Re: Where to record business equity in your personal books

2017-06-19 Thread Liz
On Sun, 18 Jun 2017 09:48:30 -0500 Adrien Monteleone wrote: > Thanks David, > > I guess I’ll just make make up an account name. > > Regards, > Adrien and be happy in the knowledge that you can change the account name if your accountant strongly suggests something else Liz _

Re: Gnucash file is getting long!

2017-06-19 Thread Adam Funk
On 2017-06-16, Derek Atkins wrote: > Adam Funk writes: > >>> Not necessarily. The "default" backend would be SQLite, which is a DB >>> that stores into a single file. So it will act like the current XML >>> backend in terms of storage, but not necessarily the same with backup >>> files. Howeve

Tracking Primary Residences

2017-06-19 Thread Leo Bolta
Although I understand it does not seem to be standard accounting practice to track appreciation on a condo which is a principal residence, I can't help but want to implement incorporating very conservative periodic values into GnuCash, possibly as much as twice a year as the condo represents a cons

Re: Notes column in SingleLine display

2017-06-19 Thread Greg Feneis
Azalea 4 VA, I am enjoying the discussion, and I think I like the ideas you're coming up with. One hint that I can offer is that you may want to monitor and discuss on another email list as well. This here email list is mostly about helping gnucash users use gnucash, with some accounting advice

Re: Tracking Primary Residences

2017-06-19 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Leo, Make the Unrealized Gain account a sub-account of Equity, not Income. Realized gains are income, unrealized gains (since they aren’t real yet) are not. I think the traditional account is: Equity:Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income. (But “Equity:Unrealized Gains” is much shorter) You can

Please STOP sending emails

2017-06-19 Thread Bradford N Hull
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Re: Please STOP sending emails

2017-06-19 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
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Re: Where to record business equity in your personal books

2017-06-19 Thread DaveC49
Hi Adrein, I apologise if my comment appeared a bit flippant. The intention of my comment about choosing any name was really that the actual name is less important than the structural aspect of it being an asset account. The general expectation would be that an investment in a business would hopef

Re: Where to record business equity in your personal books

2017-06-19 Thread Adrien Monteleone
David, I understood the tone just fine. No worries. And certainly, yes, an investment should be an asset. (hopefully) I just found it odd that in all my searching for the answer not a single source even addressed the perspective of the personal books of the investor. I did find a chart of accou