Re: [GNC] Data Entry Overload - Create Bill + Post Bill + Pay Bill vs just Pay Bill?

2020-10-13 Thread elvis
Hello Greg, I encountered this exact same problem. The way bills are entered just does not scale for someone doing more than home entry, or doing it because they love it. 50 mouse clicks to record buying a Mars bar just isn't viable if you have more than a Mars bar a week. I have a small

Re: [GNC] GnuCash and Swedish accounting legislation

2020-08-11 Thread elvis
If you want a fixed date burn a cd or use other ways of verifying the files like md5sum All of this fixed date stuff is just security theatre if you can access the source and pretty much the same even if you can't. One of the attractions of gnucash is you have access to all your accounts,

Re: [GNC] Australian System

2020-07-02 Thread elvis
On 2/7/20 4:08 pm, Mike Alsop wrote: You have probably been asked a thousand times, but as we entered a new financial year yesterday, I seriously need to look at doing my own books. Bookkeeping fees are now over the moon!! So, does this system comply with the Aussie GST and BAS reporting

Re: [GNC] 3.7 Accounts open bar

2020-02-23 Thread elvis
On 4/12/19 3:47 am, Geert Janssens wrote: Op dinsdag 3 december 2019 13:08:30 CET schreef elvis: On 3/12/19 8:58 pm, Geert Janssens wrote: In 2.6.12 I have 12 accounts open with space for 3 or 4 more. They all have close buttons on them, and every bit of text is readable. In 3.7 I have 12

Re: [GNC] Loan with overpayments

2020-02-22 Thread elvis
On 23/2/20 8:23 am, David Cousens wrote: Claire Can you request a more detailed statement? "Trust us, we are a bank" is not a good modus operandi as we have found out recently in Australia. We had banks charging for services never rendered, continuing to charge fees to dead people along with

Re: [GNC] Where should i put my account "Loan to a Friend" when they evaded debt ?

2020-02-20 Thread elvis
On 20/2/20 2:47 pm, Long wrote: Hello GnuCash Users, I just assumed that when i loan to a friend and they don't give my money back, and then, where should i put that Account to make it doesn't not affect my Assets ? i mean, my Asset only had 100$, "Stealer" owed to me about 20$, everytime i

Re: [GNC] 3.7 Accounts open bar

2019-12-03 Thread elvis
On 3/12/19 8:58 pm, Geert Janssens wrote: In 2.6.12 I have 12 accounts open with space for 3 or 4 more. They all have close buttons on them, and every bit of text is readable. In 3.7 I have 12 accounts open, but to fit them on the screen I have had to change preferences --> windows to width

[GNC] 3.7 Accounts open bar

2019-12-03 Thread elvis
Hi, I am trying out moving to 3.7 from the 2.6 series. Looks good so far, I can't tell the difference, which to me is a good thing, One thing though - the list of open accounts across the top of the screen. Notebook tabs I think they are called. In 2.6.12 I have 12 accounts open with

Re: [GNC] Yahoo blocking GnuCash Email

2019-09-20 Thread elvis
On 21/9/19 3:37 am, Derek Atkins wrote: Hi, Starting around September 10, Yahoo appears to have started blocking SMTP (email) originating at code.gnucash.org. This means that yahoo users have been prevented from receiving any mail (including list mail and bug mail), and worse, they've been

Re: [GNC] STP (Australia only)

2019-09-15 Thread elvis
On 15/9/19 12:05 pm, David Cousens wrote: Liz, Possible more significant will be the SBR (standard Business Reporting) of which the STP is one of the first installments. It will have an extension of the MyGov ID which will be used for reporting to multiple agencies which will replace AUSkey

Re: [GNC] Bookkeeping for a club's charity account - use business features?

2019-08-27 Thread elvis
If #1 one, that is quite messy, yes, and you’ll need lots of manual transactions and some sort of searchable/filterable tag system as I described previously. (to avoid hundreds or thousands of accounts and sub-accounts) But if #2, then the business features can handle that easily with

Re: [GNC] apply coefficient to an account

2019-03-05 Thread elvis
Hi Peter, I have a program in python to add a split like that to a qif file. I had it written to add Australian GST to my transactions after years of splitting them manually. So I download my bank file, run the program, then import with all the splits added. You might need to alter it

Re: [GNC] How to handle bounced check

2019-02-01 Thread elvis
I think from memory when I had allocated payments to the wrong invoice, I just deleted the payment split in the bank register - which also deleted the payment in invoices Everything went back to as it was before the payment was made, which seems to be what you want. On 2/2/19 2:24 pm, Mike

[GNC] Accounting period setup

2019-01-22 Thread elvis
Hi, I'm just wondering, do people whos financial year runs from July to June, do they change the absolute start date of the year every year for reports? All the relative dates refer to normal years, is these a way to redefine a normal year's start and end dates? So they aren't tied to a

Re: [GNC] Bootstrapping and Company Ownership.

2019-01-15 Thread elvis
As of right now, is it okay to record it under DB Cash and CR Paid-in Capita:Jason ? OR should I use CR Common Stock:Jason acccount?  Did you issue common stock or is it a loan to the business from you? You really should speak to an accountant. -- -- See Jane. See the dog. See the dog

Re: [GNC] *.deb package for GnuCash 3.4 Released

2019-01-01 Thread elvis
On 2/1/19 6:14 am, Les wrote: Me either on Linux Mint. Still on GC 2.6.17. Was that from the package manager? I'd love to have the latest 2.6 series on Mint but have .12 On 1/1/19 1:06 PM, Tim Kallmer wrote: No luck, still not working for me. On Tue, Jan 1, 2019 at 4:12 AM Colin Law

Re: [GNC] How To Handle Prepayments

2018-12-15 Thread elvis
Unless you really need to do accrual accounting, then don't. If you are never getting it back, it is not much of an asset. Put it though as Insurance Expense, Initial Payment, Payment 2 etc. Accounting is there to help you, not make more work to make it "correct". On 16/12/18 7:06 am,

Re: [GNC] Reconciling different periods?

2018-12-14 Thread elvis
On 15/12/18 9:16 am, Stephen M. Butler wrote: On 12/14/18 2:39 PM, elvis wrote: Bite sized chunks, bite sized chunks. Sometimes I get a few months and hundreds of transactions behind. I'll go a few days at a time to get started then weeks. Trying to remember what you did 3 months ago

Re: [GNC] Reconciling different periods?

2018-12-14 Thread elvis
Bite sized chunks, bite sized chunks. Sometimes I get a few months and hundreds of transactions behind. I'll go a few days at a time to get started then weeks. Trying to remember what you did 3 months ago is hard! :-) But finding an error in 5 transactions is easy, finding it in 500 is hard.

Re: [GNC] [GNC-dev] Automatically split transactions with sales tax

2018-11-12 Thread elvis
On 12/11/18 2:56 am, Michael or Penny Novack wrote: On 11/11/2018 6:23 AM, elvis wrote: Seriously? Are you just telling someone to type stuff stuff in? The WHOLE point of computers is to automate stuff. What if they have 1000 transactions? At a minute a transaction that a whole day

Re: [GNC] [GNC-dev] Automatically split transactions with sales tax

2018-11-11 Thread elvis
of business. Cheers Lawrence On Nov 11, 2018, at 5:23 AM, elvis wrote: Seriously? Are you just telling someone to type stuff stuff in? The WHOLE point of computers is to automate stuff. What if they have 1000 transactions? At a minute a transaction that a whole day entering stuff

Re: [GNC] [GNC-dev] Automatically split transactions with sales tax

2018-11-10 Thread elvis
Hi Christian I had a python program written for me to insert the 10% gst into a qif file download, I reckon it has saved me thousands of hours of manual entry over the last 10 years. If you are interested I can send you a copy. It's not perfect but it does the job. Lawrence On 11/11/18

Re: [GNC] No Disk error

2018-08-31 Thread elvis
4. Yank out the cable connecting the drives to the motherboard :-) If you never use it On 30/08/18 15:09, Arthur wrote: As Colin suggested, I Googled the error message. [Silly of me not to look beyond the gnucash archives.]  I've summarized the 3 suggested solutions which I tried, and I

Re: [GNC] Process Payment and convenience fees

2018-08-27 Thread elvis
On 27/08/18 03:16, Justin H Haynes wrote: I have two invoices to pay to a utility company. Let’s say the amounts of the invoices are $200 and $300 for a total of $500. I have paid $600, so the payment correctly is applied to those two invoices, and $100 to the Accounts Payable account. I

Re: [GNC] Autofill with Open Date?

2018-06-11 Thread elvis
On 09/06/18 07:30, Tim Rosanelli wrote: Hey Maf, Thanks for the advice. I thought about a solution like that but wouldn't that mean you don't have any customer history. Kyoshi Tim Hi Tim, For purchases, what I do is import a few weeks at a time from the bank using a qif

[GNC] Mailing list filter no longer working

2018-06-08 Thread elvis
Just wondering if something changed in the list-ID, Thunderbird no longer recognises gnucash emails -- ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe:

Re: Upgrading to 2.7 series

2018-03-13 Thread elvis
Thanks John for the comprehensive answer, I will hold off until 3.0 On 14/03/18 00:30, John Ralls wrote: On Mar 13, 2018, at 4:47 AM, elvis <el...@dogonfire.com> wrote: Hi, I run Gnucash under Gentoo and it has recently recommended it be upgraded to 2.7.4 Currently I use 2.6

Upgrading to 2.7 series

2018-03-13 Thread elvis
Hi, I run Gnucash under Gentoo and it has recently recommended it be upgraded to 2.7.4 Currently I use 2.6.15 I was wondering if there was any real problem with doing this? I understand the database changes format, that's not a problem. Thanks Lawrence

Re: importing splits

2018-02-26 Thread elvis
wondered how they handle it. Lawrence On Feb 26, 2018 5:39 AM, "elvis" <el...@dogonfire.com <mailto:el...@dogonfire.com>> wrote: On 24/02/18 03:39, Geert Janssens wrote: Op vrijdag 23 februari 2018 16:06:37 CET schreef Jeff Abrahamson: Thanks.  I

Re: importing splits

2018-02-26 Thread elvis
On 24/02/18 03:39, Geert Janssens wrote: Op vrijdag 23 februari 2018 16:06:37 CET schreef Jeff Abrahamson: Thanks. I see my question wasn't clear. My problem is that I want to import the splits and it seems I can only import transactions. I.e. (super simplified): deposit cheque

Re: General Ledger

2018-02-26 Thread elvis
On 25/02/18 07:54, Dave H wrote: Well from my point of view that is confusing. Nobody in my world refers to a "General Journal" we refer to the "General Ledger" and we do journals :-) I've never actually heard the term general journal used anywhere before until this discussion over the weekend