Re: Income shows as negative

2018-03-10 Thread D
Hello, Although I am *not* an accountant, I understand that in standard accounting, income is shown as a negative balance. The Tutorial covers this. There is a setting that allows you to display income accounts with reversed signs, if this bothers you. David On March 11, 2018, at 8:59 AM, Ke

GnuCash 2.6.19: balances incorrect in customer overview

2018-03-10 Thread curmudgeon
I just upgraded to v2.6.19 (on OSX High Sierra) and now the balances in the Customer Overview screen are incorrect. Receivable Ageing and Customer Reports are correct. It looks like random old transactions are not included in the balances (e.g. some invoices from 2015 or 2016 but not their paym

RE: Income shows as negative

2018-03-10 Thread Ken Pyzik
I am thinking it could be dependent upon what account type you set it up as. Is it set as an Income Account or an Expense Account type? It is possible you have it setup as an Expense Account type which is why it would show as a negative expense?If that is not it -- then you would have to give

Income shows as negative

2018-03-10 Thread am
I just finished setting up gnuCASH and found that after entering income (and other date ie expenses, etc) it shows up as negative(in parenthesis). This would mean a negative income? Why would it not show as expected - POSITIVE income since there was no loss. Is this how accounting works? What am I

RE: Specific reports directory for each dataset?

2018-03-10 Thread Jim Billinghurst
Many thanks for further response. I have separate user accounts, etc, but I was running the other accounts from my personal login having given myself access to the other "user" files. I just logged in properly as the other user and magic there are no saved reports. So my question is answered, j

Re: Importing Quicken

2018-03-10 Thread Edward Ingram
OK DOKE On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 12:00 PM, David Carlson wrote: > Edward, Please use reply all to include the maillist. > > You need to read the manual and understand how double entry bookkeeping > works. You do not really have hundreds of accounts that don't actually > exist. As you stated ori

Re: Importing Quicken

2018-03-10 Thread David Carlson
Edward, Please use reply all to include the maillist. You need to read the manual and understand how double entry bookkeeping works. You do not really have hundreds of accounts that don't actually exist. As you stated originally, you only have three bank accounts. All the others would be what w

Re: Specific reports directory for each dataset?

2018-03-10 Thread D via gnucash-user
Jim, Mike was referring to separate Windows logins. I suspect you're talking about different Gnucash files. If you use Gnucash for different Gnucash files, but from the same Windows login, you will have the same stored reports for all of them. If you have a different Windows login for each, the

Re: Importing Quicken

2018-03-10 Thread Ken Schneider
On 03/10/2018 11:16 AM, David Carlson wrote: The QDF format is one of the data formats that Quicken has used over the years. It is proprietary and sufficiently encrypted to be impossible to read with other programs. Before you abandon Quicken you need to use it to open your file and export your

Re: Importing Quicken

2018-03-10 Thread Colin Law
I believe you have to export from quicken to QIF. Should be in the menus somewhere. Colin On 10 March 2018 at 16:12, Ken Pyzik wrote: > Edward -- I did the switch about 8 months ago and have not looked back. > > I am pretty sure you can directly import your file from Quicken. I do not > remembe

Re: Importing Quicken

2018-03-10 Thread David Carlson
The QDF format is one of the data formats that Quicken has used over the years. It is proprietary and sufficiently encrypted to be impossible to read with other programs. Before you abandon Quicken you need to use it to open your file and export your data to QIF format which GnuCash can import.

RE: Importing Quicken

2018-03-10 Thread Ken Pyzik
Edward -- I did the switch about 8 months ago and have not looked back. I am pretty sure you can directly import your file from Quicken. I do not remember exactly how I did it but I think QIF means quicken file so it should work. Three things to be aware: 1. If you use categories -- those no

Importing Quicken

2018-03-10 Thread Edward Ingram
My Quicken files are stored in .QDF format, not .QIF. (Quicken 2017) How can I import these? I do not wish to continue using quicken. I only have three bank accounts and no investments. I do not need the extras of Quicken. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gn

RE: Specific reports directory for each dataset?

2018-03-10 Thread Jim Billinghurst
Many thanks for quick response. I do actually have two user accounts at the moment but the reports are common. Perhaps my configuration needs changing? I am using Windows10 Regards Jim -Original Message- From: gnucash-user On Behalf Of Mike or Penny Novack Sent: 10 March 2018 01:03 PM

Re: Specific reports directory for each dataset?

2018-03-10 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 3/10/2018 6:52 AM, Jim Billinghurst wrote: I use gnucash to run my personal finances. I also run the finances for a charity in another data set. I am about to take on the accounting for a third entity. Although the data files are clearly separate, all the reports are in one place.

Specific reports directory for each dataset?

2018-03-10 Thread Jim Billinghurst
GnuCash is brilliant! This is my first question after using GnuCash for over 10 years. I use gnucash to run my personal finances. I also run the finances for a charity in another data set. I am about to take on the accounting for a third entity. Although the data files are clearly