Re: [GNC] split transaction description field length limit
Yes that's why I set up a sole proprietorship with employer ID so I can pay all the payroll taxes, deduct income tax and pay it to the government, pay unemployment, Worker's Comp. insurance etc. I agree with you that it's very important to do those things properly. I'm using gnucash mostly for my personal books as opposed to the sole proprietorship books which are so simple that we’re doing them in a spreadsheet right now with the exception of the payroll software we use to try to make sure we get all the deductions right. My sole proprietorship invoices me for the fully burdened cost of each month’s payroll and I reimburse it fully from my personal bank account into the sole proprietorship bank account. It sounds as though my solution will be to set up AR for my sole proprietorship and enter all of the line items into an invoice to myself personally. Up until now I'd been using a simple paper invoice. Thank you so much for the suggestion. Tim From: Alan Johnson Sent: Monday, March 4, 2024 11:01 AM To: timothyscu...@yahoo.com; 'David Carlson' Cc: 'gnucash-user' Subject: Re: [GNC] split transaction description field length limit I use GNUCash for tracking rental properties as well. You can create as many expense accounts to track to whatever level of detail is needed. For example, I have my structure set up as: Expenses: Overall R -Property 1 R --Property 1 HVAC --Property1 General --Property 1 Electrical --etc -Property 2 R --Property 2 HVAC --Property 2 General --Property 2 Electrical --etc When you run a P at the end of the year, it will break out how much was in each expense category, as well as a total for each property. Not a CPA or legal advice, but I understand that if you are paying payroll to employees, you still need to pay payroll tax unless they are their own business/1099, in which they should be paying their taxes accordingly. You can assign as many line items and expense accounts/line items to the invoices as you need. That's their intended function. You can also pay line items into an asset or liability account (such as witheld taxes). Your handyman should provide you with a bill (or a work order). - Fixed property 1's toilet. 1 hr@ $x You create a vendor in the vendor system (Handyman LLC) Create an invoice Line item - Toilet repair $x Account: Expenses:Property1 R:Property1 Plumbing Line Item - Outlet repair $y Account: Expenses:Property1 R:Property1 Electrical Line Item - Door knob repair $z Account: Expenses: Property2 R: Property2:General Total $A - Post invoice Vendors -> Process Payment Pay Handyman LLC $A from Assets:RentalCheckingAccount with check 1234 On Mon, 2024-03-04 at 09:46 -0800, timothyscu...@yahoo.com <mailto:timothyscu...@yahoo.com> wrote: I greatly appreciate your suggestions. I don't think I framed the problem completely. I have several rental properties and before I migrated to GNU cash I was using Quicken to generate “itemized spending” reports from which I could fill out schedule E for each property. When I tried to do the same thing with GNU cash for the transactions associated with, for example maintenance on property 1 or repairs on property 2 I did get a list of transactions but the descriptions of them were so truncated that it wasn't practical for me to verify the correctness of them the way I used to be able to do by just looking down the column of transactions. I have a tiny sole proprietorship which runs a payroll to pay my part-time handyman and a part-time bookkeeper to avoid nanny tax and Worker's Comp. problems but my sole proprietorship's income is just reimbursements from me as an individual. If I were to pervert the gnucash vendor bill payment system to detail the work my part-time employees do, would I be able to assign line items on an invoice to different GNU cash expense accounts associated with the different properties people worked on? And would reports generated by GNU cash be able to list the detail for the line items? That's my ultimate goal. I want to be able to generate reports from the gnucash for each calendar year, which also happens to be my tax year, so I can use that information to fill out schedule E for each rental property. I'm comfortable with doing that manually but I have been spoiled by having reports from Quicken that provide the detail associated with each expense account in a form that's easy to double check. Thank you again for trying to help with my problem. Tim From: Alan Johnson mailto:a...@argentwolf.org> > Sent: Monday, March 4, 2024 7:43 AM To: David Carlson mailto:david.carlson@gmail.com> > Cc: timothyscu...@yahoo.com <mailto:timothyscu...@yahoo.com> ; gnucash-user mailto:gnucash-u...@lists.gnucash.org> > Subject: Re: [GNC] split transaction description field length limit You don't have to have 'a business' t
[GNC] split transaction description field length limit
You don't need long text lines to allocate splits to rental properties. Have a look at Custom GnuCash 5.x Transaction Report with Tags - https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2023-May/107048.html ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
Re: [GNC] split transaction description field length limit
You could employ custom 'tags' for each property either in the Notes, Action, Num, Memo, or Description fields, whatever works best for you. Then when you run a Transaction Report, you can filter the results that match your tag. The only downside to this method, at this time, over setting up separate accounts for each property, are that the Income Statement doesn't filter by custom text, so if you use a tagging system, you'd have to construct that report out of two or more Transaction Reports. Since it seems you aren't so much reaching a character limit as seeing a practical truncation on a printed report, maybe just change your wording in the Memos? Perhaps start with "Property 1-..." That way you see this info up front. You can also use the NUM or Action fields for that text, but of these I think only NUM can show up on reports. (and you may be using that for something else) Yes, Bills (and Invoices) can have their line items assigned to various expense (or Income) accounts. That detail is by default, only visible when viewing the bill/invoice. If you want to be able to craft reports based on that info, you'll need to un-set Preferences > Business > General > Accumulate splits on post, which will then preserve each line item as visible in the affected account registers. (this can also be toggled per bill/invoice on posting) A Transaction Report can then 'see' those line items as individual splits in the bill/invoice transaction. Also, if you use bills/invoices, you have the option of setting a separate 'Description' in the posting Dialog. While I don't know of a way to do any reporting on this field specifically, that info does show up in a Vendor/Customer report and in the Notes field of the posted transaction. (so presumably, a filter on that field might work) Regards, Adrien On 3/4/24 11:46 AM, Tim via gnucash-user wrote: I don't think I framed the problem completely. I have several rental properties and before I migrated to GNU cash I was using Quicken to generate “itemized spending” reports from which I could fill out schedule E for each property. When I tried to do the same thing with GNU cash for the transactions associated with, for example maintenance on property 1 or repairs on property 2 I did get a list of transactions but the descriptions of them were so truncated that it wasn't practical for me to verify the correctness of them the way I used to be able to do by just looking down the column of transactions. If I were to pervert the gnucash vendor bill payment system to detail the work my part-time employees do, would I be able to assign line items on an invoice to different GNU cash expense accounts associated with the different properties people worked on? And would reports generated by GNU cash be able to list the detail for the line items? That's my ultimate goal. I want to be able to generate reports from the gnucash for each calendar year, which also happens to be my tax year, so I can use that information to fill out schedule E for each rental property. I'm comfortable with doing that manually but I have been spoiled by having reports from Quicken that provide the detail associated with each expense account in a form that's easy to double check. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
Re: [GNC] split transaction description field length limit
Your example doesn't really need the business features. You can do that
with a single transaction too, and that isn't 'kludging' the memo fields
at all. That is what they are intended to be used for—info relating to
just that particular split. ('Notes' would be info relating to the
transaction as a whole)
If I understand the OP correctly, the issue is they are wanting to
record much more info per split than you demonstrate here, hence, the
issue with a character limit. This is not solved by using invoices.
Those have a limit too for each line item description.
Regards,
Adrien
On 3/4/24 9:43 AM, Alan Johnson via gnucash-user wrote:
You don't have to have 'a business' to use the business features. You
would need to set up an AP and AR account to post the invoices to. To
me, the vendor bill - payment system is the proper way to store the
data, rather than kludging the memo fields. Here is an example of a
Costco receipt entered as a bill, then paid with a credit card through
the vendor-payments section.
I think that this would be the best way to handle the handyman payments
as requested and job tracking (create various expense accounts). It
would also allow for multiple types of payments - e.g. check, credit
card, cash all on the same bill if needed.
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Re: [GNC] split transaction description field length limit
I use GNUCash for tracking rental properties as well. You can create as many expense accounts to track to whatever level of detail is needed. For example, I have my structure set up as: Expenses: Overall R -Property 1 R --Property 1 HVAC --Property1 General --Property 1 Electrical --etc -Property 2 R --Property 2 HVAC --Property 2 General --Property 2 Electrical --etc When you run a P at the end of the year, it will break out how much was in each expense category, as well as a total for each property. Not a CPA or legal advice, but I understand that if you are paying payroll to employees, you still need to pay payroll tax unless they are their own business/1099, in which they should be paying their taxes accordingly. You can assign as many line items and expense accounts/line items to the invoices as you need. That's their intended function. You can also pay line items into an asset or liability account (such as witheld taxes). Your handyman should provide you with a bill (or a work order). - Fixed property 1's toilet. 1 hr@ $x You create a vendor in the vendor system (Handyman LLC) Create an invoice Line item - Toilet repair $x Account: Expenses:Property1 R:Property1 Plumbing Line Item - Outlet repair $y Account: Expenses:Property1 R:Property1 Electrical Line Item - Door knob repair $z Account: Expenses: Property2 R: Property2:General Total $A - Post invoice Vendors -> Process Payment Pay Handyman LLC $A from Assets:RentalCheckingAccount with check 1234 On Mon, 2024-03-04 at 09:46 -0800, timothyscu...@yahoo.com wrote: > I greatly appreciate your suggestions. > > I don't think I framed the problem completely. I have several rental > properties and before I migrated to GNU cash I was using Quicken to > generate “itemized spending” reports from which I could fill out > schedule E for each property. When I tried to do the same thing with > GNU cash for the transactions associated with, for example > maintenance on property 1 or repairs on property 2 I did get a list > of transactions but the descriptions of them were so truncated that > it wasn't practical for me to verify the correctness of them the way > I used to be able to do by just looking down the column of > transactions. > > I have a tiny sole proprietorship which runs a payroll to pay my > part-time handyman and a part-time bookkeeper to avoid nanny tax and > Worker's Comp. problems but my sole proprietorship's income is just > reimbursements from me as an individual. > > If I were to pervert the gnucash vendor bill payment system to detail > the work my part-time employees do, would I be able to assign line > items on an invoice to different GNU cash expense accounts associated > with the different properties people worked on? And would reports > generated by GNU cash be able to list the detail for the line items? > That's my ultimate goal. I want to be able to generate reports from > the gnucash for each calendar year, which also happens to be my tax > year, so I can use that information to fill out schedule E for each > rental property. I'm comfortable with doing that manually but I have > been spoiled by having reports from Quicken that provide the detail > associated with each expense account in a form that's easy to double > check. > > Thank you again for trying to help with my problem. > > Tim > > From: Alan Johnson > Sent: Monday, March 4, 2024 7:43 AM > To: David Carlson > Cc: timothyscu...@yahoo.com; gnucash-user u...@lists.gnucash.org> > Subject: Re: [GNC] split transaction description field length limit > > You don't have to have 'a business' to use the business features. > You would need to set up an AP and AR account to post the invoices > to. To me, the vendor bill - payment system is the proper way to > store the data, rather than kludging the memo fields. Here is an > example of a Costco receipt entered as a bill, then paid with a > credit card through the vendor-payments section. > > I think that this would be the best way to handle the handyman > payments as requested and job tracking (create various expense > accounts). It would also allow for multiple types of payments - e.g. > check, credit card, cash all on the same bill if needed. > > On Sun, 2024-03-03 at 21:41 -0600, David Carlson wrote: > > Whatever the actual character count limit is for the memo field in > > a transaction line, I have found the practical limit is what can be > > printed in reports that show that field. On the computer screen > > you cannot directly see anything that is after a linefeed character > > unless you scroll past that character since the 'window' is one > > line tall. > > > > I do not use business features so I don't have invoices or > > vendors. Another possibility would
Re: [GNC] split transaction description field length limit
I greatly appreciate your suggestions. I don't think I framed the problem completely. I have several rental properties and before I migrated to GNU cash I was using Quicken to generate “itemized spending” reports from which I could fill out schedule E for each property. When I tried to do the same thing with GNU cash for the transactions associated with, for example maintenance on property 1 or repairs on property 2 I did get a list of transactions but the descriptions of them were so truncated that it wasn't practical for me to verify the correctness of them the way I used to be able to do by just looking down the column of transactions. I have a tiny sole proprietorship which runs a payroll to pay my part-time handyman and a part-time bookkeeper to avoid nanny tax and Worker's Comp. problems but my sole proprietorship's income is just reimbursements from me as an individual. If I were to pervert the gnucash vendor bill payment system to detail the work my part-time employees do, would I be able to assign line items on an invoice to different GNU cash expense accounts associated with the different properties people worked on? And would reports generated by GNU cash be able to list the detail for the line items? That's my ultimate goal. I want to be able to generate reports from the gnucash for each calendar year, which also happens to be my tax year, so I can use that information to fill out schedule E for each rental property. I'm comfortable with doing that manually but I have been spoiled by having reports from Quicken that provide the detail associated with each expense account in a form that's easy to double check. Thank you again for trying to help with my problem. Tim From: Alan Johnson Sent: Monday, March 4, 2024 7:43 AM To: David Carlson Cc: timothyscu...@yahoo.com; gnucash-user Subject: Re: [GNC] split transaction description field length limit You don't have to have 'a business' to use the business features. You would need to set up an AP and AR account to post the invoices to. To me, the vendor bill - payment system is the proper way to store the data, rather than kludging the memo fields. Here is an example of a Costco receipt entered as a bill, then paid with a credit card through the vendor-payments section. I think that this would be the best way to handle the handyman payments as requested and job tracking (create various expense accounts). It would also allow for multiple types of payments - e.g. check, credit card, cash all on the same bill if needed. On Sun, 2024-03-03 at 21:41 -0600, David Carlson wrote: Whatever the actual character count limit is for the memo field in a transaction line, I have found the practical limit is what can be printed in reports that show that field. On the computer screen you cannot directly see anything that is after a linefeed character unless you scroll past that character since the 'window' is one line tall. I do not use business features so I don't have invoices or vendors. Another possibility would be to use spreadsheets and refer to them in the document link field. I don't remember if that is associated with individual lines or to the entire transaction. On Sun, Mar 3, 2024 at 9:13 PM Alan Johnson via gnucash-user mailto:gnucash-user@gnucash.org> > wrote: I suggest you put your handyman in as a vendor. Then you can create a bill with long descriptions per item, and then pay the bill with a check. If you want to see what was paid, right click on the payment entry in the register and choose jump to invoice/bill. You can also run a vendor report. Mar 3, 2024 18:39:49 Tim via gnucash-user mailto:gnucash-user@gnucash.org> >: > The descriptions that I enter in GNU cash for split items get truncated. Is > there a way to change this or is this a hard limit? > > > > To provide some context, I pay a handyman to work on various projects. When > I write the check to pay him I split the amount among the various projects > (which correspond to line items on his timesheet)that he worked on to > allocated it to the different expense accounts associated with those > projects. I like to enter a fairly long description which includes things > like the date the work was done, the location, and a brief description of > what was done but GNU cash truncates it when producing reports or when I go > back and look at data that I entered earlier. > > > > Should I be setting up an account for the handyman in which the line items > of his timesheet would be entered as individual transactions which add up to > the amount he gets paid? I get the impression that I'm probably trying to > misuse GNU cash again as I was when I paid my credit card bills with long > split transactions. I was able to fix that by entering the transactions in > an account for the credit card and then having a singl
Re: [GNC] split transaction description field length limit
On 3/4/2024 10:43 AM, Alan Johnson via gnucash-user wrote: You don't have to have 'a business' to use the business features. You would need to set up an AP and AR account to post the invoices to. To me, the vendor bill - payment system is the proper way to store the data, rather than kludging the memo fields. Here is an example of a Costco receipt entered as a bill, then paid with a credit card through the vendor-payments section. Well, it's a little more complicated than that if you are keeping books on the "cash basis" and gnucash only supports invoices if on "accrual basis". Essentially at year end (or whenever before the usual reports typical of year end are run) you would need to make temporary adjusting transactions. That could be a lot of work or not much work. For example, if only using invoices (and AR and AP) for very limited purposes as in this example, not such a big deal to adjust for a couple of invoices still "open" at the end of the reporting period if there would be at most a couple of them. Michael D Novack ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
Re: [GNC] split transaction description field length limit
Combined with the other suggestions of an outside log file, using vendor bills, or using the Notes field, consider this: If you are advised of work as it occurs, record transactions between the expense accounts and a liability account named something like "Work Payable". Put your detail in each transaction. (either in the Memo, Notes, or as an attached file) When you issue payment, that will be a transaction for the present balance (or some subset thereof) of the Work Payable account. This is similar to how a credit card account is used. You accumulate the amounts owed, then pay it. If you simply get a time sheet with multiple days of work and projects at once (say weekly) then probably just the log file will work. Also, you can use the Action field on each split however you like. This might be a good place for the date if you are putting one project/day on each split line and will free up characters for the Memo. Finally, you can simply enter additional splits with text in the Memo and not putting an amount. But if you don't select an account, it will default to Orphan. You might want to create an 'account' for "Notes". It can be anywhere in your tree as it isn't a real account. (though under Expenses work well since it is descriptive of expenses) You can also enter transactions with these notes only and no amounts at all. (at least one split should be assigned to a real account, either an expense, or the payment source) You can see the full transaction either with the Split button, using View > Auto-Split, or View > Transaction Journal. Regards, Adrien p.s.—kudos for wanting to record as much info about a transaction as possible. At some point, you'll invariably want to move/re-assign some transactions to different accounts than you originally used. And that is near impossible without sufficient info. On 3/3/24 5:39 PM, Tim via gnucash-user wrote: Should I be setting up an account for the handyman in which the line items of his timesheet would be entered as individual transactions which add up to the amount he gets paid? I get the impression that I'm probably trying to misuse GNU cash again as I was when I paid my credit card bills with long split transactions. I was able to fix that by entering the transactions in an account for the credit card and then having a single transaction from my bank account to pay off the credit card. I'm not adept enough at accounting, to put it mildly, to know if there's something analogous I should be doing in this case. Can you explain it in a way that a newbie would understand? ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
Re: [GNC] split transaction description field length limit
I think you are right, the notes field also is limited to one line tall in the register view. On Sun, Mar 3, 2024 at 11:05 PM Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > That log file can also be attached to the transaction in GnuCash. > > Also, explore using View > Double Line as that exposes a Notes field for > the entire transaction. > > Regards, > Adrien > > On 3/3/24 7:08 PM, Jim DeLaHunt wrote: > > I suggest a workaround: write in separate log document your detailed > > description, with date, location, and description of work. Make a > > concise tag or label for each entry in the log. Put that tag or label > > in the GnuCash transaction record. > > ___ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > - > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > -- David Carlson ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
Re: [GNC] split transaction description field length limit
That log file can also be attached to the transaction in GnuCash. Also, explore using View > Double Line as that exposes a Notes field for the entire transaction. Regards, Adrien On 3/3/24 7:08 PM, Jim DeLaHunt wrote: I suggest a workaround: write in separate log document your detailed description, with date, location, and description of work. Make a concise tag or label for each entry in the log. Put that tag or label in the GnuCash transaction record. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
Re: [GNC] split transaction description field length limit
Whatever the actual character count limit is for the memo field in a transaction line, I have found the practical limit is what can be printed in reports that show that field. On the computer screen you cannot directly see anything that is after a linefeed character unless you scroll past that character since the 'window' is one line tall. I do not use business features so I don't have invoices or vendors. Another possibility would be to use spreadsheets and refer to them in the document link field. I don't remember if that is associated with individual lines or to the entire transaction. On Sun, Mar 3, 2024 at 9:13 PM Alan Johnson via gnucash-user < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > I suggest you put your handyman in as a vendor. Then you can create a bill > with long descriptions per item, and then pay the bill with a check. If you > want to see what was paid, right click on the payment entry in the register > and choose jump to invoice/bill. You can also run a vendor report. > > Mar 3, 2024 18:39:49 Tim via gnucash-user : > > > The descriptions that I enter in GNU cash for split items get truncated. > Is > > there a way to change this or is this a hard limit? > > > > > > > > To provide some context, I pay a handyman to work on various projects. > When > > I write the check to pay him I split the amount among the various > projects > > (which correspond to line items on his timesheet)that he worked on to > > allocated it to the different expense accounts associated with those > > projects. I like to enter a fairly long description which includes things > > like the date the work was done, the location, and a brief description of > > what was done but GNU cash truncates it when producing reports or when I > go > > back and look at data that I entered earlier. > > > > > > > > Should I be setting up an account for the handyman in which the line > items > > of his timesheet would be entered as individual transactions which add > up to > > the amount he gets paid? I get the impression that I'm probably trying to > > misuse GNU cash again as I was when I paid my credit card bills with long > > split transactions. I was able to fix that by entering the transactions > in > > an account for the credit card and then having a single transaction from > my > > bank account to pay off the credit card. I'm not adept enough at > accounting, > > to put it mildly, to know if there's something analogous I should be > doing > > in this case. Can you explain it in a way that a newbie would understand? > > > > > > > > Thank you > > > > > > > > > > > > ___ > > gnucash-user mailing list > > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > > - > > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > ___ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > - > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > -- David Carlson ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
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I suggest you put your handyman in as a vendor. Then you can create a bill with long descriptions per item, and then pay the bill with a check. If you want to see what was paid, right click on the payment entry in the register and choose jump to invoice/bill. You can also run a vendor report. Mar 3, 2024 18:39:49 Tim via gnucash-user : > The descriptions that I enter in GNU cash for split items get truncated. Is > there a way to change this or is this a hard limit? > > > > To provide some context, I pay a handyman to work on various projects. When > I write the check to pay him I split the amount among the various projects > (which correspond to line items on his timesheet)that he worked on to > allocated it to the different expense accounts associated with those > projects. I like to enter a fairly long description which includes things > like the date the work was done, the location, and a brief description of > what was done but GNU cash truncates it when producing reports or when I go > back and look at data that I entered earlier. > > > > Should I be setting up an account for the handyman in which the line items > of his timesheet would be entered as individual transactions which add up to > the amount he gets paid? I get the impression that I'm probably trying to > misuse GNU cash again as I was when I paid my credit card bills with long > split transactions. I was able to fix that by entering the transactions in > an account for the credit card and then having a single transaction from my > bank account to pay off the credit card. I'm not adept enough at accounting, > to put it mildly, to know if there's something analogous I should be doing > in this case. Can you explain it in a way that a newbie would understand? > > > > Thank you > > > > > > ___ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > - > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
Re: [GNC] split transaction description field length limit
Hello, Tim: On 2024-03-03 15:39, Tim via gnucash-user wrote: The descriptions that I enter in GNU cash for split items get truncated. Is there a way to change this or is this a hard limit? I am not certain, having not looked at the GnuCash code, but in my years using the program I have not come across a way to extend the length limit of the description, memo, or notes fields. I suspect it is not changeable. To provide some context, I pay a handyman…. I like to enter a fairly long description which includes things like the date the work was done, the location, and a brief description of what was done but GNU cash truncates it…. I think it would be reasonable to respond with, GnuCash is an accounting program, and you are trying to use it for project tracking. It is reasonable for GnuCash to not attempt to be a project tracking program also. I suggest a workaround: write in separate log document your detailed description, with date, location, and description of work. Make a concise tag or label for each entry in the log. Put that tag or label in the GnuCash transaction record. Best regards, —Jim DeLaHunt ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
[GNC] split transaction description field length limit
The descriptions that I enter in GNU cash for split items get truncated. Is there a way to change this or is this a hard limit? To provide some context, I pay a handyman to work on various projects. When I write the check to pay him I split the amount among the various projects (which correspond to line items on his timesheet)that he worked on to allocated it to the different expense accounts associated with those projects. I like to enter a fairly long description which includes things like the date the work was done, the location, and a brief description of what was done but GNU cash truncates it when producing reports or when I go back and look at data that I entered earlier. Should I be setting up an account for the handyman in which the line items of his timesheet would be entered as individual transactions which add up to the amount he gets paid? I get the impression that I'm probably trying to misuse GNU cash again as I was when I paid my credit card bills with long split transactions. I was able to fix that by entering the transactions in an account for the credit card and then having a single transaction from my bank account to pay off the credit card. I'm not adept enough at accounting, to put it mildly, to know if there's something analogous I should be doing in this case. Can you explain it in a way that a newbie would understand? Thank you ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
