I'm importing a large number of transactions into GnuCash. I want to speed
up entering the expense category (account) of transactions, especially for
credit card transactions. (I know these are called accounts in GnuCash, but
I mean "account" like "auto expenses", and "home repair expenses", not
"a
anation at
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Quicken_Migration.";
On Sun, Aug 13, 2023, 12:22 PM john wrote:
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> On Aug 13, 2023, at 07:13, Tom Balazs wrote:
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> (I know these are called accounts in GnuCash, but
> I mean "account" like "auto expenses", and
I'm importing transactions into a checking account. Why do all transaction
amounts go into the deposits column?
I'm trying to import transactions one month at a time for a checking
account.
I have a CSV file with one month of transactions. I went through the
Transaction Import Assistant / Import P
I'm importing checking account transactions from a CSV file.
I see that in the Transaction Import Assistant I can
A. Choose Account at the top of the Assistant (Import Preview), where I
would designate it Checking Account #1
OR I can
B. Choose Account as a column heading. Where I would designate i
Problem solved: the withdrawal columns were all negative numbers. I changed
them to positive and it worked correctly.
On Sun, Sep 3, 2023 at 9:20 AM Tom Balazs wrote:
> I'm importing transactions into a checking account. Why do all transaction
> amounts go into the deposits colu
nmapped. I still have to "Select a Row to Change the Mappings".
That's pretty good. And if there are multiple "Expenses:Auto:Fuel", I'm
still just mapping it once. And this avoids any chance that GnuCash will
just create new accounts on import.
On Sun, Sep 3, 2023 at 11
What is the best report to use if I want to show all my expenses for
TimePeriodX broken down by account (e.g. Expense:Groceries, Expense:Auto,
Expense:Restaurant).
And how do I view trends over time (e.g. last month "Expense:Restaurant"
seemed high, but show me "Expense:Restaurant" each month for t
I'm a GnuCash and Android user. I'm liking GnuCash on Ubuntu. Now I'm
looking for an Android bookkeping app.
Something where I import my Chart of Accounts to it. I want to enter
transactions on a daily basis, export transactions as CSV, and then then
import the CSV to GnuCash. Preferably a free
been modified in about 4 years
https://github.com/dsolonenko/financisto
On Thu, Sep 7, 2023 at 10:57 AM Tom Balazs wrote:
> I'm a GnuCash and Android user. I'm liking GnuCash on Ubuntu. Now I'm
> looking for an Android bookkeping app.
>
> Something where I import my Cha
I exported the Chart of Accounts out of GnuCash, in CSV format. I want to
import that to Financisto (Android). I think I did that in the past. In
Financisto, the Menu / CSV Import seems to be for importing transactions.
Under Accounts I can create an account, but I don't see where I would
import a
Is it possible to reconcile April-May if I have not reconciled March-April
or February-March?
I guess I'm asking because I used the GnuCash Reconcile featurer and it
appears to me that I can't. That seems strange to me. I just want GnuCash
to give me a kind of a worksheet where it shows me transac
When I click Help / Tutorial and Concepts Guide I get the error message
"The URI ‘ghelp:gnucash-guide’ does not point to a valid page."
When I search my hard disk I
see /usr/share/doc/gnucash-docs/gnucash-help-en/ which has the "GnuCash
Help Manual" in it, in HTML format.
How do I fix this link s
I'm having trouble understanding the GnuCash Reconciliation window.
Specifically, the Ending Balance, Reconciled Balance, and Difference.
Note: I'm not using GnuCash for my personal finances. And I'm not doing
that because I'm good with my finances. I have struggled with this stuff.
You may want t
se Balanced Accounts is:
Income and Expense: unchecked
Credit Accounts: checked
None: unchecked
I'm using:
GnuCash 4.8
Ubuntu 22
On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 1:01 PM Tom Balazs wrote:
> I'm having trouble understanding the GnuCash Reconciliation window.
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dit card for the type of account.
>
> Dale
> PS Always send mail to the list, too.
>
> On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 3:50 PM Tom Balazs wrote:
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>> I see that Reverse Balanced Accounts is:
>> Income and Expense: unchecked
>> Credit Accounts: checked
>>
n, Nov 27, 2023 at 4:57 PM Tom Balazs wrote:
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>> This statement period begins with a negative balance, so the very first
>> transaction (the first in the whole ledger) is in the right column, it is a
>> "charge" for $9,851.37.
>> Where a business refunded
I finished importing and reconciling months of bank data. Now I want to put
that to good use.
For the case of an individual or a family, what are the most useful reports?
Common advice is that your emergency savings account should hold enough to
cover 6 months of expenses. In order to to do that,
Tue, Dec 5, 2023 at 9:48 AM Tom Balazs wrote:
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>> I finished importing and reconciling months of bank data. Now I want to
>> put
>> that to good use.
>>
>> For the case of an individual or a family, what are the most useful
>> reports?
>>
>> Com
How do I navigate to the correct style sheet to edit it?
On Wed, Dec 6, 2023, 7:06 PM R Losey wrote:
> I haven't tried to change column widths. I expect that you may need to
> edit the Style Sheets, but I have not attempted to do so.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 5, 2023 at 7:
I'm using Financisto+ on my Android phone. So I am often exporting
transactions from that, and importing them into GnuCash. Is there an option
where I can view the transactions I just imported? So they appear on one
page, as if I did a Find in GnuCash. I think I came across that once, but I
can't f
I want to attach an image of a bill to a transaction.
I click Manage Document Link.
I get "Path head not set, using "/home/tom/" for relative paths.
Is that the best Path to use?
Where does GnuCash begin navigating from?
I would like the path to be relative so that if I move all my GnuCash files
to
I want to add accounts to my chart of accounts.
I need to add a Rollover IRA (which is a cash account).
And I need to add a Trust, which is a brokerage account (the financial
institution calls it a Resource Management Account)
On the institution's website I can see that it contains mutual funds,
co
I went to reconcile a recent credit card statement today. But I noticed
something was incorrect. I traced back a problem to about three months
prior. Apparently what happened is that my credit card statements were
reconciled. But recently I reconciled a few months worth of statements for
a checking
The problem with the Reconcile Window Start Balance went away after I did
more reconciling.
Searching for an error in a statement reconciled 6 months ago is a real
pain. I hope I don't have to do that again.
On Sat, Mar 30, 2024 at 11:14 AM Tom Balazs wrote:
> I went to reconcile
select
> "Unreconciled" ?
>
> Cheers David H.
>
>
> On Sun, 31 Mar 2024 at 01:59, Tom Balazs wrote:
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>> The problem with the Reconcile Window Start Balance went away after I did
>> more reconciling.
>> Searching for an error in a statement reconcil
I'm using Android Financisto+. I export transactions out of that. Then I
import those into GnuCash. But why does GnuCash mark them as Cleared? In
the Import Preview window I see a column Financisto+ created called Status
and the transactions get "2" in that field. Is that the "Reconciled /
Cleared"
I don't understand why GnuCash marks the transactions as "c" Cleared.
Financisto+ creates a row at the top of the CSV file which has the
Financisto+ column headers. In the Import Preview I tell it to skip that
top row.
When importing the CSV file I select columns for Date, Account, Amount,
Transf
I don't understand why GnuCash marks the transactions as "c" Cleared.
Financisto+ creates a row at the top of the CSV file which has the
Financisto+ column headers. In the Import Preview I tell it to skip that
top row.
When importing the CSV file I select columns for Date, Account, Amount,
Transf
In the Import / Match Transactions window, the "A" column is marked.
After I complete the Import, I go to look at the transactions and they are
marked "c" Cleared.
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On Tue, Apr 2, 2024 at 10:41 AM Tom Balazs wrote:
double clicking on it will bring up
> another dialogue box with a list of transactions it believe matches or are
> similar from which you can select on that it should match with.
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Tom Balazs
> Sent: Friday, December 22, 2023 7:02 AM
> To: Post to Gnu
> suggested that only came into play for QIF imports but it may apply to CSV
> imports as well in the new CSV importer, I am not sure.
>
> On Tue, Apr 2, 2024 at 11:46 AM Tom Balazs wrote:
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>> Yes, I see that.
>> But I mean that GnuCash should take me to a tab that loo
I
check that box, then GnuCash will take me to the main app and there is a
tab named "Created Transactions". There I can see the transactions which
were just created.
That is what I want to see for Imported Transactions.
On Tue, Apr 2, 2024 at 12:45 PM Tom Balazs wrote:
> Yes, I
Thank you. I filed the bug at
https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=799269
On Thu, Apr 4, 2024 at 9:06 PM Christopher Lam
wrote:
> Hi, enhancements should be logged in bugs.gnucash.org
>
> On Fri, 5 Apr 2024, 8:56 am Tom Balazs, wrote:
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>> >I think it already does t
You may need to research inventory management systems. Here is one link I
found
"8 Best Free and Open Source Inventory Management Software Systems"
https://www.goodfirms.co/inventory-management-software/blog/best-free-open-source-inventory-management-software-systems
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Right now I'm struggling with the Income and Expense Line Chart. I want to
print it out to show it to my partner. When I choose to print landscape, it
still prints portrait, and it cuts off the edges. Trying various save and
export methods have not yielded better results.
Tom
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> If I get receipts e-mailed, is there a way to link them to an expense or
asset?
GnuCash has a way to link a digital file to a transaction.
https://gnucash.org/docs/v5/C/gnucash-manual/trans-assoc.html
But it's not reliable. As soon as you change the file name, or the name of
the folder, or move
And just now I looked at the bottom of the reconcile window, and it says,
"Warning! Account contains splits whose reconcile date is after the
statement date. Reconciliation may be difficult."
Is that because I what I wrote about in my previous email?
On Fri, Nov 8, 2024 at 2:10 PM
"Starting Balance (fixed from last reconciliation)"
I'm now trying to reconcile a statement which is earlier in time than the
(later) month I reconciled yesterday. Could that be messing up the
"starting balance" in the reconcile window?
I'm trying to reconcile a past credit card statement. This is
How do you store all the paperwork related to your bookkeeping? Sorry if
this is a bit off topic.
I now file all incoming (bookkeeping related) paper mail in a series of
3-ring binders. Occasionally, I move older statements to an "archive"
folder and store them in another room. I don't really want
, present, and future
> (if you happen to accidentally create a transaction in the future and
> reconcile it).
>
> David T.
> On Nov 9, 2024, at 2:36 AM, Tom Balazs wrote:
>>
>> I guess my situation has be anticipated
>>
>> From the manual:
>> Under
uses the Special Accounts:Orphan-XXX account (where "XXX" represents your
currency). The
Reconcile window will close; re-opening it will allow you to check the
newly-created balancing
entry and finish the process.
On Fri, Nov 8, 2024 at 2:10 PM Tom Balazs wrote:
> "Starting B
any
> transactions showing up in the debits and credit panes which are before
> the start date of the current reconciliation?
>
> David Cousens
>
>
> On Wed, 2025-01-01 at 15:24 -0500, Tom Balazs wrote:
> > I'm trying to reconcile a credit card statement from a few
Thank you. There were some transactions marked as reconciled which occurred
later than the ending date of the month I'm trying to reconcile. Now I have
the correct beginning balance. That should solve the problem.
Tom
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Since no one else has pointed it out, I will.
The starting b
I just imported a bunch of credit card transactions from a CSV file. I
imported them into a liability credit card account, positive values, column
title "amount".
But they all the purchases / charge transactions went into the "payment"
column, not the "charge" column. All the other info imported fi
I'm trying to reconcile a credit card statement from a few months back and
it still doesn't reconcile, even though I've gone over all the transactions
multiple times.
But when I click Actions / Reconcile the "Reconcile Transactions" window
opens.
I see (maybe) the source of the problem in the "Sta
What's the best way to track a company's long term incentive program, where
I get shares in the company, unvested, but then they are vested later.
What accounts would I create?
What transactions would I create?
I'm not concerned about daily stock prices, but I think I should
occasionally update th
Thank you to all of you for your helpful comments. I'll post again after I
have a chance to implement your suggestions.
Tom
On Sun, Apr 6, 2025 at 6:21 PM flywire wrote:
> Let's kick this off...
>
> Say you have an Assets:Brokerage Account:Stock:AMZN account from (
> https://www.gnucash.org/d
Hi,
I got a bunch of credit card statements correctly reconciled, then
something got messed up. Maybe changes I made to transactions in the
checking account (such as payments made to pay down credit card balance)
messed up the credit card account.
But now when I go to re-reconcile the credit card
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