Re: [GNC] Budget car payment

2024-01-13 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/13/2024 1:34 PM, Dennis Powless wrote: Are there other options to export besides HTML? Say to excel in csv or txt? If you open an HTML document, do you know how to get the content saved as .xlsx or .cvs or .txt?  The point here is that asking the developers to add the option of adding ex

Re: [GNC] End of Year?

2024-01-14 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
Folks trying to imitate Pen & Paper using a computer are always going to have to adjust their workflow or make concessions for the difference in formats. This is true no matter the task at hand, or the software used, and is true of things not even accounting related at all. I'm glad GnuCas

Re: [GNC] End of Year?

2024-01-14 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/13/2024 10:27 PM, R Losey wrote: Absolutely; there is no reason to do anything special at the end of the year; for many years, I have just kept using GnuCash and have had no issues, but some people like to make yearly archives, or do the "close the books" thing. This perhaps bears repeatin

Re: [GNC] Deferred Income

2024-01-15 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
Let me ask you a question (that should make it obvious what one* of your problems is --- and yes, this has been discussed before) HOW did you record this deferred income when it was received? Or since it might have been received before you began using gnucash, how did you enter the accumulated

Re: [GNC] Deferred Income << the general case is "imputed income"

2024-01-15 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/15/2024 4:02 PM, R Losey wrote: Thank you; this is helpful. I never really thought about recording Deferred Income previously because the investment people track it and let me know what has been taken out every year.  But after the discussion in this list last year, I thought it might be

Re: [GNC] Deferred Income << the general case is "imputed income"

2024-01-16 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/15/2024 9:47 PM, Jediator wrote: I am not an accountant, so please excuse my ignorance.  I was wondering is it really necessary to create a separate deferred income account when you could just do a transaction report on your IRA account to see how much distribution you had in a year or a m

Re: [GNC] Deferred Income << the general case is "imputed income"

2024-01-16 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/16/2024 1:42 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: I'm thinking of a case where someone starts using GnuCash either at the point they start taking disbursements or after. I'm about to help a family member in that exact situation. While Deferred Income wasn't tracked along the way, I'll set up the

Re: [GNC] Liability Balances - All payments disappeared

2024-01-17 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/17/2024 2:14 PM, Khristine Ann Ramella wrote: Hi there! So I opened my gnu cash this am and all of my credit card accounts show huge balances. My checking still shows them as paid, but all liabilities look as if they never rcd a payment. It was fine when i closed it the other day. A glit

Re: [GNC] Liability Balances - All payments disappeared

2024-01-18 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/17/2024 10:04 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: A little more detail to what Michael is asking for: While viewing the Checking account register, click on View > Transaction Journal. That will show all splits in all transactions. Except I would never refer to a transaction that affect JUST TW

Re: [GNC] Compare two sets of accounts?

2024-01-19 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
Just make sure that after you save a copy (B4A) that you aren't using that file going forward as GC usually opens the last saved file. Unless you have "told" gnucash not to. Those of us who are keeping multiple sets of books (f0r multiple entities) can make like easier by using the --nofile

Re: [GNC] QIF import ignore account

2024-01-21 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/20/2024 7:24 PM, Geoff wrote: Conjecture - Edge is also the default app for opening XML files on Windows? Repeating the import in debug mode, the trace file contains lots of information, no obvious (to me) error messages, and no mention of Edge: https://bugs.gnucash.org/attachment.cgi?i

Re: [GNC] Compare two sets of accounts?

2024-01-21 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/21/2024 11:05 AM, Myron A Schroeder wrote: Where do I find the " --nofile runtime parameter." Looks like an interesting way to have more than one set of books on my computer. What operating system are you using? Perhaps as much to the point, if you are getting to gnucash by a "shortcut" (

Re: [GNC] How do you record the rounding of your netpay?

2024-01-27 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
You are over complicating matters. You are trying to record (account for) an UNKNOWN situation. At least I think unknown. Are they telling you "we rounded this up by y amount and will later round down to make up for it". Or, as I rather suspect, it is just happening. How about each month simp

Re: [GNC] End of year

2024-01-30 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/30/2024 12:12 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: You can't. I thought we described that already. If you start a new file/account each year, you will lose all auto-complete from the previous year's entries. The auto-complete list is generated on the fly from the other transactions in the registe

Re: [GNC] End of year

2024-01-30 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/30/2024 4:37 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: Michael, if I recall correctly, the OP was bifurcating their checking account *every year*. That is: Checking   -2022   -2023   -2024   -etc. I was discussing in general. And in any case, standing accounts (asset, liability,equity) are NOT "cl

Re: [GNC] Advanced portfolio report picking up wrong price

2024-02-03 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 2/3/2024 2:13 PM, Dan O'Brien wrote: (With screen shot attached this time). I can’t make heads or tails of scheme code, so I’m not sure where to even look for the issue here. LOL You would want to have experience with LISP or at the very least, some experience with some "functional"

Re: [GNC] Multiple Fiscal Years

2024-02-04 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 2/3/2024 7:13 PM, Jay McSkimming wrote: Hi Is there any solution (other than repeated manual system-wide changes) to allow for multiple fiscal years for different sets of accounts arising from different country tax years? Are there any add-ons or means to allow this? Any help appreciated.

Re: [GNC] Change Printed Invoice

2024-02-06 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 2/6/2024 2:42 AM, Lester Bennett wrote: Apparently Australian Tax Law requires an invoice over AU$1000 to be titled Tax Invoice. How can I change the  default first line of a printable invoice to read "Tax Invoice #"? At present I save to a pdf then edit it with a pdf editor but it would be

Re: [GNC] Change Printed Invoice

2024-02-07 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 2/6/2024 9:27 AM, Glenn Fowler wrote: You can edit invoice.scm and replace "Invoice" with "Tax Invoice". All invoices after will say "Tax Invoice". Putting my old senior business analyst hat back on for a moment, this is presumably NOT what is being requested. I am pretty sure if we ask (bu

Re: [GNC] New user error

2024-02-07 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 2/7/2024 4:59 PM, R Losey wrote: I was intrigued by the Transaction Journal mentioned, but I don't have a Transaction Journal in my View menu... after additional digging, I discovered it doesn't show up on the Accounts page; one must be in one of the accounts to see it. Gnucash is "virtual

Re: [GNC] New user error

2024-02-08 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 2/7/2024 11:11 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: Michael, Transaction Journal View is simply the same full transaction accessible via either 'Split' or 'Auto-Split' but for all transactions - *not* one at a time. Yes of course, can have on your screen "journal view" for all transactions affe

Re: [GNC] Can't open old GnuCash file

2024-02-16 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
I would these sorts of things before trying to reinstall older versions of the programs. You really want to make sure that the problem isn't one of these things, because if it is, an older version of the program won't help. Michael D Novack I might be wrong, but I would expect even an old ol

Re: [GNC] Removing Scheduled Transaction From a Closed Year

2024-02-24 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 2/23/2024 4:02 PM, Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) wrote: On 2024-02-23 10:46, Grace wrote: I am needing to revisit my GNUCash records for 2022. I forgot to erase all the scheduled transaction before I "archived" it, so now when I open the app, it applies all the scheduled transaction for 2023 an

Re: [GNC] Net Assets

2024-02-24 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 2/24/2024 2:10 PM, Fred Tydeman wrote: I am looking at the Accounts account screen. At the bottom of the screen, is Net Assets: $xxx and Profits: $yyy I assume Net Assets is the current value of Assets - Liabilities. If that is the case, numbers are wrong by a lot. Wrong assumption. If tha

Re: [GNC] How can I book Sales when invoice is paid vs when posted?

2024-03-03 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/3/2024 10:46 AM, Blake Hannaford wrote: Sometimes I send an invoice to a customer in year 1, but the payment is received in year 2. Gnucash always seems to credit the Income/Sales account when posted, but then my income for Year 1 taxes is overstated, and Year 2 is understated.I know y

Re: [GNC] split transaction description field length limit

2024-03-04 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/4/2024 10:43 AM, Alan Johnson via gnucash-user wrote: You don't have to have 'a business' to use the business features.  You would need to set up an AP and AR account to post the invoices to.  To me, the vendor bill - payment system is the proper way to store the data, rather than kludging t

Re: [GNC] How to run report on Paid Sales for a period? (Cash Accounting Method)

2019-10-01 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 10/1/2019 5:20 PM, doncram wrote: Since GnuCash does not have the Cash Flow Statement report as an option, WHAT? for your immediate purpose you can/should generate one manually, working from a printout of the Balance Sheet at the beginning and another at the end of your period, and an Inco

Re: [GNC] Outstanding Check Problem

2019-10-03 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 10/3/2019 5:52 PM, Jean-David Beyer via gnucash-user wrote: On 10/3/19 1:29 PM, Matthew Lybanon wrote: This is more of an accounting question than a GnuCash question; what I would like to know is how to handle this within GnuCash. I???m sure that this situation isn???t unique, and there is

Re: [GNC] Interest on savings account

2019-10-04 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 10/4/2019 11:40 AM, KenWA wrote: How does one enter interest on a savings account which has been automatically paid in to that account. Just entering the amount as an increase results in an Imbalance? sinc Fundamentals of double entry bookkeeping. There are always two sides to every transa

Re: [GNC] How can I add statement balances to my accounts as checks?

2019-10-07 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 10/7/2019 1:24 PM, Derek Atkins wrote: Let me add my $0.02 to this.. There are multiple ways to enter transactions into GnuCash (specifically, importing and hand-entering), and there are multiple ways that errors and discrepancies can happen. The most common error/discrepancy is human error

Re: [GNC] Print Report does not "page" properly

2019-10-07 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 10/7/2019 5:04 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: The only work around I can think of right off is to instead copy/paste or save/open into a spreadsheet app like LibreOffice Calc and handle printing there. And not necessarily a"work around" if you have SERIOUS editing/formatting to do. But rathe

Re: [GNC] How should I enter values on a budget in gnucash ?

2019-10-29 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 10/29/2019 9:40 AM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: No objection here —I always thought it odd that Liabilities didn’t have its own total line, and thought ’Transfers’ should only include Assets & Equity. (you are transferring one asset to another, with no effect on net position, but paying a liab

Re: [GNC] Want to find some GnuCash example files

2019-10-30 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
hello, guys. I am a newcomer here and want to learn how to use GnuCash. I don't speak english well, so if I made some strange sentences please let me know or just ignore them. Now I want to find some GnuCash example files, which maybe include foreign currencies, stocks,vendors,bills, invoices

Re: [GNC] Transaction Report: 1)Print only totals 2)Add comment to print out ?

2019-11-01 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 11/1/2019 8:46 AM, Fran_3 via gnucash-user wrote: I think I know the answer to this but I wanted to double check. . 2 - Is there any way to add a comment to the report before you print it... other than making the title long? 3 - Can you include HTML tags like and to have a report's

Re: [GNC] Transaction Report: 1)Print only totals 2)Add comment to print out ?

2019-11-01 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 11/1/2019 9:46 AM, Fran_3 wrote: Michael, no request for added features to GC was intended. I was just exploring the existing capabilities of the program. Understood. But I come to this from a different position. When I took over as treasurer (of the first organization) I asked the lawyer/

Re: [GNC] Rental property - How to account for delinquent rents?

2019-11-03 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 11/3/2019 6:22 PM, David Cousens wrote: When you are on a cash basis then you only really record in your accounts the income received and expenses incurred at the time of handing over of the cash so there is really no alternative to maintaining a separate record of occupancy and arrears etc

Re: [GNC] Account for contracted grain sales?

2019-11-05 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 11/4/2019 11:18 PM, John Ralls wrote: One thing I have done for years is enter into a deferred payment contract with the cooperative that buys my grain. In general the grain is sold as of a given date with payment at some future specified date. As I see it, I have a sort of promissory

Re: [GNC] Export Report Issue: "There is no disk in the drive." I must click Continue 21 Times !

2019-11-06 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 11/6/2019 6:54 PM, Fran_3 via gnucash-user wrote: Running GC3.7 on Win7 Pro. Here is the issue When I click File > Export > Export Report I get a popup message... "There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into drive \Device\Harddisk9\DR-9" This isn't QUITE a gnucash problem, yo

Re: [GNC] Server

2019-11-11 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 11/10/2019 10:19 PM, D via gnucash-user wrote: It's a known issue that is being addressed. Do we have any idea/prognosis when gnucash installation downloads will again become available? I am currently in the process of getting a (new) machine ready to replace this ailing one and gnucash i

Re: [GNC] Journaling taxable benefit

2019-11-15 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 11/15/2019 6:05 AM, Christopher Lam wrote: It's a regular asset account. On Fri, 15 Nov 2019, 11:17 gn00b, wrote: First of all, this is not as much a gnucash question as an accounting question and we are not properly qualified to answer accounting questions << I know that I am not >> Wit

Re: [GNC] Moving from Sage Accounting and would like to keep sub-account totals viewable

2019-11-17 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 11/16/2019 9:29 PM, David Carlson wrote: I searched the help for information on account codes but all I found was: https://www.gnucash.org/viewdoc.phtml?rev=3&lang=C&doc=help I thought there used to be a lot more information than that. I know that you can use account codes in the account fie

Re: [GNC] Locked out of gnucash

2019-11-18 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
I think PART of this problem is confusion about "another user". Remember that need not be another human being. YOU perhaps have more than one log in << say one with administrator rights and then a another for regular use >> Rather than "in use" the terminology MIGHT be "checked out but not yet

Re: [GNC] A question on loans

2019-11-20 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 11/20/2019 1:13 PM, Mark Phillips wrote: A PS to my last email about the mortgage accounts. My gnucash accounts are for my financial tracking purposes only. My accountant gets bank statements and other original documents for tax purposes. He has nothing to do with my gnucash accounts, and is n

Re: [GNC] A question on loans

2019-11-21 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 11/21/2019 1:06 PM, Mark Phillips wrote: David, Thanks for your emails and explanations. What I am really looking for, is how to do this transaction: Increase the loan amount by $30,000 to bring it to the current value. I don't know where to put the offsetting entry for the $30,00 When o

Re: [GNC] Restricted funds and other charitable / not-for-profit specifics

2019-11-25 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 11/24/2019 6:17 AM, Wm via gnucash-user wrote: Is anyone interested in resurrecting the possibility of gnc dealing with restricted funds and other charitable / not-for-profit / whatever they are called where you live accounting better? What do you mean? Gnucash can deal with restricted fu

Re: [GNC] Reporting on expenses of multiple revenue strams

2019-12-01 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/1/2019 6:23 PM, David Cousens wrote: Rob AFAIK there is no equivalent of classes. In Gnucash you can use the sub-account capability to provide the separation. e.g. Under Income you can have a subaccount for each revenue stream and similarly under Expenses if you need to match expenses to

Re: [GNC] Reporting on expenses of multiple revenue strams

2019-12-02 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/1/2019 10:21 PM, Robert Slippey wrote: That's an interesting perspective I didn't consider. How would this look from the LLC's perspective. Would each sub-entity just send over it's rolled up expenses and income? I do like that idea though... just need to work out in my mind how it wou

Re: [GNC] how to migrate data to new computer

2019-12-09 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/9/2019 1:20 AM, Colin Law wrote: The easiest way to get the right file may be to open gnucash on the old machine and use File > Save As to save it to a USB stick or similar. Then you can copy it to a suitable folder on the new machine and use File Open in gnucash to open it. That might b

Re: [GNC] Problems organizing accounts to process reimbursement of expenses

2019-12-15 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
Just a periodic reminder about questions like this. We may be able to help you BUT this is not a question about gnucash, not a question "how do I do this in gnucash" but how do I set up these accounts/transactions using ANY method of doing double entry bookkeeping, even the old fashioned way of

Re: [GNC] Problems organizing accounts to process reimbursement of expenses

2019-12-15 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/15/2019 5:35 PM, Daffy Duck wrote: Mike, I figured it out with your suggestions, thanks! BTW, sorry if I made it more complicated than you might have expected BUT was assuming that you would want/need to be able to report on what portion of the electric bill that was not going to be rei

Re: [GNC] Credits

2019-12-23 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/22/2019 10:20 PM, Christopher Lam wrote: FWIW the 'Credit Limit' customer property seems to be currently unused. On Thu, 19 Dec 2019 at 12:16, Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: I would suspect the ‘credit limit’ feature in the new customer dialog is there to flag

Re: [GNC] How to have subtotal

2019-12-27 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
If new to gnucash, one of the things to learn is about ALL the options for how you want each report that you will use to show. Things like do you want to see subtotals for parent accounts, before or after, do you want zero balance accounts showing, how many levels of nesting, even fundamental t

Re: [GNC] Total Debt/Credit in Register Report

2019-12-28 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/28/2019 2:06 AM, Colin Law wrote: Please provide an exact example of what you mean, then we should be able to explain the discrepancy. Also tell us which version of the software you are using and on what operating system. Colin Multiple debits and credits in a transaction? That would be

Re: [GNC] Opening Balance on Reports

2020-01-02 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/2/2020 5:33 PM, Christopher Lam wrote: If it's a single-creditor liability account, you could try adding the Display/Running Balance. However it doesn't quite give you the 'balance brought forward' prior to the first printed transaction. I will tell you how I would do this. It would be easy

Re: [GNC] Gnucash Reports - Comparative Income Statement

2020-01-06 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/5/2020 1:46 PM, Bill Dika wrote: What would it cost for someone to create a comparative income statement report comparing this period to the corresponding period last year? I am willing to pay if it is not too much. The report could be included in Gnucash and released under the GPL v3 or

Re: [GNC] Gnucash Reports - Comparative Income Statement

2020-01-07 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/6/2020 8:16 PM, Bill Dika wrote: michael d novack Thanks for the reply. I agree with everything you said but I am not looking for presentation Financial Statements. I am looking to make quick year to year comparisons with the reporting facility in Gnucash. Having ten years of financial d

Re: [GNC] Tracking designated balances in the total checking account balance?

2020-01-09 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/9/2020 8:09 AM, briancady413--- via gnucash-user wrote: I have this same question - How to keep distinct funds within a checking account balance. Or is there a better-accounting way to do this? Brian- THAT is where you are going wrong (making it hard), trying to do it WITHIN the ch

Re: [GNC] Tracking designated balances in the total checking account balance?

2020-01-09 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
I should perhaps add that although there are many methods possible, you perhaps might want to rethink explicitly partitioning the checking account << doing that for funds kept in the savings account a different matter >> Money is fungible. It isn't specifically money in the checking account t

Re: [GNC] (GNU) How to Transition to a New Year

2020-01-10 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/9/2020 8:09 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: Do you *need* to start a new file each year? While GnuCash has a ‘close the books’ procedure, it is not necessary to use it as that is a holdover from the days of pen and paper where physical limitations of bound volumes required doing so for organ

Re: [GNC] Mortgage & Loan Repayment schedule tool

2020-01-11 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
Do not fault the tool if it does not agree with the bank. I have written these things. There are simply too many assumption about how to do the calculation, where to round off, etc. << I ended up with a fancy version that allowed instructions where to adjust that could get agreement to a penny

Re: [GNC] Mortgage & Loan Repayment schedule tool

2020-01-12 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/11/2020 4:52 PM, Don Ireland wrote: .. But that's not what I was asking about. I'll say it again. The recurring transactions created by the tool created transactions crediting the escrow account for the insurance & taxes and debiting the escrow account to transfer the money to the ta

Re: [GNC] How to set up a pledge payment

2020-01-14 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/13/2020 3:13 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: You can create it as a liability account but just know that it isn’t a legal one. You’ll also want to make sure in any official reports you create, that you do not include it since it is just a pledge. May depend on your jurisdiction, but just as

Re: [GNC] Handling of Equity and Retained Earnings

2020-01-15 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/15/2020 10:56 AM, Christian Lynbech wrote: Inspired by a recent discussion I would like to understand better how to handle the Retained Earnings equity sub account, as I am new to both Gnucash and accounting. In a world where books are closed at year end, I would understand Retained Earn

Re: [GNC] Handling of Equity and Retained Earnings

2020-01-16 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/15/2020 10:54 PM, David Cousens wrote: ...but if just the balances of the Asset and Liability accounts are transferred to the new book, then the Opening Balance entries in Equity automatically include the Retained Earnings to that point implicitly since at the point of closure of the old

Re: [GNC] Handling of Equity and Retained Earnings

2020-01-17 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/16/2020 7:13 PM, David Cousens wrote: A Retained earnings account will be created under Equity and at the start of a new book/file it is appropriate that its value is zero until transactions from the Asset and Liability accounts to the Income and Expense accounts have been made. I'm going

Re: [GNC] Sales Tax Report

2020-01-18 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/18/2020 5:25 PM, Keith Fetterman wrote: I need to file an end of year sales tax report to the state showing the sales by tax code. I created a tax table for each customer’s city and assigned the entries to the customers. . I'm going to ask you a scary question, Keith. How do you

Re: [GNC] Sales Tax Report

2020-01-19 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/18/2020 10:53 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: If you need to break down sales by customer location, that can get real messy really fast. GnuCash isn’t really set up for it out of the box. But you HAVE to do that for mail order or internet sales. Else you don't know whether the items are ta

Re: [GNC] Sales Tax Report

2020-01-19 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/19/2020 1:22 PM, Keith Fetterman wrote: Adrien, Thanks for the help. In the state of Washington, we need to report the local city/county sales tax for each physical location we do work in. The state assigns a tax code based on address. The business is a very small landscaping business

Re: [GNC] Sales Tax Report

2020-01-19 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/19/2020 2:07 PM, Stephen M. Butler wrote: Just this quarter (starting 1 Jan 2020) the State of Washington added some Idaho zip codes to its list of taxable zip codes.  These are for houses in Washington State that get their mail via an Idaho post office.  [ Note, Washington State is one of

Re: [GNC] Incorrect starting balance for 2019

2020-02-10 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
But I would NOT simply edit the amount. It is better accounting practice to leave an audit trail for corrections. You can create a "correction transaction". If, as described, you want the effect to be as if you had entered the correct amount initially, date the transaction so it will appear imm

Re: [GNC] Where to charge? Ins pays us, we pay vendor.

2020-02-11 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 2/11/2020 11:47 AM, Fran_3 via gnucash-user wrote: When an insurance claim occurs the insurance pays us and we pay the vendor. How to we charge the deposit from the insurance company and the payment to the vendor? I considered setting up an Expense Account named Insurance Transactions or Ins

Re: [GNC] new computer - program & data transfer

2020-02-12 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 2/12/2020 1:00 AM, Carl Hofinga wrote: I have purchased a new computer(Windows 10 home) and need to transfer the GNUCASH program and data file from the old computer to the new computer. My computer technician could not make the program transfer to the new computer. Do I need to dow

Re: [GNC] How to change MANY Deposits to Withdrawals? (Import error)

2020-02-16 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 2/16/2020 11:28 AM, Fran_3 via gnucash-user wrote: I imported a big bunch of checking transactions and guess I got the Deposit & Withdrawal columns labeled wrong during the import process. Is there any way to select a bunch of checking transactions and change Deposits to Withdrawals? Thanks

Re: [GNC] Non monetary transactions?

2020-02-22 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 2/22/2020 1:00 PM, Roderick Anderson wrote: I am the treasurer (volunteer) for a small 501(c)(3).  I have only self-inflected OJT and this list for experience so this may be a not-GNUCash question. How, or can, I make non monetary entries.  I'm looking at when I file (US) Federal taxes and

Re: [GNC] Is there GnuCash portable ?

2020-02-23 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 2/22/2020 11:16 PM, Long wrote: Hello guys, is there GnuCash portable ? No installed required and can run on usb stick ? I think we should be asking "what are you trying to do?".  We might be misinterpreting for what you are really asking. Gnucash DATA (the books) could reside on a USB sti

Re: [GNC] Best way to have "Expense - Income" Monthly Report ?

2020-02-27 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
Hi everyone, I want to have a Report like "Profit & Loss" to know what am i spending and where am i earnings. But, for Each Month in one place, not for specific month. Look like GnuCash doesn't have that option, and everytime i want to have a report for that month, i need to change the period

Re: [GNC] Bug while trying to select date (01/01/2019) - immediately changes to 12/31/1969

2020-03-01 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/1/2020 1:50 AM, Barufa wrote: I would appreciate your help with a date selecting bug. Don't know if I changed something in the Preferences menu or somewhere else, but I'm not able to select date 01/01/2019. When I type that date or select it in the calendar, as soon as I move the cursor some

Re: [GNC] grouping deposited items

2020-03-03 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/3/2020 10:17 AM, Ian D Henry wrote: I may have used the wrong search terms, but I can't find out if Gnucash has a way of grouping deposited items so they can be matched with the deposit amount on the bank statement. Ian Model the deposit ticket. This was a touch more obvious for me since

Re: [GNC] hiding expense and income accounts with zero balances

2020-03-07 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/7/2020 11:13 AM, Ian D Henry wrote: I am very new to Gnucash and I have not been able to find answers to questions which I think possible ought to have easy answers. 1 Is there a way to suppress display of accounts with a zero balance in the Balance Sheet and Income Statement? 2 How do I d

Re: [GNC] GNC Equity and Retained Earnings not tracking together?

2020-03-10 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
This question MAY require delving into "accounting for corporations when using gnucash". It may be that for corporations, the usual process of not closing the books and having gnucash showing a VIRTUAL account "retained earnings" isn't going to work well for corporations << where dividends paid

Re: [GNC] Income Statement for specific Asset Account ?

2020-03-10 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
You can select/exclude accounts when running the Income Statement report. HOWEVER, asset (and liability) accounts are not involved in an Income-Expense report. Why? Because (taking expense first) not concerned with whether an expense was paid for by a decrease in cash (from your wallet) or incr

Re: [GNC] Income Statement for specific Asset Account ?

2020-03-10 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/10/2020 12:59 PM, Long wrote: Hello Adrien Monteleone-2, I think P&L doesn't have ability to report for only my asset account. For example, i have Asset named "ME" and Assets named "You". each accounts have their own expenses - income. i want to have MONTHLY REPORT (Expense vs Income) for e

Re: [GNC] Income Statement for specific Asset Account ?

2020-03-11 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/10/2020 11:19 PM, Peter West wrote: Cash Flow is one of the Income & Expense reports in the Reports menu (on my Mac, anyway.) Peter -- Yes, grouped there. But as I have tried to point out, cash flow and income & expense are NOT the same. An entity cold be doing fine in terms of P&L bu

Re: [GNC] General Ledger

2020-03-18 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/18/2020 1:59 AM, Adrian Yong wrote: Thank you very much for your assistance. I submit the following to the auditors: 1) P&L 2) Balance Sheet 3) Journal 4) General Ledger 5) Funds(Cash) Flow Statement 6) Trial Balance That's because they don't use QuickBooks... Regards, Adrian All of the

Re: [GNC] General Ledger

2020-03-18 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/18/2020 1:52 PM, Stephen M. Butler wrote: Adrian, I give my CPA three items: 1.  Balance Sheet. 2.  Profit Loss statement 3.  Transaction Report of all transactions for the year sorted by account and then by date within account. That last is the "general ledger" (when for all accounts).

Re: [GNC] How to record Personal income tax ?

2020-03-19 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/19/2020 5:07 PM, Long wrote: Hello, So, Forget my question, Think in easier ways. What should i do in gnucash? when from January to June, my income is 3000 each month, and i will pay 1800 at june. (It's mean 10% of my total income: 18.000). I want to know that, my income is 3000$, and there

Re: [GNC] How to record Personal income tax ?

2020-03-20 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/20/2020 3:27 AM, Long wrote: Hello, Thank you so much for helping me, guys. I knew that, it's depend on my local. I just want to know cash flow for that problems in GnuCash. I had read some post after read your comment, and i see that, maybe i will not follow what you told me. You guys doin

Re: [GNC] Using GnuCash for cash-basis charity/fund accounting?

2020-03-22 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
I will make this simple. If you know how you would do this the old fashioned way, pen and ink on paper, then you can do it using gnucash. Using cash basis is easy provided you aren't invoicing (the business features assume accrual basis). The only complication I can see is the "donor reporting

Re: [GNC] How to start a new GC file for a new year?

2020-03-22 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/22/2020 2:42 AM, David Carlson wrote: A technique which has been mentioned in the past but not recently is to designate a backup file copy made at the same time as the year end reports as the final copy for the year. This could be manually marked read only by your file manager software. D

Re: [GNC] Using GnuCash for cash-basis charity/fund accounting?

2020-03-22 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/22/2020 5:27 PM, Edward Bainton wrote: Thank you all for these responses: very helpful indeed. It does indeed sound like GnuCash will do the job, with some gentle 'hacks' for our particular needs. I guess my only remaining question is how long it takes to learn it. I'm a bit of a geek (w

Re: [GNC] Backup Module

2020-03-24 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/24/2020 7:58 AM, lbo...@rogers.com wrote: Would it be possible to incorporate a backup module function into the menu bar, as a pull-down feature under the heading "File", as is commonly found in some programs? Backing up to the hardrive is currently automatic but saving to a disc or mem

Re: [GNC] Contingency Funds was: Re: How to record Personal income tax ?

2020-03-25 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
P/s: I saw that some people who always use some tricks when using GnuCash , like create some "Virtual" Account to manager their money, I DON'T LIKE THAT. Not a trick. Virtual accounts and for that matter books for virtual entities not some kind of "trick". They can be quite useful. Envelop

Re: [GNC] looking for quicken alternative

2020-03-27 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/27/2020 2:33 PM, David Carlson wrote: Ken, One issue that may be of concern to you is the way Gnucash tracks capital gains. It cannot follow tax law definitions exactly by default as that requires tracking expenses such as fees in a very complex way to apply partial fees to the cost basis

Re: [GNC] looking for quicken alternative

2020-03-28 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/27/2020 5:11 PM, Ken Cohen via gnucash-user wrote: thanks for your response. sounds like it is more spreadsheet type oriented, correct? Also, does this app connect to my bank and brokerage acct to download transactions? One of my brokerage accts trades frequently and entering all that b

Re: [GNC] Contingency Funds was: Re: How to record Personal income tax ?

2020-03-28 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/27/2020 9:11 PM, Long wrote: Hello David Cousens, Thank you for your help, I knew what i need to do if i choose "Accrual Accounting". What i'm asking you is : If the end of the year, I credit my Expense:Tax and debit Liability:Tax 2000$, at this time, on DECEMBER in my "Income Statement (mu

Re: [GNC] General Ledger

2020-03-29 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/28/2020 11:21 PM, Adrian Yong wrote: I can't change the file type... Neither can I access Excel by choosing Open With... Finally got to add file type extension .csv to filename. That worked... I think gnucash should either addd anothe filetype dialog box or advise users to add filetype ext

Re: [GNC] PayCheck, 401k, Accounts Setup Help

2020-03-29 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
There are other issues involved with the 401k. You need to decide WHAT information you want from your books and whether you want to get into complications like considering the conditional nature of some of it << for example, you might only over time be "vested" in those employer contributions

Re: [GNC] General Ledger

2020-03-30 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/29/2020 7:12 PM, Adrian Yong wrote: Hi Michael, *_Your Point No. 5 is interesting._* Gnucash's instruction is Export X to csv. One would be led to believe that the file type is automatically csv. But in reality, you are saying that it can export to any format provided you specify the

Re: [GNC] Customizing of trial balance report to have a standard appearance for auditors

2020-04-01 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
Dimitri, Two questions: 1) Are all of this data available from the report? Or if not, otherwise known (for example, maybe just end date but start date known as the date of the previous run --- I am a bit confused because like Balance Sheet, I thought a trial balance was "as of" some date and n

Re: [GNC] GNUCash beginner setup

2020-04-07 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 4/7/2020 4:30 PM, jess wrote: The opening balance in the previous message refers to the current balance I have on my bank account in real life. I was able to solve this too. It works for resolution if the imbalanced transactions are assigned an account inside the checking account transaction

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