Re: Mutual fund cost basis changes between 2.6.6 and 2.6.19

2018-01-12 Thread Deva -
Thanks John. I haven’t filed a bug/enhancement before - GnuCash has been wonderful as it is! I will look into how to do this and add the use case as you suggested. In the meantime, should I downgrade to 2.6.11 (last version where cost basis is correctly reported)? The reason I upgraded was

Re: Collecting payments from others then remitting to one vendor

2018-01-12 Thread Christopher Lam
You could do liability accounts for each utility bill but I like the concept of 'kitty funds' which gives you/them a real-time view of monies owed by whom. *You pay the full $30 bill from your bank, but only $10 is your share* Asset:Bank -$30 Expense:Utilities $10 Asset:Alice $10 Asset:Bob $10

Re: Collecting payments from others then remitting to one vendor

2018-01-12 Thread Maf. King
On Saturday, 13 January 2018 00:15:07 GMT gn00b wrote: > So my roommates and I split utilities cost and every month they remit to me > the required amount and I then remit all of those smaller payments to our > utilities company. What's the best way to set up the accounts/transactions > so I only

Collecting payments from others then remitting to one vendor

2018-01-12 Thread gn00b
So my roommates and I split utilities cost and every month they remit to me the required amount and I then remit all of those smaller payments to our utilities company. What's the best way to set up the accounts/transactions so I only have an expense of what I owe. Example: Utilities bill is $30

Re: Investment Question

2018-01-12 Thread Jay Ridgley
Thanks David, Perhaps, I can clarify. The answer to your question is yes. The reason for the new name is that currently the accounts are defined as place holders, they would have to be regular accounts, would they not? Regards, Jay On 01/12/2018 11:13 AM, David Carlson wrote: I am not an

Re: Investment Question

2018-01-12 Thread David Carlson
I am not an accountant either, and I do not quite understand your question. Do you already track your investments in detail in GnuCash and you want to stop tracking details, just track overall values with periodic (manual) value updates after monthly reports? That is the only scenario where I

Re: NUM Column Defaults

2018-01-12 Thread Fross, Michael
Thank you AC. I knew about 't' but did not realize next check number. That's handy. On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 10:47 AM, Jack Slater wrote: > AC Thanks! > I could have sworn I had done the "t" when first getting started - > obviously not! LOL and the "+" works great! Time

Re: NUM Column Defaults

2018-01-12 Thread Jack Slater
AC Thanks! I could have sworn I had done the "t" when first getting started - obviously not! LOL and the "+" works great! Time saver. Thanks again! On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 10:26 AM, AC wrote: > On 2018-01-12 08:19, Jack Slater wrote: > > > > > And a thought while I'm asking

Re: NUM Column Defaults

2018-01-12 Thread AC
On 2018-01-12 08:19, Jack Slater wrote: > > And a thought while I'm asking - 2 time saving capabilities in Quicken were: > > 1 - in NUM cell - type "n" would lookup prior check entry and populate that > number + 1. > 2 - in DATE cell - type "t" would enter today's date 1: Type "+" (the plus

NUM Column Defaults

2018-01-12 Thread Jack Slater
Is it possible to create/save default NUM items such as: EFT (electronic funds transfer) DEP (deposit) TRN (transfer) ATM (auto teller machine) And a simple free form text entry (this would allow for sequenced check number entries) This would save a great deal of typing these items if just

Invoices: multilingual & tax detail questions

2018-01-12 Thread Macho Philipovich
Dear fellow Gnucash users, I have two questions about invoices. First, I deal with some of my clients in French, some in English. I'd like to be able to provide invoices in either language. Gnucash reports generally allow me to edit all of the headings in the options menu and then save the

Re: Finance::Quote on a Mac

2018-01-12 Thread John Ralls
> On Jan 12, 2018, at 7:22 AM, John Ralls wrote: > > > >> On Jan 10, 2018, at 6:51 PM, Benny Webster wrote: >> >> Hi there, Im having trouble setting up Finance::Quote… Documentation states >> it should have installed on a Mac but that does not

Re: Mutual fund cost basis changes between 2.6.6 and 2.6.19

2018-01-12 Thread John Ralls
> On Jan 12, 2018, at 3:43 AM, Deva - wrote: > > Hello, > > I am on Mac OS Sierra v10.12.6. > > Until a few days ago, I was using GnuCash 2.6.6 and just in the last 2 days, > I upgraded to the latest version 2.6.19. > > After running a preliminary test of some of the

Re: footer

2018-01-12 Thread Adrien Monteleone
In the invoice Options on the first tab at the bottom there is an ‘Extra Notes’ field that prints under the line-item block. Does that accomplish what you want? Note, there is also a Footer stylesheet. (by default it is a bit garish and could use some customization) Edit it and you’ll see there

Re: [GNUCASH] Commas on graph

2018-01-12 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I normally use a Mac, but I just opened my file in a Ubuntu Xenial virtual machine and ran a report. It shows comma separators. Check your OS system settings under Language. Make sure the local is set for US and check the currency example at the bottom of the window. (second tab) It should

footer

2018-01-12 Thread claudia via gnucash-user
Hi, how can I add a footer to my invoice.scm, i am not sure how else to do this. I edited the stylesheet but is not an option anywhere that i can see, so i chose the invoice template from the options but it doesn't appear in the stylesheets. I am very confused, can somebody help me please.

Finance::Quote on a Mac

2018-01-12 Thread Benny Webster
Hi there, Im having trouble setting up Finance::Quote… Documentation states it should have installed on a Mac but that does not seem to be the case. I have found FinanceQuote Update but when I try to run it it doesn’t work. Im new to GnuCash and just trying to set things up. Not too good at