Finbar,
This is likely as specific as it gets or can get
https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v4/C/gnucash-guide/chapter_invest.html.
As others have mentioned the exact accounting treatment depends on the tax rules
in your jurisdiction and likely business regulations if you are conducting
investment as
Adrien,
It does indeed Menu->Administration->Backup Tool. I don't usually make use of
it as my NAS initiates and carries out my main backups for me and a couple of
crons do the rest. It looks like it can access network locations too. I have a
mixed Linux/Windows (can't convert the wife) setup
James
https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v4/C/gnucash-guide/basics-backup1.html
The info https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations is also useful
for backing up user preferences and things like customized reports.
To back up to a USB drive on Linux Mint, the drive should appear in the
Tom,
There is another issue with putting up a list of banks known not to supply
OFXQFX or CSV downloads. The banks can up date there procedure and if the
information put up is wrong or becomes wrong, they may take issue with an
independent site posting that information particularly without some
James,
If you are not seeing the transactions you have already entered and the
accounts in the account tab it is possible that you have not saved the
datafile. To do this use the File-Save As menu item immediately after starting
GnuCash up. It will then automatically open the same file next
James,
Have you read the help Manual sections on Accounts and Common Transaction
Operation https://code.gnucash.org/docs/C/gnucash-help/help.html- much more
useful than YouTube videos. Most of the Youtube videos dealing with GnuCash are
AFAIK not produced by any of the documentation team or the
Eric
AFAIK you can do this by making a payment of less than the due amount from one
account and then makea second (or more) payment from another account to the same
invoice - just cant do it in a single step.
David Cousens
On Sun, 2022-08-07 at 19:17 +, Eric Hammond wrote:
> Thanks again
Eric,
This is already possible, at least on Linux but I suspect also in Windows too (
this link may provide a way
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/add-an-app-to-run-automatically-at-startup-in-windows-10-150da165-dcd9-7230-517b-cf3c295d89dd
). On Linux Mint I can create multiple
Rob
There were originally breakout pages from the building on Linux for specific
information related to various Linux distributions including one for Ubuntu.
That seems to have now morphed into a general installation page for Ubuntu
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Ubuntu and the Ubuntu specific
On Wed, 2022-08-03 at 20:28 -0400, Peter S. Shenkin wrote:
> Adrian,
>
> I do have full account names turned on. I forget where I did that. I have
> no customized sort that affects the order of accounts within a transaction
> in either register view nor in the transaction report. (I prefer to
James,
>From your earlier posts you are using Linux Mint. I didn't connect with your
post in another thread before.
If you have successfully installed GnuCash in Linux Mint it will appear in the
desktop menu which is activated by clicking on or hovering over an icon which
looks like LM in a
James
You haven't really given us much information to go on to help you. What
operating system are you using and what version of Gnucash did you install. If
you run GnuCash it will tell you the version number in the splash window at
startup or as usual Help ->About will list the information. It
David
Since the Nabble interface went down I've been using the mail-archive mirrors
https://www.mail-archive.com/gnucash-user@gnucash.org/,
https://www.mail-archive.com/gnucash-devel@gnucash.org/. You can't edit or
submit a postfrom them but I find it helpful when following and replying a
Peter,Yes it is working correctly in Gnucash 4.11 on Linux Mint 20.3 and has
always worked that way in the past. The coding for the transaction reports is
in Scheme and separate from the main GnuCash code so I would not expect a change
in the preferences for the register display to affect the
Peter
I do agree the Debit and Credit column headers appear to be reversed on the
Transaction Report in your original post . I have just run a Transaction report
(GC 4.11) on one of my bank accounts and it reports my income (payments into
the account) correctly as debits and expenses (payments
Peter
The terms Increase and Decrease in the header only apply to the account whose
register you have open not to the accounts which are the target of the
individual split(entry) of the transaction and not to the account which is
designated in the second split. It would appear that you have the
James,
Please direct replies to the list not to individual list participants. If your
email client has a Reply to List feature please us that or include the mailing
list address Gnucash Users , in the To: box. This
allows all list participants to see and learn from the posts and also to reply
to
Thanks Adrien,
The Software Manager has an image which had 2.2.9 on it. I didn't scroll down to
the details, just assumed the image was of the installed version - my bad.
apt-cache policy gnucash
also lists it as 3.8 the same package as the Ubuntu archive.
I hadn't realized LM 21 was out. I
James,
I presume you downloaded Linux Mint 20.3. Did you choose the Cinnamon desktop or
one of the pther options?
There are several options on Linux Mint to get GnuCash installed. The version
supplied by the Software Manager is 2.2.9 which is well out of date with the
current version 4.11. If
Frank
That sounds like a good way to deal with it. I will try and put an appropriate
patch in place in the next week or two.
David
On Wed, 2022-07-27 at 10:12 +0200, Frank H. Ellenberger wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> perhaps you can do it slightly different. I agree to remove all the
> technical
Fred,
Not early in the guide, but in the section dealing with multiple currencies
https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v4/C/gnucash-guide/currency_trading_accts.html and
discussed on the wiki (https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Trading_Accounts).
I don't think anyone has yet written anything about any
Phyllis,
This message means that the last time you exited, the data file was not closed
properly which would have happened when the program or your computer crashed.
If you select the Open Anyway option and this will clear the lock file and allow
the data file to be opened.
GC 4.11 on Linux
David,
I had a look at both Chapter 3 in the Tutorial and GUide on Importing and Ch6 in
the Help Manual. What has happened was the decision was made to move the
importing section into the help manual a couple of years ago when I rewrote the
Ch6 in the Help manual so I created the rewritten
Tom,
You can make accounts hidden. Edit the account in the Account tab and select the
hidden button in the dialogue. You can always then use the right click in the
Accounts tab, select Find Account and unhide them in future. If you delete an
account you can choose another account for any splits
Phyllis,
The problem with the import is the negative sign on the Debit/Withdrawal column.
GnuCash expects this to be a positive quantity when the debits and credits are
in separate columns, i.e if both columns are specified then both columns are
positive. If the data is in a single column then
I think David Carlson was principally referring to the temrinology using"
category". When I rewrote the importer section last time there was a major
reorganisation of the guide and help in progress and it was suggestsed that it
was more appropriate to the Help manual as it is largely a button by
David,
That was likely my bad. I rewrote the Importer documentation a couple of years
ago after Geert had completed a major rewrite of the CSV importer and importer
code in general. I was working primarily from experimentation with the program
and only a passing acquaintance with some areas of
Christian,
The import data matching information is stored in the individual data file. Not
sure about import configuraion information. See the following for more info.
https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v4/C/gnucash-guide/basics-migrate-settings.html
My only experience of this in 4.11 on Linux mint was when I had the Notes field
displayed and had Notes with more than one line associated with an account.
Turning the display of the Note column off left the extra spaces unless I
collapsed and expanded the account tree.
On Sun, 2022-07-03 at
Might be time to upgrade to the latest version. This problem now does not exist
in V4.11 on Linux (Mint 20.3) and or Windows. You can close the app either from
the menu or by using the window close icon in the top RH of the window and the
lock is removed. A system restart with the app still open
Bite,
The overall methodology is the same although the calculation of the unrealized
gain or loss is slightly different from the example - there is no external
valuation just recording a stock price. A new valuation of a painting is
essentially the same as a change in an updated stock price stock
Apologies Derek,
I hadn't seen you post before putting up my own reply. I tend to go through my
emails serially. I'll remember to switch the grouping by threads on in my
client.
David
On Tue, 2022-06-21 at 19:41 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> David,
>
> On Tue, June 21, 2022 7:20 pm,
Eric,
The image you attached did not appear to contain anything. Presumably you raised
an invoice when you billed the client which would have created an entry debiting
Accounts Receivable and crediting the appropriate income account.
To record the bad debt you would create a transaction which
Kevin,
We cannot really tell whether it is correct to remove the transactions to the
Imbalance account or not. You can really only determine that by examining the
register of the account to which you think you should perhaps change the split
to the imbalance account. Before actually changing it
Bite
The transaction to record this, if a profit or increase in value of the security
is to debit the security by the amount of the profit and to credit an income
account by the same amount. For a loss in value creidt the security account and
debit the income amount. The profit or loss is the
The difficulty is that the sign convention in a CSV file is normally determined
by the originating bank and there is no guarantee that it is what GnuCash thinks
it should be.
Some banks will use a signed amount column to represent debits and credits,
others will provide a debit column and a
Fred,
If you go to the Accounts tab in the main window can you see either an Orphan or
Imbalance account with a non-zero balance. The transaction creation process and
the importer have never allowed you to create a transaction in GnuCash which is
unbalanced. I just tested it and tried to force
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
On Sun, 2022-06-05 at 18:47 -0700, Fred Tydeman wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 5, 2022 at 5:02 PM
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
On Sun, 2022-06-05 at 18:47 -0700, Fred Tydeman wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 5, 2022 at 5:02 PM
If you import from bank 1 with the transfers to a Funds in transit account as
the transfer account rather than bank 2 and then import the records from bank 2
with the transfer account as funds in transit, the dates will be correct in each
of the bank accounts. The funds in transit account will end
Fred,
Ctrl + A Select all content in nearly all computer systems.
The multiple selection with a mouse is:
Ctrl + Left click Add the line to the selection;
Shift + Left click Select all between the current line and the line clicked on;
SHift + Up arrow Select one line up from current line;
Fred,
The price database is stored in your main datafile for the set of books. You can
edit it from the Tools->Price Database in the menu.
David Cousens
On Thu, 2022-06-02 at 21:50 -0700, Fred Tydeman wrote:
> I have made a test file with just two transactions:
> Opening Balance in GBP on
Aaron,
>From your description it sounds as though you have created sub-accounts of your
checking account to implement a budget process. If this is the case, it is the
opposite of normal accounting proceduress. To account for expenditure in a
specific category the generally accepted procedure is
Bogdan,
I have no problem deleting individual match strings in the import map editor in
GC4.10 on Linux mint 20.3. I used to do it occasionally in several of the 3.x
versons as well but I have never deleted all the strings for a given account. It
may be that action which is causing the
nathan,
This would normally be regarded as a capital gain (or loss) on sale of the item
and whether it is or not depends on the capital gains tax rules as they apply to
this item in your jurisdiction. As such it may be subject to capital gains tax,
in which case you would need to treat it
Bogdan
AFAIK the import mapping data is stored in the main data file as is the price
database data. I don't know if the log files record changes to the import map
editor or only transaction changes. I suspect if you have deleted something in
the import map editor your only recourse will be to
Andrea
The mechanism for recording unrealized gains and losses is basically fairly
simple but the devil is as usual in the detail.
You need a sub account of your asset account and a corresponding account in
Equity which you could call a revaluation reserve or something similar. This
account can
It will depend on your email client Arthur. I usually filter on gnucash which
picks up gnucash in the list address and seems to work fairly well. It your
email client also has a group by thread option this makes it easier to follow
conversations.
David Cousens
On Wed, 2022-05-18 at 01:18 +,
Arthur,
When replying to a question it is legitimate to copy the title of the post you
are replying to "Re: [GNC] Am I in business?" to the subject line of the reply
where the reply is a continuation of that discussion, particularly when
replying to a digest. It normally happens automatically
Arthur,
While forums may be useful to gain some understanding of financial matters and
accounting for them, you always need to check carefully that any
advice/procedures provided on a website or forum (including anything said in
this forum) is actually applicable to your situation and in your
Arthur,
You appear to be in Australia or somewhere that has a similar tax system.
Short answer - you derive income from the properties you rent out - you are
conducting a business.
If you are in Australia you will be subject to capital gains tax on all the
properties apart from your main
John,
I achieve this by keeping my GnuCash files in a Dropbox account accessible from
my desktop at home, my laptop while travelling and my wife's laptop. I backup
to an NAS (full once a month with daily incrementals) which is in turn backed up
to an offsite online cloud storage and a local
I have just setup getting finance quotes for Gnucash for the first time for GC
4.10 on Linux Mint 20.3. I was setting up a shell script to shutdown GnuCash,
update the finance quotes and restart GnuCash after the quotes had been written
to the datafile. The finance quote seems to work ok but when
Richard,
Just installed GnuCash 4.10 on my wife's Windows 11 laptop with no problems at
all using the msi installer from Sourceforge following the download link from
the GnuCash website. Starts, creates a new datafile and opens a copy of my
datafile from my Linux system without any problem.
It
Bogdan
That's easy. In the Accounts Tab, right click on the top level Equity account to
select it and then right click anywhere in the pane and select New Account from
the popup menu or use Actions->New Account from the mainmenu. This should start
the dialogue with Equity as the parent account,
Bogdan,
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
Adrien,
There is a bit of recent correspondence on the github site with a possible new
project manager interested. I gather the main problem is in getting Ngewi Fet
the original developer to communicate/cooperate/hand over the reins on the
project to allow that to happen.
David Cousens
On Fri,
Shaun,
The android GnuCash app is not a part of the GnuCash application which is a
desktop app. I don't know if it is still being supported by its original
developer but it AFAIK was a totally separate development in Java.
The QIF format is defined in the following web pages to the extent it
Chris
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations
https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v4/C/gnucash-guide/basics-migrate-settings.html
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/User_Configuration_Files
David Cousens
On Fri, 2022-05-06 at 18:58 +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> If one wants to copy a GnuCash
The other possibility if libofx supports the credit card tags would be to give
users the option of having the different card numbers recognized as subaccounts
of the main credit card account . If libofx doesn't support it it is unlikely
much can be done other than raising it as an issue with
Chris,
You have created a chart of accounts which has more than a single account in it?
One other point. Do you have the View->Autosplit ledger option checked. IF you
do then the first line is the transaction summary line and it remains balnk
until you create the transaction splits. You have to
Chris,
The behaviour of the account selection in the transfer column in GC 4.10 on
Linux Mint is as follows:
When you first click on the split of the transaction a down arrow appears at thr
right of the column.
If you click on the down arrow, the list of transaction is displayed and its
window
David, Bruce
The type Spreadsheet is the same independent of whether the data file is stored
in sqlite3 or xml format on Linux. I can't test the other database formats at
this point.
David Cousens
On Sun, 2022-05-01 at 06:42 +1000, David H wrote:
> Bruce,
>
> To me the screenshot of your file
Bruce use your file explorer to locate your data file then use File Open from
the menu inside GnuCash to navigate to that position, select the data file. The
newly installed version has no memory of where Flatpak kne
the file was located us the config/user preference information where the last
Chris,
If you start multiple programs from the directory a set of bash scripts which
change to the appropriate directory and run the set of programs for each set of
books you work on might be useful. You could launch the scipts from either the
Ubuntu menu or from desktop launchers.
David
Chris
The online version of Help and the Tutorial and Concepts Guide are not really
searchable in any meaningful sense from within the HTML page. Other versions may
be I have more luck using Google directly to find specific topics and info.
The section you are likely looking for comes under
Unfortunately GnuCash doesn't work that way AFAIK. Depending on your OS you may
be able to create separate launchers in the Desktop menufor each specific file
and name them accordingly. I know this will work on Linux Mint and likely Ubuntu
variants but not sure on other OS. The command issued by
David Tommy etal
As Ubuntu and Linux Mint are ultimately Debian based it should be possible to
install using dpkg or the Gdebi installer (you may need to install this on
Ubuntu -in terminal - "sudo apt install gdebi - but it is the default installer
in Linux Mint) from
Fred,
You will need a statement from the insurance company which details what
component of the premium credited to your bank account when you pay it) is a
contribution/increase to the capital value of the asset which is the insurance
policy (debited to the account representing the policy and
Ken
All accounts have a currency associated with them. When you hold an asset, you
hold it at a value in a particular currency, not as an item of indeterminate
value. You would require an inventory (which GnuCash does not have to hold the
items and in inventory accounting each item still has a
Chris,
In around 12 years of using GnuCash on Linux, I could probably count on one hand
the number of times I have had to type in the full filename and extension or
even search for the location of GnuCash data files. At least with the ".gnucash"
extension there is little chance of a clash with
Jeff
Someonelse suggested using the find transaction search if there is some common
string you can search for.
David
On Sat, 2022-04-16 at 00:32 -0500, 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
Jeff
Another approach you could try would be to create a temporary account in your
dad's books and move the transactions that should have gone into your account
into it. Should work if all of the transactions have at least one account in
common , e.g. an Asset; bank account or similar. if not
Heide,
The recommended procedure when updating GnuCash from an old version to a newer
version is to first update to the last minor version of the major series number
, e.g. for 2.6 this is I think either 2.6.19 or 2.6.21 before up grading to the
3.x series. If you are up grading to version 4.xyou
Rich,
One possible cause for this is a transaction (or more) accidentally entered
since the time you were last getting correct reconciliations at a date sometime
in the past. This has occurred for me sometimes when I have mistyped a date
entry, particularly the year, on entry. e.g date went in as
Rich
Have been using GnuCash for a similar period of time and have not noticed any
reconciliation problems (other than those reported as bugs on the list - any
that are are generally fixed pretty quickly) up to v4.9, particulaarly in recent
versions. Haven't yet done a reconciliation with 4.10.
Karin
It is not an expense but a liability. When you open the Budget you can expand
the liability accounts and enter budget amounts against the liability account
for the loan/mortgage at the period the payments are due. If necessary you can
change the budget interval to suit.
A reduction in the
On Tue, 2022-03-29 at 09:40 +, avigr...@juno.com wrote:
> What is the filename that GnuCash uses to store the data? I need to know what
> filename I am looking for when I do my search for it.
Whatever name you gave it when you created it. It will have the file extension
".gnucash" so look
Arthur,
The properties themselves will be recorded as asset account and the mortgages as
liability accounts in GnuCash and as they are generally long term assets would
not be recorded as current assets (unless you trade in properties). An account
of the form Asset:Non-current:Properties:property1
Jeff,
Follow David Whitings suggestion creating multiple desktop entries in the file,
one for each separate datafile you need to open, changing the name in the Name
entry and the filepath in the Exec entry as appropriate.
You can locate/put the desktop file in your home directory at
George
Have you tried changing the number of sub-account levels in the report options?
(Edit->Report Options with the report open). It may be possible that changing
from the default level of 3 and/or changing the option to flatten the account
structure (you can always change it back again if the
Frederick
GnuCash also does not have support for full cost management accounting as well
as not having inventory accounting which is just one component of cost
management accounting. It requires a different form of jobs from that
implemented in the business features. It can be done manually with
Arthur,
The Accounts Receivable account is an asset account which means it is debited
to increase its balance and credited to decrease its balance. You want to it to
have a negative balance by the amount your tenant is in credit.
Manually nter a transaction at the date you opened the books
Henrik,
I doubt if the reliability problem you are experiencing is intrinsically in
GnuCash itself although it may be associated with the library used to connect to
MMySQL.
GnuCash is not designed for multiple access in particular, i.e. multiple users
cannot simultaneously access the same data
AFAIK it has not been used since V2.6.
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations
David Cousens
On Wed, 2022-03-09 at 13:04 -0800, Dean Gibson wrote:
> Is the directory .gnucash still used by v4.9?
> ___
> gnucash-user mailing list
>
Arthur,
The option of using cash or accrual accounting is not necessarily totally a
choice on your part. It will likely depend upon the taxation legislation in your
jurisdiction. Many jurisdictions have a threshold on either turnover or income
below which the individual business has the option of
On Sat, 2022-03-05 at 19:29 -0700, 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?
By first opening the report by selecting the required report from the Reports
menu then
On Sat, 2022-03-05 at 20:26 +, arthur brogard via gnucash-user wrote:
> Not sure if I'm doing this right. Hitting 'reply' on the email address of a
> poster that I want to respond to and putting a 'cc' in for
> gnucash-user@gnucash.org
Arthur
If you put gnucash-user@gnucash.org in the To:
Arthur,
If you have the Accounts tab showing in the GnuCash interface, the menu item
Actions->New Account Heirarchy will run a dialogue which allows you to choose
specific account options.
The first step selects the currency for the accounts you are going to add which
will be your local
Jesse,
That is exactly what the Aqbanking interface does. It depends upon your bank
allowing OFXDirectConnect. Some banks in some countries do not allow this. There
is a lot of dscussion about setting up the aqbanking For setting this up see
Leo
Just export your account tree (File_>Export_>Export Account Tree to CSV) and
reimport it into your new set of books.
David cousens
On Tue, 2022-03-01 at 22:14 +, Leo Bolta via gnucash-user wrote:
> Hello, I moved from my home country about 4 months ago and did keep track of
> expenses
When importing your checking account, if the item has already been imported as a
transaction to your credit card, then if GnuCash recognizes it the "A" column
will be unchecked and the record will not be imported and either the "U" column
will be checked if the record being imported has
Paul
You can copy the report to a spreadsheet by selecting the report tab, selecting
all the content using Ctrl-A, copy it with Ctrl-C and paste it into your
favourite spreadsheet. Works into LibreOffice Calc and should work equally with
Excel. You can then save it either as CSV or in the
On Tue, 2022-02-22 at 10:49 -0700, Mario Nigrovic wrote:
> Many years ago, I had used gnucash, and was pretty happy with it. I was
> very careful to make regular backups of my data, and so, when my disk
> inevitably crashed, I was not too worried. However, I was mortified to
> discover that,
Jim,
You only need to create an invoice where you are extending credit to a vendor -
i.e. time to pay. if the item is a cash purchase you could simply open a
transaction from the appropriate asset account register and credit the amount of
the purchase to the appropriate asset bank account and
There are a number of issues with your bookkeeping.
The first major one is that when a book is sold you are debiting a Revenue
account and crediting an A/R (accounts receivable) account. This is incorrect
When you sell a book you are increasing the balance of the revenue/income
account and
Don
There sould be no need to play the logfiles on simply moving to a new system.
All that should really be necessary is to copy the data file from one system to
the other. If you were using any save reports, these can also be copied. the
data file has the format .gnucash. if you copy that to a
The thing is Don all those other software packages charge you an arm and a leg
in most cases for their software. This allows them have paid development teams
who customize their products for each specific jurisdictions in which they
operate.
GNuCash does not. GnuCash is used internationally in
The only way GnuCash can possibly know which of multiple cards a transaction is
from is if that information is somehow contained in the data fields of the
record that is being imported, usually something in the description field.
GnuCash tokenizes the information in a number of fields including
David
Does Reports->Business->Customer Summary from the menu (GC4.9) not meet your
requirements or is it specificaly a listing of the customer contact information
you need. Unfortunately that is not currently available.
David Cousens
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