[GNC] How To Handle Prepayments

2018-12-15 Thread tbalaban
My Company pays an initial payment to our insurer at the beginning of each policy year. As we incur insurance costs based on event participants, that initial payment is charged. After it is exhausted we get a monthly bill for the amount due. In no case do we ever get the initial payment back. I'd

Re: [GNC] How To Handle Prepayments

2018-12-15 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I’m not sure I’m entirely following the timing exactly, but many insurances, and it looks like your’s falls in this category, are pre-paid. Thus they are assets until they are ‘used’. So when you make the initial payment: Dr. Assets:Current Assets:Pre-Paid Assets:Insurance Cr. Assets:Current

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] New User-Chase Bank Problems

2018-12-15 Thread Fross, Michael
Hello, I remember spending a lot of time to get it to work with my Chase Freedom card. There were 2 things that needed be done. #1, create a UUID and #2, go onto the website after you try it and give access. Summary: 1. Generated a Version 4 UUID here: a. https://www.uuidgenerator.net/version4

Re: [GNC] How To Handle Prepayments

2018-12-15 Thread Tom Balaban
Many thanks Adrien. I think your explanation works except for a minor detail, after the initial payment is exhausted all payments are after the fact. Each month I submit a report of participant count for the prior month. They will then send me a bill for the amount due. I don't think there

Re: [GNC] How To Handle Prepayments

2018-12-15 Thread Tom Balaban
Thanks Elvis. Because of the casual way the insurance company handles this highly specialized business, only had 5 transactions to post for the entire year. While report monthly I often don't get bills for 2 or 3 months. I ended up doing the Pre-Paid thing for the initial payment, then

[GNC] New User-Chase Bank Problems

2018-12-15 Thread Michael Mantei
I was a user of Quicken for as long as I can remember.  I'm now trying to get serious about my finances and recently installed GNUCash on my Windows 10 system. I simply installed the software, and built my entire account structure manually, to match exactly what I wanted it to be. Now I need

Re: [GNC] New User-Chase Bank Problems

2018-12-15 Thread David Reiser via gnucash-user
> On Dec 15, 2018, at 8:10 PM, Michael Mantei wrote: > > I was a user of Quicken for as long as I can remember. I'm now trying to get > serious about my finances and recently installed GNUCash on my Windows 10 > system. I simply installed the software, and built my entire account >

Re: [GNC] GnuCash wiki

2018-12-15 Thread David Cousens
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[GNC] Power Outage affecting code (wiki/email/gncbot)

2018-12-15 Thread Derek Atkins
Hi, Shortly after 10pm EST last night we had a power outage here. This immediately affected our network and shortly thereafter the servers themselves. The power came back somewhere around 12:30am and most of the servers rebooted on their own. I am checking various services now, so if you

Re: [GNC] Account Balance Changes When View Filter Is Applied

2018-12-15 Thread John Ralls
Please remember to copy the list on all replies. That doesn’t answer the question of what balance field you’re talking about, the running balance on each transaction line or the one at the bottom of the register page. Regards, John Ralls > On Dec 15, 2018, at 7:40 AM, John Diaz wrote: > >

Re: [GNC] Account Balance Changes When View Filter Is Applied

2018-12-15 Thread John Diaz
Bottom of the register page. On 12/15/2018 9:10 AM, John Ralls wrote: Please remember to copy the list on all replies. That doesn’t answer the question of what balance field you’re talking about, the running balance on each transaction line or the one at the bottom of the register page.

Re: [GNC] how to track Futures and Options

2018-12-15 Thread Alton Brantley
I carry options as a stock. Just multiply the contracts by 100 to show shares under options. Regarding commissions, I have a subaccount under the brokerage account labeled “Open Commissions”. When I execute an opening transaction, then the commission is debited to “Open Commissions”. I think of