Chris
The transfer account field entry is a list box. There should be a downward
pointing arrow at the right side of the box. If you click on that it should
bring up a pop-up list of accounts from which you can choose by left clicking
on one of the entries. Do you get the list coming up when you
Elmar,
The Nabble interface to the GnuCash mailing lists failed some 4-5 months ago and
has not been restored. It may simply have been whoever was administering that
may have given up. I find I can get a threaded list display using Mail Archive
e.g. https://www.mail-archive.com/gnucash-user@gnucas
Chris
Not sure what to suggest Chris. Works as described for V4.8 build on Linux Mint
20.2 which is Ubuntu 20.04.3.
David Cousens
On Sat, 2021-11-27 at 21:19 +, Chris Green wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 28, 2021 at 06:48:33AM +1000, davidcousen...@gmail.com wrote:
> > On Sat, 2021-11-27 at 15:53 +0
Billie,
Click in either the RH or LH panel then use Ctrl_A to select all transaction in
the panel to highlight all the transactions in that panle, then use either the
unreconcile selection or reconcile selection buttons in the toolbar.
David Cousens
On Thu, 2021-12-02 at 08:36 -0500, Billie-Inte
It is possible to import customer and vendor information separately from a
single text file( although there is no export facility at present for this
information which would simplify doing this). For dual customer/vendor you could
import the same data both as a customer and as a vendor.
David Cous
The barrier Mike is someone with the time and energy to maintain a ppa. The
reason Linux Mint (and other distros) freeze the versions they use is to reduce
their workload to maneagable proportions and to ensure that versions of other
software included witha n OS release will at least work with tha
Dave,
With the usual disclaimer that this should not be considered accounting advice
the following is a possible treatment.
In a conventional accounting treatment at the end of the year the temporary
income and Expense accounts are normally closed by transferring their balances
to equity. The ma
Mattio,
It is possible more correctly described as a discount on the expense so instead
of crediting an Income:Bonuses account you could credit what accountants call a
contra account to Expenses:Travel:Rental which couuld be named
Expenses:Travel:Rental:Discounts which sums into the parent expense
Mattio,
Since you receive the discount at the time you purchase the pack and it is
available to you at that point so that is really the point at which I would
record it.
David
On Mon, 2021-12-06 at 23:02 +0100, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> Hi David, Gyle.
>
> Thank you for your input. It looks bot
Kalpesh,
John's answer is pretty explicit. It is not, at least yet, a "true " currency
and as such does not obey the "rules" that financial regulation applies to true
currencies that allow their treatment as currencies. There needs to be a
regulated international system of financial exchange which
Dave,
The EORI is not accounting or financial information per se but business
information and it is specific to a particular jurisdiction. It may be
appropriate for it to appear on business reports in which case you could
prepare custom reports for your business that include it. GnuCash mainta
Kalpesh
Another thing to be wary of. The scammers love bitcoin no regulation no
protections:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-12-08/cryptocurrency-scams-targeting-australians-losing-millions/100678848
David
On Tue, 2021-12-07 at 14:19 -0500, Kalpesh Patel wrote:
> Why not to set this up as a tr
Dave,
Depreciation rules are generally set by your taxation system and your accountant
will likely be reflecting those rules that apply in your jurisdiction. If you
are going to do the depreciation calculations then you will need to become
acquainted with the rules in your jurisdiction. Rules may
Gyle
With one caveat. If the item is a capital item and its intended use is over a
period which is longer than a single accounting period it would not normally be
regarded as an expense but as a capital purchase. Most jurisdictions will have a
threshhold value where the item can be expensed immedi
Dustin and Dave,
As always with GnuCash the priority accorded to an item is a weighted decision
based on the need and the availability of developer time against other
priorities. The principal weighting is the availability of someone in the
development team (by no means a fixed resource outside th
Dave,
Provisions usually fulfil the same purpose as reserves, i.e. it is capital in
equity reserved by by the board of directors to meet some specific purpose, in
this case expected future liabilities of the company, usually something like a
law suit in progress which may result in a future liabi
Works fine in GnuCash 4.8 on Linux Mint 20.2 (including whenusing a dark theme).
The blue highlight bar appears under the colored tab when a tab is selected as
the active tab. What OS?
David Cousens
On Sun, 2021-12-12 at 22:42 -0800, AC wrote:
> After having gotten the main registers to all use d
John,
What exactly were the commands you ran to build GnuCash and the directories they
were run from. The other useful information is the location of the directories
containing the source code and where the build directory is located realtive to
the source code directories. If ninja does not build
Patrick,
You obviously tried the reports. The most general report is the Transactionn
report which you can set to view the transactions in any one account or
combination of accounts. The trick with reports is when the report comes up its
options are set to default values. If you then choose the Ed
David,
Patrick's recording is perfectly valid if his purchase of stock is a capital
expense, i.e. it is intended that the asset will be consumed over more thanone
accounting period, and not simply within the current period in which latter
case it is a direct expense expense.
The transactio
Jesse,
It would appear that you are trying to setup the accounts to reflect the entry
for part 3D of the Statement of Business Activities in the tax form. This is not
the right way to go about setting up a process for obtaining the desired
information.
The opening and closing Inventory values wi
Rogier,
It would appear on the surface that somehow you did not reconcile the two
transactions which remained marked as "n" which means not cleared("c) or not
reconciled("y"). How ? Unfortunately without knowing exactly what you did
during the reconciliation process it will be hard for anyone to
Jeff,
You may find this page helpful to unistall the flatpak version.
https://www.systutorials.com/docs/linux/man/1-flatpak-uninstall/
How did you install GC 4.2. If you built it from source and still have the
source and build directories it was installed from theneither
$sudo ninja uninstall
or
Jeff,
Just built GC4.9 on Linux Mint 20.2 (Ubuntu 20.04 based) with no problems. Give
it a go and come back to the forum with the terminal output if there are any
problems. You can select any terminal output and cut and paste it into a text
file then attache the text file to the post to avoid p
Tim,
Any changes to the gtk setup files are going to be inunder
/home//.config/gnucash. If you check the date accessed for gtk3.0.css in
the filemanager. This should be the date and time you last started GnuCash. You
may need to aldd the date Accessed to the display window. Right click on the
head
See this post
https://www.mail-archive.com/gnucash-user@gnucash.org/msg27927.html
there is a script problem that requires a patch in 4.8. will be fixed in 4.9
David Cousens
On Mon, 2021-12-20 at 12:58 -0500, M wrote:
> I'm having an issue building gnucash, but I am not an expert and am sure
>
David H, David,
An obvious place to display the search criteria might be in the status bar when
the Search tab is selected. Multiple criteria may cause some problems however
David Cousens
On Tue, 2021-12-21 at 09:25 +1000, David H wrote:
> David,
>
> Short answer I don't think you can unfortuna
Tim,
Good to see its fixed although I don't really understand why. I downloaded and
built from the .bz2 file without any problems and I extract it using the Archive
Manager which AFAIK is the Ubuntu manager. It may have to do with what zip tools
you are using, I have both installed and presumably
Patrick,
Are you setting up accounts for the business or accounts for your personal
finance? I am assuming these are the business acounts.
If you purchase itmes for the business are you intending to refund the money to
your personal accounts or are you making a contribution to the capital of the
Jeff,
Admittedly the Build on Linux documentation does assume some degree of
familiarity with building software in general. The info is not too far out of
date but I haven't updated installing the depnedencies of GC 4.x. The main
reason is that many of us do not start from a pristine newly insta
Stephen, Jeff
Try
$apt-cache search libboost
This will list the libboost options available to install from apt. If libboost-
program-options1.71-dev is not listed it is possible that there will be a
generic version libboost-program-options-dev or libboost-program-options1.67-
dev or possibly ev
David,
The issues with building GC4.9 on Ubuntu 20.04 are likely relatively minor as
far as I can see, and mainly those that first time builders of GnuCash encounter
with getting the dpendencies and build environment setup and enough familiarity
with the process to be able to avoid the common mist
Jeff,
In another thread David Whiting has provided scripts to install GnuCash 4.9 on
either Ubuntu 21.10 or 20.04 which are now posted on the Wiki her at
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building_On_Linux#Ubuntu. There are slight
differences between the 21.10 and 20.04 scripts. I have attached a co
Jeff,
One other addition. The Wiki page referenced in the previous post says you must
open
Software and Updates
and ensure that
Source code
is ticked for the script to work.
David Cousens
On Sun, 2021-12-26 at 23:58 -0600, Jeff wrote:
> On 12/26/21 1:32 PM, Stephen M. Butler wrote:
> > On 1
Mahon,
A few comments from a largely accounting perspective.
If your previous reconciliations have been correct, then the opening balance in
GnuCash should be exactly the same as the opening balance in your external
statement. If it is not, a previous reconciliation is incorrect and there is no
po
David,
It seems reasonable to me that if the information on a transaction is changed,
particularly dates and amounts, that any splits reconciled in another account
would be unreconciled to force checking that they remain correctly reconciled.
I generally note if other reconciled accounts are aff
Rogier,
Have to agree with Adrien and David Carlson that redoing everything from Dec2020
is the hard way to fix the problem. If you can identify the transaction(s)
which were incorrect at that time and then fix then they will be unreconciled
but will appear in the reconciliation window panes at t
Rogier
When you transfer account to a new set of books, you would record the opening
balances of the Asset and Liability accounts against the Opening balances
entries in Equity.
Asset entries will be a debit to the asset account and a credit to the opening
balances account and Liabilities a cre
Mike
It is quite likely that the wiki is wrong. I wrote that several years ago from a
pre-existing version and as I never use the installation to /opt but use
/usr/local I possible did not get the final install directory and/or the prefix
for the cmake command correct. It may also be possible th
Chuck
This is the wiki article Adrien was referring to
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations. This details the
configuration locations for each OS type (Windows Mac , Linux) About halway
down the page there are some links to diagrams
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_D
Steve,
The trick is to change ithe filename so that there is no datetime stamp as part
of the filename i.e. change
"_20220102103645{_[[_[...]]].gnucash" to
"filename>.gnucash" then use File->Open to open it. Substitute your timestamp
for what I have used and ignore th [] if you only have one times
Jeff,
If you are having difficulty Jeff you will have to tell us exactly what you have
done and which commands you have entered into the terminal and exactly what the
terminal output is to each command. We are not mind readers and we are not on
your system so unless you tell us we do not know what
Gyle,
Export it as Excel, load it up in Excel and export it from there as CSV. GnuCash
has always read Excel's CSV exports AFAIK (I use Libre Ofiice these days and it
certainly works with LO).
You should also be able to set the date format in the CSV import dialog. It will
likely default to the fo
On Sat, 2022-01-08 at 02:44 -0600, Jeff wrote:
> On 1/8/22 1:42 AM, david whiting wrote:
> > On Sat, 8 Jan 2022 at 07:33, Jeff wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> > > Not sure if any of this is related or not to unsuccessful builds. Side
> > > note: your shell runs and completes but; now I'll be flipped if I
On Sun, 2022-01-09 at 01:56 -0600, Jeff wrote:
> On 1/8/22 4:24 PM, davidcousen...@gmail.com wrote:
> > On Sat, 2022-01-08 at 02:44 -0600, Jeff wrote:
> > > On 1/8/22 1:42 AM, david whiting wrote:
> > > > On Sat, 8 Jan 2022 at 07:33, Jeff wrote:
> > > > [...]
> > > >
> > > > > Not sure if any of
Jeff
Don't know if it will help, but I would be inclined to disable the sicklylife
ppa while your are attempting to build gnucash from sources. I think you should
be able to disable it without deleting it entirely from the Software Sources. I
can't see anything else there that is likely to cause p
FinBar,
It depends what the cheque your wife received was for. If it was a reimbursement
of money she had previously paid out then it gets deducetedfrom the associated
expense account as it will have reduced the value of the expense to you.
If it was payment for services rendered then it is incom
Heide
As William Precott suggested you will have to upgrade in steps, first to V 3
then 4. There are sometimes changes in format of the data file, configuration
and user preference files at those major version boundaries. The next version
usually includes a run once procedure which will rearrange
Steve,
You will have to map Quicken/Quickbooks categories onto accounts in Gnucash.
These will be either Income or Expense accounts for the majority of cases and
are created as subaccounts of the top level Asset, liability Equity, Income and
Expense placeholder accounts in GnuCash. Ideally you sho
Also https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v4/C/gnucash-help/import-qif.html
David
On Mon, 2022-01-17 at 16:12 -0500, Steve Conley wrote:
> I have been trying for 5 days now to chunk Quicken and start using gnucash.
> ANY CLUES will be sincerely appreciated.
>
> The immediate problem I am trying to solv
Dan
GnuCash will create a log file and a backup file copy each time it exits and
depending on you preference settings will usually keep a fixed number of them in
the same directory as the mainfile. It is good practice to keep your mainfile in
its own directory for this reason. The trick is to pic
I have been using GnuCash from a dropbox folder linked to both my laptop,
desktop and my wifes tablet for 8-9 years with no prolems as long as only one
device opens it at a time. GnuCash is not a simulataneous multiuser application.
can't see why OneDrive would be any different.
David Cousens
On T
Paul
As long as you post the initial estimates of the Sales fees etc that you make to
Expense or Income accounts as appropriate as well as any interim or point of
sale adjustments, then the approach you are using should be OK. You will need to
preserve whatever your tax authority defines as the c
Stan
When you have the report set as the main tab, the Edit Menu will have a Report
Options in the pop-up. Select it then change the values to those you require and
close the dialogue and the report will display with the selected options.
David Cousens
On Fri, 2022-01-21 at 09:01 -0700, bonopo
Peter,
Stan's procedure is fine for creating a new file going forward.
If you want to bring your previous file up to date so it works with the latest
version the following procedure as outlined by Adrien in an earlier post today
is recommended.
https://www.mail-archive.com/gnucash-user@gnucash.or
Dan,
This really has nothing to do with crash recovery per se, just makes that easier
as it is easier to locate the appropriate files.
You can move an existing data file to its own directory by using the file
manager to create a suitable directory and then moving the main data file and
any backup
Art,
>From an accounting perspective you can use any combination of sub-accounts you
like/need to provide the information you need for either taxation and/or
management purposes.
If there is no need to differentiate dividend and STCG for taxation purposes and
you don't need to for your own inves
heidi,
It would appear you don't understand the basis of double entry accounting which
is what is used in accounting practice generally and by GnuCash.
The Tutorial and Concepts Guide for GnuCash,
https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v4/C/gnucash-guide/index.html, has a brief outline
of the basis of th
Peter,
First could you please respond to the individual meassages or if you do respond
to the digest please change the subject in your reply to that of the message you
are responding to in the digest. The digest is a summary of a day's posts and
contains posts from multiple threads and we don't kn
It looks OK but the test is how it actually imports.
If you have not imported to that set of books previously the import procedure
will run a dialogue to match the entries in the Account column to internal
accounts. AFAIK that dialogue has a button which will allow you to create new
accounts wher
Rhonda,
I had a similar problem recently. GNuCash would not remember my datafile and
defaulted back to the default data settings on my laptop which I had not
upgraded in parallel with my desktop and I could not change any of the user
settings. This was a problem with gsettings which stores the
It is not necessarilya problem at all. It is just a warning that your current
reconciliation has splits which affect other accounts which may have already
been reconciled. Unless you have had to change the split to the account you are
currently reconciling to achieve the reconcilaition which could
Don
Don,
If you are recording a purchase you made it would be a credit to your bank
account and a debit to the expense account.
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Don
This depends a lot on your bank. Most will at least allow downloads of OFX or
CSV files from their websites which you can then import (Australia - banks
generally don't allow OFX DirectConnect unless you are using Quicken or MYOB
with whom they seem to have struck a deal). In the US and Europ
Richard,
The only file you absolutely need to copy is the main data file. Copy it to a
suitable location on WIndows and use file open to open it.
The following wiki page https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations ha
s information about where the configuration information is stored in
Fernando,
The purpose you are using the information for will determine the optimal
structure of the chart of accounts. Some information will be primarily for
taxation and business records and other information you will likely use
primarily for management purposes. How you access and use that infor
Martin,
The Starting balance is the net sum of all reconciled (marked with 'y' in the
reconciliation column) and credit entries for the account you are reconciling.
Identify whether the indicated starting balance is under or over what you expect
it to be from your external statement. This will te
In principle, GnuCash has the basic facility for setting this up in the form of
the key-value pair structure as far as the transaction data structure goes. With
this you could add tags/classes/categories to the transaction data structure
fairly simply. With a key "Tag" or similar and whatever valu
Shevach,
I think you need to step back and understand the way in which double entry book
keeping/accounting works. There is a section labellsed basic in the Tutorial and
Concepts Guide which explains the basic concepts.
https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v4/C/gnucash-guide/chapter_basics.html.
Wikipedi
Dennis
The “-rwxr-xr-x” are the file permissions.
There are normally 10 characters in the string. The first is usually "d" or "-"
with d indicating that the entry is a file directory rather than a file.
The other nine are arranged in three groups of three each group of three being
the permissio
David
Does Reports->Business->Customer Summary from the menu (GC4.9) not meet your
requirements or is it specificaly a listing of the customer contact information
you need. Unfortunately that is not currently available.
David Cousens
On Sun, 2022-02-13 at 13:08 +, davidvernonl...@gmail.
The only way GnuCash can possibly know which of multiple cards a transaction is
from is if that information is somehow contained in the data fields of the
record that is being imported, usually something in the description field.
GnuCash tokenizes the information in a number of fields including the
The thing is Don all those other software packages charge you an arm and a leg
in most cases for their software. This allows them have paid development teams
who customize their products for each specific jurisdictions in which they
operate.
GNuCash does not. GnuCash is used internationally in a
Don
There sould be no need to play the logfiles on simply moving to a new system.
All that should really be necessary is to copy the data file from one system to
the other. If you were using any save reports, these can also be copied. the
data file has the format .gnucash. if you copy that to a
There are a number of issues with your bookkeeping.
The first major one is that when a book is sold you are debiting a Revenue
account and crediting an A/R (accounts receivable) account. This is incorrect
When you sell a book you are increasing the balance of the revenue/income
account and simul
Jim,
You only need to create an invoice where you are extending credit to a vendor -
i.e. time to pay. if the item is a cash purchase you could simply open a
transaction from the appropriate asset account register and credit the amount of
the purchase to the appropriate asset bank account and debi
On Tue, 2022-02-22 at 10:49 -0700, Mario Nigrovic wrote:
> Many years ago, I had used gnucash, and was pretty happy with it. I was
> very careful to make regular backups of my data, and so, when my disk
> inevitably crashed, I was not too worried. However, I was mortified to
> discover that, althou
Paul
You can copy the report to a spreadsheet by selecting the report tab, selecting
all the content using Ctrl-A, copy it with Ctrl-C and paste it into your
favourite spreadsheet. Works into LibreOffice Calc and should work equally with
Excel. You can then save it either as CSV or in the spreadsh
When importing your checking account, if the item has already been imported as a
transaction to your credit card, then if GnuCash recognizes it the "A" column
will be unchecked and the record will not be imported and either the "U" column
will be checked if the record being imported has additional
Leo
Just export your account tree (File_>Export_>Export Account Tree to CSV) and
reimport it into your new set of books.
David cousens
On Tue, 2022-03-01 at 22:14 +, Leo Bolta via gnucash-user wrote:
> Hello, I moved from my home country about 4 months ago and did keep track of
> expenses fr
Jesse,
That is exactly what the Aqbanking interface does. It depends upon your bank
allowing OFXDirectConnect. Some banks in some countries do not allow this. There
is a lot of dscussion about setting up the aqbanking For setting this up see
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Setting_up_OFXDirectConnec
Arthur,
If you have the Accounts tab showing in the GnuCash interface, the menu item
Actions->New Account Heirarchy will run a dialogue which allows you to choose
specific account options.
The first step selects the currency for the accounts you are going to add which
will be your local currency
On Sat, 2022-03-05 at 20:26 +, arthur brogard via gnucash-user wrote:
> Not sure if I'm doing this right. Hitting 'reply' on the email address of a
> poster that I want to respond to and putting a 'cc' in for
> gnucash-user@gnucash.org
Arthur
If you put gnucash-user@gnucash.org in the To: fie
On Sat, 2022-03-05 at 19:29 -0700, 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?
By first opening the report by selecting the required report from the Reports
menu then s
Arthur,
The option of using cash or accrual accounting is not necessarily totally a
choice on your part. It will likely depend upon the taxation legislation in your
jurisdiction. Many jurisdictions have a threshold on either turnover or income
below which the individual business has the option of
AFAIK it has not been used since V2.6.
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations
David Cousens
On Wed, 2022-03-09 at 13:04 -0800, Dean Gibson wrote:
> Is the directory .gnucash still used by v4.9?
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Henrik,
I doubt if the reliability problem you are experiencing is intrinsically in
GnuCash itself although it may be associated with the library used to connect to
MMySQL.
GnuCash is not designed for multiple access in particular, i.e. multiple users
cannot simultaneously access the same data
Arthur,
The Accounts Receivable account is an asset account which means it is debited
to increase its balance and credited to decrease its balance. You want to it to
have a negative balance by the amount your tenant is in credit.
Manually nter a transaction at the date you opened the books with
Frederick
GnuCash also does not have support for full cost management accounting as well
as not having inventory accounting which is just one component of cost
management accounting. It requires a different form of jobs from that
implemented in the business features. It can be done manually with t
George
Have you tried changing the number of sub-account levels in the report options?
(Edit->Report Options with the report open). It may be possible that changing
from the default level of 3 and/or changing the option to flatten the account
structure (you can always change it back again if the r
Jeff,
Follow David Whitings suggestion creating multiple desktop entries in the file,
one for each separate datafile you need to open, changing the name in the Name
entry and the filepath in the Exec entry as appropriate.
You can locate/put the desktop file in your home directory at
/home//.local
Arthur,
The properties themselves will be recorded as asset account and the mortgages as
liability accounts in GnuCash and as they are generally long term assets would
not be recorded as current assets (unless you trade in properties). An account
of the form Asset:Non-current:Properties:property1
On Tue, 2022-03-29 at 09:40 +, avigr...@juno.com wrote:
> What is the filename that GnuCash uses to store the data? I need to know what
> filename I am looking for when I do my search for it.
Whatever name you gave it when you created it. It will have the file extension
".gnucash" so look for
Karin
It is not an expense but a liability. When you open the Budget you can expand
the liability accounts and enter budget amounts against the liability account
for the loan/mortgage at the period the payments are due. If necessary you can
change the budget interval to suit.
A reduction in the
Rich
Have been using GnuCash for a similar period of time and have not noticed any
reconciliation problems (other than those reported as bugs on the list - any
that are are generally fixed pretty quickly) up to v4.9, particulaarly in recent
versions. Haven't yet done a reconciliation with 4.10.
Rich,
One possible cause for this is a transaction (or more) accidentally entered
since the time you were last getting correct reconciliations at a date sometime
in the past. This has occurred for me sometimes when I have mistyped a date
entry, particularly the year, on entry. e.g date went in as
Heide,
The recommended procedure when updating GnuCash from an old version to a newer
version is to first update to the last minor version of the major series number
, e.g. for 2.6 this is I think either 2.6.19 or 2.6.21 before up grading to the
3.x series. If you are up grading to version 4.xyou
Jeff
Another approach you could try would be to create a temporary account in your
dad's books and move the transactions that should have gone into your account
into it. Should work if all of the transactions have at least one account in
common , e.g. an Asset; bank account or similar. if not
Jeff
Someonelse suggested using the find transaction search if there is some common
string you can search for.
David
On Sat, 2022-04-16 at 00:32 -0500, 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 legal
Chris,
In around 12 years of using GnuCash on Linux, I could probably count on one hand
the number of times I have had to type in the full filename and extension or
even search for the location of GnuCash data files. At least with the ".gnucash"
extension there is little chance of a clash with ano
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