Re: [GNC] How do I reply to a topic?
On Tue, May 2, 2023 at 8:17 AM Lipp F. wrote: > I am only getting the "gnucash-user Digest, Vol nnn" emails. How do I reply > to a topic or to a topic reply? Thx. > If you want to reply to messages, you need to turn off digest mode so you get individual messages. (It is technically possible to do this other ways, but not usually convenient.) 1. Go to the list options page (via the link at the bottom of every message, or directly https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/options/gnucash-user ). 2. Enter your email address and password for your subscription (using the "remind" feature if you don't have the password). 3. Find the line that says “Set Digest Mode” and change it from “On” to “Off”. 4. Scroll down to the bottom and click “Submit My Changes”. You will now receive individual messages that you can reply to like any other email. When doing that, be sure to use “Reply to all” to make sure that your message is sent to the mailing list (gnucash-user@gnucash.org) and not only to the person who wrote the message you are replying to. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
Re: [GNC] Accounting for a pre-paid electronic toll card
On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 8:54 AM Tony Vanson wrote: > Here one needs to obtain an electronic card and, once done, must be > charged with a cash value prior to travelling and topped up with cash on a > regular basis. > My question is what category is this card and how do I treat additions and > subtractions from it? > I initially thought it might be treated as a credit card but the way it > operates it's obviously not. It's an asset — something you have of value — that is measured in dollars. So, create an Asset account for it. When you top it up, you move money from your cash account to the toll card account. When you use it to pay tolls, move money from the toll card account to Expenses:Transportation:Tolls or whatever expense category makes sense for you. In my own case I have a category under Assets just for all these restricted assets that can only be spent on certain things, but that categorization is up to you. By the way: The only difference between the way you use this and the way you use a credit card account is that the payments come before the usage rather than after. If you were to change GnuCash's setting for “Reverse balanced accounts” to “None”, then all account types would work the same way, so that your credit card account would appear as having a negative balance — because it's a liability, an opposite-of-value to you. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
Re: [GNC] Tracking Precious Metals
On Fri, Apr 9, 2021 at 4:33 PM Jack Frillman via gnucash-user < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > Then how do you set it up since silver or gold doesn't have ticker symbol? > In GnuCash, choose “Currency” as the “Type” (in account setup) or "Namespace" (in the price editor), and “XAG" (silver) or "XAU" (gold) as the "currency" — all the precious metals are given codes starting with "X". ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org 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.
Re: [GNC] Non monetary transactions?
On Sat, Feb 22, 2020 at 10:00 AM Roderick Anderson wrote: > How, or can, I make non monetary entries. I'm looking at when I file > (US) Federal taxes and the State Annual report. Neither involve money > or funds but I'd like to be able to document electronically when I > accomplish them. > You can make a transaction in a register, and use the Description, Notes, Memo, etc. but leave the amount blank (zero) and this will be accepted. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org 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.
Re: [GNC] Deposit\Withdraw on one account, Increase\Decrease on others. Why?
On Mon, Dec 30, 2019 at 7:25 AM ddhahn wrote: > I guess my question then is how does gnucash know an account is a bank > account vs a generic asset account? The accounts I'm referring to are indeed > bank accounts so I'd want to have that reflected in gnucash, if possible. I > don't recall specifying that one of them is a bank account and the rest are > generic asset accounts.. If you open the "Edit Account" view (where the name, description, parent account, and so on are also entered) you will see a choice of “Account Type”. Note that the available account types are also constrained by the parent account — for example, you cannot make an Expense account that is a child account of an Asset placeholder account. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org 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.
Re: [GNC] Non-cash charity contributions
On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 10:14 AM Art Chimes wrote: > I have an expense account called "charity:non-cash contributions" where I > record these (potentally tax-deductible) donations, but I don't know how > best to record the other side of the transaction. > … Note: I do not want to be tracking the purchase cost of every item I > donate, and don't want to muck about in the pond of depreciation either. > But I can't imagine I'm the only person who has wondered about this. Since you are not tracking the items as assets, their value must be counted as income or expense, as part of the donation transaction. You could record them as income, because you are bringing something into your accounting that wasn't already there. Or, you could record them as negative expenses — if you donate, say, food, record them against your expense account for food. This second option seems reasonable to me because the sum of your expense account will then more closely track the amount of food you purchased for your own use, excluding the donated food. You should make your own choice based on what seems useful to you — which balances you want to be able to see easily. Either will work and either is an improvement on leaving things in the Orphan account. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org 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.
Re: [GNC] QIF import - Loss of sign
On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 10:16 PM Rustyc wrote: > Have read manuals, set up a chart of accounts and started by importing a > QIF file of bank transactions thinking this would be the quickest way to > get going. > When you performed the import process, there's a step where you are supposed to assign accounts for each transaction. It sounds like you skipped it. If you start over, delete the account and recreate it, or start from a backup, and assign the accounts as you import, then this will also train the importer to auto-assign for future imports. I'll explain below how to edit them from the current state if you'd rather do that. > I end up with two entries for each transaction but there is no indication > of which entry is for the bank transaction and which is the one I have to > assign to another GnuCash account (which is what I presume is what is > required). The plus and minus signs in the QIF have disappeared. Am I > missing something? > GnuCash never displays a minus sign. Instead, you should find that a line has an amount in one of the two columns, but never both. It's a different way of displaying the same information. Also the manual states that “Debit and Credit” terms can be replaced with > “Deposit and Withdrawal” for newbies. However, Account view shows columns > labelled “Increase and Decrease”. Confusing! Can someone explain. If you don't have "formal accounting terms" turned on then GnuCash will use different terms depending on the type of the account, attempting to refer to what you are (usually) doing when that type of transaction occurs. "Deposit" and "Withdrawal" are used for bank accounts. "Payment" and "Charge" are used for credit cards. "Expense" and "Rebate" are used for expense accounts. ...and so on. "Increase" and "Decrease" are the generic terms for account types that don't have specific terms. Increases (in the value of that account) are always in the left column and decreases are always in the right column. So for example, if you wanted to correct a transaction that is *outgoing* money, in a bank account, and erroneously pointing back to the same account instead of an expense account, you would find the version of it which has the amount listed in the "Withdrawal" column, then edit the "Transfer" column to specify the correct other account. Once you complete that, the second copy in the same account's register will disappear. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org 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.
Re: [GNC] liability or expense
On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 2:00 PM Baldero Mendoza wrote: > Please be patient with me - brand new to this. > > Household financial stuff. I want to post a "google play" purchase. > Should I post as an expense or a liability? > I'm familiar enough with Google Play so I figured I'd describe how I handle it. Google Play shows up two different ways in my accounting. First, it is a store at which you can buy things. Therefore, if you buy a thing you should have an expense account for it — and you can have as many different ones as you feel like grouping your expenses in. Some of mine are like: Expenses:Entertainment:Movies & Music Expenses:Computer Software If you like you could have a 'Expenses:Google Play' account instead, but I like to group by what things are and not who I bought them from, for the most part. You can pay for things with either a credit card directly or with your "Google Play balance". So, Google Play is a place where you can pre-pay and have a *positive* (to you) balance. This means it is an *asset* (not a liability). For myself, because I have several things that act like this, I have a category for assets that are a dollar amount that can only be spent on some things (pre-paid balances, store credit), called "Restricted", so I have the account Assets:Restricted:Google Play So let's say someone gives me a Google Play gift card. I enter that as a transaction going from Income:Gifts to Assets:Restricted:Google Play. Then I decide to buy an app for my phone on Google Play. That's a transaction going from Assets:Restricted:Google Play to Expenses:Computer Software. If instead my Google Play balance is zero when I buy something, that's a transaction going from Liabilities:Credit Card to Expenses:Computer Software. If it's not enough to cover the transaction, I haven't actually found out what happens but I would assume you pay using two methods, so that's just a split transaction. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org 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.
