Re: [GNC] Accounting for GST in Australia

2021-06-22 Thread Alan Hopkins
Hi Nathan Are you using GnuCash to generate your bills & invoices? If not, when making entries directly into your accounts you won't see the GST automatically. When entering invoices & bills you need to check the Taxable? & Tax Included? columns Otherwise, when making direct

Re: [GNC] Transparent background on selected Transfer choice

2021-06-01 Thread Alan Hopkins
Hello all I am using PCLinuxOS KDE5 with GNUCash 4.2 and have had the same issues with the transparency. The default style for Gnome/GTK applications was Breeze so I changed it to Adwaita and the problem has gone. I wasn't that happy with the "look" though so I have since changed

Re: [GNC] Question about Profit-Loss Report

2021-05-31 Thread Alan Hopkins
Hello Howard I agree with both Michaels - you need to understand the difference between accounting records & reports prepared on an accruals basis vs a cash basis. You should do some reading on basic accounting. GNUCash used for business uses the accrual basis - (invoices are

Re: [GNC] Accounting for GST in Australia

2021-06-23 Thread Alan Hopkins
rds Nathan On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 5:23 PM Alan Hopkins <[1]hopp...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi Nathan Are you using GnuCash to generate your bills & invoices? If not, when making entries directly into your accounts you won't see the GST automatically. When entering invoices &

Re: [GNC] How do I get the 3D Interface look - Take 2?

2021-03-15 Thread Alan Hopkins
Hi Viking Perhaps this link might help you: [1]https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Diagrams_-_Windows Looks like it is in \AppData\Roaming\GnuCash ... but I don't use Windoze HTH Cheers Alan On 15/3/21 8:23 pm, viking wrote: Parker Graham-2 wrote I

Re: [GNC] Moving to Linux

2021-03-13 Thread Alan Hopkins
This link identifies file locations https://lists.gnucash.org/docs/C/gnucash-guide/basics-migrate-settings.html Hope that helps. Alan On Sat, 13 Mar. 2021, 9:16 pm Stephen C. Camidge, wrote: > I am moving my data from Mac OS to Linux Manjaro. > > I copied over the datafile, no problem. > >

Re: [GNC] Best way to close unpaid invoices?

2021-03-08 Thread Alan Hopkins
Hi all I'm new to GNU Cash but I just tested a method that worked and I think is valid. I went to the client's invoice and paid the full amount ($120) which then was entered by GNUCash into the Accounts Receivable. I then went into the Accounts Receivable account, located the

Re: [GNC] Best way to close unpaid invoices?

2021-03-08 Thread Alan Hopkins
n be only 1 of > each of those) > > With the method listed below, the Business Features (and their reports) > 'think' the customer paid when they did not. > > See my other reply describing how to close these out properly in GnuCash. > > Regards, > Adrien > > On 3/8/21 2:3

Re: [GNC] Default Accounting period permanent change (Ver 4.6 still..)

2021-10-08 Thread Alan Hopkins
Hi Doug Nice to hear from another Aussie PCLOS & GNUCash user! I have the same version of GNC as you (as that's what is in the repo!) - I haven't been using GNC for long but I set the accounting period in the Preferences as Absolute to 1st July 20 to 30 Jun 21 (ie last fin year)

Re: [GNC] Tax and Budget Reporting

2021-10-06 Thread Alan Hopkins
Hi there I may not have fully understood but you just run a transaction report on your bank accounts (select you bank accounts in Options)? That will give you deposits & withdrawals including tax. If you want to know the totals for specific accounts (eg donations) you can just

Re: [GNC] Expenses by Account

2023-09-06 Thread Alan Hopkins
Hello Tom It's fairly straightforward, if I understand you correctly. There are several ways to achieve this but possibly the easiest is to choose the Income Statement (MultiColumn) report, then in the report Options go to the Accounts tab and select Clear All then scroll though

Re: [GNC] Australian Accountants familiar with GNUCash

2023-10-26 Thread Alan Hopkins
, 25 Oct. 2023, 9:27 pm flywire, wrote: > > > > https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2023-October/109255.html > > Alan Hopkins wrote: > > > I know an accountant who has, for at least one business, accepted > printed > > P & Balance Sheet from a 20

Re: [GNC] Australian Accountants familiar with GNUCash

2023-10-24 Thread Alan Hopkins
Hello Michael That's a very common story with accountants in Australia these days - they have often put themselves into a relationship with Xero, MYOB or Reckon and prefer you to use "their" system. Unfortunately, I don't know of the existence of any such list I know an

Re: [GNC] ANNOUNCE: GnuCash 5.4 Released

2023-09-24 Thread Alan Hopkins
I'll second that. I hope you guys go to the blood bank because your blood is definitely worth bottling!! On 25/9/23 07:47, Jediator wrote: Thanks John and the GC team for all your hard work and dedication! On 9/24/23 5:26 PM, John Ralls wrote: The GnuCash development

Re: [GNC] Printing/Exporting Invoices to PDF

2022-09-13 Thread Alan Hopkins
Hello Waltr Choose Print and then print to a file of type pdf. Hope that helps Alan On 14/9/22 01:27, Waltr via gnucash-user wrote: Dear gnucash users: I have recently upgraded from 3.11 to 4.11. I have also recently been using the 3.11 Invoice "Export" button to export these

Re: [GNC] Why does "Managed Document Link" send me to the wrong directory?

2022-12-25 Thread Alan Hopkins
Hi David Merry Christmas. You change the default attachment location in preferences. You appear to be changing it as per individual file which is ok if the attachments are all in different locations I'm not at my computer right now otherwise I could tell you exactly where All the best - & I

Re: [GNC] Why does "Managed Document Link" send me to the wrong directory?

2022-12-25 Thread Alan Hopkins
Oops... sorry. I see you have changed the path head in preferences - apologies for the confusion Not sure what is happening there as it works ok on linux for me. Cheers Hop Sent from my unbelievably smart phone On Sun, 25 Dec. 2022, 10:40 pm Alan Hopkins, wrote: > Hi David > Merry Chr

Re: [GNC] Start and End of Quarter Dates Incorrect - a Bug?

2024-02-11 Thread Alan Hopkins
PS Using start of accounting period to end of accounting period seems to work OK, so it just looks like the Quarter is out. I haven't tried it, but if you have a whole lot of reports to do for the last Q, it might be easier to set the accounting period once in GNC Preferences so

Re: [GNC] Start and End of Quarter Dates Incorrect - a Bug?

2024-02-11 Thread Alan Hopkins
Hi Jay GNC 5.5 and PCLinuxOS here - the same thing occurs for me too. So I just use the to & from dates to set it right. But it does appear to be a bug as it was working correctly before 5.5. I will check later (tomorrow) to see if my install on another machine running Fedora 38

Re: [GNC] Change Printed Invoice

2024-02-06 Thread Alan Hopkins
Yep - it is as easy as John says. And I can clarify there is no issue in Australia with having "Tax Invoice" on invoices below $1000. Go to the supermarket or buy fuel and the machine docket will say Tax Invoice no matter what you spend because it will indicate how much , if any, Goods & Services

Re: [GNC] Have I got my USD accounts set up wrong?

2023-11-29 Thread Alan Hopkins
Hello David We receive and pay for a multitude of currencies. This made life complicated for a small business so we decided to use a FX service - we use OFX because we managed to get to them in their early days and were offered a special continuing deal. However, there are quite

Re: [GNC] No such file or directory error finding libgnc-expressions-guile.so

2024-01-25 Thread Alan Hopkins
king again. On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 5:36 PM Alan Hopkins <[1]hopp...@gmail.com> wrote: I am using GnuCash on Fed38 too. I seem to remember when I installed it via the Software Centre it didn't install properly (ie some dependencies were missing) so I uninstalled, updated all and rei

Re: [GNC] No such file or directory error finding libgnc-expressions-guile.so

2024-01-25 Thread Alan Hopkins
I am using GnuCash on Fed38 too. I seem to remember when I installed it via the Software Centre it didn't install properly (ie some dependencies were missing) so I uninstalled, updated all and reinstalled via CLI and it runs like a dream. Maybe do what I did? Hope that is of some help Cheers

Re: [GNC] How to get a report in a format which is easy to edit?

2024-03-05 Thread Alan Hopkins
Chris I support Adrien here - he is trying to assist you to get to the end-point you want. HTML reports can be imported into any decent word processing software. You don't need to edit the HTML code. And you can make financial reports look great using a spreadsheet - I've been doing that for

Re: [GNC] How to get a report in a format which is easy to edit?

2024-03-06 Thread Alan Hopkins
Chris Are you "printing to file" or are you doing something else? As Adrien has pointed out, you have not really given us enough info to help you. Most Linux systems I am aware of allow printing to file & selecting file type as pdf. I have not encountered a pdf from this method which couldn't be

Re: [GNC] How to get a report in a format which is easy to edit?

2024-03-06 Thread Alan Hopkins
As an afterthought Chris, check to see if you have Ghostscript installed - it effectively provides a pdf printer (with editable files) On Wed, 6 Mar 2024, 8:01 pm Alan Hopkins, wrote: > Chris > > Are you "printing to file" or are you doing something else? As Adrien has >

Re: [GNC] How to get a report in a format which is easy to edit?

2024-03-06 Thread Alan Hopkins
Glad to hear it On Wed, 6 Mar 2024, 8:43 pm Chris Green, wrote: > On Wed, Mar 06, 2024 at 08:01:36PM +1100, Alan Hopkins wrote: > > Chris > > > > Are you "printing to file" or are you doing something else? As Adrien has > > pointed out, you have not re

Re: [GNC] How to get a report in a format which is easy to edit?

2024-03-06 Thread Alan Hopkins
You just need CUPS-PDF installed as a print driver for producing pdf files. On Wed, 6 Mar 2024, 9:12 pm Alan Hopkins, wrote: > Glad to hear it > > On Wed, 6 Mar 2024, 8:43 pm Chris Green, wrote: > >> On Wed, Mar 06, 2024 at 08:01:36PM +1100, Alan Hopkins wrote: >> &

Re: [GNC] importing or pasting reports into spreadsheets

2024-04-13 Thread Alan Hopkins
Hi David When you paste into Calc (I'll assume you are using Ctrl-v), you should get an Import options screen pop up in which you can tick a box "Detect special numbers (such as dates). I find this works for me (using different versions of Linux on differing hardware) I hope that helps! Cheers