Re: [GNC] How To Record an In-Kind Charitable Donation?

2018-07-25 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Definitely talk to a local CPA on this. Materials and services which would otherwise have to be purchased by the ministry are generally recordable by both entities. However, the services are possibly not (at least in the US) deductible. If you regularly produce these materials for other

Re: [GNC] Getting My Account To Trial Balance

2018-07-25 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I’ll give 3.3 a try and test. I seem to recall this error in the past and then it was working again because I recall helping someone hunt down an issue with this report in April or May. (I was supposed to file a bug report on how foreign currency balances are calculated for the report, but I

[GNC] Bug in design of commodity sell transactions? (was Re: Getting My Account To Trial Balance)

2018-07-25 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I suppose this is for another thread and certainly not on point for the OP’s question, but I don’t see those two transactions as balanced. The first one is. You credit $100 from Assets:Cash and debit $100 to Assets:Stocks (or whatever it’s designated as) The second one is not balanced. You’re

Re: [GNC] Getting My Account To Trial Balance

2018-07-25 Thread David Carlson
David T, Yes, I trade securities and GnuCash can handle my books as well as it can a very simple set of books. Shug had indicated in an earlier message that in this case there was only one currency and no securities and Adrien and I were trying to tailor our answers to his case. David C On

Re: [GNC] Getting My Account To Trial Balance

2018-07-25 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
David, I imagine that the number of GnuCash users who only have accounts in a single currency (i.e., without any investments in stocks, mutual funds, or other commodities) is probably pretty small. For those who *do* have such holdings, a balanced transaction will still fail the trial balance

Re: [GNC] Payroll add-on, module, software?

2018-07-25 Thread John Ralls
> On Jul 25, 2018, at 2:55 PM, Mike or Penny Novack > wrote: > > On 7/25/2018 2:06 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: >> R. but the short answer is, no, there is no (and probably won’t ever be) >> any payroll module or features. Unfortunately, the jurisdictional >> requirement nightmare to

Re: [GNC] Getting My Account To Trial Balance

2018-07-25 Thread David Carlson
I have no experience with release 3.2 or with High Sierra, so I hope others can help Shug with reports. As Adrien Monteleone and David T both point out, the Trial Balance report may be of little or no value to users who only use one currency and do not buy or sell stock or other commodities. You

Re: [GNC] GETTING MY ACCOUNT TO TRIAL BALANCE

2018-07-25 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 26 Jul 2018, H Millar MacDonald OBE wrote: The release is 3.2 and the OS is High Sierra. I’m not very savvy so complex debugging is probably beyond me. If all else fails then i can do the trial balance manually but it rather defeats the purpose. My accountant likes to see a trial

Re: [GNC] GETTING MY ACCOUNT TO TRIAL BALANCE

2018-07-25 Thread H Millar MacDonald OBE
Thanks David. The release is 3.2 and the OS is High Sierra. I’m not very savvy so complex debugging is probably beyond me. If all else fails then i can do the trial balance manually but it rather defeats the purpose. Shug > On 25 Jul 2018, at 23:49, David Carlson wrote: > > That is a bird

Re: [GNC] Getting My Account To Trial Balance

2018-07-25 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I get that same error. (MacOS High Sierra, GnuCash 3.2) My suspicion is misconfigured report options, but I’m not familiar with the report enough to know which one(s). I never bother with this report because I don’t use the Close Books function. I also don’t really understand it’s purpose with

Re: [GNC] GETTING MY ACCOUNT TO TRIAL BALANCE

2018-07-25 Thread David Carlson
That is a bird of a different feather. Then it will help to know which release you are using and what operating system your computer has, because the solution may be to switch to a different release or to try some more complex debugging if you are up to it. Do include gnucash-user@gnucash.org in

Re: [GNC] Logs.

2018-07-25 Thread David Carlson
Then try a very short setting. One or two days. I know that a thirty day setting works fine in 2.6.x releases to delete old logs and backups. David C On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 3:00 PM, varda241 wrote: > It is not just one or two. There are logs created each time I open the > program. > > > >

Re: [GNC] Payroll add-on, module, software?

2018-07-25 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 7/25/2018 2:06 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: R. but the short answer is, no, there is no (and probably won’t ever be) any payroll module or features. Unfortunately, the jurisdictional requirement nightmare to comply with every nuance across the entire planet is beyond the time and

Re: [GNC] Payroll add-on, module, software?

2018-07-25 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Interesting. I’ll look’em over. Thanks! Regards, Adrien > On Jul 25, 2018, at 3:07 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > > On Wed, 25 Jul 2018, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > >> Firefox is a browser, not a search engine, but I believe the current >> version defaults to using Google for it’s combo address

[GNC] Installing 3.2

2018-07-25 Thread Raymond Moritz
I’m running 3.0 on Windows 10. I’d like to move to 3.2. Do I have to uninstall 3.0 first? Import or convert the data file? Any other things that must be done or precautions? Sent this first from the wrong account. Sorry. Thanks. ___ gnucash-user

Re: [GNC] Payroll add-on, module, software?

2018-07-25 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 25 Jul 2018, Adrien Monteleone wrote: Firefox is a browser, not a search engine, but I believe the current version defaults to using Google for it’s combo address bar-search field. (you can customize the toolbar to show the old separate search field where you can install many search

Re: [GNC] Logs.

2018-07-25 Thread varda241 via gnucash-user
It is not just one or two. There are logs created each time I open the program. Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone Original message From: David Carlson Date: 7/25/18 1:12 PM (GMT-05:00) To: varda241 Cc: gnucash-user Subject: Re: [GNC] Logs. I

Re: [GNC] GETTING MY ACCOUNT TO TRIAL BALANCE

2018-07-25 Thread D via gnucash-user
Shug, I would ask you to tell us what error message you have received, since I don't usually see any error messages when I run this report. (I do have trouble getting this report to balance, however). However, David has made useful advice regarding tracking transaction gain or loss; I would

Re: [GNC] Payroll add-on, module, software?

2018-07-25 Thread Roderick Anderson
Thanks Adrien. The restricted/qualified search string worked great. I was just searching for FOSS payroll software. Too many wrong results. I'm thinking your suggestion to use a spreadsheet might be the trick needed. I'm seeing my friend later today so I'll suggest this as an option too.

Re: [GNC] Payroll add-on, module, software?

2018-07-25 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Firefox is a browser, not a search engine, but I believe the current version defaults to using Google for it’s combo address bar-search field. (you can customize the toolbar to show the old separate search field where you can install many search engines and choose between them when searching)

Re: [GNC] GETTING MY ACCOUNT TO TRIAL BALANCE

2018-07-25 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 25 Jul 2018, H Millar MacDonald OBE wrote: However, when I try to get a Trial Balance I get an error message which according to Google seems to be quite common. I don¹t know where to start to fix this. Can anyone offer any advice please? I am an absolute novice at all of this so please

Re: [GNC] Payroll add-on, module, software?

2018-07-25 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Rod, Do a list search for payroll questions via Google like this: “site:lists.gnucash.org payroll” That will limit the search to only the mailing list server. (I don’t think other search engines have that feature) You’ll find many list topics dealing with the subject but the short answer is,

Re: [GNC] balance sheet and account equation for Business Accounts

2018-07-25 Thread Stephen M. Butler
On 07/25/2018 09:13 AM, nor via gnucash-user wrote: > I have separate income accounts for USD and Euro transactions. When the need > arises than only funds from Euro is converted to default USD account held at > the bank at the prevailing exchange rate. > > balance sheet report is with exchange

Re: [GNC] GETTING MY ACCOUNT TO TRIAL BALANCE

2018-07-25 Thread David Carlson
I assume that you mean the debits do not equal the credits rather than that GnuCash failed to generate the report. This is commonly the result of selling a commodity for a different price than what was originally paid without correctly accounting for the profit or loss. One technique to close in

[GNC] GETTING MY ACCOUNT TO TRIAL BALANCE

2018-07-25 Thread H Millar MacDonald OBE
Hi I¹ve just become involved with GnuCash 3.2 and set up my first accounts for our club. It all looks okay except and will provide a profit and loss report on Income and Expenditure which is good. However, when I try to get a Trial Balance I get an error message which according to Google

Re: [GNC] Logs.

2018-07-25 Thread David Carlson
I never tried that setting, but if there is one or two, is that a problem? David C On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 11:29 AM, varda241 via gnucash-user < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > > > Is there any way to stop them? I have "never" on my preference and tha > still show up.Thanks, Varda > > > Sent

[GNC] Logs.

2018-07-25 Thread varda241 via gnucash-user
Is there any way to stop them? I have "never" on my preference and tha still show up.Thanks, Varda Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or

[GNC] Payroll add-on, module, software?

2018-07-25 Thread Roderick Anderson
Looking for a way to handle payroll (US) that works/blends with GNUCash. The company I'm helping (actually a friend) is running some software that isn't even available any more. I've exposed her to GNUCash but the biggest hold up is payroll. She does accounting for some (very) small Water

Re: [GNC] balance sheet and account equation for Business Accounts

2018-07-25 Thread nor via gnucash-user
Thanks. Shall do by this weekend. In Ver 3.2 standard report seems to be located at user/.gnucash/book nor -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update

Re: [GNC] balance sheet and account equation for Business Accounts

2018-07-25 Thread nor via gnucash-user
I have separate income accounts for USD and Euro transactions. When the need arises than only funds from Euro is converted to default USD account held at the bank at the prevailing exchange rate. balance sheet report is with exchange rates at balance sheet report date. May be these exchange rate

Re: [GNC] opening my accounts after I have saved them

2018-07-25 Thread DaveC49
Johnnie Use File ->Open from the menu and navigate to the location where you saved the file. Hopefully you did not save the file to a read only CD. You should have received a warning that the device could not be written to if you had attempted to do that. Open the file .gnucash where filename is

Re: [GNC] Missing menus

2018-07-25 Thread DaveC49
Joe, I've been using GnuCash on Linux Mint for approx 5 years with no problems. The Software manager version is sometimes a little behind the current GnuCash version but at present it has a flatpak GnuCash V3.2 available that worked fine under LM18.3 and is working fine on LM19. I'm currently

Re: [GNC] opening my accounts after I have saved them

2018-07-25 Thread Colin Law
It should automatically open the last saved accounts file if you restart gnucash. If not then use File > Open and browse to the file. Assuming that works then close and reopen gnucash and check it re-opens the file. Note that on a Mac you cannot double click an accounts file to open it, that

Re: [GNC] opening my accounts after I have saved them

2018-07-25 Thread Maf. King
On Tuesday, 24 July 2018 23:56:04 BST JOHNNIE BROWNING wrote: > I am unable to open my account after I have posted and then saved them. It > keepts opening my cd drive Hi Jonnie, Are you on a Mac, by any chance? Maf. > ___ > gnucash-user mailing