Re: [GNC] Scary moment

2023-01-02 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/2/2023 1:43 PM, Gyle McCollam wrote: No Gnucash doesn't recognize that someone else had made an entry, because as I understand it Gnucash opens in memory. It is not a multiuser program. It is not a SIMULTANEOUS multiple user program. It is OK for multiple sequential users provided

Re: [GNC] Scary moment

2023-01-02 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/2/2023 10:40 AM, John Layman wrote: Writing to SSD is not instantaneous and I've found auto-save to be an annoyance. I much prefer creating backups at coherent checkpoints by SAVEing. I also (strongly) prefer doing periodic explicit saves and always reject "auto-save". The only

Re: [GNC] Scary moment

2022-12-30 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/30/2022 1:02 PM, Derek Atkins wrote: I suppose there could have been a bug.. GnuCash is supposed to prevent you from exiting if there is unsaved data. However, I suppose there COULD be a way for you to shut down / close GnuCash in a way that prevents it from popping up that dialog box.

Re: [GNC] Feature request - prevent a transaction with todays date

2022-12-28 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/28/2022 11:11 AM, R Losey wrote: That would be an interesting poll (about when one enters data)... I put all receipts in a drawer and enter them into GnuCash weekly, and after that, they get filed. What I have been saying, not "real time". The "today" date (the day once  week when you

Re: [GNC] Feature request - prevent a transaction with todays date

2022-12-28 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/28/2022 11:07 AM, R Losey wrote: While that is technically true, I enter credit card charges on the day I use the card, not when it clears... ditto for writing checks, and I suspect most people do it that way. 98% of the time it doesn't matter, but I have run into end-of-month and end-of

Re: [GNC] How to generate Budget V Actual Report for Profit and Loss

2022-12-28 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/28/2022 6:38 AM, David Long wrote: Thanks Adrien for your reply. I have also been trying to produce a report showing this year's P compared with previous. I tried the multi column reports, but the descriptions repeat and the rows do not line up. Reporting Actual V Budget and prior years

Re: [GNC] Feature request - prevent a transaction with todays date

2022-12-27 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/27/2022 2:00 PM, Steve Butler wrote: If I paid today and enter the transaction today it should have today's date on it. Especially if paid with cash.  If I wrote a check I must be ready for them to go immediately to the bank and cash it I think misunderstood? Yes of course, if you

Re: [GNC] Feature request - prevent a transaction with todays date

2022-12-27 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
If you create a bill, then entering multiple items then defaults to the original date. However, once posted, the next thing to do is pay it. The payment date defaults to the current date. Just pointing out again, but accounting (and gnucash) not a "real tine" activity. The CORRECT date to

Re: [GNC] Add top-level account for both Income (Revenue) and Expenses (Other [Non-Operating] Income And Expenses)

2022-12-25 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/25/2022 7:51 PM, Stan Brown wrote: The new top-level account is for _Non-Operating_ income and expenses. As such, I would make it an equity account. I agree with you, though, that it should definitely be a placeholder. What I'm not clear on is why it must be a top-level account. To me it

Re: [GNC] Settings not respected

2022-12-24 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/24/2022 7:00 AM, Jeff wrote: Hi all, I am a >10 year (daily) gnucash user, in the last few years on Debian testing. I've not had to change the preferences in years. A couple of days ago, gnucash stopped respecting all settings: * the previous set of accounts was not automatically

Re: [GNC] How to handle inventory assets in GnuCash?

2022-12-21 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/21/2022 4:04 PM, R Losey wrote: Granted, and all good points, but they weren't listed in the original question, so it gives a better idea of what you are looking for. No, I was trying to explain that an "inventory system" deals with things way outside the scope of something like

Re: [GNC] How to handle inventory assets in GnuCash?

2022-12-20 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/20/2022 6:00 PM, R Losey wrote: I guess it would depend on how detailed you wanted to be... you could create an Inventory asset category, and create as many sub-categories as you need to. Purchases add to the inventory; sales delete from it, etc. Yes, but the connection to general

Re: [GNC] Best practice to change name of GnuCash file ("book")?

2022-12-20 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/20/2022 10:22 AM, Eric Chapman wrote: Hi, I named my file incorrectly. I guess in GnuCash the data file is called a "book". I'm using .xml. Should I export and import with a new name (as discussed here in issue tracker: https://github.com/codinguser/gnucash-android/issues/634)? 1)

Re: [GNC] How to handle inventory assets in GnuCash?

2022-12-20 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/20/2022 9:55 AM, Eric Chapman wrote: I am wondering how, in GnuCash, to account for assets bought to resell or other assets that will later be expensed as used. .. I found something relevant in the wiki: https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Inventory_Handling. Best I can tell, GnuCash does

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 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 (Newbie Question)

2022-12-18 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/17/2022 6:27 PM, R Losey wrote: When you say "bank card", are you talking about something like a debit card, or a credit card? Also, was this at one shop where you spent 7.24? If it is a debit card (money comes directly from the bank account, in contrast to a credit card, where charges

Re: [GNC] Splitting a Transaction (Newbie Question)

2022-12-17 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
At this point things look good.  So what does one do next? Press Return seems like a safe bet.  However it is far from it.  All that happens is that the whole transaction disappears.  The alternative, using another Tab is almost as bad.  The £1.99 debit in Groceries is now replaced by a

Re: [GNC] Not exactly a new question. Am I introductory screwing up by entering 0 balances in accounts.

2022-12-17 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
Actually, not a specific gnucash question and while I am US (and file taxes here) anyone who understands double entry bookkeeping could answer. Because you are asking "how do I enter a transaction if I know it might have to be corrected later?" The point is that you CAN later enter a

Re: [GNC] New PC

2022-12-16 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/16/2022 8:23 PM, David Cousens wrote: Agree that it would be ideal to have a single user directory but unfortunately the different OS's have different requirements and conventions and they also vary somewhat between various Linux distributions. It would not be too hard to create a Linux

Re: [GNC] New PC

2022-12-16 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/16/2022 3:00 PM, David Cousens wrote: The user preference data is stored in the locations defined as USER_CONFIG_HOME in the following wiki page. The page also details all of the places that data about GnuCash configuration and what type of data is stored in those specific locations is

Re: [GNC] per diem expenses

2022-12-16 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/16/2022 7:40 AM, Murugan Muruganandam wrote: Alan How you treat perdiem is a tax question. For registering purposes, if perdiem is also part of your monthly transfer, then you debit bank and credit income:Perdiem. many states allow without furnishing bills if you are below fed

Re: [GNC] per diem expenses

2022-12-15 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/15/2022 4:06 PM, David Cousens wrote: Alan, You will need to consult a tax accountant in your jurisdiction for this one so do not construe the following as accounting advice. Absolutely consult a tax accountant, because both Federal and State jurisdictions involved, and these might

Re: [GNC] Buying with PayPal - how do I split the transaction?

2022-12-15 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
I'm not sure what you mean when you say "documentation," but I don't think the Guide or the Help would be appropriate places to make such references. Section 2.1 of the Guide gives a few basic explanations on underlying accounting concepts. This section, in fact, states that "you do not need

Re: [GNC] New PC

2022-12-15 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/14/2022 6:57 PM, R Losey wrote: The data file (files) are the key thing. I recently updated both my iMac (new machine) and my Linux box (disk wipe and re-install). The data files I used are stored on my home NAS, so that all computers can see the file. I did notice that I lost the

Re: [GNC] The "purpose of reconciliation" [was: Re: Reconciling PayPal]

2022-12-14 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
My understanding is that the purpose of the reconciliation is to enable one to compare that the balances of two sets of accounts are in agreement Interesting. I have slightly different purpose when I do reconciliation: to compare the _transactions_ of the two sets of accounts, and

Re: [GNC] Buying with PayPal - how do I split the transaction?

2022-12-14 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
Given the length of this thread and the apparent confusion documenting PayPal in GnuCash, it might be helpful for someone to add a section to the wiki page at "Using GnuCash" on the different methods people have outlined. IMHO, the Guide and Help cover the overall concepts well enough. I

Re: [GNC] Reconciling credit card

2022-12-13 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
The other question is why does expenses:travel have 'rebate' as a column heading?? Because you asked gnucash to show you supposedly more user friendly column headers instead of the formal "debit" and "credit". In other words, you chose that option (or accepted that default). But IMHO if

Re: [GNC] Reconciling PayPal

2022-12-13 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/13/2022 2:09 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: Someone mentioned reconciling their PayPal account. Is there a way to do this for anything other than the last transaction? I don’t seem to be able to display a balance at any point in the past. So if I wanted to know the balance on the first of

Re: [GNC] Can someone confirm if this split transaction is correct?

2022-12-12 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/12/2022 8:21 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: Given a simple transaction has two splits, how many should this have? We aren't going to be able to help much while fundamental concepts are misunderstood because that would affect the meaning of terms. a) In double entry bookkeeping the

Re: [GNC] Buying with PayPal - how do I split the transaction?

2022-12-09 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/9/2022 7:01 PM, David Cousens wrote: I treat my Paypal account as a Liability account, just as you would treat purchases with a credit card. Mine is linked to a bank account from which funds are automatically transferred to keep the balance in the PayPal account at 0. ( I no longer accept

Re: [GNC] Transaction Report << offline >>

2022-12-09 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
I solved my problem. I may not be using GNUCash the correct way but it works for my needs. ... All my deposits would go to income account and all my withdrawals would come out of my expense account. Since the expense account started with a zero balance it would always have a

Re: [GNC] Transaction Report

2022-12-08 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
I am not sure what you are asking or what your expectations might be. This is a "transaction report" against what account?  What is the "type" of that account? What is the normal state of the balance of that account in terms of the formal terms :debit" and "credit" -- in other words, if you

Re: [GNC] Why doesn't GnuCash have an Export function?

2022-12-04 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
But, to the question, now that we have covered the problem that brought me to this question: Why doesn't GnuCash have an export functions so that one can more easily migrate from one computer system to another? Because the DATA is not dependent on the computer. This is NOT different from

Re: [GNC] Can I add to Equity?

2022-12-02 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/2/2022 1:49 PM, john wrote: That accountant you pay can also tell you how to set up your books for the new company. You'll get much better advice from them than from this list: They're licensed to practice accounting in the UK, unlike anyone here. That said the £1 per share is called

Re: [GNC] Can I add to Equity?

2022-12-02 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
I'm not at all sure what you are asking us (will have to guess) You asked your accountant and got the answer from him or her. So that's where it goes. Essentially you are telling us that by convention, books of a business entity in the UK start with an equity balance of 1, not zero. The

Re: [GNC] Carry over losses

2022-12-01 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/1/2022 8:40 AM, Fred Tydeman wrote: As a USA taxpayer, how should I record long term and short term carryover losses from stock sales? And, how do I show that they get used up or added to? Are they a negative asset? This isn't a gnucash question (not specific to gnucash). You'd be asking

Re: [GNC] How can I enter all fixed assets?

2022-11-30 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 11/30/2022 2:17 AM, Christian Lynbech wrote: Having been contemplating this as well, I came to the conclusion that I would create an account for each expensive piece of equipment and then a common account for all the small stuff. In Denmark... The last is key to this discussion, what

Re: [GNC] How can I enter all fixed assets?

2022-11-29 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 11/29/2022 8:18 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: I want to start using GnuCash for a company I set up several years ago. The company has some assets - mainly electronic test equipment. Let’s hypothetically assume VNA £1000 Signal generator £500 Frequency counter £250 Calibration kit £2000 Total

Re: [GNC] Automatic Price Updates

2022-11-25 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
I have noticed that when I have GC open interactively, I can start an update in the price database window and let it run in the background while I continue to work in the registers. Just an alert. When we say that while gnucash is safe for multiple sequential users but not for

Re: [GNC] Tracking Travel expenses

2022-11-14 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 11/14/2022 5:59 PM, Stan Brown wrote: On 2022-11-14 14:36, Michael or Penny Novack wrote: Yes would be under assets. But we are discussing personal books, not books of a business (accrual basis so can use business features like invoicing). Probably no "accounts receivable". You d

Re: [GNC] Tracking Travel expenses

2022-11-14 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 11/14/2022 4:36 PM, Stan Brown wrote: Hi, Esteban! I assume these travel expenses are going to be reimbursed by your employer. In effect, you're making a loan to your employer, which creates an account receivable. This is an asset account, not an expense, so it is kept completely separate

Re: [GNC] XML or database?

2022-11-07 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 11/7/2022 7:11 PM, Kevin Buckley wrote: Long ago in my Quicken days, I would generally keep about 3 years of data and then "archive" transactions older than that... I don't know if GnuCash has (or needs) any similar feature. For what it's worth, I have data going back to like 2007 in my

Re: [GNC] Found a bug, accounts gone haywire.

2022-11-06 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
Also, speaking from the experience of decades in the cypher mines If you have something weird going on that affects just YOU (other users are not having this problem) it is almost certainly not a bug. That doesn't mean that it is impossible to be a bug (*) but the problem is hundreds of

Re: [GNC] gnucash-user Digest, Vol 235, Issue 46

2022-10-20 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 10/20/2022 12:21 PM, Patrick Pöndl wrote: I am a new GnuCash user and currently busy setting everything up. I have done a lot of thinking and testing on the multi-currency issue in order to hopefully get it right from the start. So far my conclusion is this - and please, more experienced

Re: [GNC] Help please. Upgraded from 2.3.4 to 4.12. Worked fine. But database does not load. Win 11.

2022-10-20 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 10/20/2022 1:11 AM, David Cousens wrote: As Adrien pointed out anytime you do an upgrade of GNuCash you should ALWAYS make a backup copy of the data file before starting the upgrade and keep it at least until everything is working. It is a good practice to regularly make a backup copy of your

Re: [GNC] rounding of Invoice vs Accounts Receivable

2022-10-18 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
@Michael, you pay VAT on the total invoice, but both items already have the VAT included on the item line. So the rounding happens at the total level. Else you get too big rounding errors (especially supermarkets when you have 9% categories and 21% items (e.g. rounding a 9% tax on a 49ct can

Re: [GNC] rounding of Invoice vs Accounts Receivable

2022-10-17 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 10/17/2022 11:03 AM, gnuc...@boeziek.nl wrote: Hi, I created a Sales Tax Table entry of 20%. When I create an Invoice of EUR 109,95 with tax included and select my Tax table, GNUCash calculates EUR 18,33 tax and EUR 91,63 in net revenue. My Accounts Receivable however will not increase by

Re: [GNC] Follow up on Gnucash invoicing and payment - questions on process

2022-10-14 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 10/14/2022 3:21 AM, Charles Vincent wrote: Following my previous email on the subject, thank you to members and to the four friends who responded. Feedback and additional question below. It took me a while to understand what you were saying, but with your indication of liabilities, that got

Re: [GNC] Sub-Accounting (Was: Problem with missing balance in a parent account **FINAL POST**)

2022-10-13 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 10/13/2022 1:46 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: I agree. Some years ago, there were a few threads here that delved into various means of implementing an envelope method in GnuCash and my personal take-away was, while it can be done, the only sane method is lots of work. (you mention a not so

Re: [GNC] Reconciliation Report -> Trade Debtors -> pairing transactions

2022-10-02 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
And in that case of 'breadcrumbs' the entirety of GnuCash is an audit trail, as that is how double-entry accounting works. If you are looking for some record of exactly who entered which transactions and the date/time stamps, no, that is not available. Technically I think the posting

Re: [GNC] Moving to a new computer

2022-09-19 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 9/17/2022 6:36 PM, Dan Varon wrote: I have been using Gnucash on an iMac and would like to continue using it on a new MacBook Air. I transferred all my data from the iMac to the MacBook Air, but GnuCash will not open on the new computer. How do I install an updated version GnuCash on

Re: [GNC] Deposits

2022-09-18 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 9/18/2022 11:05 AM, Oliver Turp wrote: Hi, I was hoping to get advise on how to handle deposits (ie upfront payment towards the eventful total fee). I thought initially maybe they should go down as credit notes and then use that credit note towards the final invoice, but the doc

Re: [GNC] new to Gnucash - help with general information

2022-09-11 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
5. Geoff is also correct here that gnucash saves backup so you don't lose data, but backuping up to another media is always a good idea. And asking this question "how do I back-up my gnucash data?" implies a more serious misunderstanding about using your computer. It isn't just just

Re: [GNC] Display report values in whole curremcy units

2022-09-02 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 9/2/2022 1:43 AM, Richard Gaede via gnucash-user wrote: I would like to be able to print reports which display numbers in whole currency unit values. I have experimented with Preferences which only allow going to 1 decimal place. Even when I do that,registers and reports still display 2

Re: [GNC] Can someone tell me how A-L=Eq+(I-Ex) is correct?

2022-08-31 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 8/31/2022 4:08 AM, Gyle McCollam wrote: That is an "L" not an "I" in the equation at the end of my email: "A=I (+/-) Eq" to get it to equal. There are only three FUNDAMENTAL account types, asset, liability, and equity. The confusion about the equation is perhaps because our computer

Re: [GNC] How is A-L=Eq+(Inc-Exp) correct?

2022-08-29 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 8/29/2022 12:59 PM, Chris Skudder wrote: I think it may be TIMING which is confusing it - - - like this: Keep in mind the basic fact that a Balance Sheet measures Assets Liabilities + Equity as of a specific MOMENT - a POINT - in time. Correct But Income and Expense can

Re: [GNC] Can someone tell me how A-L=Eq+(I-Ex) is correct?

2022-08-28 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 8/28/2022 6:38 PM, W. Neal Lewis wrote: I will agree that by mathematical logic, Assets-(Liabilities)=Equity. ∴ Assets+(Liabilites)-(Liabilities)=Equity+Liability, or stated more simply, A=Eq+L. I have added Liability to both sides ∴ both sides remain equal. However, although (A+L)=Eq,

Re: [GNC] Could Not Obtain Lock

2022-08-26 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 8/26/2022 9:14 AM, rsbrux via gnucash-user wrote: This is an old topic, but I finally figured out what's wrong. On the Ubuntu desktop system where I run GnuCash (and little else), I set up a cron job to update prices at first logon each day, as described here:

Re: [GNC] Accounting Equation Mismatch for Foreign Currency/Security

2022-08-26 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 8/26/2022 12:31 AM, Gao Bite wrote: Gnucash Developers and Maintainers: . Also, I cannot make a single-split transaction to record the price fluctuation since there is no debit account to match that credit account. The credit account would be an account of type income, probably with a

Re: [GNC] Is GnuCash right for me?

2022-08-20 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
Yes, using a proper database for keeping track of equipment and RMA tracking makes sense. GnuCash can manage your invoicing, etc. My wife wants to run the entire business from Excel, and in one spreadsheet I think? Databases seem more proper to me :-) YES! People seem to think a

Re: [GNC] Example of importing Stock transactions from CSV

2022-08-20 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 8/19/2022 10:33 PM, Jon Schewe wrote: So I didn't get the CSV import tool to work. Perhaps a reminder on what CSV is and is not. CSV stands for "common separated variables. That means the data is in the form of a record consisting of a number of fields delineated by commas. Which means

Re: [GNC] Saving Gnucash data and back ups

2022-08-16 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
To what  Geoff wrote: The problem is not how to back up you gnucash data. The problem is how to back up ALL of your user data. There are two fundamentally different approaches, incremental backup and total as of some date backup. The usual way to decide is the volume of data to be backed  up.

Re: [GNC] What is the difference between Account types "Stock" and "Mutual fund"?

2022-08-14 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 8/13/2022 10:44 PM, Derek Atkins wrote: Pretty much the only distinction is the UI labels. -derek Sent using my mobile device. Please excuse any typos. On August 13, 2022 21:53:17 Jim DeLaHunt wrote: Yes and no. There are TWO different kinds of "mutual funds", "open end" funds and

Re: [GNC] Share Values recording

2022-08-11 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 8/11/2022 4:27 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: Do you simply want to track activity but are not concerned with individual share counts and prices? If that is the case, then a basic account of type Asset would do. You then make your entries as needed just like the Pen & Paper method. .

Re: [GNC] Share Values recording

2022-08-11 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
Accounting question --- how does YOUR jurisdiction tax "gains or losses from sale of securities"? In other words, you might very much NOT want to do this in your main books, as would complicate matters at tax time. This does NOT mean that you can't use gnucash to ALSO provide you with more

Re: [GNC] Order of accounts, auto numbering transactions.

2022-08-09 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
First two questions below. How do I set up my accounts in an order that I prefer rather than alphabetical? You have received one answer for this (using account numbers). Account numbering is rather common in accounting, but can involve significant work when/if major changes to the CoA

Re: [GNC] transfe money from one account to another

2022-08-07 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 8/7/2022 5:43 PM, James Baxter via gnucash-user wrote: Yes, I see some people show yooou how to transfee money from one acc (Checking acc to Saving Acc)so when in that place. i am watching one person do that, but I dont see all of what he is doing. the same page where you place your

Re: [GNC] Request for two new features in GnuCash

2022-08-06 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 8/6/2022 10:53 PM, Bruce Irving wrote: I have three separate data files: personal and two for non-profit organizations. I've always started gnucash by selecting the data file. I have tried putting a link to the data file on my desktop (both when I was using Ms and now with Linux.) The only

Re: [GNC] Request for two new features in GnuCash

2022-08-06 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
.but you could do the same with a script on any platform. You could have as many as you like, not just two. I have been doing this for years and have never had a single problem from running this way. As in Moliere's /*The bourgeois Gentleman */"been speaking prose all my life and

Re: [GNC] computer with Linux

2022-07-31 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 7/31/2022 2:27 PM, James Baxter via gnucash-user wrote: I have a 15 year old laptop computer. it has Linux Mint. i just down load it about 3 weeks ago. Are you saying that you installed linux mint three weeks ago? That you have just three weeks experience with it? I am looking to down

Re: [GNC] Single Account Expenses For Current Year Only

2022-07-27 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 7/27/2022 4:21 PM, Gyle McCollam wrote: Stephen, He could have one account, but he could also have accounts for Hospital, Doctors, Dentists, Prescription, Medical Travel, etc. These could all be under a parent account, Medical, but everyone is different and they may not be. Thank You,

Re: [GNC] What is the intended effect of hiding an account ?

2022-07-21 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 7/21/2022 4:53 PM, David Carlson wrote: Perhaps another user misunderstood your question. John R is a major developer and he has a very good idea of what is going on inside the program. Clarifying the documentation is always appreciated. David, I was NOT asking about how the program worked

Re: [GNC] What is the intended effect of hiding an account ?

2022-07-21 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 7/21/2022 2:13 PM, Tom Browder wrote: >From my attempt at hiding several Asset subaccounts, the effect is to remove it from view. It does *not* seem to remove its value from the Asset total. But I wish it did! You might want to explain what you are trying to accomplish? I am puzzled by

Re: [GNC] Opening balances for Stocks/Crypto

2022-07-21 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 7/21/2022 9:13 AM, Esteban Maringolo wrote: Thanks, I could create a new transaction using an equity account to get an opening balance. Reminder --- you do NOT have to use the "opening balance" shortcut when adding new accounts. You can instead create the new account with zero balance and

Re: [GNC] Example of accounts for a personal residence with entries for US tax basis

2022-07-12 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
If you need, you can split the expenditure between the Asset (affecting the basis) and the Expense accounts. The purpose of accounting is INFORMATION. That is what my "PS" was all about. Thinking that you have to split the expenditure is an illusion. You might want/need all of part of

Re: [GNC] Example of accounts for a personal residence with entries for US tax basis

2022-07-12 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 7/12/2022 9:01 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: The way I do it personally (note: IANAA) is that I have an Assets:Fixed Assets: account with subaccounts for, e.g. Purchase, Renovations, etc. That way I account for improvements that change the basis, and the summed balance of A:FA: is my current

Re: [GNC] Blue line in checking account register window

2022-07-10 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
Actually, out of the box both MacOS since around Sierra and Windows 10/11 do indeed set up automatic clock synchronization as well as location tracking unless the user explicitly disables either or both of these features. So if you buy a shiny new laptop in New York state and boot up

Re: [GNC] Blue line in checking account register window

2022-07-09 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
c. (For the sake of completeness) Invent a time machine, jump forward past the dates of the under-the-blue-line transactions, sync your computer top a time source, and run GnuCash. For further completeness, the time machine is not absolutely necessary. Most computers do not have an

Re: [GNC] Track income and expense report for rental property

2022-07-08 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 7/8/2022 11:20 AM, Peter Wu wrote: Hi there, See attached bar chart. Blue means income, red - expense, and green is net profit. This is inaccurate because the red expense does not include mortgage payment. Question: how can I include mortgage payment in my monthly income/expense chart?

Re: [GNC] Fiscal Year: Preferences vs Properties

2022-07-07 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
Am I correct that every time I open a set of books with a different fiscal year, I have to go into Preferences to change the accounting period? If I don't do this, all the reports use the wrong start and end dates. But THIS "problem" is separate from "accounting period". Reports that

Re: [GNC] Terminology for Non-profits

2022-07-05 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
As somebody who has done the books for several non-profits, I don't think Paul was talking about the report title,. but instead the "column titles" for the Balance Sheet of a non-profit. But Paul, I have seen other things used for that header title (besides "net assets"). You need to keep in

Re: [GNC] Multiple currencies in split tx

2022-07-03 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 7/3/2022 12:55 AM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: Michael, I gave a quite generic caveat if you didn't notice, but thanks for the specific exception for posterity! (for that 1%, or so, as I guess various of us from time to time, might judge or measure that statistic, or make it up, as the case my

Re: [GNC] Multiple currencies in split tx

2022-07-02 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 7/2/2022 3:38 AM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: Starting from the source account is good practice no matter the type of transaction. Since funds in double-entry have to 'come from somewhere' and 'go to somewhere', by always entering the transaction in the source account, you are always

Re: [GNC] Credit note posting to an expense account

2022-06-27 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
n 6/26/22 11:17 AM, davidvernonl...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Adrien, In my version of GnuCash I am not able to select an expense account at an item level when creating the credit note. Only Income, asset or liability accounts. It's the 5th column entitled "income" where I select This MIGHT be a

Re: [GNC] Reports - Income Statement

2022-06-27 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 6/26/2022 10:20 PM, nev.je...@gmail.com wrote: In Reports/Income & Expenses/Income Statements - Is it possible for any account which has $0 transactions for the year to be eliminated or just not printed? Thanks Neville Brown And while you are at it (selecting zero balance accounts not to

Re: [GNC] Could Not Obtain Lock

2022-06-26 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 6/26/2022 3:22 PM, Abe Sternberg wrote: I am using Windows 11. I try to close GnuCash properly, though there have been times when I may not have. Also, I have had some Windows updates while GnuCash was left open. I will look for the update and advise if the error continues. Thanks, Abe

Re: [GNC] Deleting customer

2022-06-25 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 6/25/2022 11:16 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Sat, 25 Jun 2022, Derek Atkins wrote: You can't. Just change it and reuse it for another customer. derek, Hint -- if you are only infrequently adding customers, so won;t be reused right away, you can (temporarily) make the name something you

Re: [GNC] Combining Method in Chapter 11 and Standalone Security

2022-06-23 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 6/23/2022 8:48 PM, Gao Bite wrote: GnuCash developers & Maintainers: Hello! I have found several issues when I am reading your "Tutorial and Concepts Guide". When I reads methods in the 11th chapter,I have found that its example is based on non-fungible asset like painting. However, what

Re: [GNC] Help

2022-06-21 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
... Just creating the transaction directly is not sufficient -- you still have to map it to the Customer to "pay" the invoice. The Help manual https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v4/C/gnucash-help/busnss-ar-payment1.html has a description of how to do this using the process payment process which

Re: [GNC] Bitcoin Lightning payments

2022-06-19 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
Obviously BTC In general I think standards are good - especially internationally agreed ones. But according to the ISO website https://www.iso.org/news/ref2466.html ISO 4217 is never going to cover cryptocurrencies.  ISO are apparently looking at crypto. No, I thought I explained why

Re: [GNC] Bitcoin Lightning payments

2022-06-18 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 6/18/2022 2:00 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: I'm not arguing anything. I'm simply passing along what I've seen the devs talk about in prior threads. Of course, if they have time out of their day coding GnuCash to chime in, I'm sure they can enlighten you more on the issues they have to

Re: [GNC] Bitcoin Lightning payments

2022-06-18 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 6/18/2022 12:05 AM, HSC wrote: Thank you, Michael D Novack! That's a great solution until GNC development catches up to the crypto world: we will keep separate GNC file for each cryptoasset. The remaining problem is that Bitcoin Lightning goes to 11 decimal places, and Ethereum I think

Re: [GNC] Bitcoin Lightning payments

2022-06-17 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 6/17/2022 9:21 PM, HSC wrote: Hello Everyone, Haven’t used GC a couple years, and trying to recollect how it all works. Current challenge is starting to work with payments and expenses that are exclusively in Bitcoin. Has anyone experience with some commercial accounting software that

Re: [GNC] How to reorganize the account tree

2022-06-12 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
What I do notice sorting this way is that within the top level accounts (Assets, Expenses, Income, etc.) that the 2nd and subsequent level Accounts under Assets AREN'T sorted alphabetically, while those under Expenses and Income ARE. I have insufficient sub-accounts under Equity and

Re: [GNC] Missing 2nd entry

2022-06-09 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
The capability for zero value transactions with a single account line was permitted starting in release 3 point something iirc as hinted by Christopher. Really? Odd, then, that I can do it in 2.6.21. Speaking as a retired senior systems analyst (and senior business analyst) , this does NOT

Re: [GNC] Export as text or CSV

2022-06-08 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 6/7/2022 2:52 AM, davidcousen...@gmail.com wrote: Fred Will a balance sheet report do what you want? That has the balances of all accounts as of a specified date which can be set in the report options as well as the account depth required. David Cousens ALERT -- A Balance Sheet report will

Re: [GNC] Balance Sheet mismatch

2022-06-01 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 6/1/2022 2:31 AM, Geoff wrote: Hi Fred It's more likely that you have omitted one or more newly created accounts? Try going into the Report Options / Accounts / Select Default / Apply. Regards Geoff Also (before running any report) make sure that there is nothing in Imbalance or

Re: [GNC] Foreign Currency Receivable

2022-05-25 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 5/25/2022 12:01 AM, Gao Bite wrote: GnuCash Developers and Maintainers:    Hello! I am a Chinese developer who sells games on the Steam platform. When I sell my game work on steam, I receive the sales report every month containing data for last month's game selling. And I will receive

Re: [GNC] Crypto trade directly - not converting to local currency first

2022-05-23 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
Are there any folks in Ithaca NY using gnucash to track the local "currency"? << or in the other places where a "local currency" is in use >> For those who don;t know what I am talking about, the "Ithaca Hour" is a work exchange currency. Nominally pegged at $10/US but there is not supposed

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