Re: [GNC] [GNC-dev] Reminder: String Freeze

2021-12-06 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
– and the new messages are now also in weblate https://hosted.weblate.org/engage/gnucash/ Regards Frank Am 05.12.21 um 22:35 schrieb John Ralls: > And today's the day. The tarball is off to the translation project so please > no translatable string changes until after the release on the 19th. >

Re: [GNC] The correct way to account for prepaid things that comes with bonuses

2021-12-06 Thread davidcousens49
Mattio, Since you receive the discount at the time you purchase the pack and it is available to you at that point so that is really the point at which I would record it. David On Mon, 2021-12-06 at 23:02 +0100, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > Hi David, Gyle. > > Thank you for your input. It looks bot

Re: [GNC] The correct way to account for prepaid things that comes with bonuses

2021-12-06 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
Hi David, Gyle. Thank you for your input. It looks both of you agree that this should be a negative expense rather than in income. On Tue, Dec 07, 2021 at 06:35:22AM +1000, davidcousen...@gmail.com wrote: > This would allow you to keep track on > both the original expense and the economic benefi

Re: [GNC] The correct way to account for prepaid things that comes with bonuses

2021-12-06 Thread davidcousens49
Mattio, It is possible more correctly described as a discount on the expense so instead of crediting an Income:Bonuses account you could credit what accountants call a contra account to Expenses:Travel:Rental which couuld be named Expenses:Travel:Rental:Discounts which sums into the parent expense

Re: [GNC] Bitcoin is legal currency in El Salvador - why not add BTC?

2021-12-06 Thread Dustin Henning
On 12/5/21 11:57 AM, john wrote: On Dec 5, 2021, at 8:40 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: On Sun, 5 Dec 2021 at 16:09, Derek Atkins wrote: Is there not a case for adding cryptocurrency support? For anyone able to build GnuCash from the source code, I would expect it to be a trivial matter to

Re: [GNC] The correct way to account for prepaid things that comes with bonuses

2021-12-06 Thread Gyle McCollam
That looks correct to me. However, I don't like to classify a "Bonus" as Income, unless they are taxable. I would record it as a negative expense, again if it is not taxable. That is how I record cash back on my various credit cards, it is more of a purchase discount than an income amount.

[GNC] The correct way to account for prepaid things that comes with bonuses

2021-12-06 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
Hi! I wanted to more correctly account for the local "moped sharing" company we have here, which offers to buy a prepaid package that comes with a bonus. In this case, I bought a 90€ package that comes with a 40€ bonus, so my in-app wallet is credited with 130€. I planned to store that 130€ in As