Re: [GNC] GNUCash Version 3.6.1 not working on OSX.

[Adrien Monteleone]

Dion,

You shouldn’t need to turn off Gatekeeper.

Some apps, of which GnuCash is one, needs to be given explicit permission to 
open.

This is accomplished by launching it for the very first time, by right-clicking 
on it in the install location (usually /Applications) and choosing ‘open’.

This will provide a dialog to verify that you want to open this app which was 
downloaded from the internet.

Click to open it.

It might or might not launch, but any subsequent launch, should work. And all 
of this with Gatekeeper still active.

Mileage may vary however.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Aug 8, 2019, at 10:02 PM, John Ralls  wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the follow-up, but please remember to copy the list on all 
> replies. MacOS Mail's "reply all" (double-back-arrow icon) works great for 
> this purpose.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
> 
>> On Aug 8, 2019, at 6:47 PM, Dion Patelis  wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Hi John,
>> 
>> Firstly sorry for the late reply and thank you for your lightening fast 
>> reply. I have 150ish emails come in from the GNUcash mailing list and only 
>> just today decided to filter to see if there was a reply.
>> 
>> Just reloaded 
>> Gnucash-Intel-3.6-1.dmg
>> for you this morning.
>> 
>> Ansering your quesitons:
>> 
>> Could you describe what's going on in a little more detail? 
>>  Will answer in your Q's below.
>> Like does it display anything?
>>  Nothing, except in Activity Monitor.
>> Does it show up in the Dock and the icons when you cmd-tab?
>>  No and No.
>> If so and you switch to it does it change the menu bar? 
>>  See previous answer.
>> Does Activity Monitor show any resource usage? 
>>  0% CPU
>>  8kb Memory
>> Did you try relaunching it after GateKeeper verified it and failed to start 
>> it, as GateKeeper so often does?
>>  I just turned off Gatekeeper from 'System Preferences' --> 'Security 
>> and Privacy' --> 'Allow apps to download from - anywhere' --> and it opened.
>> 
>> Thank you. I will start using it and see how it goes. If you don't get a 
>> reply, it should be all good.
>> 
>> Thank you John.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 30/07/2019 3:11 pm, John Ralls wrote:
>>> 
 On Jul 29, 2019, at 8:13 PM, Dion Patelis 
 wrote:
 
 
 
Hi,
 
 I'm using Mac OSX 10.10.4 (14E46) and when I install both
 
 Gnucash-Intel-3.6-1.dmg
 and
 Gnucash-Intel-3.6-2.dmg
 
 it says that the process is running in the Activity Monitor, but I can't 
 get anything to happen.
 
 I went back to
 Gnucash-Intel-2.6.21-3.dmg
 and it works fine.
 
 Does anyone have any ideas on this or should I just compile it from 
 scratch?
 
>>> Could you describe what's going on in a little more detail? Like does it 
>>> display anything? Does it show up in the Dock and the icons when you 
>>> cmd-tab? If so and you switch to it does it change the menu bar? Does 
>>> Activity Monitor show any resource usage? Did you try relaunching it after 
>>> GateKeeper verified it and failed to start it, as GateKeeper so often does?
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> John Ralls
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
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Re: [GNC] gnucash-user Digest, Vol 197, Issue 15

[David Carlson]

David,

Does that method create scads of automatic backups in the Dropbox folder?

David Carlson

On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 7:26 PM David Cousens 
wrote:

> Bob
>
> I have been using Dropbox to do this between 2 Linux computers (desktop and
> laptop) and a Windows10 laptop for several years now. The files usually
> sync
> within a minute or two of making any local  changes on any one computer
> when
> the others are connected to the network. The dropbox daemon seems to
> respond
> to changes of the content directly as they occur and not work ona time
> schedule. You do have to be careful not to have or leave files open on
> multiple computers at the same time however.
>
> You do need to download and setup the requisite Dropbox daemons on each
> machine and link them to the same Dropbox account but once that is done it
> is almost totally transparent. Usually there is a link on the signin page
> for Dropbox on the web which will download the app. Usually sense the OS
> and
> downloads the appropriate version. not familiar with Macs. Most Linux
> distros have the dropbox daemon available for their software sources.
> Windows 10i think you can also get from the store.
>
> Originally I copied my datafile to my dropbox account using the web
> interface and then setup the Dropbox folder on each machine to sync to the
> account on their server. Then used file open from within GnuCash to
> navigate
> to the local Dropbox account on each machine to open it. After that it
> should Save to the local Dropbox account copy you opened it from which will
> then sync to the server folder and in turn sync to the other computers.
>
> David Cousens
>
>
>
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Re: [GNC] GNUCash Version 3.6.1 not working on OSX.

[John Ralls]

Thanks for the follow-up, but please remember to copy the list on all replies. 
MacOS Mail's "reply all" (double-back-arrow icon) works great for this purpose.

Regards,
John Ralls

> On Aug 8, 2019, at 6:47 PM, Dion Patelis  wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Hi John,
> 
> Firstly sorry for the late reply and thank you for your lightening fast 
> reply. I have 150ish emails come in from the GNUcash mailing list and only 
> just today decided to filter to see if there was a reply.
> 
> Just reloaded 
> Gnucash-Intel-3.6-1.dmg
> for you this morning.
> 
> Ansering your quesitons:
> 
> Could you describe what's going on in a little more detail? 
>   Will answer in your Q's below.
> Like does it display anything?
>   Nothing, except in Activity Monitor.
> Does it show up in the Dock and the icons when you cmd-tab?
>   No and No.
> If so and you switch to it does it change the menu bar? 
>   See previous answer.
> Does Activity Monitor show any resource usage? 
>   0% CPU
>   8kb Memory
> Did you try relaunching it after GateKeeper verified it and failed to start 
> it, as GateKeeper so often does?
>   I just turned off Gatekeeper from 'System Preferences' --> 'Security 
> and Privacy' --> 'Allow apps to download from - anywhere' --> and it opened.
> 
> Thank you. I will start using it and see how it goes. If you don't get a 
> reply, it should be all good.
> 
> Thank you John.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 30/07/2019 3:11 pm, John Ralls wrote:
>> 
>>> On Jul 29, 2019, at 8:13 PM, Dion Patelis 
>>>  wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I'm using Mac OSX 10.10.4 (14E46) and when I install both
>>> 
>>> Gnucash-Intel-3.6-1.dmg
>>> and
>>> Gnucash-Intel-3.6-2.dmg
>>> 
>>> it says that the process is running in the Activity Monitor, but I can't 
>>> get anything to happen.
>>> 
>>> I went back to
>>> Gnucash-Intel-2.6.21-3.dmg
>>> and it works fine.
>>> 
>>> Does anyone have any ideas on this or should I just compile it from scratch?
>>> 
>> Could you describe what's going on in a little more detail? Like does it 
>> display anything? Does it show up in the Dock and the icons when you 
>> cmd-tab? If so and you switch to it does it change the menu bar? Does 
>> Activity Monitor show any resource usage? Did you try relaunching it after 
>> GateKeeper verified it and failed to start it, as GateKeeper so often does?
>> 
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>> 
>> 
> 

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Re: [GNC] Questions on how best to setup a non-profit account in gnucash

[Nelson Handcock]

Hi,

I use Gnucash to manage the accounts of a not-for-profit association based
in Australia.

At the end of the day, it's treated like any other business, but may be
exempt from certain taxes.

You'd first need to familiarise yourself with the requirements for a
not-for-profit association and comply with the rules that are applicable
for where your association is going to be set up. These rules will vary
from country to country and maybe even from state to state.

For the association I help manage, we are registered with the state
government body as a not-for-profit incorporated association. We can
therefore declare ourselves as exempt from paying tax on our net company
profit. We are 100% run by volunteers, so we don't have to pay salaries and
collect or pay tax on behalf of any employees. We pay rent, utilities,
operating expenses and insurances just the same as any other business.

In our case, we usually have a turn-over that exceeds a certain limit, so
we have to collect GST on sales, and we submit a quarterly Business
Activity Statement to declare how much GST we pay on purchases and expenses
and we either get a net refund or we pay the net shortfall. To calculate
GST on our activity we use the Gnucash Tax Tables and set up GST liability
accounts so it's not difficult to figure out the required information to
submit.

We use Gnucash to reconcile our bank accounts and generate financial
reports annually, and we submit to an annual audit performed by a certified
practising accountant. We receive a report which we have to submit annually
to the state government body we are registered with.

Hope this helps!



On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 11:36 AM Mike or Penny Novack <
stepbystepf...@comcast.net> wrote:

> On 8/8/2019 12:24 PM, Larry Wagner wrote:
> > I would like some comments about how one would set up gnucash for a
> > non-profit.
> >
> > Here are some of the specifics:
>
> What kind of non-profit are you? What do you have to file with what
> jurisdictions?
>
> << There are non-profits that do not pay taxes, but are not tax
> deductible organizations. The rules are different with what gets filed
> with whom >>
>
> Michael D Novack
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Re: [GNC] Questions on how best to setup a non-profit account in gnucash

[Mike or Penny Novack]

On 8/8/2019 12:24 PM, Larry Wagner wrote:
I would like some comments about how one would set up gnucash for a 
non-profit.


Here are some of the specifics:


What kind of non-profit are you? What do you have to file with what 
jurisdictions?


<< There are non-profits that do not pay taxes, but are not tax 
deductible organizations. The rules are different with what gets filed 
with whom >>


Michael D Novack
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Re: [GNC] Loan and Mortgage scheduler | Escrow account for Tax rounds monthly payment up

[JimR]

Anybody?

Jim

On 8/2/19 3:06 PM, JimR wrote:
The title pretty well says it all, except I don't want it to round up, 
I want the exact amount I entered.  I entered USD 192.68, but GNUCash 
rounds up to USD193.00.  I can supply screen shots if necessary.


Version 3.6+(2019-06-29) on Fedora 29, all patches up to date.


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Re: [GNC] gnucash-user Digest, Vol 197, Issue 15

[David Cousens]

Bob

I have been using Dropbox to do this between 2 Linux computers (desktop and
laptop) and a Windows10 laptop for several years now. The files usually sync
within a minute or two of making any local  changes on any one computer when
the others are connected to the network. The dropbox daemon seems to respond
to changes of the content directly as they occur and not work ona time
schedule. You do have to be careful not to have or leave files open on
multiple computers at the same time however. 

You do need to download and setup the requisite Dropbox daemons on each
machine and link them to the same Dropbox account but once that is done it
is almost totally transparent. Usually there is a link on the signin page
for Dropbox on the web which will download the app. Usually sense the OS and
downloads the appropriate version. not familiar with Macs. Most Linux
distros have the dropbox daemon available for their software sources.
Windows 10i think you can also get from the store. 

Originally I copied my datafile to my dropbox account using the web
interface and then setup the Dropbox folder on each machine to sync to the
account on their server. Then used file open from within GnuCash to navigate
to the local Dropbox account on each machine to open it. After that it
should Save to the local Dropbox account copy you opened it from which will
then sync to the server folder and in turn sync to the other computers.

David Cousens



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Re: [GNC] Setting up a new accounting scheme in GnuCash

[David Cousens]

Frank,

I had realised that was likely the situation. Fortunately, with the
occasional exception or two, most standards would have been converging
towards the IFRS in the core requirements prior to adoption, if they weren't
completely compliant.

David



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Re: [GNC] Questions on how best to setup a non-profit account in gnucash

[David Cousens]

Larry,

As Adrien noted we connot offer accounting advice per se. However we can
give you some guidance in setting up GnuCashand using its features.

Generally you will need to create an income sub account for each source of
income you wish to be able to track, in the example you gave, for each of
the dance categories.

Similarly you will need to have an expense category for each of those dance
categories and for each of those categories a further sub account for each
of the general expense categories. This will allow you to get basic reports
like a balance sheet and income statement which will list those categories.

The Customer and Vendor business features are used for those who provide you
with goods or services and those to whom you provide goods and services.
I.e. each of your callers, the suppliers of advertising  and the hall will
be your vendors. 

You may find the accounts payable useful if you do not operate on a cash
basis only, i.e. your suppliers extend credit to you and only require
payment at the end of the month for example, but it may be overkill for the
scale of your operations. 

The Jobs business feature could be used to track particular dances as you
thought but it also would possibly be overkill. AFAIK it is designed for the
business situation where you need to track all the expenses associated for
one specific project out of many  for a given customer.

The customers are of course those who come to the dances and pay you fees.
It is unlikely that you would need to track them individually from your
description.  GnuCash has various facilities for searching for specific
information in the description field of a transaction and these can be used
to produce transaction reports which list all transactions including certain
terms to a specific account for example.

The following is an outline of a possible basic CoA for the functonality you
have described. The colons indicate subaccounts. You would normally set up
the categories as placeholder accounts. These do not have transactions
directly into them, only to the subaccounts they group, but they will allow
you to get totals of those subaccounts.

The reports in GnuCash generally have their own setups and options and you
can customize them to meet your specific requirements providing you have a
good basic account structure.

Assets:Current Assets:Checking

Income:F:Door
Income:F:Tickets
Income: DF:Door
Income: DF:Tickets
Income:JBO:Door
Income:JBO:Tickets

Expenses:F:Venue
Expenses:F:Square caller
Expenses:F:Round caller
Expenses:F:Advertising
Expenses:F:Miscellaneous

You would then need similar expense accounts as described above for the F
category for each of the two other categories.

If you include a searchable unique label for each dance in the description
field, you would be able to produce reports for each dance by setting an
appropriate period for the report and filtering using those specific labels. 
This would require you to include the appropriate label in the descriptions
for all transactions associated with a particular event.

The introductory chapters of the GnuCash Tutorial and Concepts Guide
https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v3/C/gnucash-guide/index.html
should give you a basic understanding of the accounting concepts involved. 

Your jurisdiction will normally have its own rules and regulations about the
organizational and accounting requirements for clubs and associations and
other not for profits.   This may add additional requirements on  how you
perform the accounting in addition to what I have outlined above,
particularly any reporting and auditing requirements. If you have a
participant who is an accountant you may be able to seek their help. in some
cases accountants may help out pro bono, particularly if the operation is
charitable. 

The above is one possible treatment of the situation as you described it and
not necessarily the only way to do it or even a complete description of a
suitable CoA for your organization. The best way is of course the one which
provides you with the information you need for your club's internal use and
any external requirements. GnuCash is reasonably flexible and you can
probably refine and fine tune the account structure over time as you become
more familiar with GnuCash.

David Cousens






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Re: [GNC] Setting up a new accounting scheme in GnuCash

[Frank H. Ellenberger]

David,

just a note:
Am Fr., 9. Aug. 2019 um 00:07 Uhr schrieb David Cousens
:
:
> The Netherlands has adopted the
> IFRS international accounting standards as the basis of its accountingsystem
> as has the EU generally so the basic account types are the same.

IFRS has become a standard beside the traditional regional standards
in the EU. Because it is overkill for 1-person companies, most of them
will still use their traditional regional standards.

Regards

Frank
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Re: [GNC] gnucash-user Digest, Vol 197, Issue 15

[Greg Feneis]

Bob,

Adrien has it right.  See below.

Just a few notes

You can test by saving your GnuCash working file on computer 1 as with some
easy to find specific name in that computer's dropbox folder.

Before you stop using computer 1, check the Dropbox icon in the
notification area (assuming Windows). It should either indicate that
syncing is complete, or that it's still trying to sync. Don't shut down
computer 1 until sync is finished ;-)

To confirm the file was synced on computer 1, the icon in the notification
area should also have an option like visit Dropbox.com.  Click that
(browser opens...) and navigate to the file. If it's not there, then it
didn't sync. In the same icon, you can stop synching, then start synching.
Dropbox will check the Dropbox folder on the computer and make sure it is
synced with the cloud.

At computer 2, you can check the Dropbox icon in the tray, if it says
synching is complete, the file should be in the Dropbox folder. If not, you
can stop synching on computer 2 and then start it synching again.

It usually doesn't take this much micromanaging, but this is how you can do
it if needed


Kind regards, Greg Feneis
(Pixel 3)


On Thu, Aug 8, 2019, 11:30 Adrien Monteleone 
wrote:

> I haven’t used Dropbox in some time, but as I recall, you could access it
> directly or you could sync local folders to it.
>
> I’d think the local folder sync would be the best route for GnuCash. That
> way, each computer is writing to the local file system. This will improve
> save speed, remove occasion of network hiccups during the save, and
> avoiding any issues with GnuCash accessing remote file paths.
>
> So re-save the file on computer 1 in a folder on computer 1, then sync
> that folder to Dropbox.
>
> On computer 2, link the synced folder on Dropbox to a similarly named
> folder.
>
> When you save on computer 1, it will save locally, then sync to cloud.
>
> When you open computer 2, it will sync from cloud and then GnuCash will
> open locally.
>
> When you save on computer 2, the same process will happen in reverse.
>
> Other still current users of GnuCash and Dropbox might have other/better
> recommendations.
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
>
> p.s. - when replying to a digest, please copy/paste the subject you are
> replying to as your subject (rather than gnucash-user Digest, Vol 197,
> Issue 15) and trim the quoted material to the relevant discussion, or if
> starting a new topic, don’t use the reply button, use the compose/write/new
> button and simply send the message to gnucash-user@gnucash.org, your
> e-mail client will likely have this saved already for autocompletion.
>
> > On Aug 8, 2019, at 12:49 PM, Bob Sisk  wrote:
> >
> > I thought I understood how to do this but I am confused - trying to run
> Gnucash on second computer and having access to the same data file. I
> thought I was keeping my data file on Dropbox - that is the one I open and
> enter data. When I go to secondary computer and open Gnucash the file has
> not been updated. Should I click “save as” and direct to Dropbox when
> closing the program and then navigating to that file in Dropbox and opening
> it? Is there a way to auto sync the data file to both computers? Or is
> there a totally different and better approach to do this? Help appreciated.
> >
> > Robert L Sisk
> > sisk@gmail.com
>
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Re: [GNC] Setting up a new accounting scheme in GnuCash

[David Cousens]

Frank
As christopher and Adrien have commented, GnuCash is forgiving in that if
you have assigned an account to a specific type, you can easily change the
type of an account and the account types are used for specific
functionality, not just in GnuCash but in accounting in general. The
Netherlands has adopted the
IFRS international accounting standards as the basis of its accountingsystem
as has the EU generally so the basic account types are the same.

There is one proviso on changing the type of a specific account by editing
the account type in the dialog . If you have existing transactions which
have been created assuming the account was of one specific type, for example
an Asset account, changing the account type to Liability for example will
not change those existing transactions so that they are correct for the new
account type. The transactions might have to be corrected manually by
editing and in the case described changing debit entries of the account you
have changed to credit entries and vice versa.

There is a relationship between the account type and the way debits and
credits affect the balance of each type of account. This is fundamental to
the way double entry accounting works and it will be helpful to assign the
type of account correctly before you start entering transactions. Before
that you can change them at will.

The Introductory section of the current version  GnuCash Tuorial and
Concepts guide (https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v3/C/gnucash-guide/index.html)
explains this relationship if you are not already familiar with it. That is
for an English version of the guide as I could not find a link to a Dutch
translation of the current version of the guide. Wikipedia's sections on
double entry accounting also  had a fairly good explanation of this.

David Cousens



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Re: [GNC] gnucash-user Digest, Vol 197, Issue 15

[Adrien Monteleone]

I haven’t used Dropbox in some time, but as I recall, you could access it 
directly or you could sync local folders to it.

I’d think the local folder sync would be the best route for GnuCash. That way, 
each computer is writing to the local file system. This will improve save 
speed, remove occasion of network hiccups during the save, and avoiding any 
issues with GnuCash accessing remote file paths.

So re-save the file on computer 1 in a folder on computer 1, then sync that 
folder to Dropbox.

On computer 2, link the synced folder on Dropbox to a similarly named folder.

When you save on computer 1, it will save locally, then sync to cloud.

When you open computer 2, it will sync from cloud and then GnuCash will open 
locally.

When you save on computer 2, the same process will happen in reverse.

Other still current users of GnuCash and Dropbox might have other/better 
recommendations.

Regards,
Adrien

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> On Aug 8, 2019, at 12:49 PM, Bob Sisk  wrote:
> 
> I thought I understood how to do this but I am confused - trying to run 
> Gnucash on second computer and having access to the same data file. I thought 
> I was keeping my data file on Dropbox - that is the one I open and enter 
> data. When I go to secondary computer and open Gnucash the file has not been 
> updated. Should I click “save as” and direct to Dropbox when closing the 
> program and then navigating to that file in Dropbox and opening it? Is there 
> a way to auto sync the data file to both computers? Or is there a totally 
> different and better approach to do this? Help appreciated. 
> 
> Robert L Sisk
> sisk@gmail.com


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Re: [GNC] gnucash-user Digest, Vol 197, Issue 15

[Bob Sisk]

I thought I understood how to do this but I am confused - trying to run Gnucash 
on second computer and having access to the same data file. I thought I was 
keeping my data file on Dropbox - that is the one I open and enter data. When I 
go to secondary computer and open Gnucash the file has not been updated. Should 
I click “save as” and direct to Dropbox when closing the program and then 
navigating to that file in Dropbox and opening it? Is there a way to auto sync 
the data file to both computers? Or is there a totally different and better 
approach to do this? Help appreciated. 

Robert L Sisk
sisk@gmail.com


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>   1. Re:  Gnucash fails to run after upgrade from Ubuntu 14.04 to
>  16.04 (Geert Janssens)
>   2.  Integrated documentation for GnuCash (FREIGHBER TRANSLOADERS)
>   3.  Newbie (S. Sliackus)
>   4. Re:  Gnucash fails to run after upgrade from Ubuntu 14.04 to
>  16.04 (James E)
>   5. Re:  Newbie (Rich Shepard)
>   6. Re:  Setting up a new accounting scheme in GnuCash
>  (Frank ter Braak)
>   7. Re:  Setting up a new accounting scheme in GnuCash
>  (Christopher Lam)
>   8. Re:  Newbie (Mike or Penny Novack)
>   9. Re:  Gnucash fails to run after upgrade from Ubuntu 14.04 to
>  16.04 (James E)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2019 10:16:18 +0200
> From: Geert Janssens 
> To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: [GNC] Gnucash fails to run after upgrade from Ubuntu
>14.04 to 16.04
> Message-ID: <3281791.952hr9h...@legolas.kobaltwit.lan>
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> 
> Op donderdag 8 augustus 2019 08:41:33 CEST schreef James E:
>> I  used to run  Gnucash 2.6.12  in Ubuntu 14.04 .
>> 
>> I upgraded  to Ubuntu 16.04. During the upgrade  I was asked if I wanted
>> to keep several Gnucash   files/piece of information ? one of which was 
>> the Alpha Advantage API key .  I replied that I did .
>> 
>> The upgrade appeared to have finished successfully  . All of the
>> programmes/applications worked   but  with  one exception ? Gnucash.
>> 
>> The Gnucash loading screen and the tip of the day showed  up for a several
>> seconds
>> and both disappeared  again.
>> 
>> I  then decided to install  Gnucash  from the  Ubuntu Software centre ?
>> hoping that this would be compatible with 16.04   . So I removed the
>> existing  Gnucash  using the Ubuntu Software centre and installed Gnucash  .
>> 
>> This failed  in the same way - the Gnucash loading screen and the tip of the
>> day showed up for a several seconds  and both disappeared again.
>> 
>> I found from research that Ubuntu repositories usually contain a version of
>> Gnucash that is a release or two behind the latest stable version and  that
>> Gnucash 2.6.12 is included in Ubuntu 16.04 ?  this is the  same Gnucash
>> version as I was using   in Ubuntu  14.04 .
>> 
>> 
>> I give below  the terminal output  when I tried to run Gnucash :
>> 
>> jm@jm-OptiPlex-9020:~$ gnucash
>> ;;; note: auto-compilation is enabled, set GUILE_AUTO_COMPILE=0
>> ;;;   or pass the --no-auto-compile argument to disable.
>> ;;; compiling /usr/share/gnucash/scm/gnucash/business-gnome.scm
>> ;;; compiling /usr/share/gnucash/scm/gnucash/report/business-reports.scm
>> ;;; WARNING: compilation of
>> /usr/share/gnucash/scm/gnucash/report/business-reports.scm failed:
>> ;;; ERROR: In procedure #: Unbound variable:
>> gnc:menuname-business-reports
>> ;;; WARNING: compilation of
>> /usr/share/gnucash/scm/gnucash/business-gnome.scm failed:
>> ;;; ERROR: In procedure #: Unbound variable:
>> gnc:menuname-business-reports
>> Backtrace:
>> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>> 157: 11 [catch #t # ...]
>> In unknown file:
>>   ?: 10 [apply-smob/1 #]
>>   ?: 9 [call-with-input-string "(gnc:report-menu-setup)" ...]
>> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>> 2401: 8 [save-module-excursion #> ice-9/eval-string.scm:65:9 ()>]
>> In ice-9/eval-string.scm:
>>  44: 7 [read-and-eval # #:lang ...]
>>  37: 6 [lp (gnc:report-menu-setup)]
>> In gnucash/report/report-gnome.scm:
>> 155: 5 [gnc:report-menu-setup]
>> In unknown file:
>>   ?: 4 [gnc-hook-run "hook_report" ()]
>> In ice-9/eval.scm:
>> 387: 3 [eval # #]
>> 387: 2 [eval # #]
>> 393: 1 [eval # #> 561137149870>]
>> In unknown file:
>>   ?: 0 [memoize-variable-access! # #]
>> 
>> ERROR: In procedure memoize-variable-access!:
>> ERROR: 

Re: [GNC] Questions on how best to setup a non-profit account in gnucash

[Adrien Monteleone]

I’ll also add the following advice:

1. Don’t fret about getting your accounts perfect the first time. You’ll find 
yourself moving things around and creating more detail with more accounts 
during your first 6-12 months of using GnuCash as you figure out how things 
work and you start having to run reports and make decisions based off the data 
you entered.

2. For this reason and others, put as much detail as possible into every 
transaction. Use the split memos for detail if the info doesn’t apply to the 
entire transaction but just one part of it. 2-3 years from now, you may want or 
need that info and it won’t be there. But if you put it now, you’ll have it. 
This will become very apparent when you want to divide an account (like 
Miscellaneous) and you’ll need detailed info to tell you exactly what that 
split/transaction was for in order to do so properly. An example that might 
seem overkill to some but that I have found invaluable is when entering store 
receipts, enter each line item as its own split, even if you can group them by 
expense account. If you have the individual items already separated, should you 
need/want to give them their own more specific expense account (or sub-account) 
later, you’ll be able to do so. The Auto-Fill feature will quickly reduce the 
typing workload. In line with this is also:

3. If your receipts have a separate line-item for sales tax, do not lump it 
into your expense account entry. (e.g., If you went to the Dollar Store to buy 
paper plates, don’t just enter the entire receipt as Expenses:Supplies) Give it 
its own expense account and its own split. While it is part of the transaction 
you can’t separate because you can’t *not* pay it, you will run yourself ragged 
when you have a receipt with multiple expense accounts and one tax line and you 
try to allocate the tax across them. You will find that is more work in the 
long run than simply entering the tax as its own expense category. (note, this 
might not apply to jurisdictions with VAT style taxation, that is its own 
animal, and probably already allocated and part of the line-item prices anyway.)

4. Some people may find this last point controversial, but I found I didn’t 
really grasp what GnuCash was doing, and thus how to structure my accounts and 
what info I needed to enter until I turned on Transaction Journal (in the 
Preferences or the View menu) and Double Line mode. This allows you to see all 
splits at all times and have the extra Note field for categories/tagging. I 
also found sanity once I turned on formal accounting labels because some of the 
informal labels didn’t quite make sense for every transaction I was entering. 
But debits and credits are consistent. (which you use might not be, but the 
labels are always left column=debit, right column=credit)

Regards,
Adrien

> On Aug 8, 2019, at 12:07 PM, Adrien Monteleone 
>  wrote:
> 
> Larry,
> 
> We can’t offer accounting advice here. You’d need to speak to a local CPA who 
> is familiar with your jurisdiction and optimally one familiar with 
> non-profits to help you set up your account tree.
> 
> Beyond that, we can help with how to accomplish the various things you want 
> with respect to GnuCash.
> 
> I’ll address other items in-line below.
> 
>> On Aug 8, 2019, at 11:24 AM, Larry Wagner  wrote:
>> 
>> I would like some comments about how one would set up gnucash for a 
>> non-profit.
>> 
>> Here are some of the specifics:
>> 
>> We hold 3 different types (categories) of dances:
>> 
>> 1) F dances - those sponsored by our club (~15 dances per year)
>> 2) DF dances - those we share sponsorship with another club (~5 dances per 
>> year)
>> 3) JBO dances - those sponsored jointly with yet another club (~2 dances per 
>> year)
> First, GnuCash does not have a categorization or tagging function. You are 
> limited to accounts. (but there are creative work arounds)
> 
>> 
>> General expenses for the dances are:
>> i) venue costs
>> ii) Square Dance caller costs
>> iii) Round Dance cuer costs
>> iv) advertisement costs
>> v) miscellaneous expenses (decorations, etc)
>> 
>> Dance income
>> i) Door donations
>> ii) 50/50 ticket proceeds
> 
> These would simply be setup as their respective expense and income accounts
> 
> So for this simple example you’d have something like:
> 
> Expenses
> Expenses:Venues
> Expenses:Callers
> Expenses:Cuers
> Expenses:Advertising
> Expenses:Miscellaneous
> 
> Note, I wouldn’t get carried away with using the Miscellaneous account as a 
> ‘dump bucket’ for ‘everything else’. You’re going to find you will want more 
> fine-grained reporting later on. Only use Miscellaneous for things that truly 
> are, or that are very small and rare one-off transactions.
> 
> You already know ‘decorations’ is something you’ll be spending money on and 
> may need to track. You’ll likely want it to be its own expense category.
> 
> For the Income accounts something like:
> 
> Income
> Income:Door Donations
> Income:Ticket 

Re: [GNC] Questions on how best to setup a non-profit account in gnucash

[Adrien Monteleone]

Larry,

We can’t offer accounting advice here. You’d need to speak to a local CPA who 
is familiar with your jurisdiction and optimally one familiar with non-profits 
to help you set up your account tree.

Beyond that, we can help with how to accomplish the various things you want 
with respect to GnuCash.

I’ll address other items in-line below.

> On Aug 8, 2019, at 11:24 AM, Larry Wagner  wrote:
> 
> I would like some comments about how one would set up gnucash for a 
> non-profit.
> 
> Here are some of the specifics:
> 
> We hold 3 different types (categories) of dances:
> 
> 1) F dances - those sponsored by our club (~15 dances per year)
> 2) DF dances - those we share sponsorship with another club (~5 dances per 
> year)
> 3) JBO dances - those sponsored jointly with yet another club (~2 dances per 
> year)
First, GnuCash does not have a categorization or tagging function. You are 
limited to accounts. (but there are creative work arounds)

> 
> General expenses for the dances are:
> i) venue costs
> ii) Square Dance caller costs
> iii) Round Dance cuer costs
> iv) advertisement costs
> v) miscellaneous expenses (decorations, etc)
> 
> Dance income
> i) Door donations
> ii) 50/50 ticket proceeds

These would simply be setup as their respective expense and income accounts

So for this simple example you’d have something like:

Expenses
Expenses:Venues
Expenses:Callers
Expenses:Cuers
Expenses:Advertising
Expenses:Miscellaneous

Note, I wouldn’t get carried away with using the Miscellaneous account as a 
‘dump bucket’ for ‘everything else’. You’re going to find you will want more 
fine-grained reporting later on. Only use Miscellaneous for things that truly 
are, or that are very small and rare one-off transactions.

You already know ‘decorations’ is something you’ll be spending money on and may 
need to track. You’ll likely want it to be its own expense category.

For the Income accounts something like:

Income
Income:Door Donations
Income:Ticket Proceeds
> 
> How should the accounts (and reports) be setup to provide the following:
> 
> a) breakout and total expenses for each of the 5 expense categories listed 
> above
> b) breakout and total income for each of the 2 income categories listed above

Not sure what you mean by ‘breakout’, but a standard Income Statement/P will 
show you the income & expenses in your book in one report. (you could also make 
separate reports if you like)

If you want a detailed transaction list, both the Transaction Report and 
Account Report might be useful here.

> c) a breakout of the income and expenses for each individual dance, 
> regardless of the dance category
> d) a breakout of the income and expenses for each dance category

Again, not sure of the reference to ‘breakout’ but the Transaction Report could 
possibly be used here. While there is no extra category level or tagging system 
in GnuCash, you can mimic this with some careful planning.

Pretty much any field in a transaction can be used as a filter for reports. 
Some likely fields to use for placing your dance category names and individual 
dance event names might be the Description, Note, or Memo depending on your 
needs. Description is usually used as ‘payee’ or ‘payor’ but can also be an 
occurrence or event, especially if the concept of payee/payor doesn’t quite fit 
with the particular transaction. The Memo field is a good place to put info 
about a specific split. The Note field is a good place to put info about the 
entire transaction. (you have to have Double Line Mode turned on to see the 
Note field)

There are also account tree schemes where some people create parent accounts 
for each category and then duplicate the needed accounts under each. Others 
will keep the main accounts as-is and then make sub-accounts under each 
representing each category. Both methods are going to be tedious and have 
limitations. If you can manage using field information and filters, I’d go that 
route.

Keep in mind, even with this workaround, you still might not get exactly what 
you want out of a GnuCash report. In that case, get it as close as you can, 
then export or copy/paste the report data to a spreadsheet and refine it there.

> e) a breakout of the income and expenses for all dance categories combined

That should be the same as the Income Statement/P
> 
> I don't have a background in accounting so some of the terms are not 
> familiar, but I think I can better communicate what I am thinking by 
> considering the following:
> 
> a) Jobs (tasks) - All individual dances, which need to fall under one of the 
> three dance categories listed above

Sorry, ‘Jobs’ in GnuCash are not like this. The feature is more like ‘Purchase 
Order’. So you can’t use it as a categorization tool.
> b) Vendors - All callers and cuers
Sure, as well as any other suppliers you pay expenses to. Note that not every 
place you spend money needs to be a vendor, just the ones that will send you 
bills. A trip to the local dollar 

Re: [GNC] Setting up a new accounting scheme in GnuCash

[Adrien Monteleone]

There are a few other limitations.

The Business Features restrict certain account selections for various functions 
based on type. (what you can post line items to, what you can post entire 
bills/invoices to, what accounts are available to make payments from, etc.)

Also, when deleting an account, GnuCash will not offer to allow you to move the 
transactions in that account to another account of certain types. (you can’t 
move asset transactions to a liability account for example) In that case, you 
would first have to change the type of the account you want to delete to match 
the destination, then perform the delete. (and move)


Regards,
Adrien 

> On Aug 8, 2019, at 8:08 AM, Christopher Lam  wrote:
> 
> From my understanding, the account-type is mainly used in reports.
> Otherwise you're right, you can tweak any account-type at leisure within
> limits eg can't change currency-type account to stock-type account;
> subaccounts of Asset/Liability/Income/Expense are limited according to the
> parent-type.
> 
> e.g. Net worth reports will calculate asset balance less liability balance.
> 
> C
> 
> On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 at 13:02, Frank ter Braak 
> wrote:
> 


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[GNC] Questions on how best to setup a non-profit account in gnucash

[Larry Wagner]

I would like some comments about how one would set up gnucash for a 
non-profit.


Here are some of the specifics:

We hold 3 different types (categories) of dances:

1) F dances - those sponsored by our club (~15 dances per year)
2) DF dances - those we share sponsorship with another club (~5 dances 
per year)
3) JBO dances - those sponsored jointly with yet another club (~2 dances 
per year)


General expenses for the dances are:
i) venue costs
ii) Square Dance caller costs
iii) Round Dance cuer costs
iv) advertisement costs
v) miscellaneous expenses (decorations, etc)

Dance income
i) Door donations
ii) 50/50 ticket proceeds

How should the accounts (and reports) be setup to provide the following:

a) breakout and total expenses for each of the 5 expense categories 
listed above
b) breakout and total income for each of the 2 income categories listed 
above
c) a breakout of the income and expenses for each individual dance, 
regardless of the dance category

d) a breakout of the income and expenses for each dance category
e) a breakout of the income and expenses for all dance categories combined

I don't have a background in accounting so some of the terms are not 
familiar, but I think I can better communicate what I am thinking by 
considering the following:


a) Jobs (tasks) - All individual dances, which need to fall under one of 
the three dance categories listed above

b) Vendors - All callers and cuers
c)  Customers are the dance categories to which each dance is assigned

I see the Jobs (individual dances) being comparable to the default 
Checking Account, where it would show a profit or loss from the income 
and expenses assigned to them.


I see the individual vendors (callers and cuers) being Expense 
Sub-Accounts, along with the venue, advertisement, etc. expenses.


But, I don't see how to setup the customer accounts.  Should they be 
similar to the default Checking Account and the individual dances be 
sub-accounts of the assigned customer accounts? Can that approach be 
done? Or, can the individual dances be assigned to their categories 
through configuration of the gnucash reports?


I hope I have provided enough info here that someone can help me setup 
the core accounts needed to do what we want with gnucash.


Thanks,

Larry Wagner





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Re: [GNC] Gnucash fails to run after upgrade from Ubuntu 14.04 to 16.04

[James E]

gnucash_fail_20190806_04.odt

  

Q Which version of guile is installed on the system.

A
jm@jm-OptiPlex-9020:~$ guile -v
guile (GNU Guile) 2.0.11
Packaged by Debian (2.0.11-deb+1-10ubuntu0.1)
Copyright (C) 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

License LGPLv3+: GNU LGPL 3 or later .
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Q Which version  of guile was used to build gnucash .

A  I do not know how to do this .

Q Also what is the contents of
$HOME/.cache/guile/ccache/ 

A There is folder " 2.0-LE-8-2.0 "  with sub folders below.

I deleted this file and ran gnucash again .
The attached file show the output at the terminal.
Gnucash  now runs successfully .

*Geert thank you very much .
*




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Re: [GNC] Newbie

[Mike or Penny Novack]

On 8/8/2019 6:47 AM, S. Sliackus wrote:

Hi guys

I am new to GnuCash. I came up with this piece of software by searching
practical solution to couple of my charities and small business.

I have quite mixed feelings about this program, I found some things over
complicated (some invoicing aspects, customer list and search, transactions
split etc etc) some things inconsistent  and some things missing (cash
basis vs accrual basis, transactions print/export from viewing screen etc.
etc.) and some working bad (import of list
 Some of this is misconception. True, you can only use the business 
features like invoicing when on the accrual basis << this perhaps should 
be addressed -- not only do many organizations keep books on the cash 
basis (but would like to be able to produce invoices for members) but 
some businesses by tradition/law use cash >>. But otherwise you can most 
certainly specify either cash or accrual.


And for those asking about setting up books but finding the "templates" 
do not match their needs the solution is simple. Just set up your CoA 
the way you need it or your accountant advises. You do NOT have to use 
any of the templates.


Michael D Novack
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Re: [GNC] Newbie

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 8 Aug 2019, S. Sliackus wrote:


As a new user, I didn't learned how to achieve certain tasks yet, so my
feedback might not be relevant sometimes, but that is why I came here and
I hope this will be right place to get and give an advice :-)


Have you read the help/tutorial or guide? Almost all answers to your implied
questions can be found there. And, for cash accounting rather than accrual
accounting don't post invoices until the payments are received.

Start using gnucash and you'll figure out how to make it work for you,
especially if you search the mail list archives for specific issues.

Rich

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Re: [GNC] Gnucash fails to run after upgrade from Ubuntu 14.04 to 16.04

[James E]

Colin . Commands show :

jm@jm-OptiPlex-9020:~$ which gnucash
/usr/bin/gnucash
jm@jm-OptiPlex-9020:~$ apt-cache policy gnucash
gnucash:
  Installed: 1:2.6.12-1
  Candidate: 1:2.6.12-1
  Version table:
 *** 1:2.6.12-1 500
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
jm@jm-OptiPlex-9020:~$ 





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[GNC] Newbie

[S. Sliackus]

Hi guys

I am new to GnuCash. I came up with this piece of software by searching
practical solution to couple of my charities and small business.

I have quite mixed feelings about this program, I found some things over
complicated (some invoicing aspects, customer list and search, transactions
split etc etc) some things inconsistent  and some things missing (cash
basis vs accrual basis, transactions print/export from viewing screen etc.
etc.) and some working bad (import of list  1-2000 transactions took at
about 5-8 minutes (while kmymoney did that job in few seconds), but I've
found some things that I really love - reconciliation tool, range of
reports and some other.

As a new user, I didn't learned how to achieve certain tasks yet, so my
feedback might not be relevant sometimes, but that is why I came here and I
hope this will be right place to get and give an advice :-)

Thanks have a nice day everyone.

Saulius
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[GNC] Integrated documentation for GnuCash

[FREIGHBER TRANSLOADERS]

Does GNUcash allow for integrated documentation when running GNUCash?

Steve Patterson

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Re: [GNC] Gnucash fails to run after upgrade from Ubuntu 14.04 to 16.04

[Geert Janssens]

Op donderdag 8 augustus 2019 08:41:33 CEST schreef James E:
> I  used to run  Gnucash 2.6.12  in Ubuntu 14.04 .
> 
> I upgraded  to Ubuntu 16.04. During the upgrade  I was asked if I wanted
> to keep several Gnucash   files/piece of information – one of which was 
> the Alpha Advantage API key .  I replied that I did .
> 
> The upgrade appeared to have finished successfully  . All of the
> programmes/applications worked   but  with  one exception – Gnucash.
> 
> The Gnucash loading screen and the tip of the day showed  up for a several
> seconds
> and both disappeared  again.
> 
> I  then decided to install  Gnucash  from the  Ubuntu Software centre –
> hoping that this would be compatible with 16.04   . So I removed the
> existing  Gnucash  using the Ubuntu Software centre and installed Gnucash  .
> 
> This failed  in the same way - the Gnucash loading screen and the tip of the
> day showed up for a several seconds  and both disappeared again.
> 
> I found from research that Ubuntu repositories usually contain a version of
> Gnucash that is a release or two behind the latest stable version and  that
> Gnucash 2.6.12 is included in Ubuntu 16.04 –  this is the  same Gnucash
> version as I was using   in Ubuntu  14.04 .
> 
> 
> I give below  the terminal output  when I tried to run Gnucash :
> 
> jm@jm-OptiPlex-9020:~$ gnucash
> ;;; note: auto-compilation is enabled, set GUILE_AUTO_COMPILE=0
> ;;;   or pass the --no-auto-compile argument to disable.
> ;;; compiling /usr/share/gnucash/scm/gnucash/business-gnome.scm
> ;;; compiling /usr/share/gnucash/scm/gnucash/report/business-reports.scm
> ;;; WARNING: compilation of
> /usr/share/gnucash/scm/gnucash/report/business-reports.scm failed:
> ;;; ERROR: In procedure #: Unbound variable:
> gnc:menuname-business-reports
> ;;; WARNING: compilation of
> /usr/share/gnucash/scm/gnucash/business-gnome.scm failed:
> ;;; ERROR: In procedure #: Unbound variable:
> gnc:menuname-business-reports
> Backtrace:
> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>  157: 11 [catch #t # ...]
> In unknown file:
>?: 10 [apply-smob/1 #]
>?: 9 [call-with-input-string "(gnc:report-menu-setup)" ...]
> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
> 2401: 8 [save-module-excursion # ice-9/eval-string.scm:65:9 ()>]
> In ice-9/eval-string.scm:
>   44: 7 [read-and-eval # #:lang ...]
>   37: 6 [lp (gnc:report-menu-setup)]
> In gnucash/report/report-gnome.scm:
>  155: 5 [gnc:report-menu-setup]
> In unknown file:
>?: 4 [gnc-hook-run "hook_report" ()]
> In ice-9/eval.scm:
>  387: 3 [eval # #]
>  387: 2 [eval # #]
>  393: 1 [eval # # 561137149870>]
> In unknown file:
>?: 0 [memoize-variable-access! # #]
> 
> ERROR: In procedure memoize-variable-access!:
> ERROR: Unbound variable: gnc:menuname-business-reports
> jm@jm-OptiPlex-9020:~$
> 

GnuCash is partly written in the guile language, which is a scripting language 
that supports just in time compilation of the source files. The WARNINGs above 
indicate that this is happening on your system the first time you run gnucash.

However as gnucash should have been shipped with the proper pre-compiled 
source files, this auto compilation should not have happened and is in fact 
causing issues: one of the auto compilation steps fails which is why 
everything seems to come to a halt.

So it is now a matter of figuring out why this goes wrong. Colin's questions 
may be a first step to get more details.

It would also be interesting to know which version of guile is installed on 
your system and possibly which version of guile was used to build gnucash. 
These should be the same.

Also what is the contents of
$HOME/.cache/guile/ccache/

Next, can you empty that directory and try to run gnucash again ? (It's safe 
to empty this directory, it's just a build cache for guile, you won't lose any 
data).
Does it give the same error in the trace file ?

Regards,

Geert


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Re: [GNC] Gnucash fails to run after upgrade from Ubuntu 14.04 to 16.04

[Colin Law]

On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 at 07:44, James E  wrote:
>
> I  used to run  Gnucash 2.6.12  in Ubuntu 14.04 .
>
> I upgraded  to Ubuntu 16.04. During the upgrade  I was asked if I wanted
> to keep several Gnucash   files/piece of information – one of which was  the
> Alpha Advantage API key .  I replied that I did .
>
> The upgrade appeared to have finished successfully  . All of the
> programmes/applications worked   but  with  one exception – Gnucash.

What do these commands show?
which gnucash
apt-cache policy gnucash

Colin
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[GNC] Gnucash fails to run after upgrade from Ubuntu 14.04 to 16.04

[James E]

I  used to run  Gnucash 2.6.12  in Ubuntu 14.04 .

I upgraded  to Ubuntu 16.04. During the upgrade  I was asked if I wanted
to keep several Gnucash   files/piece of information – one of which was  the
Alpha Advantage API key .  I replied that I did .

The upgrade appeared to have finished successfully  . All of the
programmes/applications worked   but  with  one exception – Gnucash.

The Gnucash loading screen and the tip of the day showed  up for a several
seconds 
and both disappeared  again. 

I  then decided to install  Gnucash  from the  Ubuntu Software centre –
hoping that this would be compatible with 16.04   . So I removed the
existing  Gnucash  using the Ubuntu Software centre and installed Gnucash  .   

This failed  in the same way - the Gnucash loading screen and the tip of the
day showed up for a several seconds  and both disappeared again. 

I found from research that Ubuntu repositories usually contain a version of
Gnucash that is a release or two behind the latest stable version and  that
Gnucash 2.6.12 is included in Ubuntu 16.04 –  this is the  same Gnucash
version as I was using   in Ubuntu  14.04 .


I give below  the terminal output  when I tried to run Gnucash :

jm@jm-OptiPlex-9020:~$ gnucash
;;; note: auto-compilation is enabled, set GUILE_AUTO_COMPILE=0
;;;   or pass the --no-auto-compile argument to disable.
;;; compiling /usr/share/gnucash/scm/gnucash/business-gnome.scm
;;; compiling /usr/share/gnucash/scm/gnucash/report/business-reports.scm
;;; WARNING: compilation of
/usr/share/gnucash/scm/gnucash/report/business-reports.scm failed:
;;; ERROR: In procedure #: Unbound variable:
gnc:menuname-business-reports
;;; WARNING: compilation of
/usr/share/gnucash/scm/gnucash/business-gnome.scm failed:
;;; ERROR: In procedure #: Unbound variable:
gnc:menuname-business-reports
Backtrace:
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
 157: 11 [catch #t # ...]
In unknown file:
   ?: 10 [apply-smob/1 #]
   ?: 9 [call-with-input-string "(gnc:report-menu-setup)" ...]
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
2401: 8 [save-module-excursion #]
In ice-9/eval-string.scm:
  44: 7 [read-and-eval # #:lang ...]
  37: 6 [lp (gnc:report-menu-setup)]
In gnucash/report/report-gnome.scm:
 155: 5 [gnc:report-menu-setup]
In unknown file:
   ?: 4 [gnc-hook-run "hook_report" ()]
In ice-9/eval.scm:
 387: 3 [eval # #]
 387: 2 [eval # #]
 393: 1 [eval # #]
In unknown file:
   ?: 0 [memoize-variable-access! # #]

ERROR: In procedure memoize-variable-access!:
ERROR: Unbound variable: gnc:menuname-business-reports
jm@jm-OptiPlex-9020:~$

 



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