Re: [GNC] Feature request: Import assistant, room for big improvements

2024-01-15 Thread Christopher Lam
On Tue, 16 Jan 2024, 2:13 pm David Cousens, wrote: > > I haven't yet imported anything under v5.5. but will be catching up in a > few > days. Being able to edit/add data to the description and or memo fields > would be > something I would find useful too as the imported bank data often has >

Re: [GNC] Feature request: Import assistant, room for big improvements

2024-01-15 Thread David Cousens
From memory David the import matcher process is common to all the front ends to read different file formats. It's been a while since I went through the code after Geert rewrote the CSV front end but I doubt that it has changed all that much. I have found the Bayesian matcher works fairly well

Re: [GNC] Feature request: Import assistant, room for big improvements

2024-01-15 Thread Steve Butler
I do it every OFX import. Works well. Ubuntu 23.10. GnC 5.4-117. Need anything else? BTW, works fine, the right click. On Mon, Jan 15, 2024, 21:12 Christopher Lam wrote: > Has anyone tried right click the relevant transaction(s) in the ofx or csv > import assistant? > > On Tue, 16 Jan

Re: [GNC] Feature request: Import assistant, room for big improvements

2024-01-15 Thread Christopher Lam
Has anyone tried right click the relevant transaction(s) in the ofx or csv import assistant? On Tue, 16 Jan 2024, 12:49 pm David Carlson, wrote: > Which import assistant is being discussed here? The Generic assistant > behind the OFX and QIF imports is quite limited in placing new transactions

Re: [GNC] Idiot 101 question

2024-01-15 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I was referring to the process of turning a running Windows installation into a VM from within that running installation. I know VMWare has such a tool, and I think Virtualbox does as well. (other virtualization solutions might too, and still yet, there might be 3rd party tools to accomplish

Re: [GNC] Feature request: Import assistant, room for big improvements

2024-01-15 Thread David Carlson
Which import assistant is being discussed here? The Generic assistant behind the OFX and QIF imports is quite limited in placing new transactions into the desired account or in matching incoming transactions to correct pre-existing transactions, but the new CSV transaction importer is better, if

Re: [GNC] Feature request: Import assistant, room for big improvements

2024-01-15 Thread Adrien Monteleone
And I would call 'Amazon' the Description as Payee, and the Memo as the item/reason for a particular split. I use Notes for info pertaining to the entire transaction. Would a multi-line CSV per transaction allow for inserting Memos? Regards, Adrien On 1/15/24 10:17 PM, Derek Atkins wrote:

Re: [GNC] Idiot 101 question

2024-01-15 Thread David Carlson
I would recommend taking a few weeks learning how VM's work before doing it yourself,but for a person knowledgeable about VM's it would be straightforward if you can install or otherwise attach a physical drive to your computer then configure a VM to use it as it's primary drive. I recommend

Re: [GNC] Feature request: Import assistant, room for big improvements

2024-01-15 Thread Phyllis Bruce
 > On Jan 15, 2024, at 10:17 PM, Derek Atkins wrote: > >  > No, I would call that the description. > -derek > Sent using my mobile device. Please excuse any typos. > >> On January 15, 2024 23:06:07 Phyllis Bruce wrote: >> >> Thanks, David. I think I am being unclear. My research

Re: [GNC] Feature request: Import assistant, room for big improvements

2024-01-15 Thread Derek Atkins
No, I would call that the description. -derek Sent using my mobile device. Please excuse any typos. On January 15, 2024 23:06:07 Phyllis Bruce wrote: Thanks, David. I think I am being unclear. My research provides what you call the transfer account for unmatched items. That's all good. It

Re: [GNC] Feature request: Import assistant, room for big improvements

2024-01-15 Thread Phyllis Bruce
Thanks, David. I think I am being unclear. My research provides what you call the transfer account for unmatched items. That's all good. It is the memo field which I use to remind me of what I did that is not available in the reconciliation screen. For instance I want to remember that I paid

Re: [GNC] Idiot 101 question

2024-01-15 Thread Jeff
On 1/11/24 10:10 AM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: If their drives with OS installations are intact, perhaps converting them to VM images might suffice for now. As for Windows software, have you given the latest Wine a spin with it? It may not work 100% out of the box, but you might get close

Re: [GNC] Deferred Income << the general case is "imputed income"

2024-01-15 Thread R Losey
That is a good point... I just want to try to do things "properly", but as you point out, in a practical sense, it (probably) doesn't matter. Plus, it is helping my understanding and knowledge to grow, and I consider that a good thing. On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 8:49 PM Jediator wrote: > I am

Re: [GNC] Deferred Income << the general case is "imputed income"

2024-01-15 Thread Jediator
I am not an accountant, so please excuse my ignorance.  I was wondering is it really necessary to create a separate deferred income account when you could just do a transaction report on your IRA account to see how much distribution you had in a year or a month?  -- JC On 1/15/24 5:33 PM,

Re: [GNC] Importing from one gnucash file to another

2024-01-15 Thread Jim DeLaHunt
James: On 2024-01-15 03:59, James Wilde wrote: I am rationalising my accounting in Gnucash and have previously had one instance of Gnucash for each year.  I now would like to load an [earlier year's data] into the current year.  I have exported the earlier year as a csv file (I have used

[GNC] A bit of an irritation.

2024-01-15 Thread David Carlson
I am not sure if this is new behavior or if it is an artifact of a recent change of my habits. I am currently using release 4.8 in a couple of different computers running various flavors of Linux, mostly variations on Ubuntu 22.04. I sometime multitask on the same computer while leaving GnuCash

Re: [GNC] Deferred Income << the general case is "imputed income"

2024-01-15 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/15/2024 4:02 PM, R Losey wrote: Thank you; this is helpful. I never really thought about recording Deferred Income previously because the investment people track it and let me know what has been taken out every year.  But after the discussion in this list last year, I thought it might

Re: [GNC] Feature request: Import assistant, room for big improvements

2024-01-15 Thread David Cousens
Ulrich, There is nothing to stop you supplying the transfer account information in an import record if it is available. There is a header which can be assigned to the appropriate column of your input file for the transfer account. The first time you import with a given account name in he record

Re: [GNC] Deferred Income

2024-01-15 Thread R Losey
Thank you; this is helpful. I never really thought about recording Deferred Income previously because the investment people track it and let me know what has been taken out every year. But after the discussion in this list last year, I thought it might be good to track, at least the taxable

Re: [GNC] Feature request: Import assistant, room for big improvements

2024-01-15 Thread Phyllis Bruce
Since the subject has been raised I'll add my wish: For unmatched items I often have to do some research such as checking Amazon to see just what it is that came in. Then I know what expense it belongs to. However; I am not able to specify the item until I approve the import - by which time

Re: [GNC] Deferred Income

2024-01-15 Thread R Losey
Thank you; I'm pretty sure that I have the Deferred Income incorrectly under "Income"; it's not marked taxable - it's just an account. On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 1:08 PM Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > I'm not familiar with the use case, but if you want income to 'go

[GNC] Feature request: Import assistant, room for big improvements

2024-01-15 Thread Ulrich Grün
Hello fellow GnuCash users, I wonder if there are plans on improving the import filter, for importing bank transfers. The situation now is, that some hidden engine tries to learn from doing. But the truth is, that even after one year of importing bank transfers, I have to check every single

[GNC] Importing from one gnucash file to another

2024-01-15 Thread James Wilde
I am rationalising my accounting in Gnucash and have previously had one instance of Gnucash for each year.  I now would like to load an eyara into the current year.  I have exported the earlier year as a csv file (I have used semi-colons instead of commas) but when I go to the current year to

Re: [GNC] Deferred Income

2024-01-15 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
Let me ask you a question (that should make it obvious what one* of your problems is --- and yes, this has been discussed before) HOW did you record this deferred income when it was received? Or since it might have been received before you began using gnucash, how did you enter the

Re: [GNC] Deferred Income

2024-01-15 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I'm not familiar with the use case, but if you want income to 'go up' that is, show you received it, then it should be a credit. I'll hazard a guess that since you have a 'Taxable' account, which you are supposed to show receipt of income, then that one should be a credit. If the Deferred

Re: [GNC] How do you record the rounding of your netpay?

2024-01-15 Thread Adrien Monteleone
That sounds like an accrual situation. If they are consistently owing you, then use an asset account. If you are consistently owing them, use a liability account. You could name it 'Payroll Rounding Accrual' or something similar. If the rounding bounces back and forth between asset and

Re: [GNC] List of fields checked by importer when matching transactions

2024-01-15 Thread John Haiducek
Thanks, Etienne. Thankfully, my CSV only has one row per transaction. On Sat, Jan 13, 2024 at 5:04 AM GNUCash wrote: > John, > Yes the description had to match the tranfer memo. To clarify. > In my transaction CSV I had 3 rows belonging to 1 transaction. > Description on all 3 rows: “Order

Re: [GNC] Install Finance::Quotes

2024-01-15 Thread Kalpesh Patel
While I am not on Mac, I recall that the SSL portion of LWP was very hard to compile/install on the *NIX side, especially the needed SSLeay module for older Perl versions which used to be a separate and standalone build. From below SUDO command, it looks you are trying to build for all three

Re: [GNC] Install Finance::Quotes

2024-01-15 Thread Jim DeLaHunt
Hello, Gustavo, and welcome to Gnucash! On 2024-01-14 11:58, Gustavo Taouil wrote: ...I have MacBook Pro m3 with macOS Sonome. I followed the instructions in wiki page of Gnucash to install the Finance::Quote. I use this command in terminal : sudo ARCHFLAGS='-arch arm64 -arch arm64e -arch

[GNC] Deferred Income

2024-01-15 Thread R Losey
Last year, there was a discussion here about tracking taxable distributions from IRAs which included a deferred income account. I had not been tracking taxable income, and thought that this would be good, so I tried to do this last year, but I think I did it incorrectly. I wanted to avail myself

Re: [GNC] How do you record the rounding of your netpay?

2024-01-15 Thread R Losey
On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 3:07 AM Oleander via gnucash-user < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > my netpay each month is rounded up to the next integer. This > rounding in my paycheck is indicated under the voice "Actual rounding" > then it is > charged in the paycheck of the

[GNC] Install Finance::Quotes

2024-01-15 Thread Gustavo Taouil
Hi Guys, please help me! I have MacBook Pro m3 with macOS Sonome. I followed the instructions in wiki page of Gnucash to install the Finance::Quote. I use this command in terminal : sudo ARCHFLAGS='-arch arm64 -arch arm64e -arch x86_64'

[GNC] How do you record the rounding of your netpay?

2024-01-15 Thread Oleander via gnucash-user
Hello everyone, my netpay each month is rounded up to the next integer. This rounding in my paycheck is indicated under the voice "Actual rounding" then it is charged in the paycheck of the following month under the voice "Previous rounding" and the netpay, in turn, rounded up to the next