On 4/28/2024 12:17 PM, Fred Tydeman wrote:
If LLC-a pays an expense of LLC-b
ie, cash from LLC-a goes to expense of LLC-b,
should I also show a transfer of equity from LLC-a to LLC-b?
It seems that needs to be done so that the Balance sheet for LLC-b is
correct.
This is an accounting problem,
I want to thank everyone for their input. I did come across this
interesting book wriiten in 1868:
Book-keeping By Double Entry Explained by John Findlater
https://tinyurl.com/4zkws7dc
--
Not necessarily a bad idea, because an understanding of the old
fashioned way, pen and ink on paper,
On 4/21/2024 4:23 PM, Kenneth Maze via gnucash-user wrote:
I hadn’t used gnucash for several months due to illness. I tried to open and
access my data but got a message the file 'could not be found. The file is in
the history list, do you want to remove it?’
I selected ‘no’ and the app
To address your specific inquiry, just looking at the line you posted,
the date format looks kind of wonky. I would expect something like "
5/ 4/21" or better would be something like 2021-05-04. I don't recall
if Quicken will let you specify the date format when you export to QIF
(the
On 4/21/2024 7:48 AM, flywire wrote:
A significant limitation for small business is GnuCash will not do cash
accounting *and* automated sales tax.
Worse than that. I do not believe Gnucash can do "automated sale tax" at
all -- not in the sense that a POS system can. Gnucash can do "automated
Please be aware that the inventory part won't be handled via GnuCash: while
you can record your purchases and sales easily (e.g. buy $1000 worth of raw
materials, sell $2000 worth of products), it's difficult to account for the
raw materials inventory levels and products waiting to be sold,
If the events are fixed, such as "Memorial Day Celebration" and
"Independence Celebration", you could make an expense category and
then have sub-categories for it. I assume that you can run P on one
set of categories. Would that work? You'd have similar
sub-categories. I'm pretty sure you
d) What you can;t do is have it both ways. Traditional double entry
bookkeeping allows only one tree structure for the CoA. To get it
different in different reports you would have to BOTH set up the CoA
correctly AND select just certain accounts for the report.
Of course you can by running the
or more expenses (at least interest; maybe insurance, fees, and others
depending on the terms of the loan) and principal payment that reduces the
loan amount. Property owners also need to distinguish between maintenance
and improvements: The latter increase the value of the property, the former
On 4/14/2024 8:45 PM, Oleander via gnucash-user wrote:
Hello,
is "Housing" a proper account name if I want to include only my apartment expenses like
Rent/Mortgage and Repairs? I'd like to record my Utilities expenses separately within
another account so that my "Housing" account adds up only
On 4/11/2024 8:38 AM, Kalpesh Patel wrote:
Just to add some distinction, if you are coming from Intuit's Quicken world
then its split is not same as GNC's split .
If you are coming from Intuit's QuickBooks, the same as gnucash. If you
are coming from Intuit's Quicken, not.
QuickBooks is
On 4/10/2024 10:04 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
The distro does not matter. (with perhaps some caveats concerning
dependencies)
While you technically can jump from 2.6.21 to 5.6 (current version),
that isn't officially supported, nor recommended.
See the Wiki FAQ about upgrading procedures from
On 4/10/2024 7:11 PM, Kevin Wilcoxon via gnucash-user wrote:
Thank you both for your responses. I see I have been using the term
"split transaction" wrong. I was using Ace Money where this term was
used to signify a single transaction, say from the Checking Account,
to two different
Best not to think of the two sides of a transaction as "splits". In
double entry bookkeeping there are ALWAYS two sides of every
transaction. It would be silly to think of every transaction as split.
Confusion for new users is perhaps because gnucash allows a shortcut
method of entry when
On 4/9/2024 12:50 PM, R Losey wrote:
Thanks; I wasn't sure if those (cash vs accrual) were the correct terms.
Legally, are you saying that if I write a check for $50 and send it to my
uncle, it's "paid" whether or not he ever cashes it?
As as aside, I am actually in this situation; I sent e
That's not the difference. I understand you are using the credit card as
a "30 day net" account with each vendor (I also do that) but for
accounting purposes it's not the same as if each vendor were giving you
a 30 day net invoice (and the bank just bundling these for a single
payment of all
On 4/7/2024 9:39 PM, Bruce Schuck wrote:
Odd, after sending a message to the gnucash-devel list early this
morning, I received an email saying my message was in a queue because
I'm not subscribed. Odd, I've been subscribed for at least a handful
of years.
I also notice that it does not show
On 4/5/2024 6:43 AM, Joseph Keithley wrote:
When importing a QIF in the "Match payees/memos to GnuCash accounts"
window, an "Unspecified" transaction will be listed under "GnuCash account
name". When you double click on the item, a window pops up that lets you
scroll
through the different
On 4/4/2024 12:44 AM, tburmas wrote:
Hello,
Apologies if this is the wrong list to send this to. I wanted to
express my appreciation for this program. I'm coming from Quickbooks
which has served me well but I'm tired of the costs increasing, every
few years losing support and being
I am currently running version 4.12 for two different organizations.
If I was to update to 5.12 would I just download it and install it
into the same folders or would I need to transfer the data files?
Nathan
Because this keeps coming up ... The DATA files (your books,
etc.)
On 3/18/2024 8:37 AM, Kalpesh Patel wrote:
No one other than your self can remove you from the list.
Well..
<< my last several have been straying from gnucash specific topics, so
here goes again >>
This would apply to ALL mail lists managed by the same mail list
program. But
On 3/17/2024 12:39 PM, Kalpesh Patel wrote:
If the e-mail client is configured via IMAP access to email server, then whatever email
is deleted on your client is also removed from your server so you don't need to clean up
multiple times... IMAP keeps "one" view for all of the email clients that
On 3/17/2024 12:15 PM, J. A. Harris wrote:
I have been using gnucash for almost 10 years now. I have downloaded
the source code and even made some changes to it that I consider
improvement. There are other changes that I think would be a good
idea. If this is not the place to share such
On 3/16/2024 5:40 PM, Ken Farley wrote:
Unsubscribing isn't done by the list, it's just posts of questions
like yours.
To unsubscribe, you need to go to:
https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user
To be honest, I don't allow the deluge of emails to come to me,
either. Too many
On 3/11/2024 10:13 AM, Alan Johnson via gnucash-user wrote:
I've looked at odoo, but haven't decided to pull the trigger on it. To
use the sales/accounting features you need to subscribe and I'm not
ready for that yet with my business needs.
Well ... if it is really "open software" they would
On 3/9/2024 5:12 PM, Carl Linkletter wrote:
Thanks for all that Michael. So the summary is, why would I think that one
system could possibly handle all the regulations that incompetent and
narcissistic bureaucrats could come up with?What was I thinking??? :-)
This is equivalent to
On 3/9/2024 1:34 PM, R Losey wrote:
Regarding below, perhaps Amazon does it that way because some states
(locations) exempt certain items from sales tax: Wisconsin, for example,
used to not tax food. In Texas also, food is not taxed.
And Massachusetts does not tax food or clothing. The
On 3/6/2024 12:49 PM, Carl Linkletter via gnucash-user wrote:
OK, Found the bug. The problem is that the tax is totaled up using sub-penny
calculations. That causes a 1.004 + 1.004 to equal 2.008 which is then rounded
to 2.01. Each line should be rounded to the penny first, then rounded up.
OK, Found the bug. The problem is that the tax is totaled up using sub-penny
calculations. That causes a 1.004 + 1.004 to equal 2.008 which is then rounded
to 2.01. Each line should be rounded to the penny first, then rounded up. So
if 1.004 is first rounded to 1.00, then that would
I'm not going to comment on "does that sound right?" The accounts used
and workflow to temporarily convert accrual to cash are an accounting
matter, not a gnucash matter. As for there not being a "setting", that
make no sense. The difference between "cash" and "accrual" is LOGICAL
(the timing
On 3/4/2024 11:25 PM, R Losey wrote:
Best wishes -- I'm still waiting for a check from 2018 to clear. I checked
with my bank (I thought a check would not be valid after a certain time),
and they said they'd honor it if it showed up today. I don't want to spend
the money to issue a stop-check
On 3/4/2024 10:43 AM, Alan Johnson via gnucash-user wrote:
You don't have to have 'a business' to use the business features. You
would need to set up an AP and AR account to post the invoices to. To
me, the vendor bill - payment system is the proper way to store the
data, rather than kludging
On 3/3/2024 10:46 AM, Blake Hannaford wrote:
Sometimes I send an invoice to a customer in year 1, but the payment is
received in year 2. Gnucash always seems to credit the Income/Sales
account when posted, but then my income for Year 1 taxes is overstated, and
Year 2 is understated.I know
On 2/24/2024 2:10 PM, Fred Tydeman wrote:
I am looking at the Accounts account screen.
At the bottom of the screen, is Net Assets: $xxx and Profits: $yyy
I assume Net Assets is the current value of Assets - Liabilities.
If that is the case, numbers are wrong by a lot.
Wrong assumption.
If
On 2/23/2024 4:02 PM, Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) wrote:
On 2024-02-23 10:46, Grace wrote:
I am needing to revisit my GNUCash records for 2022. I forgot to erase
all the scheduled transaction before I "archived" it, so now when I open
the app, it applies all the scheduled transaction for 2023
I would these sorts of things before trying to reinstall older versions
of the programs. You really want to make sure that the problem isn't one
of these things, because if it is, an older version of the program won't
help.
Michael D Novack
I might be wrong, but I would expect even an old
On 2/7/2024 11:11 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
Michael,
Transaction Journal View is simply the same full transaction
accessible via either 'Split' or 'Auto-Split' but for all transactions
- *not* one at a time.
Yes of course, can have on your screen "journal view" for all
transactions
On 2/7/2024 4:59 PM, R Losey wrote:
I was intrigued by the Transaction Journal mentioned, but I don't have a
Transaction Journal in my View menu...
after additional digging, I discovered it doesn't show up on the Accounts
page; one must be in one of the accounts to see it.
Gnucash is "virtual
On 2/6/2024 9:27 AM, Glenn Fowler wrote:
You can edit invoice.scm and replace "Invoice" with "Tax Invoice". All
invoices after will say "Tax Invoice".
Putting my old senior business analyst hat back on for a moment, this is
presumably NOT what is being requested. I am pretty sure if we ask
On 2/6/2024 2:42 AM, Lester Bennett wrote:
Apparently Australian Tax Law requires an invoice over AU$1000 to be
titled Tax Invoice. How can I change the default first line of a
printable invoice to read "Tax Invoice #"?
At present I save to a pdf then edit it with a pdf editor but it would
be
On 2/3/2024 7:13 PM, Jay McSkimming wrote:
Hi
Is there any solution (other than repeated manual system-wide changes) to allow
for multiple fiscal years for different sets of accounts arising from different
country tax years?
Are there any add-ons or means to allow this?
Any help
On 2/3/2024 2:13 PM, Dan O'Brien wrote:
(With screen shot attached this time).
I can’t make heads or tails of scheme code, so I’m not sure where to even look
for the issue here.
LOL You would want to have experience with LISP or at the very
least, some experience with some "functional"
On 1/30/2024 4:37 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
Michael, if I recall correctly, the OP was bifurcating their checking
account *every year*. That is:
Checking
-2022
-2023
-2024
-etc.
I was discussing in general.
And in any case, standing accounts (asset, liability,equity) are NOT
On 1/30/2024 12:12 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
You can't. I thought we described that already.
If you start a new file/account each year, you will lose all
auto-complete from the previous year's entries.
The auto-complete list is generated on the fly from the other
transactions in the
You are over complicating matters.
You are trying to record (account for) an UNKNOWN situation. At least I
think unknown. Are they telling you "we rounded this up by y amount and
will later round down to make up for it". Or, as I rather suspect, it is
just happening.
How about each month
On 1/21/2024 11:05 AM, Myron A Schroeder wrote:
Where do I find the " --nofile runtime parameter."
Looks like an interesting way to have more than one set of books on my
computer.
What operating system are you using? Perhaps as much to the point, if
you are getting to gnucash by a "shortcut"
On 1/20/2024 7:24 PM, Geoff wrote:
Conjecture - Edge is also the default app for opening XML files on
Windows?
Repeating the import in debug mode, the trace file contains lots of
information, no obvious (to me) error messages, and no mention of Edge:
Just make sure that after you save a copy (B4A) that you aren't using
that file going forward as GC usually opens the last saved file.
Unless you have "told" gnucash not to.
Those of us who are keeping multiple sets of books (f0r multiple
entities) can make like easier by using the
On 1/17/2024 10:04 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
A little more detail to what Michael is asking for:
While viewing the Checking account register, click on View >
Transaction Journal. That will show all splits in all transactions.
Except I would never refer to a transaction that affect JUST
On 1/17/2024 2:14 PM, Khristine Ann Ramella wrote:
Hi there! So I opened my gnu cash this am and all of my credit card accounts
show huge balances. My checking still shows them as paid, but all liabilities
look as if they never rcd a payment. It was fine when i closed it the other
day. A
On 1/16/2024 1:42 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
I'm thinking of a case where someone starts using GnuCash either at
the point they start taking disbursements or after. I'm about to help
a family member in that exact situation.
While Deferred Income wasn't tracked along the way, I'll set up the
On 1/15/2024 9:47 PM, Jediator wrote:
I am not an accountant, so please excuse my ignorance. I was
wondering is it really necessary to create a separate deferred income
account when you could just do a transaction report on your IRA
account to see how much distribution you had in a year or a
On 1/15/2024 4:02 PM, R Losey wrote:
Thank you; this is helpful.
I never really thought about recording Deferred Income previously
because the investment people track it and let me know what has been
taken out every year. But after the discussion in this list last
year, I thought it might
Let me ask you a question (that should make it obvious what one* of your
problems is --- and yes, this has been discussed before)
HOW did you record this deferred income when it was received? Or since
it might have been received before you began using gnucash, how did you
enter the
On 1/13/2024 10:27 PM, R Losey wrote:
Absolutely; there is no reason to do anything special at the end of the
year; for many years, I have just kept using GnuCash and have had no
issues, but some people like to make yearly archives, or do the "close the
books" thing.
This perhaps bears
Folks trying to imitate Pen & Paper using a computer are always going
to have to adjust their workflow or make concessions for the
difference in formats. This is true no matter the task at hand, or the
software used, and is true of things not even accounting related at all.
I'm glad
On 1/13/2024 1:34 PM, Dennis Powless wrote:
Are there other options to export besides HTML? Say to excel in csv or txt?
If you open an HTML document, do you know how to get the content saved
as .xlsx or .cvs or .txt? The point here is that asking the developers
to add the option of adding
On 1/11/2024 12:11 PM, 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, it seems
none of any add/delete/balance transactions were saved in any account! Why
would that be
Horses and
On 1/9/2024 2:15 PM, Glenn Serre wrote:
Good morning Barry,
Regarding entering transactions into gnucash: I import QFX files that
I download monthly.
I migrated from Quickbooks and Quicken more than a decade ago (I last
ordered Quicken in 2008),
Both are Intuit products, but QuickBooks and
However, I think I have confused you with my question or term used in it.
The term of "Equity Fund" was meant to signify the name of Mutual
Fund that invest in all stock (Equity of the companies, that is the
term used here in India for such types of fund as in like Debt Fund,
Liquid
On 1/8/2024 12:33 PM, barry milliken wrote:
Thanks for your answer.
When I said personal accounting I oversimplified.
My wife and I both have independent consulting businesses.
That means we have 3 bank accounts and six credit cards for a total of 9
"accounts" (transaction sources)
Managing
How to do it using gnucash is not your problem. How to do it even were
you using pen and ink on paper is your problem. In other words, you
don't know the account to debit in order for the transaction to be in
balance.
Hint: Accounts of type income and expense are both temporary accounts of
But THESE are done differently in standard double entry bookkeeping.
- allow me to assign a category to each transaction.
- create categories (or import quicken categories) and assign each as tax
deductible or not.
You will be creating ACCOUNTS and these can be in a hierarchy. Thus under the
On 1/4/2024 9:34 AM, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
GnuCash is not getting in your way here. You are free to do what you
would do if you were keeping books using Pen & Ink. That process would
require the same accounts.
What GnuCash is not doing here, that you are asking for, is providing
a report so
On 1/3/2024 1:19 PM, Quinn Wood wrote:
On Wed, Jan 3, 2024, 09:13 Michael or Penny Novack <
stepbystepf...@comcast.net> wrote:
Although I am NOT "qualified" to give advice I will give one example
related to the above to show not free to do just any old thing. If keeping
books f
On 1/2/2024 12:49 PM, Quinn Wood wrote:
On Tue, Jan 2, 2024, 10:43 Michael or Penny Novack
wrote:
Other than the suitability/unsuitability gnucash provided "tool" for
closing the books this isn't really a gnucash question.
I've identified a solution for this issue
Other than the suitability/unsuitability gnucash provided "tool" for
closing the books this isn't really a gnucash question. Yes,
partnerships, corporations, etc. will not simply be lumping all
components of equity together.
But worst case you so the "close the books" manually putting the net
On 12/28/2023 3:56 AM, G R Hewitt wrote:
My two pennyworth is similar.
My two cents is a little different.
Also a retired pro, a very senior sort of systems analyst who toward the
end mainly handling what had the department programmers stumped or was
beyond them in the first place.
This
On 12/19/2023 10:40 AM, Kalpesh Patel wrote:
Thank you, for being flameless. My ears are all yours to listen to the
explanation...
I actually didn’t tell the whole story ... I did software development for good
chuck of my early career in the computer field (worked with through
MIL-STD-2167/A
On 12/18/2023 3:11 PM, Kalpesh Patel wrote:
Hmmm!
For 1) see the attached jpg. It describes the situation that no one wants to be
in (fyi - I am current practitioner in IT/Systems/Engineering/Software world)
... it's a defect; not a bug.
For 2), if I am spending energy to change it
In trying to track down a Total (Period) issue, I used Edit -> Preferences ->
Accounting Period to change the Start Date and End Date fields to Absolute dates.
After doing Close of that dialog,
there appeared to be no change
in the values in the Total (period) column.
I expected a change, but
On 12/11/2023 12:19 PM, Grace wrote:
Hello,
As we approach the end of the year (Happy Christmas everyone) I am
wondering how I would archive off 2023 accounts leaving opening
balances for 2024.
I don't see this an action available, so is there a process I need to
know?
Thanks
Grace
On 12/6/2023 8:40 PM, Adrien Monteleone via gnucash-user wrote:
The amount owed stays in AR.
Who owes it is what changes.
Look, this isn't really about gnucash. And selling of A/R is far from
unusual. But a list helping people use gnucash isn't the place to
discuss "factoring" from scratch.
For the case of an individual or a family, what are the most useful reports?
Common advice is that your emergency savings account should hold enough to
cover 6 months of expenses. In order to to do that, I need to know my
average monthly expenses. I guess I can use the Cash Flow report, look at
On 12/5/2023 8:57 AM, Eric Chapman wrote:
How do I export data from reports to csv files or Excel/LibreOffice
Calc files?
a) To use the last (as an example) LibreOffice Calc does NOT require the
files it opens to be "LibreOffice Calc files" << it of course does
prefer the open document
On 12/4/2023 8:07 PM, Eric Chapman wrote:
Hi, Geoff,
OK, it looks as if it's just as good not to close the books, if, e.g.,
I might want to run an income statement comparing 2022 and 2023.
Eric
But THAT would unlikely be a good reason unless you were not regularly
running/storing such
Sam is suggesting what I was going to do, but this idea might not be
intuitive. So let me make it clearer (and these tricks are more general
in application than just gnucash)
YOU (and not how a name is normally spelled) are the master.
Just because all of these funds are "500" doesn't mean
On 11/21/2023 7:58 AM, David Kirkby wrote:
I was a bit concerned about the complexity of the CSV files exported from
GnuCash, since they contain information my accountant does not want. I
wrote to him and received this as a response (slightly edited from his
reply)
*Thank you for your email. Do
Perhaps easier/more usual:
Create a special accounts for rounding/bank errors* to hold the
discrepancies either permanently or temporarily* (in the case of bank
errors). Then your books will be in balance.
Michael D Novack
* LOL, once one of my non-profits had a small bank error. It would
On 11/18/2023 2:33 PM, timothyscu...@yahoo.com wrote:
Ah. I think I see my error.
When I get a credit card bill, I should open the credit card account and enter
each line item as a transaction. I should be able to check my work by comparing
the balance on the account with my bill (I always
I came to entering a credit card payment, which I enter as a split
transaction with line items for every line item in the credit card bill,
after I had spent many laborious minutes entering 50 or 60 line items I
accidentally hit enter and all of my work was deleted.
Stop right there. NOT a
On 11/12/2023 8:45 AM, Ken Farley wrote:
I'm using Gnucash on Mac OS, but I would think the file locations are
used for the same functions. The directory for "books" on my machine
is "~/Library/Application Support/Gnucash/books". Different location,
same purpose. This directory contains a
On 11/10/2023 8:55 PM, Phil Reynolds wrote:
I am about to start using gnucash again after giving up a few years
ago (for personal reasons). However, I want to reopen my old accounts
to get the figure I was owed. I can see my old files, but gnucash as
supplied in Debian 12 does not seem to be
On 11/8/2023 4:42 PM, R Losey wrote:
On Wed, Nov 8, 2023 at 12:17 PM Jediator wrote:
After dumping QB and using GC for couple of months, I started really
enjoying its features and simplicity. \
I dumped Quicken about 7.5 years ago and went with GnuCash and haven't
regretted it.
Both
On 11/6/2023 10:53 PM, Andrew Gross wrote:
I have various expense accounts for medical expenses. When I receive an
insurance check, I record these against the medical expense accounts so the
yearly totals will show (approximately) what I have actually paid over the
year. Lately, I have been
On 11/2/2023 12:49 PM, Alan Johnson via gnucash-user wrote:
Your mortgage payment should be fixed, adjusting one a year for escrow
review.
You can automate / enter a year's worth of payments from bank to
mortgage account.
You should also have a the 360 (or other) payment amortization table as
On 11/2/2023 12:33 AM, Jediator wrote:
In addition to setting up the proper account structure, I would make
your mortgage company as a vendor and set up a bill each month with
split transactions to map to mortgage-related subaccounts (e.g,
property tax, insurance, interest and principal) as
On 11/1/2023 5:05 PM, Anthony Della Cioppa wrote:
I set up two saving account, one taxes, one for insurance and my one for my
Lian. When that gets paid I pull it from the corresponding savings account.
Would that be wrong?
You can THINK of like a "savings account", an involuntary savings
On 11/1/2023 12:03 AM, Edwin Booth wrote:
Hi. How do y’all deal with a mortgage escrow account? Specifically, each
month I pay into the escrow account along with my monthly PMI payment. It
is all an expense. But when the mortgage company pays out money from that
escrow account (for taxe and
On 10/30/2023 1:37 PM, Bruce McCoy via gnucash-user wrote:
David,
Here are the source code text files, *.EDT, for the program. They are in
BKS.EDT.zip. These files are corrected. To make them easier to read, like
TAXCODE.txt (q.v.), run them with TAS, which is in TAS.zip.
BKS.EDT.zip,
On 10/30/2023 6:45 AM, Mahon Finbar via gnucash-user wrote:
Exactly my experience, and why I asked, despite previous experience.
I am now at the stage where my Gnucash file is y but my bank account
is not
Further searching needed,
Barry
BESIDES actual errors, a difference between
Beating what should be a dead horse.
Let A, B, and C be rational numbers (ie: expressed in the form X/Y where
X and Y are integers). Let D be a function that represents the decimal
equivalent of a rational number to some finite number of decimal places.
A + B = C does NOT imply that D(A) +
On 10/26/2023 5:03 PM, Jediator wrote:
The P report for instance displays the account hierarchy and the
account balance for each account. However, all parent accounts show
zero balances. Is there anyway to display the account balance of a
parent as a sum of all its child accounts?
This may
Back when I paid it, I just made a payment out of my bank
checking account straight to the CC company. Now, how do I assign that
transaction? It’s not a CC expense but it is an expense of some
kind—just from a different place. My CC statement will go into my
Liability Account, right? So does
GnuCash is designed to not need to. You can happily just keep plodding
along until the Sun consumes the Earth.
Closing books was necessary in pen and paper days because books were
physical volumes with limited space. They were not infinite.
This had the added benefit of catching errors
Sorry, but this isn't really a gnucash question.
By which I mean if you knew how to do this (by the standards of your
jurisdiction) were the books being kept the old fashioned way, pen and
ink on paper, you would have little difficulty doing it with the books
being kept using gnucash. The
Yeah, I tried that, but in the Employee -> New expenses voucher -> Edit
Expense Voucher list, right-clicking on the Description block doesn't
bring up any context menu (there isn't a memo block on this page). Of
course, trying to do this in the target expense account doesn't work as
the
On 10/20/2023 4:13 PM, Fross, Michael wrote:
A help to me was to turn off 'Use Formal Accounting Labels" in the settings
when I started (and have never enabled that.) I feel it is much easier to
understand for non-accounting people.
Some of you will find the "user friendly" column titles
On 10/20/2023 11:47 AM, Edwin Booth wrote:
Thank you Michael. The ancient history of these terms is really
interesting. I don’t really “get it” yet but I see the idea here. Very
hard to set aside the use of credit and debit in the modern sense and
use them in a very different way. Counter
I need to wrap my head around the whole “debit/credit” concept.
One thing that helps me keep it straight is that money flows from credit to
debit. Credit the account that money is coming from, debit the account that
money is going to. There is more to consider of course, like whether an
1 - 100 of 822 matches
Mail list logo
