Thanks Liz.
As I said in an earlier post I have no experience with Quicken.
Some searching produced that some users are using capabilities of
Quicken to make it act like a double entry system, but Quicken does not
enforce this. Second, Intuit has apparently sold Quicken.
Dale
On 8/15/19 5:09 AM
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 version of Quickbooks. Quickbooks is
> targeted at small to mediu
Dale,
There is a wiki page on the migration from Quicken
(https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Quicken_Migration) and perhaps this is a more
appropriate place to document differences for new users coming from other
packages as hopefully this is where they will end up. Perhaps a note
referring to the wiki
The OP was fairly light on details. (and gave a general “I don’t understand”
but never said specifically ‘what’ they didn’t understand)
It seems a few people hazarded a guess and might have gotten it right. (we
haven’t heard back from the OP yet since)
Another approach would be to tell someone,
This does not really address the issue. Quickbooks, for example, is a
double-entry accounting system. What is being provided by the user
interface is an alternate method for entering transactions. (A perverse
user could enter every transaction from the general journal screen in
Quickbooks. )
The s
On Tue, 13 Aug 2019 17:04:55 -0400
Mike or Penny Novack wrote:
> If you mean "differences from other applications that are NOT
> standard accounting" why should that be necessary. Shouldn't simply
> saying that gnucash is "double entry bookkeeping" enough? The
> documentation DOES make that clear
On 8/13/2019 10:57 AM, Dale Alspach wrote:
The Gnucash documentation could make some general statements about
differences between Gnucash and other accounting software, but it would be
too much to expect specifics about the other software.
Dale
Gnucash IS ordinary, run of the mill, double entr
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, cus
On 12 August 2019 at 12:57, Mike or Penny Novack said:
> On 8/12/2019 12:45 PM, Clint Chaplin wrote:
> > This is also similar to NetSuite, which is an on-line double entry
> > bookkeeping service, and where "journal entries" are a special case
> > transaction, even though by definition everything
On 8/12/2019 12:45 PM, Clint Chaplin wrote:
This is also similar to NetSuite, which is an on-line double entry
bookkeeping service, and where "journal entries" are a special case
transaction, even though by definition everything is really a journal entry.
It is definitely a terminology confusio
This is also similar to NetSuite, which is an on-line double entry
bookkeeping service, and where "journal entries" are a special case
transaction, even though by definition everything is really a journal entry.
On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 9:02 AM Dale Alspach wrote:
> I think Frank is on the right
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 n
Am Mo., 12. Aug. 2019 um 17:21 Uhr schrieb David T. via gnucash-user
:
>
> I'm not sure how this is a challenge, especially since both John and
> David C. pointed you in the right direction in the docs. Perhaps you are
> associating the term "Journal entry" with something special?
:
In the times of
I'm not sure how this is a challenge, especially since both John and
David C. pointed you in the right direction in the docs. Perhaps you are
associating the term "Journal entry" with something special?
To begin, set your View preference to "Basic" and on the
Preferences:Accounts tab, uncheck
Enter the date and description. On the first time Credit Cash for the amount.
On the second line, Debit Drugs for the amount.
That should do it.
On Mon, Aug 12, 2019, at 10:50 AM, Harold via gnucash-user wrote:
> I have searched, looked, and read what I could find about journal entries in
> GC
I have searched, looked, and read what I could find about journal entries in
GC but I am no closer to understanding what I need to do to enter a journal
entry. I am not an accountant and am using GC for my personal bookkeeping. I
have entered journal entries in Quickbooks in the past but don't
Harald,
The following section in the GnuCash help manual gives the details of
creating a transaction entry in GnuCash
(https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v3/C/gnucash-help/trans-enter.html).
It assumes that you have the register (table of transactions for a specific
account) open. You can do this in
I have looked but didn't see an explanation that I could understand.
On Aug 11, 2019, 5:15 PM, at 5:15 PM, John Ralls wrote:
>
>
>> On Aug 11, 2019, at 11:56 AM, Harold via gnucash-user
> wrote:
>>
>> I want to start tracking the cash payments that I make for drugs. I
>have been searching about
> On Aug 11, 2019, at 11:56 AM, Harold via gnucash-user
> wrote:
>
> I want to start tracking the cash payments that I make for drugs. I have been
> searching about making a journal entry in Gnucash but haven't found anything
> yet. Where do I find how to enter a journal entry in Gnucash us
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