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

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

2022-05-23 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 5/23/2022 6:26 AM, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: Realistically, if you are in situation where you want (and can!) treat cryptos as full currencies, you'll likely be better served by abusing another random currency in the list of known currencies and treat it as btc/eth. See: Gnucash or other

Re: [GNC] How to record giving gift of shares

2022-05-22 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
Now, I wish to give all of these shares to my son. How do I record both the basis price and the fair market value (FMV)? I assume that I record a sale of all the shares at the current basis price in my account (so I have no capital gain). And I record a buy of the same number of shares at that

Re: [GNC] unrealized gain / losses for mutual funds

2022-05-21 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
These points being said, there have been suggestions made in this list by others more qualified than I on the circumstances in which a user might need to track unrealized gains and account for them on an ongoing basis. I believe the term they used was "mark to market." You might look for

Re: [GNC] Deleting an account

2022-05-20 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 5/20/2022 4:07 PM, Gyle McCollam wrote: I had a Parent Account: Bank Name, with Subaccounts Bank Name:Checking, and Bank Name:Special Checking. I wanted to eliminate the subaccounts and end up with only the Parent account. 1. I changed the Parent account Bank Name from a

Re: [GNC] unrealized gain / losses for mutual funds

2022-05-18 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 5/18/2022 10:46 AM, David T. via gnucash-user wrote: A couple of points here: First, the analogy of a painting's unrealized gains to those of any other asset is perfectly valid. The only difference is that there is only one "share" of the painting, while there are many shares of a stock or

Re: [GNC] Integration between Freshbooks and Gnucash?

2022-05-17 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 5/16/2022 4:48 PM, Jim DeLaHunt wrote: Hello, GnuCash users? I use a service called Freshbooks [1] to track the time I spend working in my sole proprietorship business, and to generate invoices to clients billing that time, and to accept payments. In the meantime I do my bookkeeping in

Re: [GNC] unrealized gain / losses for mutual funds

2022-05-15 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
Problem is, the example applies to a painting, that is an object whose value changes, not shares whose number remains constant but whose value changes, thus leading to a change in total valuation. There's no accounting difference between a painting and a share of stock, though using a

Re: [GNC] unrealized gain / losses for mutual funds

2022-05-15 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 5/15/2022 11:15 AM, Andrea Borgia wrote: Trying to improve my book-keeping, I would like to tackle this issue now so I went to the documentation, precisely "11.4.1. Unrealized Gains". Problem is, the example applies to a painting, that is an object whose value changes, not shares whose

Re: [GNC] question

2022-05-13 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
First, I highly recommend you read the GnuCash documentation. The Tutorial and Guide are very useful in explaining the concepts, and the Help is useful at explaining what the buttons do. Having said that, there are two ways to enter a transaction like a Check. The first is to open the Transfer

Re: [GNC] Setting Currency Format when importing from CSV?

2022-05-12 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 5/12/2022 2:18 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: Unfortunately that's currently not possible. If the currency symbol had been "$" instead of "USD" it would probably have worked as the code is hardwired to ignore that value. The only alternative I can suggest is to preprocess your CSV file to add a

Re: [GNC] Configuration dilemma -- How best to share Gnucash between 2 users

2022-05-10 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 5/10/2022 11:50 AM, John Griessen wrote: On 5/9/22 11:07, Derek Atkins wrote: The main gotcha is that only one person can have the data file open at a time.  This means you will need to coordinate "who is running GnuCash" at any particular moment. I use gnucash on two linux machines

Re: [GNC] Investment accounts - maintain ongoing balance only

2022-05-08 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 5/8/2022 3:47 PM, Stan Brown wrote: On 2022-05-08 10:17, Scott Soderling wrote: Debit to Assets:Investment Account Credit to Income:Investment Gains and Losses (Some people, me among them, would put Investment Gains and Losses under Equity rather than Income. I do this because investment

Re: [GNC] Double entry directly to Equity

2022-05-08 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 5/8/2022 11:26 AM, David Long wrote: Hi, I just tested David's method of creating a new equity account and crediting the revaluation to that account and debiting the asset account. I did not attach the new Revaluation Reserve account to an existing equity account (parent) but I specified

Re: [GNC] Fwd: Double entry directly to Equity

2022-05-07 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
This Investopedia page ( https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/revaluationreserves.asp#:~:text=Revaluation%20reserve%20is%20an%20accounting,of%20the%20asset%20has%20changed .) might provide some insights into how to setup revaluation reserves. My reading of this is that the Reserve account is a

Re: [GNC] gnucash.org ] Account for Seller Credit when purchasing a home

2022-05-07 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 5/7/2022 2:17 PM, Gyle McCollam wrote: I agree with David, but only if it was specifically negotiated as a repair, otherwise, yes you should record the asset (home) at the $95,000 price. Consult your tax advisor. Note that it will likely make a difference what sort of "repairs" as SOME

Re: [GNC] Can one save report option defaults?

2022-05-05 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
I find I nearly always change the same five or six report options every time I want a new report. For example I nearly always want to select all accounts (at least initially) and I want the secondary sort key to be Date. Is there any way I can set up GnuCash so the report options always

Re: [GNC] Is there a way to handle same-named GnuCash files sensibly?

2022-05-05 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
Yes, except that it does make for rather long filenames. I'd really be happiest if my GnuCash 'building' bank account data file was simply called 'building'. It's in a directory called ~/pcc/2022 which tells me that it's Parochial Parish Council data for 2022. It is probably because of my

Re: [GNC] Is there a way to handle same-named GnuCash files sensibly?

2022-05-04 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
Yes, I noticed too that there a files with a number added to the base name, e.g.:- building.gnucash.gcm building.gnucash_2.gcm ... but I'm not sure that it's a perfect system. I have reverted to having the year as part of the file name and a wrapper script that finds the data file

Re: [GNC] QFX file for Bank of American business account not invoking Import Matcher

2022-05-04 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 5/3/2022 11:25 PM, Peter Wu wrote: 2. As the email subject says. Attached qfx file does not work. I have personal Bank of American checking and credit card. They all work. I downloaded the file by using the “Web Connect for Quicken 2018 and above”. You are perhaps confusing file

Re: [GNC] Change account in Transfer column - how?

2022-05-03 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 5/3/2022 9:47 AM, Chris Green wrote: Is it possible to change the account in the Transfer column of a transaction? If so how should one do it? If I click on the entry it's highlighted and an up arrow ^ appears in the Transfer column but no list of alternative accounts. Should I get the

Re: [GNC] N00b accounting q: opening balances

2022-04-30 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 4/30/2022 10:32 AM, John Edward Hynes wrote Hi list,I’m very new to accounting and gnucash.  In setting up a hypothetical business, I have a question about opening balances:I entered $1000 in the equity opening balances account, transfer to current assets checking.  I

Re: [GNC] How to manage multiple accounts (as in separate gnucash databases)?

2022-04-27 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
I have lots of other information associated with the GnuCash data which I keep in the same directory. E.g. there are copies of cheques deposited and GiftAid records. So my way of working is to go (in a terminal window) to that directory and then run programs as needed from there. That is

Re: [GNC] How to manage multiple accounts (as in separate gnucash databases)?

2022-04-27 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
My ideal would be for GnuCash to look for account files in the current directory, if there is only one then open that one, if there are more then offer me a list to choose from. Are you serious? Assume this was a different application, say a "word processor". You are saying that when you

Re: [GNC] How to manage multiple accounts (as in separate gnucash databases)?

2022-04-26 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 4/26/2022 11:25 AM, Chris Green wrote: I have several gnucash accounts files (sqlite databases in my case) spread around my system. When I go to a specific directory and run GnuCash I just want it to see only the database[s] in that directory. Is there a way I can tell gnucash to forget

Re: [GNC] Why does an Equity account have to be of Currency type?

2022-04-25 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
But question is more general.  Let's say I join Robinson Crusoe on a remote island and we decide our economy will be denominated in silver coins (of which I had 12 in my pocket when I washed ashore on his island).  If I were to do my accounting in GnuCash I would need to start with an Opening

Re: [GNC] Whole life insurance

2022-04-24 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
However, I still have no idea how to do the future death benefit. It is not an asset of mine. It might be an asset of my wife (if I die first). The death benefit is not an asset of anybody (yet). And yes, it could result in an asset in YOUR books. Sorry, but death is no excuse for not

Re: [GNC] Whole life insurance

2022-04-24 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
An exception to the previous (one where you WOULD be able to separate out the "cost of the insurance component"). Split dollar life insurance. This is something an employer might include in the compensation package. Especially as serves as an incentive for the employee to stay at least until

Re: [GNC] Whole life insurance

2022-04-23 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
Not just "whole life" but any "cash value" policy. The point here is that such insurance contracts have both a pure insurance component and an investment component and may have associated "rights" which also can be thought of as having value (that might also be true of term insurance, no cash

Re: [GNC] Question about transfers

2022-04-23 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 4/22/2022 11:35 PM, john wrote: Quicken isn't really an accounting app. Intuit's offering in that space is Quickbooks. That means that how you used Quicken isn't directly transferable to GnuCash. If being able to use a Free Software alternative to Quicken the same way you use Quicken is

Re: [GNC] Question about transfers

2022-04-22 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 4/22/2022 6:24 PM, Brad wrote: ...but I need an even number of entries to follow double-entry accounting rules. Two entries to transfer the funds from one account to another, and then one to show the funds going to the property tax expense. Oh, and I guess two more when I write the

Re: [GNC] File browser file type filter and bookmarks

2022-04-21 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
Just because you can do something doesn't mean that you should. In this discussion I saw reference to the possibility of having two sets of books open at the same time and how much easier that would make it when a transaction spans the books There is a down side to that convenience you

Re: [GNC] Unusual book need

2022-04-16 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 4/16/2022 1:32 AM, Jeff wrote: David, I like your approach the best. Even though the transactions are in a joint account between my son and father, I am legally responsible for my sons activities.  And all of the transactions apply to my farm, not Dads. Again, I am asking you to be

Re: [GNC] Unusual book need

2022-04-15 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 4/15/2022 5:00 AM, Jeff wrote: I need to move transactions from from one set of books to another one. I didn't realize while entering transactions in my dads books that they should have gone into mine.  My dad opened a bank account that I did not know about until I started entering charges

Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions feature or bug?

2022-04-12 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 4/12/2022 3:07 PM, Dale Alspach wrote: Unless one lives in a science fiction world with time travel available one does not normally *schedule* something to occur in the past. :) If this is kept as a feature then perhaps the name should be changed to "automatic transaction creation tool".

Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions feature or bug?

2022-04-12 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 4/12/2022 10:55 AM, Dale Alspach wrote: I had a scheduled transfer to savings that I disabled for a few months. When I re-enabled the scheduled transfer I did not change the start date. I was very surprised to find that when it ran that it entered transactions for all of the months when it

Re: [GNC] Import overwrites transaction description

2022-04-09 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 4/6/2022 3:53 PM, Ed Reeder wrote: Example: I have previously entered a check into gnucash: Num=205, Description=Smith Plumbing, Withdrawal=100.00 My bank's OFX transaction has: CHECK -100.00 205 CHECK # 205 When I import the OFX file and and match its transaction with

Re: [GNC] Some questions about reports

2022-04-06 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
OK, yes, it was what I was thinking of doing - that is simply concatenating the two reports (in HTML) with appropriate editing to turn them into a single HTML document. I can do this OK (though I don't really like editing raw HTML). My only question then is what report do I need for the bank

Re: [GNC] Some questions about reports

2022-04-06 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 4/6/2022 8:15 AM, Chris Green wrote: Since I was producing reports for a number of non-profits I will break your several questions apart. I will be mainly describing solution sin terms of how I did it, not necessarily all remaining within gnucash. But since ONE of your questions is

Re: [GNC] How To Account For Mortgages With Redraw Amounts?

2022-03-28 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/28/2022 4:26 PM, arthur brogard via gnucash-user wrote: That's brilliant, David.  Thank you. I'll get to it, see how I go.  Main  hassle might be undoing what I've already done. Perhaps we can make copies of a set of books and play with the copy until satisfied? regards, d Absolutely

Re: [GNC] Report - Income Statement - Layout problem

2022-03-23 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/23/2022 9:48 AM, Carl-Kensaku HERBORT wrote: I already have to use two separate software: an ERP/CRM for invoicing and daily accounting and GnuCash for heavier monthly/yearly accounting, mainly to produce the Income Statement Report and Balance Sheet report (or so was my plan). I didn't

Re: [GNC] GNC] Question about Assemblies

2022-03-22 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/22/2022 9:46 AM, davidvernonl...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Derek, I meant that a half decent accounting system which has an inventory system would have those features, and am sorry if my statement was misunderstood. I use GnuCash to maintain a set of accounts for a boat club with nearly 100

Re: [GNC] Have you abandoned gnuCash email list? U were so helpful!

2022-03-21 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/21/2022 2:58 PM, Fran_3 via gnucash-user wrote: even though I wish it could also generate reports on a cash basis... as opposed to an accrual basis... but I can get there by exporting select gnuCash accounts and Transaction Reports to cvs files and then loading them into Google Sheets

Re: [GNC] Report - Income Statement - Layout problem

2022-03-20 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/20/2022 12:51 PM, Carl-Kensaku HERBORT wrote: Hello, The effective nesting level is the same. No, I don't need an option to justify columns. I just need the income statement report to look as normal as the balance sheet report (see screen capture). I really don't need anything more.

Re: [GNC] Report - Income Statement - Layout problem

2022-03-20 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/20/2022 5:21 AM, Carl-Kensaku HERBORT wrote: Hello again, I have tried a more recent version on MacOS (Version 4.9 / build ID 4.9+(2021-12-18) / Finance::Quote:-). It solves the first problem of string translation. But the second problem is still there: the width and column alignment

Re: [GNC] Account not showing in Income Statement

2022-03-19 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/19/2022 6:08 PM, Sean Perlmutter wrote: Hi Gnu people, I’m having a weird issue. Am preparing my Income Statement and have a certain expense account highlighted to be included, but it’s not showing up. I have tried unhighlighting, applying, then highlighting and applying again, to no

Re: [GNC] Report - Income Statement - Layout problem

2022-03-18 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
B. WIDTH AND COLUMNS ALIGNMENT Maybe I didn't use the right words: I don't care about things being pretty (color, lines, etc). The report is messed up in its basic structure. Maybe showing you is better. I don't know if I can send a picture as attachment on the mailing list. I will try

Re: [GNC] Report - Income Statement - Layout problem

2022-03-17 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/17/2022 5:49 PM, Carl-Kensaku HERBORT wrote: Dear everyone, Thank you all for being here to help new users like me. I am having problems with the "income statement" report ("compte de resultat" in french). The columns of the revenue part and the columns of the expense part are not

Re: [GNC] IRA/401K income detection

2022-03-17 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/17/2022 4:41 PM, David G. Pickett via gnucash-user wrote: Lots of fun interest here!  Not exactly looking for accounting advice, except how to properly encode this well understood activity so it generates a tax report item. Can we devise a GNUCash programatic enhancement of the double

Re: [GNC] IRA/401K income detection

2022-03-17 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/16/2022 8:49 PM, D. wrote: Michael, I think I get what you're saying. In my own case, I've taken to separating the pretax streams into their own income accounts, which seemingly addresses some of your points. But one of the big selling points of IRA/401Ks is that they earn money tax

Re: [GNC] IRA/401K income detection

2022-03-16 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/16/2022 7:03 PM, Gyle McCollam wrote: Michael has the right approach. Recording this when taking income involves 4 account. However, don't forget that if it is coming from a Roth IRA there is no tax. 401K and Traditional IRA will involve a tax liability, but that is a whole other

Re: [GNC] IRA/401K income detection

2022-03-16 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/16/2022 6:09 PM, D. via gnucash-user wrote: Adrien, Overall, I think you're right, but I believe the tax features you're referring to are used to calculate taxes for a business? The issue with deferred income-- and this has been true for as long as I can remember-- is that when Joe

Re: [GNC] IRA/401K income detection

2022-03-16 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/16/2022 10:48 AM, David G. Pickett via gnucash-user wrote: OK, not anything like an accountant, so my books have just asset, liability, income, expense.  Equity might be a better place for the IRA/401K, since it is an asset with a varying value and an attached tax liability TBD.  So, how

Re: [GNC] IRA/401K income detection

2022-03-14 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/13/2022 10:28 PM, David G. Pickett via gnucash-user wrote: I understand that one characteristic/weakness of the double entry system is that you cannot tag a transfer with an income or expense account.  Still, accounting programs help prepare 1099R's, so there must be a way.  Keeping

Re: [GNC] IRA/401K income detection

2022-03-10 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/10/2022 2:15 PM, Stan Brown wrote: If you make out a check to "cash" and cash it at the bank, is that income? No, of course not. Your net worth is the same before and after cashing that check. The same is true of making a withdrawal from your IRA. Despite the fact that the tax laws treat

Re: [GNC] reports

2022-03-07 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/6/2022 9:03 PM, Chuck wrote: Hi: Thanks for all the help, hints & so on. What do you think is the best option to generate a custom report? Chuck It depends. Consider that I was a pro (and though not fluent in LISP, can read most anything -- SCHEME is a LISP dialect). But even so, when I

Re: [GNC] reports

2022-03-06 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/5/2022 9:29 PM, Charles Simcox wrote: What report & how do I use reports o generate a report by selecting specific accounts & some of their daughters not necessarily he whole account? Possibly confused about the process. In gnucash, you don't PRE select the options you want for the

Re: [GNC] accounts receivable for rent..

2022-03-05 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/5/2022 4:03 AM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: On 3/5/22 12:50 AM, arthur brogard via gnucash-user wrote: We have only one property.  Only one tenant.  Simplest possible case I guess. I'm thinking I must: . Create an 'accounts receivable'  account.That would be an income account I guess. 

Re: [GNC] Keeping tenant accounts on Gnucash - periodic 'rent owing' ?

2022-03-04 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/4/2022 4:46 PM, arthur brogard via gnucash-user wrote: We intend to start using gnucash to keep an account of our rental property. This is our first for everything: having a rental, keeping accounts, using gnucash. We can open an account for the property and enter all amounts received as

Re: [GNC] Close books or start over?

2022-03-01 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/1/2022 5:14 PM, Leo Bolta via gnucash-user wrote: Hello, I moved from my home country about 4 months ago and did keep track of expenses from the day that I left. Would now like to start tracking again using the program but wondering what would be the most practical way to begin again. If

Re: [GNC] Automatic sales tax

2022-02-28 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
It's incredibly complex. And Australians have all been led to believe that we have the most complex tax system on the planet. Liz The reason is that here in the US sales tax is not national. The US is a federation of states and commonwealths. You would not be surprised if 50 countries

Re: [GNC] Automatic sales tax

2022-02-28 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 2/28/2022 2:50 AM, Sebastian Naumann wrote: Hi John, sorry, but I tend to disagree with your statement that "[...] most states consider the location of the seller to be the nexus...". Actually the second part of the statement is correct: Most states are destination based, meaning the

Re: [GNC] GnuCash multi-user request

2022-02-23 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 2/23/2022 3:48 AM, Andreas van Rensburg wrote: Hi - is it possible to have multi-user access to a file and how does one set this up? Regards Andreas Multiple SEQUENTIAL users is supported (if they all have access to a shared data location where the gnucash data file is stored. Multiple

Re: [GNC] (no subject)

2022-02-22 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 2/22/2022 1:31 PM, Steve Butler wrote: Please plan a compressive backup strategy for your entire system. Include email, Libre Office documents, other misc files and not just GnuCash. That way it won't matter where files are "hidden" as you will have a complete backup strategy that isn't

Re: [GNC] Automatic sales tax << slightly off topic (but mail related) >>

2022-02-21 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 2/21/2022 1:09 PM, Stephen M. Butler wrote: Here in Washington state the state does post an address file to assigns rate codes by address.  In at least one case two houses with the same zip+4 are in different location codes.  Most web hosts POS systems can only go down to the zip code

Re: [GNC] Automatic sales tax

2022-02-21 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 2/20/2022 7:58 PM, David Carlson wrote: Here in Illinois it varies by county, city, merchandise category, service category, seller category and sometimes by such arcane variables as library district (well, that last one may be a slight exaggeration). And not only is it that complex, but

Re: [GNC] Automatic sales tax

2022-02-20 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 2/20/2022 4:33 PM, Don Robertson wrote: Seems most other software will do this - Xero, MYOB etc. For open source fans, Kmymoney seems pretty good. And before you start mailing me personally, if you don't want to hear what people think of your software, perhaps you should consider removing

Re: [GNC] mortgage calculator

2022-02-19 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 2/18/2022 2:42 PM, Alan Schold via gnucash-user wrote: Is there a way to get the mortgage repayment module to account for regular extra monthly payments? Now the calculations proceed as if I'm just paying the basic mortgage amount, and I have to recalculate the principal balance each month.

Re: [GNC] Company name on a receipt and Balance Sheet

2022-02-15 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 2/15/2022 9:34 AM, Ian D Henry wrote: When I use the Balance Sheet in Assets and Liabilities tab or Receipt under the Business tab, the name of the business is not shown. I want the receipt to show who received the money. I can't find anything in chapter 9 of the manual to help me. I would

Re: [GNC] cannot open data file

2022-02-13 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 2/13/2022 10:12 AM, suk wah Bernstein wrote: thanks for help. You didn't bother to tell us your OS (makes a difference on how you find lost files) This isn't really a gnucash question but more of a "I think I know the name and/or extension of a file but can't find it" (don't know the

Re: [GNC] Managing multiple vehicles

2022-02-06 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
Actually I just stumbled on another problem, maybe you could clear something for me? >From what I can tell, I'll place COGS of a certain fixed asset that were payed in cash under expenses on GnuCash, like "expenses:cow feed" for example. And these expenses would constitute a transaction

Re: [GNC] Managing multiple vehicles

2022-02-04 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
It's not so much filtering, more grouping of cost components by say Tractor using your example. I use quickbooks classes to do exactly that on the farm. It's an essential management feature described in https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113772#c6 but it's not offered in GnuCash and the

Re: [GNC] Canadian Mortgage

2022-02-03 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 2/3/2022 2:51 PM, David G. Pickett via gnucash-user wrote: .. My last code change at Bank of America was to add a very tiny bit to balance transfer fees so that cent was not lost, not to satisfy the bank, but to satisfy testers validating a huge software update. LOL and among

Re: [GNC] Managing multiple vehicles

2022-02-03 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
I've read that using other softwares one can benefit from "category" to better filter the information you want and create reports, I've tried using the description field for that using a simple structure like Expenses:Gas and placing the vehicle details as description but it just doesn't work,

Re: [GNC] Don't get this at all

2022-02-01 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 2/1/2022 2:46 AM, Don Robertson wrote: Well, I guess it isn't for me. I think computers should save people time. If I need to open my bank page in my browser and copy the transactions manually into Gnucash  and make a bill, post it, and pay it  for every packet of paperclips doesn't

Re: [GNC] Canadian Mortgage

2022-01-31 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/30/2022 9:40 PM, Al Maloney wrote: Victor Thanks. What you say about formulae and bank practice makes sense to me. Your advice says to me: "Don't sweat the small stuff". Al Maloney Velox Versutus Vigilans Speaking as somebody who has written software to produce mortgage amortization

Re: [GNC] Accounting Question re Balance Sheet

2022-01-25 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/25/2022 2:14 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: If your needs aren't that complicated, there is nothing wrong with contra-accounts however. Accountants use them fairly regularly. That's because accountants think in terms of debits and credits. All a "contra account" is is an account where

Re: [GNC] Split transaction

2022-01-22 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/22/2022 9:05 AM, David Carlson wrote: Heidi, One day last month you went to the grocery store and bought $200.00 worth of groceries, paying for them with your credit card. Another day you went to the furniture store and bought two chairs, paying with your credit card. Those two separate

Re: [GNC] Accounting Question re Balance Sheet

2022-01-20 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/20/2022 2:55 PM, p...@kroitor.ca wrote: This isn't really a GnuCash question, but I thought I might ask you guys anyway as there's a broad variety of skills and experience here. Situation: a relative owns a house on a six acre property, plus several adjacent properties she's collected

Re: [GNC] Lodging a cheque to an a/c - 'cash in wallet'??

2022-01-17 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/17/2022 12:19 PM, R. Victor Klassen wrote: I generally use a two step process. First the cheque goes into “undeposited cheques”. And the appropriate income account is credited. Then when I make a deposit I may be depositing cash and multiply cheques in a single transaction with the

Re: [GNC] Bill - Book Item lines to different Customers.

2022-01-10 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
Exactly.. So you don't know how the features work. And that might actually be an advantage GnuCash has a chargeback feature that allows you to select items from a vendor bill and automatically charge them back to a customer. Selected line-items from the bill to auto-populate into the

Re: [GNC] Bill - Book Item lines to different Customers.

2022-01-10 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/10/2022 1:49 AM, Allan Belcher wrote: OK actual reason. Horse Agistment business. The farrier comes and reshoes 3 horses, each belonging to a different person. The farrier gives me 1 bill for the complete job. When I enter the bill I want to be able to enter 3 lines, each for "reshoing

Re: [GNC] Bill - Book Item lines to different Customers.

2022-01-09 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/9/2022 6:56 PM, Allan Belcher wrote: Is it possible to allocate individual line items in a bill to different customers? Regards, Allan You might perhaps begin by describing what you are trying to do from a business perspective. In other words, at least to me it is totally unclear

Re: [GNC] Period Ends

2022-01-08 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/7/2022 12:21 PM, Jesse MacDougall wrote: Thanks for clarifying that Gyle. Interesting. Yes definitely never post to past periods. Move forward. You can prevent, or at least detect violations of this by making a year end copy of the file to read only medium (well, write once medium). I

Re: [GNC] Cash Basis Accounting

2022-01-07 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
Michael, I have a sole professional services consulting practice, B2B, with clients. No product sales. My approach to cash accounting has worked for me for more than two decades; it might not work as well for others. Regards, Rich I understood what you were doing worked for you. I was

Re: [GNC] Cash Basis Accounting

2022-01-06 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/6/2022 3:02 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Thu, 6 Jan 2022, R. Victor Klassen wrote: The only problem being if you want to send the invoice to your customer, it says “invoice in progress”. Since I don't use GC to prepare client invoices it's not an issue for me. I use LaTeX for invoices.

Re: [GNC] Closing Books - Pros & Cons

2022-01-03 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
First of all, it won't result in "inaccuracies" as long as you understand the effective dates of reports relative to closing.. Pro --- traditional process, as you said, makes the balances of the temporary accounts (income , expense) related to the current period. A closed set of books is

Re: [GNC] how to find where to move file

2022-01-03 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/2/2022 10:35 PM, Chuck wrote: Hi: guess I am just thick OK, so I am 89 years young so maybe the wiki I looked in is wrong? Finding the place in my updated version of Linux Ubuntu is my problem, Help would be appreciated. Chuck I'll tell you the "trick" I use when going to a new

Re: [GNC] difficulties with managing accounts with lots of split transactions

2021-12-28 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/28/2021 5:39 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: Personally I use #2 as Transaction Journal & Double Line mode 24/7. The always visible detail doesn't bother me and I generally like to have it instantly available without having to change modes, but I understand mileage varies. Regards, Adrien

Re: [GNC] Real Estate property-segregated costs tracking

2021-12-28 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/27/2021 10:26 PM, Juan F. Saa wrote: Does anyone use GnuCash to keep track of wholesaling/flipping of Real Estate properties? In Quickbooks this is done by entering each property as a 'class', as described here That's an "add on" to standard double entry bookkeeping. Standard double

Re: [GNC] Another Beginner Accounting Question

2021-12-22 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/22/2021 6:20 AM, Patrick Skelton wrote: Just when I was thinking I had accumulated all the pieces of the jigsaw I need, I discovered the A/R account. I have a shop that charges 50% margin on whatever they sell. So, if they sell one candle for £12 then I will invoice them only for £6. They

Re: [GNC] Tracking capital gains, commissions and the Trial Balance report

2021-12-21 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/20/2021 9:34 PM, Daniel Torstenson wrote: Hi, I've been looking into tracking my capital gains and commissions for a brokerage account, and I'm running into an issue that I see others have run into. Namely, I'd like to account for my commissions and also keep track of my capital gains, as

Re: [GNC] 4.9 on Ubuntu 20.04 not saving preferences

2021-12-20 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
And it goes without saying. after identifying the names of the files, check the permissions. This symptom (not saving changes) could be not having write access. Long time ago when I was first using gnucash, I had the problem of not being able to save user preferences and that's what it turned

Re: [GNC] (no subject)

2021-12-19 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/19/2021 2:11 AM, Jesse MacDougall wrote: I am trying to add a "label"(not sure if that is the right word) on Income Statement "Cost of Goods Sold" and put accounts under COGS. Like there is with "Total Revenue". What is happening is COGS is a parent account with sub accounts but I want

Re: [GNC] How to remove oldest transactions

2021-12-18 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/18/2021 3:16 PM, D. wrote: Thank you Michael for stepping in. You've summarized the process to which I was alluding. I'll note that deleting old transactions using a keyboard shortcut is going to throw the balances off for every account that the deleted transactions touched, so you'll

Re: [GNC] How to remove oldest transactions

2021-12-18 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/18/2021 1:40 PM, Gyle McCollam wrote: Yes, you can close the book and it will zero out income and expense accounts, but it does not remove any transactions and it will not reduce the size of the file. In fact, since it creates entries in all the expense and income accounts, the file

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