) and Finance::Quote (latest is 1.54 from 2022-12-26). GnuCash 5.0 still has some issues. The developers decided to publish t

Re: [GNC] Deleting an account

2023-04-14 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 4/14/2023 4:51 PM, Gyle McCollam wrote: I have a fixed asset account for an automobile with subaccounts for the purchase cost and depreciation. I am selling this car and purchasing a new car. How do I delete the old car from my COA without messing up the financials as there have been debit

Re: [GNC] Retained Losses on Balance Sheet

2023-04-15 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 4/15/2023 3:17 PM, Murugan Muruganandam wrote: this thread gives you a complete run down on the concept. https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2016-December/067980.html to cross verify your retained losses, run a Profit and Loss report from the starting of your book date and yo

Re: [GNC] [Bug 798864] Budget Revalues for the Income are positive numbers.porting on select reports are wrong

2023-04-17 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 4/17/2023 4:01 AM, Richard Lindgren wrote: Sounds like you understand my problem. However, since I'm not a programmer, I hesitate to tackle this patch. Maybe it is easier than it looks and is probably the best fix? I'm just nervous here. Let me ask this basic question. When I am creating my

Re: [GNC] getting help

2023-04-17 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 4/17/2023 8:42 PM, carol hardin wrote: Hi there, Ludite here on the open source accounting Gnucash. Is there anyone doing live tutorials on how to use the program? I've gone through the documentation and still have lots of questions. thanks for any referrals. Carol H Are you asking "h

Re: [GNC] CSV import crash in 5.0+

2023-04-20 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 4/20/2023 6:58 PM, Stephen M. Butler wrote: I have been running 5.0.77 on Ubuntu and importing CSV transactions without problems.  So this may be tied to Windows. However, speaking as a retired pro, I would consider a program crashing on ANY bad input to be a bug << a failure of its "input

Re: [GNC] New Accounts do not Display

2023-04-24 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 4/23/2023 9:58 PM, Murugan Muruganandam wrote: please check in edit account if the hidden flag is enabled, Or perhaps more obviously ... Are these new accounts child accounts of a pre-existing parent? And if so, have you clicked the little symbol along side that parent to expand the v

Re: [GNC] Reorganize Trading accounts

2023-04-24 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 4/24/2023 4:24 PM, R Losey wrote: If you have a trust (I assume that it is for someone else), a business, and personal accounts, why not just have three separate books? Not necessarily. From the description, probably only one tax ID. I am guessing the trust might be a revocable trust (we

Re: [GNC] Starting balance of new account is not $0

2023-04-26 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
A brand new credit account would have a zero balance. A brand new cash or checking account *could* have the initial deposit as the starting balance. Am I completely off the rails here? I wouldn't say completely. But because folks new to double entry bookkeeping can be tripped up by detail

Re: [GNC] GNUcash 5 - Trial Balance

2023-04-27 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 4/27/2023 11:44 AM, Chris Bastock via gnucash-user wrote: Hi Hive Mind Apologies if asked before, I have searched and searched but can’t seem to find a definitive answer. I need to send a TB to my accountant and - as with last year - when I run the report I get a report that covers the enti

Re: [GNC] GNUcash 5 - Trial Balance

2023-04-27 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 4/27/2023 12:54 PM, smit...@smith54.karoo.co.uk wrote: I would recommend going to tools and using Close Book to remove the previous years TB P&L figures. Then re-run the TB. Regards, David I think this might be the place for a bit of double entry bookkeeping theory/terminology and how th

Re: [GNC] GNUcash 5 - Trial Balance PS

2023-04-27 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
PS --- And in the "old days" we used to do a trial balance BEFORE closing the books because wanting  to be sure the books were in balance at that point, and not having to try to find/fix the errors after. Of course also done at periodic intervals to make sure any errors fixed between now and

Re: [GNC] GNUcash 5 - Trial Balance

2023-04-28 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 4/28/2023 2:59 AM, Chris Bastock via gnucash-user wrote: Thanks for all the input. I am aware that both TB and Balance sheet are snapshots on a particular date and of the respective uses of both of them. Personally I’m happy with the TB report and I do it periodically throughout the year. I

Re: [GNC] Transactions in Placeholder

2023-04-29 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 4/29/2023 2:39 AM, David T. via gnucash-user wrote: There's no hard rule either way. Some users feel strongly about not having any transactions in placeholder accounts, though, and advocate loudly on the list in support of it.  But there's nothing in the software preventing a placeholder ac

Re: [GNC] Transactions in Placeholder

2023-04-29 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 4/29/2023 10:08 AM, David T. wrote: Michael, I disagree. The importer shouldn't put transacting into an account that is--by definition-- write protected. My counter example would be a write-protected file folder. An operating system that allowed a user to put data into a write-protected

Re: [GNC] Any performance improvement in GnuCash 5.x?

2023-05-02 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 5/1/2023 7:07 PM, Lipp F. wrote: I am wondering if users can comment on performance for GnuCash 5.x. I remember reading that GnuCash 5.x is supposed to use proper SQL to query the records and not load the entire history of records in memory on startup. For the record, I am using pretty new h

Re: [GNC] Printing addresses on checks

2023-05-02 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 5/1/2023 9:20 PM, Sherman Yoder wrote: Hello, I've started using GnuCash recently. I like the program, and would like to use it in my small business. I have not found how to save a vendor's address so it prints on a check without first creating a bill and then "paying" th

Re: [GNC] Easy way to delete old transactions

2023-05-06 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 5/6/2023 3:06 AM, Fred Tydeman wrote: Is there an easy way to delete all transactions in all accounts before a certain date? Don't do this! If what you want is to mimic the old days (fresh books every year -- remember they were once PHYSICAL books with a finite number of pages a) Do a "

Re: [GNC] corporate profit tax ........... where to put

2023-05-08 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
Now . I understand that gnucash has no separate Equity account, at least as long as the books are not closed. So how to book step 1)? Before dealing with the question itself. let's get THIS misconception out of the way. I believe the source of the misconception is that gnucash prov

Re: [GNC] corporate profit tax ........... where to put

2023-05-08 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 5/8/2023 7:17 PM, Karl May wrote: Hi. Thanks a lot for the response. My misconception comes probably from looking at book keeping and GnuCash through continental European eyes. There may, of course be differences, how I keep books and what I need to report vs somebody in continental Europe

Re: [GNC] Customer invoice appearance

2023-05-11 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 5/10/2023 11:23 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: All reports can be styled with CSS. (they are simply HTML tables) You can set up a custom stylesheet and assign it as the default. You won't be able to re-order elements in the file itself, but you could maybe use some CSS positioning rules to ga

Re: [GNC] Crashes on .LCK file

2023-05-14 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
As far as I can tell, there's only one .LCK file, named with the data file that I was trying to open.     I have multiple GnuCash data files. When one is open, and I wish to     switch to another data file, sometimes it crashes GnuCash.     Deleting the     .LCK file resolves the p

Re: [GNC] Transaction Report - Split Transactions

2023-05-17 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
Look, we can tell you how to use gnucash to do double-entry bookkeeping. But it is beyond our remit to tell you how to set up books for this or that type of entity. For example, I lack the "qualifications" to advise you the way a CPA could. But I do know something about it, so I will give you

Re: [GNC] Accounting Help - Credit Card transfer

2023-05-18 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 5/18/2023 5:38 PM, Chris Ledbetter via gnucash-user wrote: Hi, Currently using GnuCash 4.14. I have Credit Card A with an opening balance (transfer Equity:Opening Balances) and subsequent transactions. I set up Credit Card B. I transfer the majority of the balance to Credit Card B but st

Re: [GNC] report cutoffs - Trial Balance opening date

2023-05-19 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 5/18/2023 11:56 PM, David T. via gnucash-user wrote: Per the documentation: 10.3.5.11. Trial Balance Trial Balance lists the ending balances in all accounts as of a particular date. It is typically run at the end of an accounting period and is primarily used to ensure that the total of a

Re: [GNC] Account Summary Report Question

2023-05-19 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
Edit » Report Options is your friend. For your specific question, within report options it's Display » Parent account balances. The default is "Account Balance", which of course is zero for a placeholder. You want to change that to "Subtotal". All new users need to familiarize themselves with

Re: [GNC] Account Summary Report Question

2023-05-19 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
However, you don't have to do this every time you want to run the same report with the same options. After setting it up as you want it, use Saved Report Configurations. Find information about that in the documentation. Your options would be saved even if you didn't do a "saved reports" as l

Re: [GNC] balance of interests between users and developers

2023-05-20 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
Precisely because I am a retired pro, I have not worked on development in this volunteer environment. See, my experience was in a different environment when we had end user commitment to the project. By which I mean end user TIME. Not "I want" but "I am willing to commit to the end user part o

Re: [GNC] cost of goods sold, unsold inventory

2023-05-22 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 5/21/2023 7:26 PM, Jamie Tolbert wrote: I am slowly wrapping my head around things, kinda stuck on a question about accounting for unsold inventory. Say I bought 10 widgets, for 100 each, my cost of good sold is 1000; I sold 6 for 140 each. My sales is 840, but my cost of good sold is only 6

Re: [GNC] Description List

2023-05-23 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 5/23/2023 12:49 AM, Peter West via gnucash-user wrote: Wouldn’t this be a case where correcting the database or XML file would be a feasible solution? Not feasible for end users. Leave something like that for pros. Could I do something like that? Sure, its the sort of thing they were paying

Re: [GNC] Invoice system and Deffered Income

2023-05-30 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 5/29/2023 5:44 PM, Sergey Mende wrote: Hi there, I am trying to figure out if the existing customer invoice system is suitable for my needs. For simplicity, let's say I have the following accounts: Current (Bank) Undetermined Income (Income, for bank account transactions just imported from th

Re: [GNC] Invoice system and Deffered Income

2023-05-30 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 5/30/2023 8:35 AM, Sergey Mende wrote: Hi, David, yes, probably this is a more convenient option in my case as when a customer does not pay an invoice before the due date, I still have to deal with such invoice differently, by posting it to the bad debt asset and take further actions (all the

Re: [GNC] Dealing with discounts when not using Business Features

2023-06-01 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
As I said, I haven’t been using the Business Features because they’re an added complication, and because our accounts are kept on a cash basis. A Bursary is a grant made to assist a talented student who might otherwise be unable to afford a course. It’s doesn’t usually involve competition (li

Re: [GNC] Dealing with discounts when not using Business Features

2023-06-01 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 6/1/2023 12:24 PM, Michael Hendry wrote: Thanks, Michael. IIRC, we exchanged some posts on the list some years ago, when I created Liability accounts for donations that were earmarked by the donors for particular purposes and later had to backtrack, following the advice of the accountant w

Re: [GNC] Rounded Up/Down Share Purchase with Dividend

2023-06-07 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 6/7/2023 12:00 PM, xboxboy.mageia+GnuCash wrote: Hi Jim, that's just it, the $2 does 'vanish'. I don't see it, it's not passed to me at that time, or any time in the future: As for a line to account for that, I guess that's what I'm asking: How do I create an account to absorb that $2, th

Re: [GNC] Rounded Up/Down Share Purchase with Dividend

2023-06-07 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 6/7/2023 6:54 PM, jbonn...@internode.on.net wrote: So, you get $10 dividend plus a $2 franking credit. The only amount you can do anything with is that $10, the franking credit only applies at tax time. This is why we who are not accountants in the jurisdiction should not make accounting jud

Re: [GNC] Description input on a transaction difficulty

2023-06-12 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 6/12/2023 12:06 AM, davidvernonl...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, When entering a description into a transaction, I think GnuCash is trying to autofill, but it does not allow me to input the description I wish to enter. Is it me, or is it a bug? Thanks David This is unlikely to be a bug. Bugs don't j

Re: [GNC] Description input on a transaction difficulty

2023-06-14 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 6/13/2023 7:52 PM, David Long wrote: Hi, What happens is that when I enter the description, the autofill tries to find a match, but if it does not I am unable to continue typing the description I want. As Michael D Novack, says , I can end up fighting with GnuCash to get the description I wan

Re: [GNC] quandary with proper entries for cost-of-goods-sold and inventory

2023-06-17 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
You are expecting the cost of goods sold at the wrong time. It is unrelated to when the goods are obtained (added to inventory) To perhaps make this easier for you to see, we'll use an example from one of "my" org as "organizations which had tee shirts, both sold to supporters AND given to vol

Re: [GNC] automatically account for gst on random purchases

2023-06-18 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 6/17/2023 10:06 PM, Karl May wrote: Hi all, For my business setup I am wondering whether there is a way to automatically account for gst on small random purchases (e.g. hotel, restaurant etc.). ... Any suggestions how this can be automated such that the default is a transaction spli

Re: [GNC] automatically account for gst on random purchases

2023-06-18 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 6/18/2023 9:14 AM, Brad Morrison wrote: Thanks flywire! That GitHub Pull Request link takes me to a comment from John Ralls that very succinctly summarizes the difficulties of using GnuCash for larger or more complex enterprises. The rest of that comment is: "Adding those modules is a non

Re: [GNC] automatically account for gst on random purchases

2023-06-18 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 6/18/2023 7:43 PM, flywire wrote: In looking for/expecting and automated solution you are thinking one should be reasonable. ...I live in the US [which has complex GST] Yet surely it is reasonable for the automated GST functionality for accrual accounting to apply to cash accounting. Even US

Re: [GNC] Not getting any emails

2023-06-23 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 6/23/2023 12:30 PM, William Prescott wrote: Are you asking about backing up the Gnucash application or the Gnucash data file. You definitely should back up the data file. The application is less critical because you can always reinstall it. However, I just backup everything. It is simpler a

Re: [GNC] Maintain two accounts in same machine

2023-06-24 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 6/24/2023 8:43 AM, N Srinivasan via gnucash-user wrote: Hi,    Is there is a way to maintain two accounts and _reports_ in same machine. Thanks, N.Srinivasan a) Yes, of course. But this should be obvious from the simple fact that almost any OS now in use supports multiple sequential use

Re: [GNC] Maintain two accounts in same machine

2023-06-25 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
However, all the customised 'reports' are saved in one place if a single user. Giving each customised report a clear name will help here. Liz IF A SINGLE USER  (from the point of view of the machine). If desired, a single human can be more than one user as far as the machine is concerned. B

Re: [GNC] Writing off Stock - More an Accounting Question than a GnuCash one

2023-06-25 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 6/25/2023 1:42 AM, Jeff wrote: Hi List, This is more a general accounting question than specifically a GnuCash one, but thought there might be better help on the list for it. Issue: I have some stock that is either obsolete, or otherwise no longer fit for sale.  Just wondering what is

Re: [GNC] Standard Report - Equity Statement

2023-06-25 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
Might I sort of explain my question to Ismael ... what expecting to see on an "equity statement" if PERSONAL books. In other words, what (useful) information expecting to see. I do understand why you would want a report/statement of equity if (for example) a) The entity is a partnership. b) A

Re: [GNC] "Easy" way to revert to default Gnucash?

2023-06-25 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 6/25/2023 5:19 PM, Steve Miller wrote: I'm currently using Windows 11 and GnuCash 4.14. Several years ago I installed a theme, something like leather dark, I really don't remember which one or where I got it, it took me seemingly forever to install it, I have zero memory of what I did. *Is t

Re: [GNC] Writing off Stock - More an Accounting Question than a GnuCash one

2023-06-26 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 6/26/2023 5:01 AM, Jeff wrote: Thanks Michael and David for the helpful suggestions. It looks like I was sort of on the right track.  These write-offs will be very irregular (have not needed to do any for the last 6 years) so I think I'll go along the lines suggested by David. Just now need

Re: [GNC] Problem saving data file in GNUcash 5.2

2023-06-26 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 6/26/2023 8:23 AM, geoff.accou...@70torcavenue.net wrote: Today updated to version 5.2 but now unable to save any changes to my entry stating that I do not have any permissions to do so. Have tried changing location to another folder on the C:\ drive and also an external drive but does not wo

Re: [GNC] Backup

2023-06-28 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 6/28/2023 7:18 AM, Maf. King wrote: Hi James, I'm Maf, not David, and I can't tell you that from here. I would suggest that on a philosophical level, if you don't *know* that your back-up strategy is working (and you can recover files from it at will), then it might be time to rethink your s

Re: [GNC] GnuCash 5.3 autofill headaches

2023-06-30 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
Describe THIS better David (lol, not yet having gotten up to 5.1 I can't look for myself) I also think that the registers now display a little differently to what they used to. In 5.1 any open registers always scroll all the way to the end of the txns when you re-open your GnuCash data file.

Re: [GNC] Default to Plain English instead of Debit and Credit

2023-07-01 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 7/1/2023 12:00 AM, flywire wrote: Is it CR or DB? Who knows, toss a coin: https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798964 An interesting list of accounts adapted from a comment with an `*` next to the main account types: Easy to tell which column is debit and which credit. The debit column

Re: [GNC] Maintain two accounts in same machine

2023-07-01 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 7/1/2023 5:47 AM, Sergey Mende wrote: You could try to `set HOME` environment variable in a batch file followed by gnucash invocation. According to https://docs.gtk.org/gtk3/running.html a gtk app should inspect it on Windows as well. I can't verify this as I have no Windows, so please share y

Re: [GNC] Equity Account "problem"

2023-07-12 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 7/11/2023 6:48 PM, Default User wrote: Hi! Is there a way to have Gnucash 4.13 (Debian GNU/Linux 12 Bookworm) automatically calculate, and update "Equity" in the main accounts tab, to show the "real" value of total Equity, after any action (or at least transaction) that would affect "real" eq

Re: [GNC] How to record 'balancing' trnsactions?

2023-07-12 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 7/12/2023 8:12 AM, Chris Green wrote: This is as much an accounting question as a GnuCash one but how one does this depends on the sofware's capabilities so it makes sense to ask here. Our church has two main accounts (as in places where money is kept), a current account at a bank, and a 'bui

Re: [GNC] How to record 'balancing' trnsactions?

2023-07-12 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 7/12/2023 4:45 PM, Chris Green wrote: On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 02:25:33PM +0100, Paul Feakins wrote: On 12/07/2023 13:55, Chris Green wrote: On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 01:19:41PM +0100, Paul Feakins wrote: Why would you have 2 separate instances of GnuCash rather than simply 2 Asset accounts?

Re: [GNC] Equity Account "problem"

2023-07-13 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 7/12/2023 8:18 PM, Default User wrote: On Wed, 2023-07-12 at 16:38 -0400, Michael or Penny Novack wrote: On 7/11/2023 6:48 PM, Default User wrote: This is a case of not knowing the history (how bookkeeping changed over ~thousand year history) and never having kept books pen and ink on

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