Re: Two Income Statement patches: Assets Value

2009-01-29 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
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

Re: Two Income Statement patches: Assets Value

2009-01-29 Thread Frédéric Brière
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 09:33:03AM -0500, Mike or Penny Novack wrote: Back to the original question which was really how do I properly keep the books to reflect depreciation and what information must I be able to report for my jurisdiction. That's NOT a GnuCash question. That's a

Re: Two Income Statement patches: Assets Value

2009-01-29 Thread michael.mckay
Subject: Re: Two Income Statement patches: Assets Value Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:03:42 -0500 On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 09:33:03AM -0500, Mike or Penny Novack wrote: Back to the original question which was really how do I properly keep the books to reflect depreciation and what information must I

Re: Two Income Statement patches: Assets Value

2009-01-29 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
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

Re: Two Income Statement patches: Assets Value

2009-01-29 Thread Mark Jenkins
I'd use the cash flow statement to answer this question. The cash flow statement should show you how much an account changed in a period. You I also find that transaction report does a good job of adding up new entries over a period. ___

Re: Two Income Statement patches: Assets Value

2009-01-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 05:46:08PM -0500, Frédéric Brière wrote: [Please CC any replies, as I'm not subscribed] Hi guys, I switched my business accouting from a clunky home-made script+database to Gnucash several months ago -- kudos for all your work! Having now finished my first tax

Two Income Statement patches: Assets Value

2009-01-24 Thread Frédéric Brière
[Please CC any replies, as I'm not subscribed] Hi guys, I switched my business accouting from a clunky home-made script+database to Gnucash several months ago -- kudos for all your work! Having now finished my first tax report based on Gnucash's reports, here are two things I found lacking in