Re: [GNC] Unique entry date and transaction date availability?

2019-05-01 Thread Christian Kluge
ou’re using but on Linux with the experimental features compile option I can start gnucash with the --extra option and can enable this view in the Extensions/Register 2 General Journal Kind regards Christian Kluge ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucas

Re: [GNC] UK VAT and "Making Tax Digital"

2019-04-30 Thread Christian Kluge
are listed is for reverse charge. Also can the new report round the tax base for output VAT down to full monetary units? The next big thing would be cash-based VAT even if submitting a balance sheet. (Ist-Versteuerung). Kind regards Christian Kluge. Am 30.04.2019 um 17:08 schrieb Christopher Lam

Re: [GNC] Don't understand why I have what I have

2019-04-13 Thread Christian Kluge
s an extract from their accounting showing their point of view. So each debit for you is a credit for them and vice versa. Kind regards Christian Kluge ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to

Re: [GNC] Split transaction: more than two off-setting accounts

2019-04-13 Thread Christian Kluge
Am 13.04.2019 um 21:10 schrieb Rich Shepard: > On Sat, 13 Apr 2019, Christian Kluge wrote: > >> Just change the values in the debit and credit columns. >> As long as the sums of debit and credit don’t match you can add further >> entries. > > That works as long as

Re: [GNC] Split transaction: more than two off-setting accounts

2019-04-13 Thread Christian Kluge
the debit and credit columns. As long as the sums of debit and credit don’t match you can add further entries. Kind regards Christian Kluge ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscri

Re: [GNC] AR Asset differen t GL codes

2019-04-05 Thread Christian Kluge
If you can’t beat them, join them with the TOFU … There’s one thing where seperate customer accounts might shine: If you’ve got a customer or vendor with non-typical balance e. g. overpayments or refunds it will get put on the other side of the balance sheet. Kind regards Christian Kluge Am

Re: [GNC] Confused by report "Price Source" when recording bills in a foreign currency

2019-03-28 Thread Christian Kluge
o Income:Foreign Exchange Fluctuation £0.02 Payment 3: By Liabilities:Current Liabilities:Trade Creditors USD $14.40 by Expense:Foreign Exchange Fluctuation £0.10 to Assets:Current Assets:Bank £11.02 Kind regards

Re: [GNC] End of year rollover

2019-03-21 Thread Christian Kluge
e financial year is always the calendar year. And all I’ve said about different financial years doesn’t apply for VAT which is always reported for the calendar year, which complicates things even further. Kind regards Christian Kluge ___ gnucash-use

Re: [GNC] End of year rollover

2019-03-21 Thread Christian Kluge
t would be possible to have an option the gnucash file for the previous year which would be used comparisson reports. Is there a way to ex- and import the business related things? If there were the scenario you’ve described would a bit cumbersome but still doable. Kind regards Christian Kluge

Re: [GNC] Splitting a multi-year file

2019-03-03 Thread Christian Kluge
one-year-only file I would import the account structure and make entries for the opening balances. Lastly I would import the transactions from the CSV files. Kind regards Christian Kluge ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update yo

Re: [GNC] Cashflow-like report to show realized and unrealized gains / balance sheet delta report

2019-02-25 Thread Christian Kluge
y moves between accounts of different currencies. Then in the end the trading accounts should yield the gain/loss due to stock prize changes when selecting nearest in time. Kind regards Christian Kluge ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.or

Re: [GNC] Changing account numbers?

2019-02-21 Thread Christian Kluge
lumn to be displayed you can even double click on it and change it there. Kind regards Christian Kluge ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/list

Re: [GNC] Problem with Splits

2019-02-12 Thread Christian Kluge
Hello, I just want to apologize, somehow the subject of this thread escaped my mind maybe because the OP’s post I bit not understandable. I obviously know what split transactions are and yes, if one account remains unsplit I would go from there. Kind regards Christian Kluge Am 12.02.2019 um

Re: [GNC] Problem with Splits

2019-02-12 Thread Christian Kluge
Am 11.02.2019 um 22:15 schrieb Michael or Penny Novack: > On 2/11/2019 2:40 PM, Christian Kluge wrote: >> Hi, >> >> my general rule of thumb is to always entering from an asset or >> liability account. >> >  The proper "general rule" for a (one

Re: [GNC] Problem with Splits

2019-02-11 Thread Christian Kluge
don’t to switch account windows that often. Kind regards Christian Kluge Am 11.02.2019 um 20:07 schrieb Adrien Monteleone: > Gareth, > > Not sure exactly what you mean with respect to "a different heading." > > As a general rule, I’d enter all transactions in the accou

Re: [GNC] Cash Account Question

2019-01-24 Thread Christian Kluge
es set by the financial authorities. If you don’t track your cash right, they can estimate your sales. I can’t understand why you wouldn’t track your cash payments. Either track everything or nothing at all. Kind regards Christian Kluge ___ gnucash

Re: [GNC] Multiple Currency transaction with bank fee

2018-11-19 Thread Christian Kluge
PS: It might also I have something to do with getting the quotes via Finance-Quote for me. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe:

Re: [GNC] Multiple Currency transaction with bank fee

2018-11-19 Thread Christian Kluge
Am 19.11.2018 um 17:28 schrieb David T. via gnucash-user: > > >> On Nov 19, 2018, at 2:09 AM, Christian Kluge wrote: >> >> Am 18.11.2018 um 17:50 schrieb David T. via gnucash-user: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I am a longtime user (GC3.3, Mac OSX) tr

Re: [GNC] Multiple Currency transaction with bank fee

2018-11-18 Thread Christian Kluge
and the EUR account and left the transaction. Afterwards I changed the amount for the EUR account and could just assign the new remaining amount to an EUR exchange rate expenses account. What would be your use case. You could also write the final EUR amount first and change the imbalance

Re: [GNC] [GNC-dev] Automatically split transactions with sales tax

2018-11-10 Thread Christian Kluge
asier. But for what it’s worth I also would like to have a way to have a column for the tax-table to use in the transaction register. However for I seem to have understood it’s very deeply ingrained in the business features, that it would be a lot of work to do s

Re: [GNC] Multiple currencies and business functions

2018-11-07 Thread Christian Kluge
Am 07.11.2018 um 01:32 schrieb Matthew Pounsett: > On Tue, 6 Nov 2018 at 15:30, Christian Kluge wrote: > >>> The currency logic is pretty simple: every amount you see in the invoice >>> entries is assumed to be in the customer's default currency. They income >&g

Re: [GNC] Multiple currencies and business functions

2018-11-06 Thread Christian Kluge
Hi, just a minor addition. Am 06.11.2018 um 21:29 schrieb Christian Kluge: > Hi, > > Am 06.11.2018 um 18:22 schrieb Geert Janssens: >> Op dinsdag 6 november 2018 17:16:16 CET schreef Matthew Pounsett: >>> I have cases with both billable employee expenses (vouchers) an

Re: [GNC] Multiple currencies and business functions

2018-11-06 Thread Christian Kluge
going to post the invoice, you’ll get asked for the conversion rates. If everything plays out you should get the same amount in CAD, else just change it, there sometimes are little rounding errors. The last operation would be to add a transaction from the temporary CAD asset account to your normal USD income

Re: [GNC] Unable to retrieve quotes for these items:, CURRENCY:EUR

2018-11-03 Thread Christian Kluge
lly like to see the ECB reference rates[1] for the eurozone getting added to finance-quote, which should be doable, since they give some information on how to retrieve with a bit of scripting. Unfortunately I’m not that fond in programming in Perl. Kind regards Christian Kluge [1] https://ww

Re: [GNC] Capital losses in Advanced Portfolio Report

2018-10-22 Thread Christian Kluge
; >  * ASSET/LIABILITY for stock/fund purchases/sales >  * INCOME for capital gains/losses >  * EXPENSE for transactional costs eg brokerage fees > > > This is now well-defined (albeit not well documented yet), works well > within the Gnucash engine. IMHO the report shouldn't

Re: [GNC] Capital losses in Advanced Portfolio Report

2018-10-21 Thread Christian Kluge
on a normal standard income account. Kind regards Christian Kluge Am 21.10.2018 um 16:35 schrieb John Ralls: > That’s because the Advanced Portfolio Report is hard-wired to expect capital > gains and losses to be posted to an income report with gains as credits and > losses as debits. >

Re: [GNC] bank2qif - a gnucash companion tool

2018-10-02 Thread Christian Kluge
ayesian Matcher or maybe you can even directly import the transactions from the bank without an extra file. For which I don’t know why to convert it to QIF, if wasn’t provided by the bank that way firstly, since as I said, gnucash 3 can import CSV-files just fine. Kind regards Christian Kluge __

Re: [GNC] [GNC-dev] GnuCash 3.3 Released

2018-10-02 Thread Christian Kluge
put field, instead a random portion of the line gets selected right when I press Ctrl, the “a“ has no effect afterwards. Is this already known or should I file a report? Kind regards Christian Kluge ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.

Re: [GNC] [OT] Why is Debit abbreviated Dr?

2018-09-05 Thread Christian Kluge
rt and should > be banned. Every form of accounting assumes that the debit side will give its value back one day as the original Italian formulations «deve dare» “shall give“ and «deve avere» “shall have”, everyone knows that’s never going to happen but still, nothing counterintuit

Re: [GNC] [OT] Why is Debit abbreviated Dr?

2018-09-05 Thread Christian Kluge
oli’s original can be read here: https://archive.org/details/ancientdoubleent00geijuoft Kind regards Christian Kluge ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnuca

Re: [GNC] Summarizing cash flow report w.r.t. entries and exits (discounts)

2018-08-09 Thread Christian Kluge
Hi, under certain circumstances VAT can be treated as expense/income, e. g. in Germany when one’s only required to do cash based accounting. In that case payable output tax and refunds would be treated as income and input tax and vat payments are treated as expense. Kind regards Christian

Re: [GNC] Forcing a single payment to split across invoices with the older one not being paid in full

2018-08-06 Thread Christian Kluge
two payments instead of one. > > Any ideas? My suggestion would be to create a temporary clearing account to which all total payments are posted before they’re split to the appropriate invoices, if there’s no solution with the business module. Kind regards Christian Kluge

Re: [GNC] Operating Checking Account in Overdraft

2018-08-02 Thread Christian Kluge
ither way. > > Michael D. Novack > In Germany this account would also be listed as a liability on the balance shield. In fact the accounting program I use at work lets you select secondary account types so that accounts with a negative balance get assigned a new position on the other s

Re: [GNC] How to process a purchase made without paying VAT and add it as an investment to be later depreciated

2018-07-14 Thread Christian Kluge
Hi, Am 13.07.2018 um 23:02 schrieb Jeremy D: > Hi Geert, Frank, > > First of all, I really appreciate the feedback. > > > > > > > > > *assets: VAT reimbursable Buys @ full rate: 21% > : liabilities: VAT Sales: 21% > Import

Re: [GNC] Rethinking the placeholder account concept (was: Re: Fwd: The two modules)

2018-07-02 Thread Christian Kluge
Am 02.07.2018 um 03:05 schrieb Christopher Lam: > Discussions are useful; but would anyone have an idealised template, or > sample output that the balance sheet should produce? Idealy with the > 'account-has-children-and-amounts' peculiarity? > The balsheet in development will, ideally, replace

Re: [GNC] Rethinking the placeholder account concept (was: Re: Fwd: The two modules)

2018-07-01 Thread Christian Kluge
to be able to produce European reports. Regards, Christian Kluge ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabbl

Re: [GNC] Rethinking the placeholder account concept (was: Re: Fwd: The two modules)

2018-06-30 Thread Christian Kluge
Am 30.06.2018 um 22:52 schrieb John Ralls: > > >> On Jun 30, 2018, at 12:00 PM, Christian Kluge wrote: >> >> Am 30.06.2018 um 05:37 schrieb John Ralls: >>> >>> >>>> On Jun 29, 2018, at 3:26 PM, Christian Kluge >>>> wrote:

Re: [GNC] Rethinking the placeholder account concept (was: Re: Fwd: The two modules)

2018-06-30 Thread Christian Kluge
Am 30.06.2018 um 05:37 schrieb John Ralls: > > >> On Jun 29, 2018, at 3:26 PM, Christian Kluge wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Am 29.06.2018 um 19:26 schrieb John Ralls: >>> >>> >>>> On Jun 29, 2018, at 9:52 AM, Geert Janssens >&g

Re: [GNC] Rethinking the placeholder account concept (was: Re: Fwd: The two modules)

2018-06-29 Thread Christian Kluge
ays to have more than one chart of account in one file (only >> mentioned first in this message). > > There’s been an effort over the last several years between the IASB and the > US’s FASB to reconcile IAS and US GAAP for the obvious reason that it’s a > roy

[GNC] Associated Files in 3.1

2018-05-30 Thread Christian Kluge
the URLs of the associated files. I’ve already played with the setting for a relative path. What could be the solution to this problem? Thanks in advance! Christian Kluge ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your

Re: Sending data to my accountant

2018-04-06 Thread Christian Kluge
Dear Ian, Am 05.04.2018 um 11:29 schrieb Roache Ian: > What is the best way to get my gnucash data to my accountant for him to check > and prepare my tax return? Is there a way I can do this if he doesn’t have > the gnucash platform? In the newest version 3.0 you have to ability to export all