Re: [GNC] I need basic help

2023-10-19 Thread Edwin Booth via gnucash-user
I am working my way through the tutorial. One of the things it says near the beginning is that one should set up a practice file. I need to wrap my head around the whole “debit/credit” concept. Thanks for your help. Everyone’s comments and suggestions are quite helpful.  Edwin Sent from Yahoo

Re: [GNC] I need basic help

2023-10-19 Thread David Cousens
No doubt but reading is a good point from which to start practising. David On Fri, 2023-10-20 at 07:19 +1100, flywire wrote: > https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2023-October/109173.html > David Cousens wrote: > > I would suggest you read at least the introductory sections of the >

Re: [GNC] I need basic help

2023-10-19 Thread G R Hewitt
Accounting by numbers eh:) On Thu, 19 Oct 2023 at 21:21, flywire wrote: > https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2023-October/109173.html > David Cousens wrote: > > I would suggest you read at least the introductory sections of the > GnuCash Tutorial and Concepts guide under the

[GNC] I need basic help

2023-10-19 Thread flywire
https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2023-October/109173.html David Cousens wrote: > I would suggest you read at least the introductory sections of the GnuCash Tutorial and Concepts guide under the heading Basics https://www.gnucash.org/viewdoc.phtml?rev=5=C=guide I doubt many people

Re: [GNC] I need basic help

2023-10-19 Thread Edwin Booth via gnucash-user
Thank you. I’ll try it that way.  Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Thursday, October 19, 2023, 11:26 AM, Steve Butler wrote: On Wed, Oct 18, 2023, 23:04 Edwin Booth wrote: Steve, Thanks for getting back to me! It seems that I need to first delete my newly downloaded file from GnuCash

Re: [GNC] I need basic help

2023-10-19 Thread Steve Butler
On Wed, Oct 18, 2023, 23:04 Edwin Booth wrote: > Steve, > > Thanks for getting back to me! > > It seems that I need to first delete my newly downloaded file from GnuCash > and re-import it but first assign all the > Yes, remove those transitions or restore to a pre-import backup. transactions

Re: [GNC] I need basic help

2023-10-19 Thread Maf. King
On Thursday, 19 October 2023 07:04:39 BST Edwin Booth via gnucash-user wrote: > How do I now assign > all those transactions to their proper accounts without first importing > this OFX file into GnuCash? one step in the inport process is to assign the accounts. GC "learns" and will offer

Re: [GNC] I need basic help

2023-10-19 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 10/19/2023 2:04 AM, Edwin Booth via gnucash-user wrote: Steve, Thanks for getting back to me! It seems that I need to first delete my newly downloaded file from GnuCash and re-import it but first assign all the transactions to various accounts. I have gone through the process (I think) of

Re: [GNC] I need basic help

2023-10-19 Thread Edwin Booth via gnucash-user
Steve, Thanks for getting back to me! It seems that I need to first delete my newly downloaded file from GnuCash and re-import it but first assign all the transactions to various accounts. I have gone through the process (I think) of creating a hierarchy of accounts (though I will surely want