Re: [GNC] Forces Rebalance Causes Fatal Error - Now with images

2024-11-02 Thread Griffin
On 2024-10-30 2:56 p.m., Griffin wrote: Hi, I am trying to reconcile accounts that have got way behind. They are stock (options) trades that might have been entered before I understood how trading accounts should be setup. When I view the register for the account, I notice some of the

[GNC] Forces Rebalance Causes Fatal Error

2024-10-31 Thread Griffin
Hi, I am trying to reconcile accounts that have got way behind. They are stock (options) trades that might have been entered before I understood how trading accounts should be setup. When I view the register for the account, I notice some of the records display a box with a square in it, in

Re: [GNC] Duplicating Account

2024-10-31 Thread Griffin
ccount On 2024-10-30 04:49, Mark Penner wrote: Oct 30, 2024 02:59:23 Griffin : Is it possible to duplicate an account? Sounds like an XY problem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem What are you trying to do? Cool! I saw this phenomenon frequently in my days in software tech support, but

[GNC] Duplicating Account

2024-10-30 Thread Griffin
Is it possible to duplicate an account? -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. www.avast.com ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://list

[GNC] Liabilities vs Expenses.

2024-11-22 Thread Griffin
i.e. rent, utilities, etc. If that is the case, would I place a debt onto the liability at the statement date, and then payment when I make a payment. Does it really make any difference to anything? Thanks Griffin -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus sof

[GNC] Dealing With Tax To Pay On Stocks

2024-11-23 Thread Griffin
Hello, I am in Canada and I trade US stocks via TD Active Trader. The confirmations I receive identify, for the buy leg, the gross transaction amount and the commission. For the sell leg they identify those two as well as the tax to pay My hierarchy is USD - Assets         USD - Trading Acc

Re: [GNC] Get Quotes from Price Database not returning GBP and USD

2024-12-03 Thread Griffin
Sorry. Getting the Apadvantage to get currency quotes. e api key On 2024-12-03 3:29 p.m., kschneider bout-tyme.net wrote: Do you care to share with the rest of us “what worked”? Ken Schneider On Dec 3, 2024, at 4:02 PM, Grace wrote: Well that worked! Thanks -- This email has been chec

Re: [GNC] Do I Have Use for Liability Acounts

2025-01-17 Thread Griffin
I am using Gnucash for my home accounts. I won't be trading for the foreseeable future as all my retirement money was stolen in a scam. Do I need to use liability accounts for any of my home accounting accounts? If I understand correctly, liabilities are usually, outside of trading purposes, ju

[GNC] How to "Reserve" money?

2025-01-17 Thread Griffin
This is more accounting/procedural than about Gnucash. Suppose I had an amount of money that I needed to protect so that it was available for a future occasion. What would be the "preferred" way to do this. I could create the transaction in the account ledger and future date it. I could creat

Re: [GNC] How to "Reserve" money?

2025-01-17 Thread Griffin
Many thanks to all who have replied to my questions. I'm not an accountant, and I only use gnucash for home accounting, so I don't feel I need to understand/follow accounting rules and processes. Ads long as I understand what's happening that will do. So I'm going to take the suggestion of @rlo

Re: [GNC] Accessing data on a windows share fro a link app

2025-02-19 Thread griffin
I have two different computers, my windows 10 desktop, and my Linux laptop. The desktop is connected to my network wirelessly, while the desktop is a wired connection. I can access the entire windows share from Linux laptop, but GNUCash will not open the GNUCash file stored on the windows shar

Re: [GNC] Accessing data on a windows share from a link app, (Brad Morrison)

2025-02-20 Thread griffin
Feb 2025 01:24:11 -0800 From: Brad Morrison To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: Re: [GNC] Accessing data on a windows share fro a link app Message-ID: <9b32ec8759a2eef7acc93fc26effb...@sonic.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Hi Griffin/GNUCash users, What Linux distro &

Re: [GNC] Accessing data on a windows share fro a link app

2025-02-20 Thread griffin
Wow! Thats a long read!! On 2025-02-20 2:37 a.m., Geoff wrote: Bit of a long shot but have you had a look at this: "SOLVED: run/user/1000/gvfs/smb-share no longer works" https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=411005 Regards Geoff = On 20/02/2025 8:10 am, griffin wr

[GNC] Accessing data on a windows share fro a link app

2025-02-19 Thread griffin
I sometimes use my linux laptop to run GnuCash, but my data is held n a share on Windows 10. GnuCash can't access that. Is that how it is, or how can I make it work? Thanks. -- If you need end-to-end encryption, I have a PGP Key -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus s

[GNC] Accounting for Share Sales

2025-03-16 Thread griffin
Hello again, My next challenge is how do I account for the sale of some shares. I have read the documentation, but I am still a bit lost, as the instructions don't seem to cover my situation. Many years ago I was employed by a private corporation who "gifted" me some shares. The company I wo

Re: [GNC] Tracking UnPaid Bills

2025-03-18 Thread griffin
m the liability account in the decrease column, setting the balance to zero, the transaction appears in the chequing account as a withdrawal. This is all controlled by GnuCash. Am I doing something, or is GnuCash doing something of which  I'm not aware. On 2025-03-17 12:01 p.m., griffin

Re: [GNC] Tracking UnPaid Bills

2025-03-19 Thread Griffin
paid. The liability account will track the balance of the unpaid bill. On March 19, 2025 1:30:25 p.m. MDT, flywire wrote: >On Wed Mar 19 10:07:19 EDT 2025 griffin wrote: >> >> The transactions are working the way they are supposed to, so thank >> you everyone who contributed

[GNC] Tracking UnPaid Bills

2025-03-15 Thread griffin
I think I'm starting to mess up my accounts. I use GnuCash for my home accounts. I know little/nothing about accounting practices, no-one will see my accounts, and they won't be audited. So far I have been paying bills by entering a transaction in the check register for the amount of the pay

Re: [GNC] Tracking UnPaid Bills

2025-03-19 Thread griffin
-pay $75) .. At this point, the Liability should say that they owe you! 3. Liability -> Bank (e.g. They refund you $50) .. At this point, the Liability should be $0 Of course, your situation might be different. -derek On Tue, March 18, 2025 2:51 pm, Griffin wrote: I overpaid, so the lia

Re: [GNC] Tracking UnPaid Bills

2025-03-17 Thread griffin
I have been trying this, and I've hit a small issue. I made an over payment to my phone bill, and then moved to another carrier, so I was over paid in the liability account. When I tried to "refund" this overpayment to my chequing account GnuCash either doubles the liability, or withdraws the

Re: [GNC] Renaming Pages

2025-03-22 Thread griffin
will be saved with the other tab information in the state file (your-book.gnucash.gcm in GNC_USER_DATA) and will be restored with the tab when you reload that book. Regards, John Ralls On Mar 21, 2025, at 18:13, Griffin wrote: I'm going to see if it's a listed bug, and if not, I&#x

[GNC] Renaming Pages

2025-03-26 Thread griffin
I have been trying to rename pages in GnuCash. 1. I opened a journal for the liability of choice, and then selected Action>Rename Page. 2. The tab became an input field, and I entered the name of the page. 3. On pressing , the text I had entered was displayed. 4. I then closed the page. There

[GNC] data file

2018-05-24 Thread David Griffin
I recently opened a second set of accounts with gnu cash. However, now the first set of accounts has dropped off the list on the file menu and I cannot find it.  How do I get back into the first set? Cheers, David ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash

Re: [GNC] data file

2018-05-24 Thread David Griffin
I am using Windows and searching has only produced the second account. Cheers Get Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/ghei36> From: David Carlson Sent: Friday, May 25, 2018 3:12:53 PM To: David Griffin Cc: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: Re: [GNC] dat

Re: [GNC] data file

2018-05-25 Thread David Griffin
lt;https://aka.ms/ghei36> From: D Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2018 12:19:00 AM To: David Griffin; David Carlson Cc: Gnucash Users Subject: Re: [GNC] data file A point that's been glossed over: if you've only created two Gnucash files, why has the first one dro

Re: [GNC] data file

2018-05-25 Thread David Griffin
That got it!! Thanks heaps. David Get Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/ghei36> From: Colin Law Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2018 9:15:06 AM To: David Griffin Cc: David Carlson; D; Gnucash Users Subject: Re: [GNC] data file The accounts file will be in th

[GNC] Hidden accounts and balances

2018-08-10 Thread Bridgit Griffin
I recently imported 20 years of financial data. The issue I'm facing is that marking an account as hidden doesn't remove the balance from the total of the higher level accounts. Such that only active (unhidden) accounts are reflected in totals. Being accustom to Quicken that did have this featu

Re: [GNC] Hidden accounts and balances

2018-08-10 Thread Bridgit Griffin
balance. > > Colin > > On Fri, 10 Aug 2018 at 09:51, Bridgit Griffin > wrote: > >> I recently imported 20 years of financial data. The issue I'm facing is >> that marking an account as hidden doesn't remove the balance from the >> total of the higher level acco

Re: [GNC] Hidden accounts and balances

2018-08-10 Thread Bridgit Griffin
earned / spent? It would throw everything > out > of whack, IMHO. > > 0.02 > Maf. > > > > On Friday, 10 August 2018 14:11:15 BST Bridgit Griffin wrote: > > No not all have zero balances. However, Quicken allows the account to be > > treated as if that is the case. It

Re: [GNC] Hidden accounts and balances

2018-08-10 Thread Bridgit Griffin
8/10/18 4:30 AM, Colin Law wrote: I would have expected a closed account to have a zero balance. Colin On Fri, 10 Aug 2018 at 09:51, Bridgit Griffin mailto:bridgitgrif...@gmail.com>> wrote: I recently imported 20 years of financial data. The issue I'm facing is that