Re: [GNC] What accounts should I reconcile?

2022-12-19 Thread Christopher Lam
These are nice examples but I think are still formally assets and liabilities. e.g. I buy dinner for myself and sibling Asset:Bank -$50 Asset:Sibling $25 Expense:Restaurant $25 Later hopefully sibling pays back Asset:Sibling -$25 Asset:Bank +$25 The original question was IIUC about reconciling

Re: [GNC] 4.13

2022-12-19 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Are you on a Mac by any chance? You need to open the dmg and drag gnucash.app to Applications. (the dmg now has the shortcut to make it easier) Regards, Adrien On 12/19/22 10:54 PM, Orith wrote: good morning, *I downloaded and followed the instructions. but, when I opened the "about" the

Re: [GNC] 4.13

2022-12-19 Thread Adrien Monteleone
You must have downloaded the wrong file. Mine says 4.13. Be sure to get it from gnucash.org which takes you to SourceForge. (you can also download from the official GitHub repo also linked from gnucash.org) Regards, Adrien On 12/19/22 10:54 PM, Orith wrote: good morning, *I downloaded and

Re: [GNC] What accounts should I reconcile?

2022-12-19 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
This was what I was going to mention; it can also be used to track reimbursed expense accounts. ⁣David T. ​ On Dec 20, 2022, 6:54 AM, at 6:54 AM, Paul Kroitor wrote: >I use the reconcile feature in at least two other ways: > >1. I keep current accounts with a lot of other parties -- four adult

Re: [GNC] Roth IRA conversion

2022-12-19 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
Yes. I saw that right after I sent my reply. I'm sorry. It was a case of my seeing what was in my own head at the moment. ⁣David T. ​ On Dec 20, 2022, 1:53 AM, at 1:53 AM, Michael or Penny Novack wrote: >On 12/19/2022 2:49 PM, David T. wrote: >> Michael, >> >> While I fully respect your

[GNC] 4.13

2022-12-19 Thread Orith
good morning, *I downloaded and followed the instructions. but, when I opened the "about" the gnu is still 4.12. so it did not load, correct? thanks in advance, orith* ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription

Re: [GNC] Rounding discrepancy in payment processing

2022-12-19 Thread Alaa Zeineldine
Hello Murugan, My default currency is USD for accounts and for reporting. I have a couple of bank accounts in EGP, but those do not receive payments, only transfers from other USD accounts. I don't think there is a setting for the invoice currency. If I remember correctly, invoice

Re: [GNC] QIF Import troubles

2022-12-19 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Not counterintuitive at all, but rather a matter of perspective. You might be familiar with a bank 'crediting your account' which increases its balance. Now, you wonder why in your own books, crediting your bank account decreases the balance. That is because from the Bank's perspective,

Re: [GNC] QIF Import troubles

2022-12-19 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On Wed, 14 Dec 2022 at 22:26, Steve Silva via gnucash-user < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > Hi All, > Thanks a lot for your input. Based on your observations, I really don't > think I am going to make gnucash work for me, I have nearly 30 years worth > of QIF data files and it seems like

Re: [GNC] What accounts should I reconcile?

2022-12-19 Thread Paul Kroitor
I use the reconcile feature in at least two other ways: 1. I keep current accounts with a lot of other parties -- four adult children, parents, in-laws, my sister's farm operation, our condo association, and at least a half-dozen more. Most of them don't do formal accounting and rely on me to

Re: [GNC] Inaccurate information about GnuCash at https://www.capterra.com/

2022-12-19 Thread Liz Dodd
On Sun, 18 Dec 2022 22:53:43 -0500 Glenn Fowler wrote: > Anyone can make an account a submit a review - even fakes. > Also, most FOSS users probably aren't on Capterra. > > On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 10:19 PM Dr. David Kirkby < > drkir...@kirkbymicrowave.co.uk> wrote: > > > I stumbled across

Re: [GNC] How to use Vendors & Accts Payable, but pay via Credit card?

2022-12-19 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Just to be clear, you Process Payment separately from posting. (there is an option to Pay on posting, but you still enter it separately) It is in the Process Payment dialog that you choose the Transfer Account as Credit Card, *not* when you post - that should be to AP. You can certainly have

Re: [GNC] How to use Vendors & Accts Payable, but pay via Credit card?

2022-12-19 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Not sure what you mean, I've attached a screenshot of my Edit Bill window. Is this what you are seeing? Regards, Adrien On 12/19/22 9:17 PM, Eric Chapman wrote: Adrien, I appreciate your help. For whatever reason I did not see the "Post" button at the top :) What does the "BIL" column at

Re: [GNC] How to use Vendors & Accts Payable, but pay via Credit card?

2022-12-19 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I forgot to mention, there is an option when posting Bills to 'consolidate splits'. If you do so, the AP entries will be rather simple. The only way to see line-item detail in that case, would be to view the invoice. This may be fine for your use case. If however, you want to easily do

Re: [GNC] How to use Vendors & Accts Payable, but pay via Credit card?

2022-12-19 Thread Eric Chapman
Adrien, I appreciate your help. For whatever reason I did not see the "Post" button at the top :) What does the "BIL" column at the end of the "Edit Bill" window do? I can put an X in it or leave it blank. Thanks! Eric On 12/19/22 22:11, Adrien Monteleone wrote: Eric, You open a Bill

Re: [GNC] How to use Vendors & Accts Payable, but pay via Credit card?

2022-12-19 Thread Eric Chapman
To clarify: I did make sure that I have the Accounts Payable account, and it is A/Payable type. And when I selected Business > Vendor > Process Payment, I was able to assign that Accounts Payable account as the "Post to" account. However, when I try to enter the "New Bill", I

Re: [GNC] How to use Vendors & Accts Payable, but pay via Credit card?

2022-12-19 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Eric, You open a Bill with its line items going to Expenses. When you post the Bill, you are asked what account to post to, which as you noted would be AP. When you Process Payment, you will choose the 'transfer account' as your Credit Card account. Regards, Adrien On 12/19/22 8:59 PM,

[GNC] How to use Vendors & Accts Payable, but pay via Credit card?

2022-12-19 Thread Eric Chapman
Hi, everybody! How can a business using GnuCash use vendors (so later it can find invoices easily and see when what was ordered), but still pay via credit card? I have not even figured out exactly how to enter a new bill correctly, since I do not see how GnuCash knows what to credit (i.e.,

Re: [GNC] Rounding discrepancy in payment processing

2022-12-19 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On Tue, 20 Dec 2022 at 01:04, Alaa Zeineldine wrote: > This is the first time I email to the list. So, I don't know if screenshots > will show up, but I am including below a succession of screenshots for a > fake customer invoice to demonstrate the problem. Yes they do show up. It would

Re: [GNC] What accounts should I reconcile?

2022-12-19 Thread David Cousens
Dave Reconiliation requires an independent statement of the account (e.g. from the bank's perspective) against which to reconcile the account. You generally don't have that with an expense account. I have had to investigate discrepancies between what I thought I owed a vendor and what they

Re: [GNC] Is it safe to use Greek, Chinese etc characters

2022-12-19 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I don't think it will be an issue, though that doesn't mean you won't find a bug or two. I use extended characters in some memos and descriptions and haven't had any problems so far. You can even use emoji, I'm pretty sure, though I do not. Regards, Adrien On 12/19/22 7:47 PM, Dr. David

Re: [GNC] Rounding discrepancy in payment processing

2022-12-19 Thread Murugan Muruganandam
hi Alaa can you please confirm what is your default currency and invoice currency Saludos Cordiales Murugan From: gnucash-user on behalf of Alaa Zeineldine Sent: Monday, December 19, 2022 10:04 PM To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: Re: [GNC]

Re: [GNC] What accounts should I reconcile?

2022-12-19 Thread Steve Butler
What would it mean to reconcile an account for which there is no external "authority"? I can't think of one. Now, I did reconcile the interest paid for my mortgage for the year as it was in a dedicated account: Expenses:Interest:Mortgage and the mortgage company sent me a statement for my YTD

[GNC] Is it safe to use Greek, Chinese etc characters

2022-12-19 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Due to the nature of my work, quite often when copying descriptions from invoices I will have the Greek omega letter. If a description of a part has “50 x” where x is the omega letter, I have tended to change it to “50 ohm” on the assumption that the odd characters could cause problem(s). I am

[GNC] What accounts should I reconcile?

2022-12-19 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
For simplicity assume that I havé the following two accounts, all in GBP. Assets -> Bank Assets > PayPal I can reconcile those, and I find the process useful. However, I noticed that it is possible to reconcile most, if not all other accounts. Is there any point in reconciling the other

[GNC] How can I find cost of expenses, including tax?

2022-12-19 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
My company is not registered for VAT (tax), but I probably have to pay 20% VAX (tax) on 75% of the items I buy. I have the following accounts Expenses Expenses -> Stock Expenses > Office supplies I can not see how I can determine how much I have spent on stock, *including* the TAX. The account

Re: [GNC] Changes: Macbook Pro

2022-12-19 Thread David Reiser via gnucash-user
> On Dec 19, 2022, at 6:31 PM, Paul Roberts wrote: > > I am running gnucash on the following hardware: > MacBook Pro > Chip: Apple M1 Pro > Memory: 16 GB > macOS: Ventura 13.0.1 > > Was working great until a couple of weeks ago. Now it is working remarkably > differently. When I attempt to

Re: [GNC] Changing typeface using CSS (Windows 10)

2022-12-19 Thread Glenn Fowler
This should work: /* Application wide font setting */ * { font: 24px Microsoft Calibri; } On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 6:33 PM TERRENCE BRANSCOMBE wrote: > Hello all, > > I've been a user for all of 2 weeks, so I apologize to everyone if this > question/subject has been beaten to death in the

[GNC] Changing typeface using CSS (Windows 10)

2022-12-19 Thread TERRENCE BRANSCOMBE
Hello all, I've been a user for all of 2 weeks, so I apologize to everyone if this question/subject has been beaten to death in the past. My research online has not resulted in a fix, though, so I'd like to ask: has anyone running gnucash 4.12 or 4.13 on Windows 10 managed to change font

[GNC] Changes: Macbook Pro

2022-12-19 Thread Paul Roberts
I am running gnucash on the following hardware: MacBook Pro Chip: Apple M1 Pro Memory: 16 GB macOS: Ventura 13.0.1 Was working great until a couple of weeks ago. Now it is working remarkably differently. When I attempt to select a date from a drop calendar it just closes, In most any dialog box I

Re: [GNC] Roth IRA conversion

2022-12-19 Thread Stephen M. Butler
On 12/19/22 14:53, Michael or Penny Novack wrote: On 12/19/2022 2:49 PM, David T. wrote: Michael, While I fully respect your answer, with over 45 million IRA accounts in the US (according to one source I found online), this is a pretty common circumstance. It should be possible for basic

Re: [GNC] Roth IRA conversion

2022-12-19 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/19/2022 2:49 PM, David T. wrote: Michael, While I fully respect your answer, with over 45 million IRA accounts in the US (according to one source I found online), this is a pretty common circumstance. It should be possible for basic guidance to be given by *someone*, without all 45

Re: [GNC] Roth IRA conversion

2022-12-19 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
Michael, While I fully respect your answer, with over 45 million IRA accounts in the US (according to one source I found online), this is a pretty common circumstance. It should be possible for basic guidance to be given by *someone*, without all 45 million consulting an accountant. I

Re: [GNC] Rounding discrepancy in payment processing

2022-12-19 Thread David Cousens
Hi Alaa, I have tried duplicating what you report experiencing in GnuCash 4.12 running on Linux Mint 21.0 (Vanessa) and do not get any of the behaviour you are reporting. Invoice amounts are exactly as entered as are payment amounts in the payment window and they are the same as the entered values

Re: [GNC] Bug ? - I don't get a reminder about invoice in another currency.

2022-12-19 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On Mon, 19 Dec 2022 at 18:13, Murugan Muruganandam < m.muruganan...@hotmail.com> wrote: > what is the due date of the invoice you have posted? > It was not due. My error. I'm trying to enter some transactions from March, and they always show as due. I forgot the fact since I was only messing

Re: [GNC] Rounding discrepancy in payment processing

2022-12-19 Thread Adrien Monteleone
On 12/19/22 8:29 AM, Alaa Zeineldine wrote: When I receive payment for an invoice amount that is not a whole number, (say $140.16), the Process Payment window rounds the fraction part of the amount. In this case the invoice value will show as $140.00. But the payment I receive is the exact

Re: [GNC] Rounding discrepancy in payment processing

2022-12-19 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Strange, I've been using the Payment feature since *way* before 4.6 and still using it on 4.12 (4.13 is now out too) and I've never encountered this. All payments are always exactly as entered. What operating system? (I'm on MacOS at the moment, but I've used GnuCash on Linux and can still

Re: [GNC] Bug ? - I don't get a reminder about invoice in another currency.

2022-12-19 Thread Murugan Muruganandam
what is the due date of the invoice you have posted? Saludos Cordiales Murugan From: gnucash-user on behalf of Dr. David Kirkby Sent: Monday, December 19, 2022 2:58 PM To: GNU Cash User Subject: [GNC] Bug ? - I don't get a reminder about invoice in

Re: [GNC] Splitting a Transaction (SOLVED)

2022-12-19 Thread Stan Brown
Sorry, Maf -- I mistakenly clicked "Reply" instead of "Reply List". On 2022-12-19 03:32, Maf. King wrote: > > Or just start typing the account name. > > older vesrsions of GC would need you to type something like Ex:P:Do > (for Expenses:Pets:DogFood) > > more recent versions will cope with

Re: [GNC] Roth IRA conversion

2022-12-19 Thread Stan Brown
On 2022-12-18 19:20, Fred Tydeman wrote: > For a USA person, when I move cash from a regular IRA (tax deferred > account) to a Roth IRA (tax free account), besides the movement of the > cash, I need to also somehow show that the cash moved is considered > income. What should be the other side of

Re: [GNC] Rounding discrepancy in payment processing

2022-12-19 Thread Alaa Zeineldine
Correction: The last prepayment in the example should have been (0.22), not (0.12) ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe:

Re: [GNC] GnuCash 4.13 Released

2022-12-19 Thread john
Thanks, I'd forgotten to unhide the folder. SF should work OK now. Regards, John Ralls > On Dec 19, 2022, at 8:35 AM, Murugan Muruganandam > wrote: > > i was able to download from github and install the same > > > > > Saludos Cordiales > > > Murugan > >

Re: [GNC] GnuCash 4.13 Released

2022-12-19 Thread Murugan Muruganandam
i was able to download from github and install the same Saludos Cordiales Murugan From: gnucash-user on behalf of Mahon Finbar Sent: Monday, December 19, 2022 12:50 PM To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: Re: [GNC] GnuCash 4.13 Released Sourceforge

Re: [GNC] GnuCash 4.13 Released

2022-12-19 Thread Mahon Finbar
Sourceforge doesn't have 4.13 Barry On 18/12/2022 23:07, John Ralls wrote: The GnuCash development team announces GnuCash 4.13, the fourteenth release in the stable 4.x series Between 4.12 and 4.13, the following bugfixes were accomplished: • Bug 760274 - The Statusbar "forgets"

[GNC] Rounding discrepancy in payment processing

2022-12-19 Thread Alaa Zeineldine
Hello, This problem has been keeping me from upgrading from V 4.6 for some time, but I would like to move on to newer versions. When I receive payment for an invoice amount that is not a whole number, (say $140.16), the Process Payment window rounds the fraction part of the amount. In this

Re: [GNC] Roth IRA conversion

2022-12-19 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/18/2022 10:20 PM, Fred Tydeman wrote: For a USA person, when I move cash from a regular IRA (tax deferred account) to a Roth IRA (tax free account), besides the movement of the cash, I need to also somehow show that the cash moved is considered income. What should be the other side of the

Re: [GNC] Splitting a Transaction (SOLVED)

2022-12-19 Thread Maf. King
On Monday, 19 December 2022 11:12:37 GMT p.f.cuthb...@btinternet.com p.f.cuthbert--- via gnucash-user wrote: > 7. Your cursor is now in the Account column. Click on the drop down > list and select the account in which you record Dog Food. Or just start typing the account name. older

Re: [GNC] Splitting a Transaction (SOLVED)

2022-12-19 Thread p.f.cuthb...@btinternet.com p.f.cuthbert--- via gnucash-user
Good Morning from an even wetter but warm (14.5 C) Wales Thank you all for your further thoughts and useful suggestions. For the benefit of any following Newbies I will quickly summarise what I think one needs to know about Split Transactions. 1. The Help System does not yield useful

Re: [GNC] Is there a way to find date & time a transaction was entered?

2022-12-19 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On Mon, 19 Dec 2022 at 03:48, David Cousens wrote: > > There is no problem with deleting a transaction in GnuCash. The formal > accounting method is basically a hangover when rubbing an entry out in a > pen and > paper book created a fairly ugly mess (and made it exceedingly obvious > that the >