Re: [GNC] Basic Question (I hope) - End of Year Procedure

2018-12-24 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/24/2018 3:45 PM, Colin Law wrote: I don't do this, for me there is no point. It is possible to view or report on only transactions within a date range if one wants so I don't see the advantage of closing the books. If you do then you loose easy access to the history, so for example when t

Re: [GNC] Basic Question (I hope) - End of Year Procedure

2018-12-24 Thread Colin Law
On Mon, 24 Dec 2018 at 05:03, Jennym <55.jennifer.mas...@gmail.com> wrote: > ... > So what I'd like to do: Retain all of 2018 accounts (having them to hand > for easy access), but have them zeroed for 2019. I don't do this, for me there is no point. It is possible to view or report on only transa

Re: [GNC] Help on Installation of Gnucash-Mac Version

2018-12-24 Thread John Ralls
> On Dec 23, 2018, at 3:24 PM, MNT wrote: > > During the importing of a QIF (Quicken) file, after taking all the steps, in > the final step that I click “Start Import” the import stops halfway and shows > “Failed Import” and a message says the “there was an error”? Any idea what I > should

Re: [GNC] Help on Installation of Gnucash-Mac Version

2018-12-24 Thread John Ralls
> On Dec 24, 2018, at 11:04 AM, Stephen M. Butler wrote: > > On 12/23/18 3:24 PM, MNT wrote: >> During the importing of a QIF (Quicken) file, after taking all the steps, in >> the final step that I click “Start Import” the import stops halfway and >> shows “Failed Import” and a message says t

Re: [GNC] Basic Question (I hope) - End of Year Procedure

2018-12-24 Thread Stephen M. Butler
On 12/24/18 7:13 AM, Michael or Penny Novack wrote: On 12/24/2018 4:22 AM, David Cousens wrote: Jenny As well as the wiki that David T mentioned the help manual also has a section on closing the books: I will add something to this because of your "no magic undo button" There sort of is. You c

Re: [GNC] Getting the date order in a report ?

2018-12-24 Thread Stephen M. Butler
On 12/24/18 2:47 AM, Finbar Mahon wrote: Hello, this is not urgent, just so I don't forget. I am trying to print a listing of salary payments for the year. I have selected the description for the transaction report and the data I want appears, fine. However the dates are random, typically th

Re: [GNC] Getting the date order in a report ?

2018-12-24 Thread David Carlson
I am not sure if this will help. Check that the register sort order is set to date posted. If that does not work please let us know which GnuCash release you are using and your operating system. David C On Mon, Dec 24, 2018, 4:49 AM Finbar Mahon Hello, this is not urgent, just so I don't forge

Re: [GNC] .deb package

2018-12-24 Thread Stephen M. Butler
On 12/23/18 8:54 PM, Andrew Clark wrote: Thanks Stephen, How is this different to the package in the testing distribution by Dmitry Smirnov that's listed as 3.3-2+b2 (https://packages.debian.org/buster/gnucash)? Is it based on his package? Will it be merged with the main debian packages?

Re: [GNC] Help on Installation of Gnucash-Mac Version

2018-12-24 Thread Stephen M. Butler
On 12/23/18 3:24 PM, MNT wrote: During the importing of a QIF (Quicken) file, after taking all the steps, in the final step that I click “Start Import” the import stops halfway and shows “Failed Import” and a message says the “there was an error”?  Any idea what I should do to complete the imp

Re: [GNC] Basic Question (I hope) - End of Year Procedure

2018-12-24 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/24/2018 4:22 AM, David Cousens wrote: Jenny As well as the wiki that David T mentioned the help manual also has a section on closing the books: I will add something to this because of your "no magic undo button" There sort of is. You can always make a copy of a file before you do some i

[GNC] Getting the date order in a report ?

2018-12-24 Thread Finbar Mahon
Hello, this is not urgent, just so I don't forget. I am trying to print a listing of salary payments for the year. I have selected the description for the transaction report and the data I want appears, fine. However the dates are random, typically the output is date, the description, the am

Re: [GNC] Basic Question (I hope) - End of Year Procedure

2018-12-24 Thread David Cousens
Jenny As well as the wiki that David T mentioned the help manual also has a section on closing the books: https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v3/C/gnucash-help/tool-close-book.html and the wiki: https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Closing_Books . Gnucash's report structure is also capable of preparing standa

Re: [GNC] Basic Question (I hope) - End of Year Procedure

2018-12-24 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
Apologies.  My mail program ate the link.  wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Closing_Books On Mon, Dec 24, 2018 at 13:46, David T. via gnucash-user wrote: Hello, Welcome to gnucash, if rather belatedly.  Your question is one that comes up at this time of the year, and can generate quite a bit of res

Re: [GNC] Basic Question (I hope) - End of Year Procedure

2018-12-24 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
Hello, Welcome to gnucash, if rather belatedly.  Your question is one that comes up at this time of the year, and can generate quite a bit of responses. You should definitely read the wiki page on this subject:  Closing Books - GnuCash | | | | || | | | | | Closing Boo