Jean,
The Linux build instructions are here
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building_On_Linux
If you are installing 4.6 there are some new dependencies which will be in the
release notes and the dependency files in the sources. AFAIK the wiki hasn't yet
been updated to deal with any V4.6 issues.
Jeff
The Transaction Report will also do what you want AFAIK.
David Cousens
On Tue, 2021-08-17 at 01:06 -0500, Jeff wrote:
> Is there a way to do a search (ctrl F) and have a dollar total for all
> found transactions? Or a built in report tool that I am overlooking?
>
> running Version: 4.2
Jean
I recently built 4.6 on Linux Mint 20.2 with no problems. The following commands
will list the installed packages. You need to have the development header
packages ".dev" (libaqbanking-dev and libgwenhywfar-core-dev)
installed to build the programs, not just the runtime binaries.
dpkg -l
Alton
From your description it would appear you are using the notes field to stor a
link to an external file descriptor. GnuCash has had a facility to associate a
URL for an external file to a transaction (Menu-.Transaction->Manage Document
Links and Transaction->Open Linked Document in V4.6).
Alton
From your description it would appear you are using the notes field to stor a
link to an external file descriptor. GnuCash has had a facility to associate a
URL for an external file to a transaction (Menu-.Transaction->Manage Document
Links and Transaction->Open Linked Document in V4.6).
Foad,
You could likely pay the dividend to yourself out of Retained Earnings annotated
accordingly. Other than that local practice and any tax treatment may need to be
considered. E.g. If you are subject to company tax whether your dividend is paid
out after tax or before tax which could have
Hi Bruce
It is a formal requirement in double entry accounting theory that the sum of the
debit entries/splits for a transaction should equal the sum of the credit
entries or splits.
Most transactions only have two splits but in the entry of transactions with
more than two splits if you enter a
Joe,
In the reconciliation window it is possible to click on the debit or credit pane
and then use CTRL-A to select all displayed transactions in either pane and
either set them as reconciled or unreconciled.
There is not any other mechanim to unreconcile transactions other than one at a
time in
Tom there is no need to do this.
Your bank records transactions from its perspective. What is an asset to you is
a Liability to them and vice versa so the column names in your accounts will
always be reversed from the column names in the bank's statement of your account
with them.
David Cousens
Nodje
Have you seen the wiki https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/GB/HMRC
David Cousens
On Tue, 2021-10-19 at 15:54 +0200, coolnodje wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been looking into the available reports to find a way to get an
> account summary of the VAT collected and spent for a given month.
>
> I
Lisa
It may help if you can tell us what the previous version was and which version
you have now upgraded to.
On the reconciliation setup dialog under the Ending Balance entry there is a
checkbox "Include subaccounts" which AFAIK by default is not checked. Try
selecting that when starting the
Hi John,
Unfortunately another build problem on Linux MInt 20.2 with 4.8. Cmake ran OK
but ninja failed to build with following error. SHA256sum on the download was
correct
FAILED: share/gnucash/migratable-prefs.xml. The full terminal output is attached
for your info.
Regards
David
On Tue,
Rogier
The GunCash Help manual
https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v4/C/gnucash-help/trans-edit.html discusses this
very briefly " press the Split button on the Toolbar or select Actions → Split
Transaction". The entry of multisplit transactions is discussed in detail in
the help manual at
David,
Are you using the information in the Wiki pages
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Setting_up_OFXDirectConnect. Towards the bottom of
the page there is a section on enabling OFX logging which may provide you with
more diagnostic info if you are not already using it. Also the pages on
Hi Geert,
For your info if it will help diagnose problems on other Linux systems. As far
as I cn tell GunCash 4.8 is reading the preferences when they exist on Linux
Mint 20.2. I up graded from 4.6 via a patched version of 4.7 and then to 4.8
with a further patch suggested by John. Both 4.7 and
Alton
From your description it would appear you are using the notes field to stor a
link to an external file descriptor. GnuCash has had a facility to associate a
URL for an external file to a transaction (Menu-.Transaction->Manage Document
Links and Transaction->Open Linked Document in V4.6).
Rogier,
Retained Earnings is an equity account so a retained earnings balance is
recorded against equity itself as follows if your past retained earnings were a
net profit (credit or +ve balance in your pevious set of accounts). If a net
loss (debit or -ve balance_ then the debit and credit would
flywire
The following has some information of the treatment of franking credits in the
hads of an investor.
https://www.insightaccounting.com.au/2017/03/share-dividend-income-franking-credits/
It would appear that generally they form a part of your taxble income but would
need to be recorded in
The best chance of locating the source of an import error in a file exported
from Android is to compare its file format with what is known of the QIF format
and look for some deviations from this. Unfortunately QIF is a proprietary
format although Intuit did make some information publicly
Mattia,
When you purchase tax stamps in advance, they become a temporary asset of your
business which you would expense at the time you attach then to an invoice.when
you purchase the stamps you would credit your bank account by the amount of the
purchase and debit an appropriate asset account
Parag,
The QIF importer component of GnuCash has been in place for a long time (well
over 10 years to my knowledge and there have been few changes to the code base
for it in that time). It has been used to import data from Quicken over that
time so it is less likely for there to be a problem
The barrier Mike is someone with the time and energy to maintain a ppa. The
reason Linux Mint (and other distros) freeze the versions they use is to reduce
their workload to maneagable proportions and to ensure that versions of other
software included witha n OS release will at least work with
It is possible to import customer and vendor information separately from a
single text file( although there is no export facility at present for this
information which would simplify doing this). For dual customer/vendor you could
import the same data both as a customer and as a vendor.
David
Mattio,
Since you receive the discount at the time you purchase the pack and it is
available to you at that point so that is really the point at which I would
record it.
David
On Mon, 2021-12-06 at 23:02 +0100, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> Hi David, Gyle.
>
> Thank you for your input. It looks
Mattio,
It is possible more correctly described as a discount on the expense so instead
of crediting an Income:Bonuses account you could credit what accountants call a
contra account to Expenses:Travel:Rental which couuld be named
Expenses:Travel:Rental:Discounts which sums into the parent
Jesse,
It would appear that you are trying to setup the accounts to reflect the entry
for part 3D of the Statement of Business Activities in the tax form. This is not
the right way to go about setting up a process for obtaining the desired
information.
The opening and closing Inventory values
Rogier,
It would appear on the surface that somehow you did not reconcile the two
transactions which remained marked as "n" which means not cleared("c) or not
reconciled("y"). How ? Unfortunately without knowing exactly what you did
during the reconciliation process it will be hard for anyone to
Jeff,
You may find this page helpful to unistall the flatpak version.
https://www.systutorials.com/docs/linux/man/1-flatpak-uninstall/
How did you install GC 4.2. If you built it from source and still have the
source and build directories it was installed from theneither
$sudo ninja uninstall
or
Jeff,
Just built GC4.9 on Linux Mint 20.2 (Ubuntu 20.04 based) with no problems. Give
it a go and come back to the forum with the terminal output if there are any
problems. You can select any terminal output and cut and paste it into a text
file then attache the text file to the post to avoid
David,
Patrick's recording is perfectly valid if his purchase of stock is a capital
expense, i.e. it is intended that the asset will be consumed over more thanone
accounting period, and not simply within the current period in which latter
case it is a direct expense expense.
The
Patrick,
You obviously tried the reports. The most general report is the Transactionn
report which you can set to view the transactions in any one account or
combination of accounts. The trick with reports is when the report comes up its
options are set to default values. If you then choose the
Rogier
When you transfer account to a new set of books, you would record the opening
balances of the Asset and Liability accounts against the Opening balances
entries in Equity.
Asset entries will be a debit to the asset account and a credit to the opening
balances account and Liabilities a
David,
It seems reasonable to me that if the information on a transaction is changed,
particularly dates and amounts, that any splits reconciled in another account
would be unreconciled to force checking that they remain correctly reconciled.
I generally note if other reconciled accounts are
Rogier,
Have to agree with Adrien and David Carlson that redoing everything from Dec2020
is the hard way to fix the problem. If you can identify the transaction(s)
which were incorrect at that time and then fix then they will be unreconciled
but will appear in the reconciliation window panes at
Mahon,
A few comments from a largely accounting perspective.
If your previous reconciliations have been correct, then the opening balance in
GnuCash should be exactly the same as the opening balance in your external
statement. If it is not, a previous reconciliation is incorrect and there is no
Tim,
Good to see its fixed although I don't really understand why. I downloaded and
built from the .bz2 file without any problems and I extract it using the Archive
Manager which AFAIK is the Ubuntu manager. It may have to do with what zip tools
you are using, I have both installed and presumably
Stephen, Jeff
Try
$apt-cache search libboost
This will list the libboost options available to install from apt. If libboost-
program-options1.71-dev is not listed it is possible that there will be a
generic version libboost-program-options-dev or libboost-program-options1.67-
dev or possibly
Jeff,
Admittedly the Build on Linux documentation does assume some degree of
familiarity with building software in general. The info is not too far out of
date but I haven't updated installing the depnedencies of GC 4.x. The main
reason is that many of us do not start from a pristine newly
David,
The issues with building GC4.9 on Ubuntu 20.04 are likely relatively minor as
far as I can see, and mainly those that first time builders of GnuCash encounter
with getting the dpendencies and build environment setup and enough familiarity
with the process to be able to avoid the common
Mike
It is quite likely that the wiki is wrong. I wrote that several years ago from a
pre-existing version and as I never use the installation to /opt but use
/usr/local I possible did not get the final install directory and/or the prefix
for the cmake command correct. It may also be possible
Gyle,
Export it as Excel, load it up in Excel and export it from there as CSV. GnuCash
has always read Excel's CSV exports AFAIK (I use Libre Ofiice these days and it
certainly works with LO).
You should also be able to set the date format in the CSV import dialog. It will
likely default to the
Patrick,
Are you setting up accounts for the business or accounts for your personal
finance? I am assuming these are the business acounts.
If you purchase itmes for the business are you intending to refund the money to
your personal accounts or are you making a contribution to the capital of the
Chuck
This is the wiki article Adrien was referring to
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations. This details the
configuration locations for each OS type (Windows Mac , Linux) About halway
down the page there are some links to diagrams
Steve,
The trick is to change ithe filename so that there is no datetime stamp as part
of the filename i.e. change
"_20220102103645{_[[_[...]]].gnucash" to
"filename>.gnucash" then use File->Open to open it. Substitute your timestamp
for what I have used and ignore th [] if you only have one
Jeff,
If you are having difficulty Jeff you will have to tell us exactly what you have
done and which commands you have entered into the terminal and exactly what the
terminal output is to each command. We are not mind readers and we are not on
your system so unless you tell us we do not know
Tim,
Any changes to the gtk setup files are going to be inunder
/home//.config/gnucash. If you check the date accessed for gtk3.0.css in
the filemanager. This should be the date and time you last started GnuCash. You
may need to aldd the date Accessed to the display window. Right click on the
David H, David,
An obvious place to display the search criteria might be in the status bar when
the Search tab is selected. Multiple criteria may cause some problems however
David Cousens
On Tue, 2021-12-21 at 09:25 +1000, David H wrote:
> David,
>
> Short answer I don't think you can
See this post
https://www.mail-archive.com/gnucash-user@gnucash.org/msg27927.html
there is a script problem that requires a patch in 4.8. will be fixed in 4.9
David Cousens
On Mon, 2021-12-20 at 12:58 -0500, M wrote:
> I'm having an issue building gnucash, but I am not an expert and am sure
>
Jeff,
In another thread David Whiting has provided scripts to install GnuCash 4.9 on
either Ubuntu 21.10 or 20.04 which are now posted on the Wiki her at
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building_On_Linux#Ubuntu. There are slight
differences between the 21.10 and 20.04 scripts. I have attached a
Jeff,
One other addition. The Wiki page referenced in the previous post says you must
open
Software and Updates
and ensure that
Source code
is ticked for the script to work.
David Cousens
On Sun, 2021-12-26 at 23:58 -0600, Jeff wrote:
> On 12/26/21 1:32 PM, Stephen M. Butler wrote:
> > On
Leo,
You can always manually override GnuCash's matching in the Import Matcher window
by checking the "C" ("R" in older GnuCash versions) column if Gnucash has
selected the "A" column to import the transaction and you do know it matches a
transaction you have imported to another account. This
Brian
What operating Sytem are you using and how are you installing it (flatpack msi ,
build from source etc)?
David Cousens
On Mon, 2021-11-22 at 22:52 +0800, BrianHsu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've encountered the issue that after install GnuCash 4.8, it won't
> read or store my preferences, as
Jean,
I am not sure whether your Paypal statement is exactly the same as mine but my
statement has three columns with an amount in them labelled "Gross", 'Fee",
"Net". I assign either the Deposit or Withdrawal header to the "Gross" column
when I import the CSV. I can't remember which I use but
>
> Any chance of a multi-select / group move in GnuCash?
>
I remember looking briefly at this possibility about the time I put the multiple
selection feature in he import matching window. If I remember correctly, the
account register is not a simple GTK TreeView structure which was what made
Elmar,
The Nabble interface to the GnuCash mailing lists failed some 4-5 months ago and
has not been restored. It may simply have been whoever was administering that
may have given up. I find I can get a threaded list display using Mail Archive
e.g.
Chris
The transfer account field entry is a list box. There should be a downward
pointing arrow at the right side of the box. If you click on that it should
bring up a pop-up list of accounts from which you can choose by left clicking
on one of the entries. Do you get the list coming up when you
Chris
Not sure what to suggest Chris. Works as described for V4.8 build on Linux Mint
20.2 which is Ubuntu 20.04.3.
David Cousens
On Sat, 2021-11-27 at 21:19 +, Chris Green wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 28, 2021 at 06:48:33AM +1000, davidcousen...@gmail.com wrote:
> > On Sat, 2021-11-27 at 15:53
Chris,
The account to import the records to will be the account in GnuCash which
records the transactions for your business bank account. If you have the
register for that account open when you initiate the import process it will be
used as the default account to import to unless that is
Your problem is in assigning the whole $100 to your expense account. Also
recording the amount reimbursable by the second organization as income is not
optimum. You are not adding value (which would be income) simply being
reimbursed for your outlay on behalf of the other organisation. You might
Gyle,
If anything other than the A column is checked GnuCash is not going to import
the transaction. The U+C column checked indicates that it has been matched to an
existing transaction and thta existing transaction will be updated with
information from the transaction in the OFX file. If the R
Mike,
I have justed tested that on GnuCash 4.8 and it works exactly as described. I
you left click/select the File menu item, then hover the mouse pointer over
Export in the dropdownlist that appears that will bring up another drop down
list to the right of the Export entryover Export then l.
Mike
you might want to look at this recent thread re upgrading from GnuCashV2 to V4
https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2021-May/096480.html
David Cousens
On Tue, 2021-11-02 at 19:32 +, Mike Stillingfleet wrote:
> Ah OK. It would appear that I might be a little out of date.
Hi Mattia,
I think you summay has captured the essentials. Whether you use a Liability or
an Asset Acciunt to record the value of the stamps will not matter in practice
but an asset account more correctly reflects the actual situation.
My description is appropriate when your business is using
Ken,
Sure all those things are good to have but it is also important to record your
problem and the solution you found if it is a general problem. Someone can come
along and tidy it up and put it into context later and add technical details if
necessary but the chances are they won't unless
David
That should not be a problem at all. I used 3.7 and 3.8 before up grading to 4.8
and imported OFX files regularly without any problem and have recently been
importing them in 4.8 without any problems. Usually as long as the second
transfer account has been specified for all the transactions
Mike,
There are three major issues associated with upgrading:
Upgrading the data file format;
Relocation of user preference data/config data (changes of storage location and
methodology;
Preserving any saved reports/config changes;
The first two generally take place, if at all at the major
David,
Whether you choose to build from source or use a flatpack will depend on your
experience and confidence with building software on Linux. The process is
described fairly completely in the wiki https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building,
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building_On_Linux and
Thanks John,
I'll try and get a bit of spare time and trawl through the archives to update
the wiki then. Will likely need a bit of proofing afterwards.
Cheers
David
On Wed, 2021-11-03 at 11:20 -0700, john wrote:
> There's already some of that at
>
Upgrade 2.6 to 3.5
https://www.mail-archive.com/gnucash-user@gnucash.org/msg13291.html
I think Geert's post which was the in thread (scroll down)I posted earlier is a
bit more complete as it discusses reports and preferences as well as changes to
the data file.
Possibly worth putting a summary
Mattia
A reconciliation deals with all the splits to a specifc account for a specified
date range from any transactions to any other account. There is not a single
entity transaction or split to associate a document with. At present AFAIK there
is no way of associating the external statement
Billie,
Click in either the RH or LH panel then use Ctrl_A to select all transaction in
the panel to highlight all the transactions in that panle, then use either the
unreconcile selection or reconcile selection buttons in the toolbar.
David Cousens
On Thu, 2021-12-02 at 08:36 -0500,
Kalpesh
Another thing to be wary of. The scammers love bitcoin no regulation no
protections:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-12-08/cryptocurrency-scams-targeting-australians-losing-millions/100678848
David
On Tue, 2021-12-07 at 14:19 -0500, Kalpesh Patel wrote:
> Why not to set this up as a
Dave,
The EORI is not accounting or financial information per se but business
information and it is specific to a particular jurisdiction. It may be
appropriate for it to appear on business reports in which case you could
prepare custom reports for your business that include it. GnuCash
Kalpesh,
John's answer is pretty explicit. It is not, at least yet, a "true " currency
and as such does not obey the "rules" that financial regulation applies to true
currencies that allow their treatment as currencies. There needs to be a
regulated international system of financial exchange
Gyle
With one caveat. If the item is a capital item and its intended use is over a
period which is longer than a single accounting period it would not normally be
regarded as an expense but as a capital purchase. Most jurisdictions will have a
threshhold value where the item can be expensed
John,
What exactly were the commands you ran to build GnuCash and the directories they
were run from. The other useful information is the location of the directories
containing the source code and where the build directory is located realtive to
the source code directories. If ninja does not
Dave,
With the usual disclaimer that this should not be considered accounting advice
the following is a possible treatment.
In a conventional accounting treatment at the end of the year the temporary
income and Expense accounts are normally closed by transferring their balances
to equity. The
Dustin and Dave,
As always with GnuCash the priority accorded to an item is a weighted decision
based on the need and the availability of developer time against other
priorities. The principal weighting is the availability of someone in the
development team (by no means a fixed resource outside
Dave,
Provisions usually fulfil the same purpose as reserves, i.e. it is capital in
equity reserved by by the board of directors to meet some specific purpose, in
this case expected future liabilities of the company, usually something like a
law suit in progress which may result in a future
Dave,
Depreciation rules are generally set by your taxation system and your accountant
will likely be reflecting those rules that apply in your jurisdiction. If you
are going to do the depreciation calculations then you will need to become
acquainted with the rules in your jurisdiction. Rules may
Works fine in GnuCash 4.8 on Linux Mint 20.2 (including whenusing a dark theme).
The blue highlight bar appears under the colored tab when a tab is selected as
the active tab. What OS?
David Cousens
On Sun, 2021-12-12 at 22:42 -0800, AC wrote:
> After having gotten the main registers to all use
On Sun, 2022-01-09 at 01:56 -0600, Jeff wrote:
> On 1/8/22 4:24 PM, davidcousen...@gmail.com wrote:
> > On Sat, 2022-01-08 at 02:44 -0600, Jeff wrote:
> > > On 1/8/22 1:42 AM, david whiting wrote:
> > > > On Sat, 8 Jan 2022 at 07:33, Jeff wrote:
> > > > [...]
> > > >
> > > > > Not sure if any of
Jeff
Don't know if it will help, but I would be inclined to disable the sicklylife
ppa while your are attempting to build gnucash from sources. I think you should
be able to disable it without deleting it entirely from the Software Sources. I
can't see anything else there that is likely to cause
FinBar,
It depends what the cheque your wife received was for. If it was a reimbursement
of money she had previously paid out then it gets deducetedfrom the associated
expense account as it will have reduced the value of the expense to you.
If it was payment for services rendered then it is
Heide
As William Precott suggested you will have to upgrade in steps, first to V 3
then 4. There are sometimes changes in format of the data file, configuration
and user preference files at those major version boundaries. The next version
usually includes a run once procedure which will rearrange
On Sat, 2022-01-08 at 02:44 -0600, Jeff wrote:
> On 1/8/22 1:42 AM, david whiting wrote:
> > On Sat, 8 Jan 2022 at 07:33, Jeff wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> > > Not sure if any of this is related or not to unsuccessful builds. Side
> > > note: your shell runs and completes but; now I'll be flipped if
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
On Sun, 2022-02-13 at 13:08 +,
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
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 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:
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
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
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
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
>
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
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,
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
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
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
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
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