>From my understanding, the account-type is mainly used in reports. Otherwise you're right, you can tweak any account-type at leisure within limits eg can't change currency-type account to stock-type account; subaccounts of Asset/Liability/Income/Expense are limited according to the parent-type.
e.g. Net worth reports will calculate asset balance less liability balance. C On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 at 13:02, Frank ter Braak <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for all the help and suggestions!!! > Very happy but not sue yet if it really got clear yet. > > Now I wonder: > > Does it really matter that much what type I use for a new account? And > could I change this Type as I find out I was wrong or think an other might > be more convenient? As long as I put credit and debit right it might not > influence the calculations... > > Or does the program handles my data very different or is only the sorting > different? > But I can choose to sort by group or by number as well I think. > > (I have been doing my own accounting for over 20 years, including > complicated export from Filemaker, converting it and importing the journal > records in my accounting software. But now changing to GnuCash everything > seems different and I feel a newbee very much. And I am not a educated > accountant too.) > > Greetings Frank ter Braak > > > > > > > Op 8 aug. 2019, om 00:13 heeft Adrien Monteleone < > [email protected]> het volgende geschreven: > > > > Ah, thanks for the clarification. > > > > Regards, > > Adrien > > > >> On Aug 7, 2019, at 4:10 PM, Frank H. Ellenberger < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> Hi Adrien, > >> > >> part of the confusion might be: > >> Frank asked for the account type to create a few, which you tried to > answer. > >> I saw, the requested accounts were already defined in the template and > >> referenced the group containing them, not the type itself. > >> > >> Am Mi., 7. Aug. 2019 um 21:54 Uhr schrieb Adrien Monteleone > >> <[email protected]>: > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>> On Aug 7, 2019, at 2:41 PM, Frank H. Ellenberger < > [email protected]> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>>>>> 7 Kostpijs rekeningen (Cost price > bills?) > >>>>>> This is where I book my bikes if I buy them from my supplier during > the year. It will raise my Assets I suppose. > >>>>> > >>>>> These are the invoices from the supplier or the value of the bikes > themselves? If the bikes, that would be inventory above, if the invoices, > that would be Accounts Payable - a liability. > >>>> > >>>> Not quite, while buying they increase VOORADEN, on sale they move to > >>>> INKOOPWARDE VAN DE UMZET. > >>> > >>> So Cost of Goods Sold? That would be an expense account. Curious that > NL mixes purchases (inventory) with COGS rather than separating them out. > >> > >> No, it is the same: > >> VOORADEN/Inventory: Activa/assets > >> INKOOPWARDE VAN DE UMZET/Cost of Goods Sold: Kosten/expense > >> UMZET/Goods Sold: Opbrengsten/income > >> > >>> Regards, > >>> Adrien > >> > >> Regards > >> Frank > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > gnucash-user mailing list > > [email protected] > > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > > ----- > > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
