Re: [GNC] How to treat a sale which involves more accounts?

2024-09-18 Thread David Warren
The profits (or gain on sale) account is probably an Income account in the standard chart of accounts hierarchy On Wed, Sep 18, 2024, 6:04 PM David Warren wrote: > Seems like you may want to read some basic accounting materials and > afterward decide what it is you really want to use gnuc

Re: [GNC] How to treat a sale which involves more accounts?

2024-09-18 Thread David Warren
Seems like you may want to read some basic accounting materials and afterward decide what it is you really want to use gnucash to track over time. Are you running a business selling music equipment? Or do you have a hobby where from time to time you might upgrade or buy new equipment etc.? Buying

Re: [GNC] [newbie] how to treat a gift?

2024-09-04 Thread David Warren
hose accounting > principles? Ask this list, perhaps we can help. > > Does that answer your question? > > Best regards, > —Jim DeLaHunt > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Gyle McCollam > > Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2024 3:27 PM

Re: [GNC] [newbie] how to treat a gift?

2024-09-03 Thread David Warren
Hi. EVERY Gnucash entry is DOUBLE ENTRY. But you've answered your own question. Debit Assets:Current Assets:Checking Account for $100 Credit the income account of your choice but Income:Gifts Received is exactly what I would use too! For Salary, Debit Checking Account, Credit Income:Salary Rece

Re: [GNC] Move working files

2024-08-13 Thread David Warren
I think they are arguing about some bespoke backup schema. It was trivially easy for me, a reasonably new gnucash user, to move files to a new location on 1 computer, and then when my machine was rebuilt for windows 11, to copy files to a "new" computer too. The documentation for that is excellent.

[GNC] Tracking Unrealized Capital Gains

2024-07-23 Thread David Warren
I have been using gnucash for almost a year and have a fairly sophisticated set of personal accounts, with lots of investment (asset) accounts. Basically, I have settled on two types of investment (asset) accounts: 1. Ones where I want to adjust values regularly via adjusting the price of a

[GNC] Security not showing up in Price Database

2024-04-05 Thread David Warren
Hi. I am a reasonably new (last 6 months) user of gnucash. I am using version 5.3 on Windows 10. I am not getting online quotes but I own various *private *securities, for which I manually enter prices, either in the register as I make capital calls or receive distributions, or in the Price Data

Re: [GNC] gnucash suggestions

2024-03-19 Thread David Warren
Thanks Kalpesh. The art bucket makes sense to me. I understand having individual paintings be individual assets (like individual stocks) But I don't quite know what you mean when you suggest setting up *artists* as "securities". Would you mind explaining further? (If I have a brokerage account wi