[GNC] Having issues with gsettings, dconf, gsettings-dconf-backend and GnuCash

2023-10-20 Thread Bryan B.
Hello, I'm new to GnuCash. Making the switch from Quicken. I'm excited about being able to access my raw data! Background info: My OS is Ubuntu 23.10. Running gnucash --version in the terminal returns: GnuCash 5.3 Build ID: 5.3+(2023-06-26) I installed it through the Software Center. I did sp

Re: [GNC] I need basic help

2023-10-20 Thread David Cousens
I do agree with the comments in your previous post that the concept of transactions needs to be explained before or at least in parallel to concept of accounts. I rewrote a fair bit of the basics section of the guide when I was fresh out of an accounting master's which might account for its more

Re: [GNC] I need basic help

2023-10-20 Thread flywire
https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2023-October/109184.html Edwin Booth wrote: > I need to wrap my head around the whole “debit/credit” concept. No you don't but you do need to understand the concept of account types and moving money between them. I've studied economics at Uni, evalu

Re: [GNC] I need basic help

2023-10-20 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 10/20/2023 4:13 PM, Fross, Michael wrote: A help to me was to turn off 'Use Formal Accounting Labels" in the settings when I started (and have never enabled that.) I feel it is much easier to understand for non-accounting people. Some of you will find the "user friendly" column  titles easi

Re: [GNC] I need basic help

2023-10-20 Thread Fross, Michael
A help to me was to turn off 'Use Formal Accounting Labels" in the settings when I started (and have never enabled that.) I feel it is much easier to understand for non-accounting people. On Fri, Oct 20, 2023 at 12:53 PM Mark via gnucash-user < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > Oct 20, 2023 09

[GNC] scheduled transactions: simple or compound interest calculations in

2023-10-20 Thread Name Same
Hi there, I am new to gnucash, so please pardon me if this sounds too simple a question. How do I schedule transactions to automatically add a percentage interest for a fixed deposit for a fixed deposit account? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_deposit The material on how to enter/use simple

Re: [GNC] I need basic help

2023-10-20 Thread Mark via gnucash-user
Oct 20, 2023 09:06:46 Michael or Penny Novack : > That might not be of much help (understanding the terms "debit" and "credit") > > History might, … My point was that you don't *have* to learn all that before GnuCash will be useful to you. The history *is* helpful to understand the terms fully,

Re: [GNC] I need basic help

2023-10-20 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 10/20/2023 11:47 AM, Edwin Booth wrote: Thank you Michael. The ancient history of these terms is really interesting. I don’t really “get it” yet but I see the idea here. Very hard to set aside the use of credit and debit in the modern sense and use them in a very different way. Counter intui

Re: [GNC] I need basic help

2023-10-20 Thread Edwin Booth via gnucash-user
Thank you Michael. The ancient history of these terms is really interesting. I don’t really “get it” yet but I see the idea here. Very hard to set aside the use of credit and debit in the modern sense and use them in a very different way. Counter intuitive.  Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone O

Re: [GNC] I need basic help

2023-10-20 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
I need to wrap my head around the whole “debit/credit” concept. One thing that helps me keep it straight is that money flows from credit to debit. Credit the account that money is coming from, debit the account that money is going to. There is more to consider of course, like whether an account

Re: [GNC] I need basic help

2023-10-20 Thread R Losey
It *IS* hard because the accounting use of debit/credit is different from the common or colloquial usage of the words. In everyday usage, people tend to use "debit" as a synonym for "decrease" and "credit" to mean "increase", and that is NOT the case in accounting, as the tutorials helpfully explai

Re: [GNC] I need basic help

2023-10-20 Thread Mark via gnucash-user
Oct 20, 2023 00:03:40 Edwin Booth via gnucash-user : > I need to wrap my head around the whole “debit/credit” concept. One thing that helps me keep it straight is that money flows from credit to debit. Credit the account that money is coming from, debit the account that money is going to. There