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

Ken All accounts have a currency associated with them. When you hold an asset, you hold it at a value in a particular currency, not as an item of indeterminate value. You would require an inventory (which GnuCash does not have to hold the items and in inventory accounting each item still has a val

Re: [GNC] Whole life insurance

Fred, You will need a statement from the insurance company which details what component of the premium credited to your bank account when you pay it) is a contribution/increase to the capital value of the asset which is the insurance policy (debited to the account representing the policy and whic

Re: [GNC] Reinstall GnuCash after Ubuntu upgrade to 22.04

David Tommy etal As Ubuntu and Linux Mint are ultimately Debian based it should be possible to install using dpkg or the Gdebi installer (you may need to install this on Ubuntu -in terminal - "sudo apt install gdebi - but it is the default installer in Linux Mint) from http://ftp.us.debian.org/deb

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

Unfortunately GnuCash doesn't work that way AFAIK. Depending on your OS you may be able to create separate launchers in the Desktop menufor each specific file and name them accordingly. I know this will work on Linux Mint and likely Ubuntu variants but not sure on other OS. The command issued by t

Re: [GNC] Help with GnuCash's 'help'

Chris The online version of Help and the Tutorial and Concepts Guide are not really searchable in any meaningful sense from within the HTML page. Other versions may be I have more luck using Google directly to find specific topics and info. The section you are likely looking for comes under "Set

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

Chris, If you start multiple programs from the directory a set of bash scripts which change to the appropriate directory and run the set of programs for each set of books you work on might be useful. You could launch the scipts from either the Ubuntu menu or from desktop launchers. David Cousens

Re: [GNC] GNC Fails to load Data File

Bruce use your file explorer to locate your data file then use File Open from the menu inside GnuCash to navigate to that position, select the data file. The newly installed version has no memory of where Flatpak kne the file was located us the config/user preference information where the last file

Re: [GNC] GNC Fails to load Data File

David, Bruce The type Spreadsheet is the same independent of whether the data file is stored in sqlite3 or xml format on Linux. I can't test the other database formats at this point. David Cousens On Sun, 2022-05-01 at 06:42 +1000, David H wrote: > Bruce, > > To me the screenshot of your file n

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