Re: [GNC] ANNOUNCE: GnuCash 5.6 Released

flatpak run --command=gnucash-cli org.gnucash.GnuCash --quotes info Failed to initialize Finance::Quote: missing_modules JSON::Parse flatpak 5.6 on linux mint 21.1. Dale On Mon, Apr 1, 2024 at 2:26 PM David Reiser via gnucash-user < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > You could try > >

Re: [GNC] ANNOUNCE: GnuCash 5.6 Released

So far no problems with the basics of the new flatpak 5.6 on linux mint 21.1. Curiously the "About" page does not show the version of finance-quote and Get quotes is greyed out in the Price Tool. Was Finance-Quote forgotten? Dale On Mon, Apr 1, 2024 at 9:01 AM Dr. Gideon Fell wrote: >

Re: [GNC] Finance Quotes Yahoo off the rails again?

newer releases of Finance Quote and for > all I can tell, newer GnuCash. Maybe they update the GnuCash but ignore > the Finance Quote update? > > On Wednesday, March 27, 2024 at 10:57:00 PM EDT, Dale Alspach < > alspac...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I am no expert but I believ

Re: [GNC] Finance Quotes Yahoo off the rails again?

I am no expert but I believe that it is not possible to upgrade finance-quote under flatpak. I believe the flatpak versions get their portability from the fact that a great deal is rolled into the package so that it does not need to have compatible dependencies. You might search the list archives.

Re: [GNC] Maddening!!!!!!!!

You may find some of this in the log files and be able to "replay the changes to transactions". Dale On Thu, Jan 11, 2024 at 11:22 AM Jack Slater wrote: > 90 minutes of reconciling down the drain with a crash near the end of the > final account. Oddly, even though GnuC auto saves periodically,

Re: [GNC] Import Matcher Comments and Questions

ding the import files. > > If there is other informstion, possibly if you are using a certain report > or have a specific accounting structure, that may slso help. Sorry about > my fat finger problem, my smartphone keyboard has tiiny keys and my cat is > tryong to help me. > > &

[GNC] Import Matcher Comments and Questions

Recently there was some restructuring of some of my retirement accounts (still under control of my former employer). This caused problems with importing because the parent accounts of the securities were altered. This led to a lot of questions from the importer. This entailed a tedious process of

Re: [GNC] GnuCash Reconciliation Window

a "payment". > > Tom > > > On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 5:49 PM Dale Alspach wrote: > >> When you look at the account register, you should see two columns next to >> the balance column. The column on the right (Charge or Increase if not >> using accounting

Re: [GNC] GnuCash Reconciliation Window

an that a credit card balance of $100, is actually -$100 in >>>> my net financial worth? In which case it is correctly checked? >>>> >>>> Tom >>>> >>>> On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 4:37 PM Tom Balazs >>>> wrote: >>>> &g

Re: [GNC] GnuCash Reconciliation Window

Have you cleared all of the transactions from your statement? Dale Dale On Mon, Nov 27, 2023, 12:02 PM Tom Balazs wrote: > I'm having trouble understanding the GnuCash Reconciliation window. > Specifically, the Ending Balance, Reconciled Balance, and Difference. > Note: I'm not using GnuCash

Re: [GNC] Unable to get TIAA-CREF price quotes

Have you tried using Yahoo as JSON to retrieve TIAA prices? This works for all of mine. I don't know about that particular one. Dale On Wed, Jul 5, 2023, 7:06 PM doug brown via gnucash-user < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > > Linux Mint v. 20. GNUCASH v. 4.2Finance::Quote v. 1.56 > When I

[GNC] flatpak with new Finance::Quote

I just installed the latest flatpak (for linux mint 21.1) Build ID: Flathub 5.1 Finance::Quote: 1.5301 Will there be a release with Finance::Quote 1.56 or at least instructions for upgrading within the flatpak sandbox. I tried a little but there seem to be some dependency issues that require some

[GNC] flatpak 5.0-1 crash

I have tried a few reports. Opening the Balance Sheet, Income or Future Scheduled Transactions crashes Gnucash. Opening Advanced Portfolio or Investment Portfolio does not always crash Gnucash, however these do not work properly. They seem to be truncating the list of accounts. If I go to Options

Re: [GNC] 5.0-1 (Flathub) issue

s to "ong " with a trailing space > works for me in that specific case, of course if you have no matches that > end with ong and a trailing space only one space is required. > > Cheers David H. > > > On Fri, 31 Mar 2023 at 07:07, Dale Alspach wrote: > >> What if

Re: [GNC] 5.0-1 (Flathub) issue

What if there is no more to type? Example: I enter ONG That is exactly what I want. The list includes Amanda Szongo, all possibities including words such as long, e.g., long term care. The highlighted entry is Amand Szongo so I cannot just hit tab. How do I move the cursor off the description ? I

[GNC] Flatpak 5.0-1 Update

Thank you for the update of the flatpak. Get Quotes now works. Dale ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user - Please

[GNC] Flatpak Gnucash 5.0 Get Quotes

The version of Gnucash on my linux mint 21.1 installation was just upgraded. "Get Quotes" is greyed out in the Price Database tool and (Accounts) Actions -> Stock Assistant is also. I know very little about flatpak so I have no idea as to how to run any of the command line tools in

Re: [GNC] Quicken Import Matcher

e account id will > prompt you to select the account. > > Regards, > John Ralls > > > > On Feb 3, 2023, at 1:42 PM, Dale Alspach wrote: > > > > Apparently sometime in the past I made an error when the matcher asked > > about a brokerage account. I have two TI

Re: [GNC] Quicken Import Matcher

formation. > > On Fri, Feb 3, 2023 at 3:43 PM Dale Alspach wrote: > >> Apparently sometime in the past I made an error when the matcher asked >> about a brokerage account. I have two TIAA brokerage accounts, one within >> a >> tax deferred IRA and one taxed. This did not ma

[GNC] Quicken Import Matcher

Apparently sometime in the past I made an error when the matcher asked about a brokerage account. I have two TIAA brokerage accounts, one within a tax deferred IRA and one taxed. This did not matter much in the past because the small number of transactions could easily be fixed. Now there are many

Re: [GNC] Generic Import Matcher GUI

more smoothly than others. Imports from one of my credit cards all > come in with every amount reversed, for example, and there is no way I > could get them to fix that. > > On Wed, Jan 4, 2023 at 10:26 AM Dale Alspach wrote: > >> Curiously today I imported a QFX file generated

Re: [GNC] Generic Import Matcher GUI

s to be working normally. > > I have just run a keyboard tester and it appears my CTRL problem is the > keyboard, so GNuCash appears to be working fine on my system. > It is possibly a problem with access to your system resources from within > the flatpak environment. > > Regards

Re: [GNC] Generic Import Matcher GUI

ears my CTRL problem is the > keyboard, so GNuCash appears to be working fine on my system. > It is possibly a problem with access to your system resources from within > the flatpak environment. > > Regards > > David Cousens > > > On Sun, 2023-01-01 at 14:

Re: [GNC] Generic Import Matcher GUI

or two so will be using the importer a > bit. > I'll report back if I have any problems. > > David Cousens > > > On Sun, 2023-01-01 at 11:27 -0600, Dale Alspach wrote: > > Flathub gnucash 4.11 on linux mint. QFX file (Quicken) import. File > > downloaded from TIAA.

[GNC] Generic Import Matcher GUI

Flathub gnucash 4.11 on linux mint. QFX file (Quicken) import. File downloaded from TIAA. The help for the import matcher claims that by double clicking on a transaction that one should be able to check or change the transfer account. This fails for a transaction matched as new. Double clicking

Re: [GNC] Roth IRA conversion

I do not know whether this is proper accounting or not, but I use an artificial expense account "Conversion to Taxable". Any withdrawal X dollars from an IRA or other pre-tax asset account gets some extra split entries. Credit IRA X Credit Taxable Income IRA X Debit Conversion to Taxable X Debit

Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions feature or bug?

AM Michael or Penny Novack < stepbystepf...@comcast.net> wrote: > On 4/12/2022 10:55 AM, Dale Alspach wrote: > > I had a scheduled transfer to savings that I disabled for a few months. > > When I re-enabled the scheduled transfer I did not change the start > date. I > &

[GNC] Scheduled transactions feature or bug?

I had a scheduled transfer to savings that I disabled for a few months. When I re-enabled the scheduled transfer I did not change the start date. I was very surprised to find that when it ran that it entered transactions for all of the months when it was disabled. Automatically altering the past

[GNC] Auto-save failure

I recently had an unpleasant surprise. I rarely restart my computer so gnucash is open for several weeks at a time. For over three weeks gnucash had not saved the main file. Fortunately playing the log file did a pretty good job of recovering. My question is what would suddenly stop the auto-save

[GNC] Scheduled Transaction Editor Bug

Flathub gnucash 4.9-1 on Linux Mint 20 Today I tried to edit a scheduled transaction with splits that has one line for selling part of a mutual fund. All of the other lines refer to accounts in dollars. When I tried to save changes I received a pop-up that the transaction could not be

[GNC] Account Name Matching

I have encountered what appears to be buggy behavior when entering the Transfer account for a transaction. If I make a typing error so that no existing account matches, the Transfer cell does not allow editing, i.e., backspace doesn't work, arrows don't work, the cursor position can be changed

[GNC] QFX Import in 4.8

This is for the flatpak install of version 4.8 on linux mint. I just downloaded transactions from TIAA and when I imported, I was presented with a sequence of 16 screens (some containing only 1 line) that I had to OK. Each screen had transactions for a single security. I much prefer getting a

Re: [GNC] Build 4.8 docs issue

An explanation of the *conversion process* used by Amazon for kindle is given here https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/G200634390. Note that MOBI is not supported for new documents. Dale On Sun, Oct 3, 2021 at 9:32 PM A Harvey wrote: > Addressing the messages in reverse order. > I should

Re: [GNC] Lost my top level aka Master account

Another possibility for finding the master checking is to go to an expense transaction that was paid from the master checking account. While on that transaction click on Jump (top toolbar) and the master checking account should open as a new tab. Dale On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 10:16 AM Derek Atkins

[GNC] Fwd: Transaction Entry Confirmation

If the register is set to future transactions after the blank transaction and the cursor is on the bottom future transaction, the transaction can be committed but the cursor does not move off the line. I submitted an RFE about this a few weeks ago. Dale -- Forwarded message -

Re: [GNC] gnucash-cli options - accounts, dates and other settings

The run date of a report is actually quite useful. This is especially the case when multiple persons are involved with analyzing the data and making correcting entries. I work with a small charitable organization. We get reports from the bookkeeper a few days before the meeting. I may spot

Re: [GNC] Upgrading from old repo to new stable (4.06)

Try flatpak/flathub. Quoting John Ralls: GnuCash is now available as a flatpak from Flathub.org. Instructions for installing and running may be found at https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Flatpak . Note that at the time of this announcement the flathub.org build is broken because of a problem with

Re: [GNC] Upgrade 4.4 tp 4.5 annoyances on flatpak

8, that should be a minor > > ungrade. But in fact it goes from 3.x to 40, a major jump with changes > > like moving the dconf location, gtk 3 -> 4 … > > > > Still undecided what to do: redo the bundle with runtime 3.38, John? > > > > Regards > > Frank >

[GNC] Upgrade 4.4 tp 4.5 annoyances

My install was upgraded this week (flathub) from gnucash 4.4 to 4.5 on Linux Mint 20. I think some of these have been reported by others. 1. First gnucash opened as though I was a new user and needed a new account setup. I was able to stop this and get to the file menu and my last saved version.

Re: [GNC] Expense Over Time report

Some accounting software, e.g., Quickbooks, use a virtual leaf "Other" in reports to remove any ambiguity when there are transactions in a branch account which are not in a leaf. Thus a report for the situation L3 $100 transaction and L4 $500 transaction would display L3 L4 500 L3 -

[GNC] Advanced Portfolio Report Issues

I am trying to use the Advanced Portfolio report (flatpak gnucash 4.4 on linux mint) but have noticed some issues. Some may be attributable to problems with handling transactions with splits. A few seem to be actual bugs. For mutual funds it appears that transactions from income accounts are being

Re: [GNC] Rounding & formulas

I think the problem is that with late rounding the formula may not work. Suppose the amount is 0.21. Compute amount/2 exactly: 0.21/2=0.105 Subtract from amount 0.21 - 0.105=0.105 For a fixed rounding scheme both will either be 0.11 or 0.10 and the sum will be 0.22, respectively, 0.20. Neither is

Re: [GNC] Help on daily cash income and bank statements

Assuming you have a simple setup. You need an income account. This could be named Daily Sales. (If you want to keep cash sales separate from credit card, debit, etc. then you may need subaccounts for each.) Suppose your cash sales for today are $538.24 and you deposit all of it into a bank

Re: [GNC] Column Width Saving?

Try using quit from the menu instead of killing the window with X. Dale Dale On Wed, Oct 21, 2020, 5:11 PM Jack Slater wrote: > I first do a Save As (to save a backup to an external drive). Then I do a > Save As to the original (desired C: drive) location. Then Click upper right > X to close

Re: [GNC] GnuCash 4.2 Released

On Mint 20 there was no automatic update of the flatpak 4.1 version of gnucash. Running sudo flatpak update I get ID Branch Op Remote Download 1. [✓] org.gnucash.GnuCash.Locale stable u flathub 1.0 MB / 7.3 MB 2. [✓] org.gnucash.GnuCash stable u

Re: [GNC] Matcher for qfx files

Regards, > John Ralls > > > > > On Aug 3, 2020, at 12:23 PM, Dale Alspach wrote: > > > > The first stage of the import does not appear to be using ACCTID. I was > > only asked once for each security which gnucash account to use though in > a > > few cases there were tr

Re: [GNC] Matcher for qfx files

n. I’m unfamiliar with > the version availability in the linux prepackaged realm. > -- > Dave Reiser > dbrei...@icloud.com > > > > > > On Aug 2, 2020, at 1:53 PM, Dale Alspach wrote: > > > > When importing a .qfx file does the matcher use the tags an

[GNC] Matcher for qfx files

When importing a .qfx file does the matcher use the tags and ? The issue is that I download transactions from TIAA which are from multiple accounts but are in the same download. There are some mutual funds which are held in more than one account. I recently upgraded to gnucash 3.8. I started to

Re: [GNC] BotanyBayGardens nonprofit example, and why GnuCash does not suffice

epf...@comcast.net> wrote: > On 7/27/2020 4:50 PM, Dale Alspach wrote: > > I would not put much faith in requiring two signatures. It is unlikely > that > > the bank is actually paying any attention to this requirement. I learned > > this from a former bank employee who was

Re: [GNC] BotanyBayGardens nonprofit example, and why GnuCash does not suffice

I would not put much faith in requiring two signatures. It is unlikely that the bank is actually paying any attention to this requirement. I learned this from a former bank employee who was on the board of a nonprofit I work with. In other words it is an internal control only. Dale On Mon, Jul

Re: [GNC] Non-profit loan/grant tracking

You can see the transactions from an account along with the subaccounts. >From the accounts list, select the upper level account, right click, and choose open subaccounts. If you make a subaccount for the grant or loan transfers and pay from the subaccount as appropriate you will have an itemized

Re: [GNC] Reconcile also opens Interest Payment box?

I use the interest pop-up on one account but could easily do without it. I do use credit card payment after reconciliation on several accounts and like it. If the feature disappeared, it would not be a big deal. I know nothing about the actual code, but would it be simpler to skip the pop-up

Re: [GNC] Scheduled Transactions with Securities

rien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: >>> >>> You should be able to use variables in SX templates. Then it will prompt >> you for a price. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Adrien >>> >>>> On Jul 3, 2020 w27d185, at 10:42 AM, Dale Alspach >>

[GNC] Scheduled Transactions with Securities

The template for a scheduled transaction does not allow for shares or share price. When a scheduled transaction includes an account which has shares it defaults to $1 price per share. Is there anyway to get it to use something more reasonable such as the last known price? Dale

Re: [GNC] Fwd: Wrong running balances in reports

I think that some of the problem here is terminology. What Derek is saying is that "running balance" is defined to be the running balance in the account at a particular date-time not the running balance in the report. If a report has subtotals, cumulative subtotals, or totals, one could reasonably

[GNC] PPP Loan Forgiveness

The SBA has released the forgiveness application https://www.sba.gov/document/sba-form--paycheck-protection-program-loan-forgiveness-application Dale ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to

Re: [GNC] Anyone using GnuCash to account for US PPP or EIDL funds?

I just had a committee meeting for a 501(3)(c) this week where this was discussed. This is not really a gnucash issue but an accounting issue. A banker sits on the committee and part of the problem is that SBA has not finalized their procedures. Apparently some draft information has been released

Re: [GNC] Mortgage & Loan Repayment schedule tool

I found the wizard confusing for setting up the escrow. I suggest using the wizard to set the principal and interest payment approximately. Then either edit the scheduled transaction created or add a separate scheduled transaction to handle the escrow account. The escrow is an asset. There should

Re: [GNC] Reconciliation

Something like this has happened to me (on linux Mint, several recent versions of gnucash) though not exactly what you are reporting. I do not usually check the starting balance so it could be the same. Here is a description of what happens. I mark the reconciliation box for some transactions in

Re: [GNC] [GNC-dev] Yahoo blocking GnuCash Email

I suspect that as Adrien indicated many users expect to see an unsubscribe link at the bottom of the email. The link executes a script which produces a page with the extracted actual "To:" email address and a "unsubscribe this address" button. It might be worth exploring whether such a thing has

Re: [GNC] journal entries

AM, Liz wrote: > On Wed, 14 Aug 2019 08:56:49 -0500 > Dale Alspach wrote: > >> The start of this thread was a question from a new user about journal >> entries as he understood them from being a Quicken user. (I believe >> Quicken is a personal accounting versio

Re: [GNC] journal entries

The problem is actually that in these consumer oriented packages the paradigm is different. In Gnucash the chart of accounts is fundamental. In Quickbooks the initial screen shows a set of tasks: add a customer, pay bills, enter charges, etc. Clicking on these brings up a set of account names,

Re: [GNC] journal entries

I think Frank is on the right track. The original poster is coming from Quicken which I have never used. I think it is similar to Quickbooks which I have used a little. Journal entries are used for corrections, some transfers between accounts, etc., in Quickbooks. Gnucash does not have a special

Re: [GNC] Last month's transactions included in Reconciliation Report

What you seem to be asking for is what happens when you click on Reconcile except that it is a window that opens not a report. This also has the advantage that you can go back to the account and add missed transactions. These will immediately appear in the reconciliation window. Dale On 8/4/19

Re: [GNC] Getting previous reconciliation closing balances?

Try doing a search using the Reconcile field for "Not cleared" or "Cleared" . That should locate any old transactions that were not marked "y". With luck you will find the missed transaction. Dale ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org

Re: [GNC] Checksum

lso on GnuCash.org: > > Click the News link at the left in the site menu > > You’ll see the release notes containing the hashes just as they were > published to the mailing list. > > > > Regards, > Adrien > > > On Jul 1, 2019, at 10:35 PM, Dale Alspach wrote:

Re: [GNC] Checksum

sh-3.6.setup.exe> > o Mac-Intel > > <https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/3.6/Gnucash-Intel-3.6-1.dmg> > > " > > Is that close enough? > > On Mon, Jul 1, 2019 at 3:23 PM Dale Alspach <mailto:alspac...@gmail.com>> wrot

[GNC] Checksum

I have been building the 3.x series on linux 18.3 from source. Why is it that the checksum for the source bzipped tarball is not readily available. I have yet to find it for the 3.6 release. The download link from gnucash.org fetches gnucash-3.6.tar.bz2 from sourceforge.net but provides nothing

[GNC] Register Reconcile Issue

Today I was reconciling an account and noticed a peculiar behavior. Typically I check heavily used credit and bank accounts online a few times a month. At that time I mark transactions cleared "c" which have appeared online. When a statement comes I usually clear any additional transactions

Re: [GNC] Payment month after reconcile

; 16th?) > > Are you presuming that entering a payment on May 29th, would for some > reason default to June 16th for some reason? > > Finally, are you processing a payment for a vendor *by* you, or from a > customer *to* you? (it shouldn’t matter, but just for the sake of being > thorou

[GNC] Payment month after reconcile

I have noticed that the wrong month is being supplied for a payment after a reconcile. This only happens sometimes because it may be selecting the current month. Today it suggested May 16 2019 rather than June 16 2019. Has anyone else noticed this? This is on Linux mint. Gnucash 3.5. Dale

Re: [GNC] Need help with a Savings account

A simple rule for getting the debit and credit correct is money flows from credit to debit. So if you want to remove $10 from the savings account that will be a credit of $10 to savings and debit of $10 to some other account(s) such as Expense. Dale On 4/15/19 5:11 PM, ToddAndMargo via

[GNC] Tweak of Memorized Transactions

This is really a request for enhancement but I thought I would see what others thought before formally adding it. I use the Memo line once in a while for purchases at some stores, but usually it is left blank. In single line mode later I will enter another purchase at the same store, the

Re: [GNC] gnucash 3.4 help needed

I am no expert but try putting an absolute path to the source directory in place of ../gnucash-3.4 Dale On 3/6/19 2:00 PM, devlin wrote: > Running Linux Mint 18.3 Cinnamon on this box, and need some help - > > Playing with Gnucash 3.4, and from the page at > >   >

Re: [GNC] How-to question: CD Interest payments deposited in

For my purposes I find it sufficient to embed the source in the description. With mutual funds and stocks I can use the symbol or part of the name, e.g., OAKIX dividend. For CDs an identifier would need to be constructed from the bank name and an identifier for the particular CD. One could create

Re: [GNC] How-to question: CD Interest payments deposited in a different account

Perhaps you are over-thinking this. I would create an income account with a name such as "CD interest". Each month create a transaction Credit CD interest $x Debit Checking $x where $x is the amount of interest paid for the month. Dale On Mon, Feb 18, 2019, 11:06 PM Art Chimes I have been

Re: [GNC] Smarter dating of account reconcile

> 1) oldest transaction 2) not in the future 3) n set to c or y. The oldest transaction would presumably be the first transaction in the account so I assume you mean the most recent transaction. If someone does not frequently mark transactions c or y, the date you are advocating could be as early

Re: [GNC] Working with compound interest on varying amounts

I am assuming that the credit line is actually using daily compounding. In that case the calculations in the response from Steve are not correct. An alternate approach is to consider is the following. Warning: I tried this with a toy example. It seems to work but there may be some downsides that

Re: [GNC] Recurring Reconciliation Problem after Gnucash 3 upgrade

I would look for a different explanation.Is this a duplicate transaction? Is it a misdated transaction? If it is not something obvious, you may need to actually match the transactions on the bank statements for the last four months to what is in gnucash. Dale On Mon, Oct 1, 2018, 4:15 AM Peter

Re: [GNC] Finance Quotes Using Yahoo json

Have you tried to see whether the perl code itself works? (Below is on linux but something similar should work in perl on windows.) Assuming you have fnc-fq-dump installed, from a command prompt something like (perhaps prefixed by perl. See https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Online_Quotes)

Re: [GNC] Fwd: The two modules

I work with an organization that uses QuikBooks. There seems to be a built in mechanism in the report generator in that software that automatically adds a line with name [parent account name] Other which contains the total of the transactions in the parent account not in any subaccount of the

Re: [GNC] Addition of Mailing List Subject Prefix

Question for those who want the [GNC] prefix: Would having the email from be from the list (gnucash-user@gnucash.org) instead of the user (original sender) serve as well? This would also help with the "remember to reply to the list" issue. Reply, Reply-all, Reply-list would include the list

Re: [GNC] Budgeting loans

ri, Apr 6, 2018 at 11:09 PM, Dale Alspach <alspac...@gmail.com > <mailto:alspac...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > I suggest just budgeting the total payment. Most budgeting issues are > actually cash flow so the total payment is the important number. > > Dale &g

Re: Budgeting loans

I suggest just budgeting the total payment. Most budgeting issues are actually cash flow so the total payment is the important number. Dale On 04/06/2018 09:07 PM, Andy Pastuszak wrote: > I came up with an idea. I created and asset account called Mortgage > Payment, and do a transfer of my

Re: Unrealized loss

Alain, Here is a scenario that could produce what you are seeing. 1. Sometime in the past you entered a commodity, e.g., stock, mutual fund, something that uses units and prices. 2. On the date the balance sheet starts showing an unrealized gain or loss a different unit price for this commodity

Re: Gnucash and 529 plans

to choose to include subaccounts when reconciling. Dale Alspach On Sat, Mar 24, 2018, 9:23 PM Steve Kelem <st...@kelem.net> wrote: >I have a question about recording 529-plan transactions in GnuCash. > >Not the basic movement of funds between checking and 529 account, as >

Re: beginning balance of income and expense accounts

den=mchsi@gnucash.org> On Behalf Of Dale Alspach Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2018 5:34 PM To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: Re: beginning balance of income and expense accounts In that case your first entry should be income total from the start of the accounting year to Sept. 30 and you should be doing t

Re: beginning balance of income and expense accounts

In that case your first entry should be income total from the start of the accounting year to Sept. 30 and you should be doing the analogous thing for all accounts. ( I am assuming that your accounting year started on January 1 or some other date prior to Sept. 30.) By doing this you will be

Re: General Ledger

The reference I have distinguishes journal from ledger based on entry time and purpose. A journal is a historical record of first entry of complete transactions (splits, notes, etc.). A ledger is a final or secondary record of changes to an account. The term general journal seems to have two

Re: Church Use of GNUCash

If you are in the US, I suggest treating temporarily restricted funds and permanently restricted funds differently. (I do not know much about church accounting but if you must report to the IRS as a non-profit, your account structure should make this reporting convenient.) If you have several of

Re: Invoice & Bill Posting Date Issues Across Multiple Periods

the bill reminder as well > as any ability to see this activity in a vendor report. > > > Regards, > Adrien > >> On Dec 16, 2017, at 4:36 PM, Dale Alspach <alspac...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Adrien, >> >> I do not use the business feat

Re: Invoice & Bill Posting Date Issues Across Multiple Periods

Adrien, I do not use the business features but it seems from what you have written that something like the following may do what you want. Create a new liability account named Unbilled Payables (or whatever you like). Replace > Dr. Assets:Current_Assets:Pre-Paid_Expenses:Auto_Insurance > Cr.

Re: Invoice & Bill Posting Date Issues Across Multiple Periods

Adrien, I suggest that you may need to shift your point of view in order to resolve this. Disclaimer: I am not an accountant., My experience has been that you should not lose sight of the primary purpose of an accounting system: It is there to provide the information you need to make financial

Re: Cannot edit opening balance

Rather than changing the opening balance a correcting transaction needed to be added. One side of the transaction would be the difference between the incorrect starting balance and the correct starting balance and the other side would be in Opening Balances or whatever caused the problem. Next

Re: Alphavantage Not Showing Up In List Sources

I have this working. Here is what I have but it seems to be the same as what you have except the version of Finance::Quote. Mint 18.2 GnuCash 2.6.12 This copy was built from rev ed11f6d+ on 2016-04-18 perl: /usr/bin/perl5.22-x86_64-linux-gnu Tail of /etc/gnucash/environment # If you wish

Re: F::Q changes

This is a perl module. To update in a terminal window follow these steps from a recent post: sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell Then in the perl shell: reload index upgrade Finance::Quote Dale On 11/12/2017 08:02 PM, David Carlson wrote: > I cannot find Finance::Quote on my Ubuntu 16.04 computer that

Re: Alphavantage Not Showing Up In List Sources

Did you add the line containing your key to /etc/gnucash/environment as described in the wiki and restart gnucash? If so is gnucash actually using the new Finance::Quote package? I am running linux mint 18.2 and just followed the directions in the wiki. Alphavantage showed up on the list. Dale

Re: API Key

On linuxmint 18.2 (likely most linux distributions) the prefix /usr listed in wiki is not correct. It should be empty, i.e., /etc/gnucash/environment is the file. Dale On Nov 10, 2017 10:28 AM, "Maf. King" wrote: > Hi Les, > > have a read of the FAQ - there is a recently

Re: Unit Trusts assistance development

See if this does what you want. I know nothing about unit trusts except what you have written in your emails. Create a top level account named Unit Trusts as an Asset in ZAR. Either by using the Opening Balance tab or by creating an initial transaction, credit Opening Balance (equity) and debit

Re: Transaction Report - Subtotaling on Description? (Based on Previous Threads)

Rather than add another layer of accounts that I only need once a year, I import the report into a spreadsheet, sort on the descriptions and dates, and then add a subtotal cell for each group. This procedure requires care during entry so that the descriptions will group the transactions correctly.

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