Re: [GNC] Is there a Report for All Expenses Paid between Date A & Date B

2020-09-12 Thread Chris Green
necessarily > when paid. That transaction is separate from the payment. > Which is why cash accounting is so much simpler for small businesses (and PCCs). It's just much more like the way one understands it too. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user m

Re: [GNC] I'm still a bit confused about when things get saved.

2020-09-11 Thread Chris Green
was x hours or y days ago. It works because a file that doesn't change only exists in one place and the files you see in each hourly/daily/weekly backup are [hard] links to the same file, so it only uses space for one copy of the file. -- Chris Green _

Re: [GNC] I'm still a bit confused about when things get saved.

2020-09-11 Thread Chris Green
, year) going back several years. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane,

Re: [GNC] Be careful with `petty cash'

2020-09-11 Thread Chris Green
e money is handled by the organisers (not me). The only cash I get to see is Sunday collections and the contents of the offertory box. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to

Re: [GNC] I'm still a bit confused about when things get saved.

2020-09-10 Thread Chris Green
On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 08:58:04AM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, September 10, 2020 8:32 am, Chris Green wrote: > > > > When does data entered get saved? Also are there different 'levels' > > of save as it were? > > Yes, there are differe

Re: [GNC] How to get a sequential list of all transactions?

2020-09-10 Thread Chris Green
On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 01:09:16PM +0100, Chris Green wrote: > Is there a way to get a simple sequential list of all transactions in > all accounts? > > I noticed a transaction with an incorrect date (I hadn't "moved it > back" to the right date when entering the yea

Re: [GNC] Short cuts for things

2020-09-10 Thread Chris Green
nsaction/account) should, by default, save a new transaction. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you ar

[GNC] I'm still a bit confused about when things get saved.

2020-09-10 Thread Chris Green
to field. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https

[GNC] How to get a sequential list of all transactions?

2020-09-10 Thread Chris Green
be able to 'eyeball' the entries. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gman

Re: [GNC] Short cuts for things

2020-09-10 Thread Chris Green
On Wed, Sep 09, 2020 at 11:36:16AM -0500, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > On 9/9/20 7:07 AM, Chris Green wrote: > > Is there a quick way to: > > > > Get to the 'Accounts' tab, in order to select the next account for > > entering a transaction. > > I

Re: [GNC] Be careful with `petty cash'

2020-09-10 Thread Chris Green
On Wed, Sep 09, 2020 at 05:42:05PM +0100, Michael Hendry wrote: > > This probably won’t be an issue for Chris Green, who would be better served > by an Undeposited Funds asset account. > Yes, I think you're right. We don't have any 'petty cash' in any of the normal senses. We d

[GNC] Short cuts for things

2020-09-09 Thread Chris Green
Is there a quick way to: Get to the 'Accounts' tab, in order to select the next account for entering a transaction. 'Enter' a transaction - i.e. a key to hit instead of having to click on the + sign. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user

Re: [GNC] Is there an 'easy' way to have a transaction with 'sub-transactions' as it were?

2020-09-08 Thread Chris Green
required. > > Some items need to be shown or accessible for statistics, for grant > applications or for statutory reporting. There could be any number of > reasons behind "we've always done it that way" :-). Yes, I will be asking at the next PCC meeting and will keep the separation

Re: [GNC] Is there an 'easy' way to have a transaction with 'sub-transactions' as it were?

2020-09-08 Thread Chris Green
On Tue, Sep 08, 2020 at 03:41:54PM +0100, Chris Green wrote: > On Tue, Sep 08, 2020 at 10:35:28AM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Tue, September 8, 2020 10:29 am, Chris Green wrote: > > > I'm feeling my way with these PCC accounts but I do feel as if Gn

Re: [GNC] Is there an 'easy' way to have a transaction with 'sub-transactions' as it were?

2020-09-08 Thread Chris Green
On Tue, Sep 08, 2020 at 10:35:28AM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, September 8, 2020 10:29 am, Chris Green wrote: > > I'm feeling my way with these PCC accounts but I do feel as if GnuCash > > will do quite well for me. > > > > Anyway, next silly qu

[GNC] Is there an 'easy' way to have a transaction with 'sub-transactions' as it were?

2020-09-08 Thread Chris Green
t too much! :-) -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please

Re: [GNC] Help - entering opening balances

2020-09-08 Thread Chris Green
On Tue, Sep 08, 2020 at 09:05:46AM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, September 8, 2020 8:52 am, Chris Green wrote: > > I am at the stage of lots of rude words at the moment! :-) > > > > I am just starting to try and set up GnuCash for the PCC accounts and &

Re: [GNC] Help - entering opening balances

2020-09-08 Thread Chris Green
'Opening Balances' placeholder in Equity, isn't that where your opening balance credits to the bank accounts come from? -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https:/

Re: [GNC] Help - entering opening balances

2020-09-08 Thread Chris Green
On Tue, Sep 08, 2020 at 05:57:27AM -0700, Stan Brown wrote: > > On 2020-09-08 05:52, Chris Green wrote: > > ... I can't work out how to enter > > opening balances for the two accounts we have - a current account and > > a savings account (which is basically the buildin

[GNC] Help - entering opening balances

2020-09-08 Thread Chris Green
balances but the result made no sense at all to me. Having entered an opening balance I'd expect the balance sheet to show me that amount but GnuCash just did a decrease and a balancing increase in the Equity account which doesn't really make much sense. -- Chris Green

Re: [GNC] Further to restricted/unrestricted funds

2020-08-30 Thread Chris Green
On Sat, Aug 29, 2020 at 09:51:45PM +0100, Fred Bone wrote: > On 29 August 2020 at 11:40, Chris Green said: > > > I have been doing some reading around this restricted/unrestricted > > funds issue. > > > > I think in reality we have *no* restricted funds in our P

Re: [GNC] New user - anyone else using GnuCash for PCC (church) accounts? Advice?

2020-08-29 Thread Chris Green
re are several then I can have a hierachy with a 'placeholder' restricted and underneath it 'new roof', 'building repairs' or whatever. However I think this may be overkill, we aren't going to be that lucky. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-

Re: [GNC] New user - anyone else using GnuCash for PCC (church) accounts? Advice?

2020-08-29 Thread Chris Green
On Sat, Aug 29, 2020 at 11:40:03AM +0100, Michael Hendry wrote: > > On 29 Aug 2020, at 10:39, Chris Green wrote: > >> > > Well it sounds as if you know the ins and outs then! :-) > > I seem to have got away with it so far, with the help of charity-friendly &

[GNC] Further to restricted/unrestricted funds

2020-08-29 Thread Chris Green
purpose and is often long term and may actually (though not necessarily) be an endowment or some such. I don't think I need to manage 'restricted' funds as we don't have any in our tiny little church. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash

[GNC] Setting up for restricted/unrestricted PCC accounts - what's a reasonable approach.

2020-08-29 Thread Chris Green
income It feels like the first is right as one can then still do overall expenses versus income more easily, or have I got it completely wrong and I shouldn't have restricted/unrestricted placeholders at all? -- Chris Green

Re: [GNC] New user - anyone else using GnuCash for PCC (church) accounts? Advice?

2020-08-29 Thread Chris Green
e various options > for accounting for restricted funds, grants, etc. isn't THAT the problem as > opposed to "doing it using gnucash"? > Well, yes, but the existing paper system is hardly transparent! :-) I'm really only trying to work things out from what has to be on the annual ret

Re: [GNC] New user - anyone else using GnuCash for PCC (church) accounts? Advice?

2020-08-29 Thread Chris Green
On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 12:16:43PM +0100, Michael Hendry wrote: > On 26 Aug 2020, at 11:21, Chris Green wrote: > > > > I have just taken over as treasurer of a (very) small church Parochial > > Church Council. The existing accounts are all wholly manual and I > >

[GNC] New user - anyone else using GnuCash for PCC (church) accounts? Advice?

2020-08-26 Thread Chris Green
. Is there anyone else using GnuCash for this? Thank you for any/all help that anyone can offer. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman

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