On 2/13/2018 9:49 PM, Wm via gnucash-devel wrote:
Why are you blaming the workers rather than the employers?
Why do you think a piece of software can help if you are shitting on
your employees?
Mike, is this what you expected as a response? Adrien appears to be a
person that trusts
I think I would love to sit down in a pub with the three of you
(Wm, Adrien, and Mike). I think we could have such awesome
semi-drunken discussions about the nature of life, the universe and
everything!
I'm in London. Mike is in a Trump voting bit of Merka. Don't know
where Adrien is
On 2/13/2018 4:53 PM, Matt Graham wrote:
I think I would love to sit down in a pub with the three of you (Wm, Adrien,
and Mike). I think we could have such awesome semi-drunken discussions about
the nature of life, the universe and everything!
I think you have basically answered my
On 2/13/2018 2:55 AM, Wm via gnucash-devel wrote:
A couple of times I have noticed that people have said "That's not
what GNUCash is for". It begs the question - where is it defined what
GNUCash is and isn't for? The charter for GNUCash doesn't seem to
ever been formalised.
There is a long
On 2/2/2018 7:04 AM, Wm via gnucash-devel wrote:
On 31/01/2018 16:09, Christopher Lam wrote:
Hi Matt- I thought this should move to the devel list, because of
technical details, and this discussion will be very speculative.
I had a thought about how envelope budgeting could work: "divide your
Uh ... Putting my "business analyst" hat on I see nothing there which
says WHAT data needs to be transmitted to them digitally.
This discussion has seemed to be making the assumption that gnucash
would need to be sending it's "books" to them digitally which is NOT the
same thing as saying
On 7/4/2016 9:54 AM, John Ralls wrote:
Read the original letter again. He's asking about copying parts of the
Tutorial and Concepts Guide, which is published under the GNU Free
Documentation License, or GFDL. That's separate from the program's
copyrights and licenses. Regards, John Ralls .
On 7/3/2016 6:05 PM, Chris Lyttle wrote:
I agree with John, as long as it keeps with the requirements of the GFDL, which
means the work is available under the same license, I have no objection.
Uh, I am not one of the developers but am old enough to have been able
to follow the original "free
On 10/17/2015 7:06 PM, Matt Graham wrote:
G’day all,
Now that I finally have myself set up to be able to view, edit and test the
gnucash sources, I have come across the limitation of using text editors (using
nano at the moment...) to code. Can anyone recommend a good program for doing
On 2/12/2015 10:26 AM, Neal Lithwick wrote:
Hi
I would love to migrate over to this program but I have one problem (so
far). I need to have the ability to set a Starting Balance for the balance
sheet items as I am not starting anew but migrating over from Money Smith.
Since every transaction
Steven Patrick wrote:
The GnuCash invoicing process does this automatically for larger businesses,
but many smaller businesses use only cash book records and need to be able to
automatically calculate and record GST in bank account transactions. Because
it is already being done in the
The way the current Gnucash customer invoice interface works with
options for Taxable? and Tax Included? is perfect for their needs,
as long as it can be implemented in a normal cheque account register.
Some transactions would be taxable and others not.
I am happy to do the development
The developers are generally agreed that we are NOT interested in this.
(b) although I will probably
manage to code the open and save routines, I'm not sure I will not get
stuck somewhere, in which case it will either remain as an unfinished
project, or I will need some help from
Perhaps totally underestimating the scope of the problem.
For example, in the US there are 50 states, perhaps half of which have a
sales tax. The problem isn't just that the rates would all be different
but also that to what they apply (or not) would be different* and you'd
need in addition a
The rules say that you have to distribute all of the source code, but I think
that it's become
pretty common to rely on the fact that the sources are all readily available
via the net. You'll
probably want to get an OK from your lawyers.
The rules say that if you make changes to the
Jasper,
First of all, there are no fees to use this software (or to get
help using it). Donations are always welcome.
Second, you posted to the developers list. Questions such as you
have just asked should be on the users list, gnucash-u...@gnucash.org
Third, I'll answer some
Can't really recall whether or not they included the required license terms,
but I guess they did.
I did uninstall that particular version and re-install the version from your
official download source so hopefully that should be safe unless he has done
something a little more devious.
(this should have been on the user list)
I would handle this with an asset account (as opposed to equity).
It is very like what for me is a common situation. I live in a rural
area, don't drive to town where the bank is every day. In fact, we try
to combine trips so only go to town once or
Alan Duffell wrote:
Hi there,
Excuse the probably stupid question as I'm new to Gnucash!
I'm using the software at a small charity and we'd like to know the following:
1) Is it possible to produce monthly cashflow reports, e.g. with months on the
x axis and income/expenditure/balance on the
You can disagree all you want, but you're still wrong. ;) The GAAP
method to close the books is to create a fake date (or 'invalid' date)
that sits between the periods. That's what most accountants and
large-scale accounting programs do. You might dislike it, but it's the
way the world works.
JT Morée wrote:
I realize the close books issue has been dealt with for years but I'm coming up
empty on searching for this particular aspect. Please tell me if there is
another way to fix this issue that I'm not seeing.
As I have mentioned before (more than once) the way around this is
Frank H. Ellenberger wrote:
Am Wednesday 13 January 2010 23:01:07 schrieb Mike or Penny Novack:
As treasurer of a 501(c)3 ...
I fear, outside of USA not much people know the meanig of 501(c)3.
Best wishes
Frank
Sorry --- that's ONE type of non-profit here in the US. Donations
Phuntsok Rapden wrote:
Hello, can GnuCash be used by non-profit organizations if the account
descriptions are modified? Thank you so much for this wonderful product.
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Karey Broach wrote:
I would like to know if there is the ability to change the reporting
criteria from a year at a time to monthly?
I would like to be able to see monthly reports as well as yearly reports?
Is there any documentation on creating new reports or are the ones that are
created
Phil Longstaff wrote:
At some point, I want to modify some of the reports (balance sheet/income
statement especially) to allow multiple dates or time periods to be specified,
resulting in multiple columns. However, I'm busy with too much else right now.
Phil
THAT would be welcome, Phil.
Gnucash is a usable program. It however lacks something *very basic
and important.* Any professional accounting program must not allow
the editing or deleting of entered transactions. All corrections
must be made by an additional correction entry which will refer to the
original
marcus.wolsc...@googlemail.com wrote:
Hello,
what sorting is used for the transactions
within a single day?
I would like to make sure the transactions
get the same sorting-order they have on
the bank-account to make comparing both
easier for the user.
Could this be done my modifying the time
The other thing is, we want to write a new invoice (or improve the ones which
are there), so that they have more information (which is needed to create a
legal invoice in germany and some other useful information like bank
connection of the business, logo, ...). But actually we don't find
I am quite sure I have read a discussion a while ago about the
constraint of not being able to set more than one account type for an
account. The thing is that the standard BAS account plan, which is being
used in Sweden, has a top account (placeholder) which holds both equity
and liabilities.
Stuart Andrews wrote:
Dear Gnucash team,
I've been happily using your software since the end of last year, having
ditched Windows completely. I was using Microsoft Money before.
Can I make a suggestion for possible inclusion in the future? It would
save me a lot of time reviewing scheduled
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
I don't want to rain on your parade, but in my opinion this is the
wrong thing to do.
What would be better is to have a separate balance sheet report that
provides the delta over a time period. I don't begin to know how to do
that, but IMO, it is the proper thing to
Frédéric
Actually, it was not. But I can certainly understand how it could seem
that way to you.
My question/need was actually technical: how much money went into asset
account X last year? [*]
This need comes as a result of two things:
* Under Canadian law, the half-year convention applies
I just want to point out what .cvs support entails for the benefit of
those for whom this isn't immediately obvious.
.cvs refers to the low level format of the data -- just that the file of
data consists of records? delineated by newline and the records
consist of fields delineated by commas.
My understanding for the reason of the current situation is that there
is nobody fitting all of the following description.
1) can code
2) has time to contribute code
3) business user
4) lives in Europe
I fit 3 and 4. I currently think that trying to get gnucash into shape
for business users
Rolf Leggewie wrote:
Mike or Penny Novack wrote:
IMHO you do not want a person who meets all those criteria.
Mike, thank you for your reply.
While your theoretical description may be correct, I think I have
accurately summed up why in reality gnucash is not moving forward
I am not sure your experiences, the analytical approach, division of labor
(hats as you described them) which I would consider best practice in any kind
of business project can easily be transferred to gnucash or any other FOSS
project.
The only real difference is that it's
.
I'd have to look back, but I think Derek's reply was the only one. I'd like
to open the topic again, because of Rolf's problem. Can anyone think of a
reason that account code size limit cannot be reduced to a smaller value (e.g.
32)? Will anyone ever enter an account code longer than
Hence, if *you* want to invest money and expect results from it, comparable to
a classic project, you will have to find a project manager first, or
alternatively you will have to put yourself into that position.
(Incidentally, your resume indicates you might actually be rather qualified
for
samar shailendra wrote:
I am a new user of gnucash ...
I am entering transactions in gnucash account for last two years(eg. 2006-07
and 2007-08) .. now I want to generate the balance sheet for the
transactions of last year only(i.e. 2006-07).. Can I do that , if yes how ?
You first generate
I believe several users have expressed that they do not want a time written
to their data file if they never actually entered one. That's one of the
things I am proposing to support with this proposal. Saving defaulted
transaction times would mean that when you read the file back in, you
Ian Lewis wrote:
I kind of understand where Stuart is going with this. There are a lot
of parallels. The currency example is one. From a programming
perspective, storing strings without an encoding is another.
Essentially to know the real value you need to know another piece of
metadata.
Stuart,
The key is that the register would display date,time, AND TIMEZONE. The
timezone lets the user recognize that ...
I am going to ask again.
On July 18th at 14:30 EST the bookkeeper enters a transaction involving
accounts whose time zones are all also EST (in other words there will
be
As a retired pro who has debugged many date errors in my day I really
have to side with Stuart here.
Michael D Novack, FLMI
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Can you explain me please what does submitting means here?
If you need a person who will say yes, I need it, I can be this
person for sure.
But there will be no use from me if volunteering=programming - I have almost
no experience here.
However do not underestimate the need for end
I need to do some organizational planning but I am posting this here
rather than the user list because of the nature of parts of this question.
Problem statement --- I am currently the Treasurer for a 501c3 but next
year will have to take at least a one year hiatus (term limit bylaw).
Which
Derek Atkins wrote:
Um, I've heard no news that 2.2.4 doesn't work on Vista. Does 2.2.4
NOT work on vista?
That's why I am asking. I don't (thank goodness) have a Vista machine
here at the moment. The last discussions about this problem were around
October with the problem then not resolved
I haven't done much work on Gnucash on Linux or Windows but I was able
to get it to compile under Windows by following the instructions on
this page:
http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Windows
There are a few manual steps and then a script that downloads and
installs a bunch of tools and
Andreas,
I think we are getting somewhere
Please take a look at
http://svn.gnucash.org/trac/browser/gnucash/branches/gda-dev2/packaging/win32
So I would want to get the compiler (and presumably including a
link-editor) here? This is achieved by using the mingw32/gcc compiler
Thanks everybody (keep up with suggestions)
I will probably want a C for Windows sort of book if such exists. Not
how to program in general but how to interact with objects of type
window. Any ideas? I have written some* C, but that was in a Linux
environment and I wasn't (yet) interacting
Related to getting started. (now that my post fire life is more or
less back to normal -- sorry for the long delay)
I haven't ever done any work in the Windows environment before. Which
means I don't have a set of development tools. Anybody willing to make
some suggestions? What open source
Al,
The problem is unclear documentation? I put it that way because
obviously not adequate to get you to the right spot.
That's not customization and it is via options that you get to
set things each time you run a report -- things like the date range,
what subtotals you want to see,
my two cents
I think it would be wise to collect a precise definition of the formal
requirements before making any design decisions.
ABSOLUTELY -- determining requirements is the first step in design.
How about collecting translations of relevant sections of the actual laws in
the wiki, to
On Feb 6, 2008, at 9:16 PM, David Reiser wrote:
Using Tim's approach, I have:
642 accounts
6423 transactions
and it took 4 minutes, 6 seconds to close the books.
1minute 46 seconds for a trial balance.
Dave
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OK --- we seem to be seeing that test
As a practical matter, depends on whether you are looking at that code
with an editor that is language sensitive or not. Probably why seeing
so many different styles.
For example -- take style 2
Less keystrokes (a true RK tradition) and as long as you are using a
language sensitive editor
To all Scheme/Guile developers:
Although the dirname and basename procedures are not currently used in
any GnuCash source code (.scm files), please be aware that these procedures
do not work properly in Guile 1.6.8 (the version recommended for GnuCash)
running on mingw. This affects those of us
Additionally, when building the setup.exe on Windows we compile guile from
source anyway, so applying a patch that has been sent to bug-guile but is
not contained in any release yet is perfectly fine, at least IMHO.
-- andi5
Again I am probably making some wrong assumptions. Compiling
The other issue is the fact not really how traditional accounting
would do this. More usual is a temporary equity account (receiving
total income and total expenses) which is then closed to retained
equity with a single entry, either gain or loss for the year (thus
making it clear
Ah, yes, a Description for the transaction. Good point! Thanks,
I'll go add that.
Anything else
-derek
The date for which the closing takes place should be a user set variable
(OK to have it default to 12/31/current year).
a) You don't know the FISCAL calendar of your users. Not
We believe, but we are not sure, that the Microsoft-Money Annual % Return is
the Internal Rate of Return (IRR). See
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/131664. We believe that the IRR is the best
measure of return, because it allows any two investments to be meaningfully
compared.. The
Suspense accounts are a user thing. GnuCash doesn't care, and
indeed shouldn't care. You can Process Payment into a Suspense
Account just as easily as you can Process Payment into a Checking
Account.
Is it useful to allow aliases for Account Types? Or to add a Suspense
type which is just
Doing multiple non-consecutive invoices for the payment process would
be arbitrarily complex. At that point the real answer is a real
solution to http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108570
In my business experience this disputing an invoice is extremely
rare, so I dont think that
Uh, I'm not sure exactly what you mean, but GnuCash does (should) create a
$HOME/.gnucash/ dir for its own storage, as well as leveraging the
$HOME/.gconf/ storage we've talked about.
Sorry -- but I don't understand.
Yes, I see that GnuCash has created a directory named .gnucash
[[Maybe a bit off-topic for this mailinglist, but I thought it could give some
additional background]]
... and some are already. A fine example is The Gimp (http://www.gimp.org),
an alternative image manipulation program for Photoshop. Whether it truly can
replace Photoshop is a long
Josh Sled wrote:
The developer who started that work hasn't had a lot of time for GnuCash in
the last few years. I really hope he does respond, but I don't feel out of
order responding on his behalf.
There are two approaches to book closing:
Maybe stop right there. As soon as there appear
Very interesting observation. Does the directory .gnucash get
created on both account names? If it does, gnucash's handling of
account names and paths is correctly implemented. In that case we'd
have to forward the bugreport about the .gconf directory to the
GConf project:
It was suggested that I join this list in addition to the users list. I
am a retired senior systems analyst with a few decades experience in
software for a financial. Well call that semi-retired as they
sometimes tempt me back into the cypher mines for a little juicy
consulting. At the moment
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