Re: [GNC] Closing books questions

2019-02-21 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 2/21/2019 12:59 AM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: If you don’t ‘close books’ there really aren’t any ‘brought forward’ numbers. (there’s nothing to bring forward from, the books are still ‘open') If your books don’t agree with your CPA, you’ll have to make the adjusting entries he recommends.

Re: [GNC] UK VAT and "Making Tax Digital"

2019-02-17 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 2/16/2019 4:18 PM, Peter von Kaehne wrote: The main obstacle I can see for us right now is we have as far as I can tell no way to file Tax returns from inside the programme. Is there anything you have in the pipeline? We can hardly be the first or only who will have a problem... As others

Re: [GNC] Problem with Splits

2019-02-12 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
xperienced entering splits << entering two sided often can mean first "lying" about an amount and correcting that only after the other side of the transaction has been done >> Michael D Novack Am 11.02.2019 um 22:15 schrieb Michael or Penny Novack: On 2/11/2019

Re: [GNC] Problem with Splits

2019-02-11 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 2/11/2019 2:40 PM, Christian Kluge wrote: Hi, my general rule of thumb is to always entering from an asset or liability account. The proper "general rule" for a (one side) split transaction is to enter it from the side (debit or credit) that is NOT being split. That this is most often

Re: [GNC] Transferring portion of mutual fund account to another fund account

2019-02-05 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 2/4/2019 8:09 PM, David Carlson wrote: If you are in the US and both funds are within the same custodial account the answer is trivial, just sell one and buy the other. It only matters when you withdraw cash. If you are somehow moving shares from one custodian to another, that is more

Re: [GNC] PDF export of reports

2019-01-28 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/26/2019 10:57 AM, Raimund Strehl wrote: If I am not mistaken the same problem occurs when printing the report from Gnucash using print to pdf or to a printer. I think this is an issue that should have high priority as the export and print functions are rendered unusable by this. Any

Re: [GNC] Other Income Account

2019-01-26 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/26/2019 9:51 AM, Lorrie Laskey wrote: Hi all, My "Other Income" account is showing bank transfers from a fried to my bank account when reimbursing me for, say, shared vacation costs. It is not income but reimbursement of some sort, isn't it? Should this be categorized as income? No. If

Re: [GNC] lost data

2019-01-25 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/24/2019 10:55 PM, Chris Good wrote: Hi John, I'm pretty sure there is no secret list of all the gnucash data files you've opened. This is not a different problem than finding OTHER data on your computer (data created by other apps, say a document created by a word processor). Your

Re: [GNC] Cash Account Question

2019-01-23 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/23/2019 10:25 AM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: Yep, I’m one of those. I track every expense, entered from *where* I spent the funds. So if the money was the green folding kind (or coin) out of my wallet or pocket, I have an account for that. If I move money to/from my wallet, I track that

Re: [GNC] Copying settings, layout, and colors to another computer

2019-01-18 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/17/2019 6:31 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: I have sometimes wanted to migrate my data and my desired configs without carrying over configs from no longer used apps, thus trimming cruft for a *fresh* start. Yes indeed, that is a time when I also might want to do such "clean up". BUT

Re: [GNC] Copying settings, layout, and colors to another computer

2019-01-17 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/17/2019 5:55 PM, Tim Kallmer wrote: What folder or files can I copy from one Ubuntu to another to avoid having to set up settings, layout, and colors again? Both have 3.4. Question --- is there some reason why you DON'T want to be moving some of your user data from one to the other?

Re: [GNC] Loan Mortgage repayment assistant problem

2019-01-09 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/8/2019 11:50 PM, John Ralls wrote: The answer is probably in app-utils/calculation. All of that was probably written before Guile grew a rational number class and I think that GncNumerics get converted to doubles before being passed to the interest functions. That would pretty much

Re: [GNC] Balance Sheet Report keeps listing all my individual stocks

2019-01-01 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/1/2019 1:59 PM, Stephen Knapp via gnucash-user wrote: @Michael. Thank you for the response. I have toggled through all the options in the reports. Selecting and deselecting subtotals. I have also tried putting the individual stocks at different levels in the hierarchy. No matter the

Re: [GNC] Balance Sheet Report keeps listing all my individual stocks

2019-01-01 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/1/2019 10:32 AM, Stephen Knapp via gnucash-user wrote: Hello. I am having a problem that all my individual stocks are showing up in my Balance Sheet report. I have a hierarchy with INVESTMENTS (Asset): BROKER ACCOUNT(Asset): COMPANY A (Stock), COMPANY (Stock), etc. I have tried all

Re: [GNC] Gnucash-created "closing" entries

2018-12-30 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/29/2018 6:13 PM, David Cousens wrote: Stan, The main thing is your books are telling you what you need to know and it is working for you. i get your point about net worth. It should be possible to generate a custom report which will just calculate that without having to close all the

Re: [GNC] Basic Question (I hope) - End of Year Procedure

2018-12-28 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/27/2018 7:31 PM, David Cousens wrote: This was why accountants introduced an artificial 13th month into the financial year so that all closing transactions were forced to occur fater any other transaction that occurred within the year. Any required adjustments to the accounts are also

Re: [GNC] Basic Question (I hope) - End of Year Procedure

2018-12-26 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/25/2018 1:53 PM, John Ralls wrote: That’s pretty much what the GnuCash close books function does. IIRC it’s two transactions, one for income accounts and one for expense accounts. Regards, John Ralls As I noted before, were I doing it manually, I would probably use two transactions

Re: [GNC] Basic Question (I hope) - End of Year Procedure

2018-12-25 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/25/2018 4:45 AM, Colin Law wrote: You could be right though, perhaps the Close Books feature built into the s/w does what she wants. Colin Because I don't use it, I don't know what gnucash's "close the books" actually does BUT what I described (entering a giant split transaction that

Re: [GNC] Basic Question (I hope) - End of Year Procedure

2018-12-24 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/24/2018 3:45 PM, Colin Law wrote: I don't do this, for me there is no point. It is possible to view or report on only transactions within a date range if one wants so I don't see the advantage of closing the books. If you do then you loose easy access to the history, so for example when

Re: [GNC] Basic Question (I hope) - End of Year Procedure

2018-12-24 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/24/2018 4:22 AM, David Cousens wrote: Jenny As well as the wiki that David T mentioned the help manual also has a section on closing the books: I will add something to this because of your "no magic undo button" There sort of is. You can always make a copy of a file before you do some

Re: [GNC] Biils in credit

2018-12-17 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/16/2018 11:04 PM, Andrew Clark wrote: I get a bill from my electricity provider. For part of the year, the solar feed in payments mean our bill is actually in credit. eg. .. What the best way to keep track of this? This may depend on the EXACT details. For example, in my

Re: [GNC] How To Handle Prepayments

2018-12-16 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/15/2018 4:06 PM, tbalaban wrote: My Company pays an initial payment to our insurer at the beginning of each policy year. As we incur insurance costs based on event participants, that initial payment is charged. After it is exhausted we get a monthly bill for the amount due. In no case do

Re: [GNC] GnuCash methodolgy

2018-12-08 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/8/2018 1:52 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: The budget module doesn’t enforce zero-sum practices, but it does give you the information to use it that way if you want. What it is not very good at is the ‘envelope’ method of budgeting. Budgeting should likely be handled outside of GnuCash if

Re: [GNC] Accounting Modules

2018-11-27 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 11/27/2018 1:04 AM, Jeff Abrahamson wrote: I second that you can just start with C++. C++11 and beyond permits and encourages programming styles that are very different from C's. I'd stress that encourages rather than permits, but very strong encouragement as being permitted to do

Re: [GNC] Accounting Modules

2018-11-27 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 11/26/2018 11:27 PM, David Cousens wrote: Steve, I'd reinforce John and Adrien's comments about diving right in. I originally learned C somewhere in the late 1980's from Kernigan and Ritchie's book and used the language for a couple of years. Not a bad way to learn I used that book too.

Re: [GNC] Australian Initial Setup Q's

2018-11-25 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 11/25/2018 5:26 PM, David Cousens wrote: Stephen, Fixed Assets is available in the new file wizard when you create a new set of books. In the Choose Accounts to Create dialog Fixed Assets is one of the options in the drop down list of available accounts which can be added to the tree.

Re: [GNC] Column labels in Credit Card accounts

2018-11-19 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 11/19/2018 5:33 AM, Maf. King wrote: Hi Barry, The option I suggested will swap between formal "Debit & Credit" column labels and "Friendly Text". The "Freindly Text" will vary depending on the account type that you are looking at - by way of example my credit card accounts are Payment /

Re: [GNC] [GNC-dev] Automatically split transactions with sales tax

2018-11-11 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 11/11/2018 6:23 AM, elvis wrote: Seriously? Are you just telling someone to type stuff stuff in? The WHOLE point of computers is to automate stuff. What if they have 1000 transactions? At a minute a transaction that a whole day entering stuff that could be in under a SECOND I

Re: [GNC] Below are my screen shots in .pdf format/previously they were .png files which did not go thru

2018-11-05 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 11/5/2018 5:08 AM, Colin Law wrote: On Mon, 5 Nov 2018 at 09:40, Anita Graves via gnucash-user wrote: Dear Geniuses, I primarily want to know how to get rid of this .LNK file and unlock my gnucash program so that I can use it again. You do not need to get rid of it. However .

Re: [GNC] Accidentally Created .LNK file and now my entire GnuCash file is overwritten and I can't get back to work

2018-11-05 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 11/4/2018 9:10 PM, David T. via gnucash-user wrote: As others explained, the lck and lnk files are created by gnucash to prevent users accidentally opening the data file on multiple machines. They are zero bytes in size and there is no point in trying to open them up. There is no there

Re: [GNC] Help please setting up savings account

2018-10-28 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 10/28/2018 5:07 PM, David Cousens wrote: In the account tree page, right click to bring up the popup menu then select new account. It will need to have an account type of Asset. More specifically. Assets Current assets (meaning cash and cash equivalents -- there are other sorts of

Re: [GNC] Monthly reports

2018-10-14 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 10/12/2018 6:21 AM, Michael Beard via gnucash-user wrote: I have to prepare a monthly report to my local bowling club detailing income and expenditure in the various categories set up. Can you explain how I go about this please. If this was already answered, pardon me. The usual name

Re: [GNC] Is GnuCash the right application for me?

2018-10-12 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
I run the accounts for a couple of clubs with similar needs. Setup one accounts file for each club so they are kept separate. I have not bothered with the complexities of the business features (invoices etc) as I have not found them necessary. I am a person who is treasurer for

Re: [GNC] Repeatable Mac crash

2018-09-30 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On Sep 29, 2018, at 4:30 AM, Robert Kesterson wrote: When I open Gnucash, it opens the last file I had open, which is great. Then I start the second instance from a terminal with “open -n /Applications/GnuCash.app” and it starts up. Since the most recent file is already open, it will

Re: [GNC] Auto Save Ledger

2018-09-20 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 9/20/2018 4:51 AM, Maf. King wrote: Hi Lesley, Save your account data file into a folder - don't work directly from the desktop. (File menu -> Save As while GC is running is probably the best way to do this) GC creates its own backup files each time you save (if using the default &

Re: [GNC] - File Path for associated files

2018-09-12 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 9/11/2018 8:00 PM, John Sears via gnucash-user wrote: So my files were all stored on G:/documents/xxx.pdf Now that I have transferred to Linux, this path is not recognised - " GNUCash could not open the associated URI: file:///G:/documents/xxx.pdf" Is there a way to bulk edit the paths of

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