Well, I guess it isn't for me. I think computers should save people
time. If I need to open my bank page in my browser and copy the
transactions manually into Gnucash and make a bill, post it, and pay
it for every packet of paperclips .... doesn't work for me.
Or I have to manually split each transaction and work out how much sales
tax is involved? I wonder if I still have a calculator in a drawer
somewhere. Or an adding machine? Can you still get the little rolls of
paper for them? Where I come from, if we go to the store and pay $100,
we'd have to multiply by 3 and then divide by 23, to get tax of 13.04 on
a net price of 86.96. The receipt would be emailed and saved into a folder.
Sort of thing that would be easy to program, but I have to type that in
to get the GST? and I suppose 100 - 100*3/23 to get the net price. Simple.
Last time I had to do accounts, I used to think how much easier it would
be to be able to just down load the transactions instead of having to
manually enter everything and calculate the GST. Seems some things
haven't changed.
Seriously, is this how you are still doing things? Retyping data from
one system to another?
On 1/02/22 16:15, Derek Atkins wrote:
Hi,
On Mon, January 31, 2022 8:54 pm, Don Robertson wrote:
Hi - I have been looking at Gnucash for a while and would like to use it
for my very simple business. But I am just finding it so complicated and
counter intuitive I am thinking I might just use a spread sheet. Yes, it
is that simple.
In the past I have used Quicken and MoneyWorks, so I am not a novice
when it comes to double entry book-keeping or to paying sales tax and so
forth.
So here is an example. I have set up a chart of accounts, and set up our
sales tax rates, and two accounts - one for sales tax received and one
for sales tax paid.
On Sunday, I went to the hardware and bought a cupboard to store our
business material in. I have imported the transaction from the bank, and
have debited the bank account and credited the appropriate expense
account.
I just do not see any way to apply sales tax to the transaction. I have
looked at the documentation, and it does not seem to me to say anything
about this.
So okay. I add a bill, add a vendor, post the bill to accounts
receivable. I don't want to do this everytime I buy a box of pencils,
but fine. Now I do not see any way to say the bill has been paid by the
transaction imported earlier. If I hit pay, it adds a new transaction.
Pretty much makes importing transactions a waste of time. Worse - it's
completely pointless.
It seems to me that this is a pretty basic thing to do. Maybe I'm stupid
or missing something but I can't see how this is supposed to be done.
The only time taxes are automatically computed from a Tax Table is via
Invoices and Bills. For simple entries, it's easier to just enter the
amount by hand.
However, you can still record taxes when you enter a transaction. Just
make a split transaction. For example, if you go to the store and buy a
cupboard for $100, and pay 5% tax, your total is $105. So you would
credit your payment form (e.g. Liabilities:Credit Card) the full $105, and
then you would split that and debit Expenses:Cupboard $100 and
Expenses:Taxes Paid $5.
You can pull these numbers right off the receipt as you enter the
transaction into GnuCash.
You could also get GnuCash to compute it by typing: 100.00 * 0.05 into
the debit cell.
Hope this helps!
Happy GnuCashing.
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