Re: bank entries

2017-11-26 Thread David Carlson
Christine, If you receive income you might deposit it into the bank. If you spend money for groceries, you use cash. If you withdraw money from the bank you transfer from bank to cash. That is what double entry is about. David C, On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 6:33 PM, Christine via gnucash-user <

RE: bank entries

2017-11-26 Thread Christine via gnucash-user
Hi Dave My accounts are Cash, Bank, Income, various expenses, and 2 people who I pay money too and who pay to the bank. IF I balance one of the accounts another goes wrong. All I want to do is add my bank and my cash and let gnucash do the rest (ie an income and expenditure report) but it is not

Re: bank entries

2017-11-26 Thread DaveC49
Christine, Gnucash is a double entry accounting system. What this means is that any transaction affects at least two accounts. For example when you purchase something your bank account is credited by the amount of the purchase any purchase is also an expense so an expense account has to be

RE: bank entries

2017-11-26 Thread Ken Pyzik
Christine -- without seeing the entry it is difficult to determine why is it doing what you say it is. As a matter of principle, you must remember that there must be a corresponding "other-side" to your deposit entry. While this may seem counter-intuitive, your deposit to your bank account

Re: bank entries

2017-11-26 Thread Colin Law
Have you read the tutorial and concepts guide? [1] It sounds like you are making a basic mistake in how you are entering it. Colin [1] http://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.6/C/gnucash-guide/ On 26 November 2017 at 21:52, Christine via gnucash-user wrote: > Whenever I post

Re: bank entries

2017-11-26 Thread Christine via gnucash-user
Whenever I post a deposit to the bank, it makes a withdrawal of the same amount and I cannot get it to just take the entry, can anyone help pls Christine --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

GnuCash 2.7.2 released

2017-11-26 Thread John Ralls
The Gnucash Development Team is pleased to release Gnucash 2.7.2, the third release of an unstable series leading to Gnucash 2.8.0. This release is UNSTABLE and SHOULD NOT BE USED in production. This release changes file locations, binding APIs, report options, and can make your data file no