Re: [GNC] Wrong starting balance

2020-11-21 Thread Liz
On Sat, 21 Nov 2020 23:51:01 -0600 David Carlson wrote: > Liz > > I would suggest copying that entire message into a bug report. > Especially be sure to include that you had said "Do not tell me again > this session that I am changing a > reconciled transaction" as that may be the key to the

Re: [GNC] Wrong starting balance

2020-11-21 Thread David Carlson
Liz I would suggest copying that entire message into a bug report. Especially be sure to include that you had said "Do not tell me again this session that I am changing a reconciled transaction" as that may be the key to the puzzle. The developers can figure out which details don't matter and

Re: [GNC] Help on daily cash income and bank statements

2020-11-21 Thread David Cousens
Alison Rather than entering all the data for bank statements by hand, if you are in luck you bank will provide you with facilities where you can download a file containing the transactions to a specific account which can then be imported by GnuCash. This is covered in the GnuCash Help manual

Re: [GNC] Help on daily cash income and bank statements

2020-11-21 Thread Liz
On Sat, 21 Nov 2020 19:07:14 + (UTC) alison Stoner via gnucash-user wrote: > Hi there > I started using gnucash. Now accountant would also like bank > statement typed in.  I have only been typing in all my invoices.Where > do I type the monthly statements in/to?Also where do I type in daily

Re: [GNC] Wrong starting balance

2020-11-21 Thread Liz
On Sat, 21 Nov 2020 17:30:08 -0600 David Carlson wrote: > Liz: > > If I understand correctly, at some point intentionally or > unintentionally you were able to move a previously reconciled > transaction from one account to a different account without changing > the reconciliation status. I

[GNC] Help on daily cash income and bank statements

2020-11-21 Thread alison Stoner via gnucash-user
Hi there I started using gnucash. Now accountant would also like bank statement typed in.  I have only been typing in all my invoices.Where do I type the monthly statements in/to?Also where do I type in daily cash intake.  Like I said I am only doing all my expensesLook forward to your reply

Re: [GNC] How to Manually Match transactions

2020-11-21 Thread Adam J. Griff, Ph.D.
Have some good news and an even better solution that can be added to the FAQ or How-to. 2 Options that work for associating/matching a transaction that does not import match: 1 - Import from Account A and assign to Account B at import or before importing Account B. Then when

Re: [GNC] How to Manually Match transactions

2020-11-21 Thread D. via gnucash-user
Option A is extensively documented, if you understand that once the first import is successfully completed with full assignment of destination accounts, then the second import is simply that: another import. Presumably, if you assign destination accounts upon import, then you can avoid most

Re: [GNC] Wrong starting balance

2020-11-21 Thread David Carlson
Liz: If I understand correctly, at some point intentionally or unintentionally you were able to move a previously reconciled transaction from one account to a different account without changing the reconciliation status. I just tried that in release 3.8 and I received a warning that the

Re: [GNC] Wrong starting balance

2020-11-21 Thread David Carlson
Thanks! On Sat, Nov 21, 2020, 12:08 PM Derek Atkins wrote: > GUID > > -derek > Sent using my mobile device. Please excuse any typos. > > > > On November 21, 2020 1:02:40 PM David Carlson > > wrote: > > > I know that GnuCash uses an internal thing that you must be calling > > *identity* rather

Re: [GNC] How to Manually Match transactions

2020-11-21 Thread Griff
Have some good news and an even better solution that can be added to the FAQ or How-to. 2 Options that work for associating/matching a transaction that does not import match: 1 - Import from Account A and assign to Account B at import or before importing Account B. Then when importing Account

Re: [GNC] Wrong starting balance

2020-11-21 Thread David Carlson
I know that GnuCash uses an internal thing that you must be calling *identity* rather the text string that appears in the display, but I couldn't remember what GnuCash called it. On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 11:42 AM Fred Bone wrote: > On 20 November 2020 at 22:09, David Carlson said: > > > As I

Re: [GNC] Wrong starting balance

2020-11-21 Thread Fred Bone
On 20 November 2020 at 22:09, David Carlson said: > As I started to suggest in my previous email, if a given split line > contains a 'Y' reconcile status, that implies that the transaction split > line passed a reconciliation process for that account on a certain date > recorded within the data

Re: [GNC] Wrong starting balance

2020-11-21 Thread Stephen M. Butler
On 11/20/20 6:23 PM, Liz wrote: On Fri, 20 Nov 2020 17:58:38 -0800 "Stephen M. Butler" wrote: Try to reconcile another account that has never been reconciled.  If that comes up with a non-zero number then create a new account and attempt to reconcile with no entries.  If that comes up with a