Re: [GNC] Flatpack GnuCash v3.2 available in Linux Mint and flathub website

Colin, There is a link labelled issues to the Gnome bugzilla site on the flathub GnuCash page which links to the now becoming defunct Gnome Bugzilla which is being transferred to Gnome Gitlab and has a link to it, https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME . I could not find any reporting of issues with

Re: [GNC] Building v3 - Wiki entry for Ubuntu

Hi Colin, Sorry for the confusion. I had gone back to check where LM installed from its software manager to check that it was into /usr/local and discovered it was now using flatpack and didn't install in any manner I was previously accustomed to. I appreciate that apt installs to /usr but my

Re: [GNC] How to move my Windows 10 2.6.17 to a new Windows 10 machine?

Dick, All that is necessary is to copy the .gnucash file from that directory to the new computer (usb stick is probably easiest) where is the name you originally gave your Gnucash file. This is the only file that it is necessary to copy to transfer to your new machine You will find a lot of

[GNC] Flatpack GnuCash v3.2 available in Linux Mint and flathub website

Gnucash V3.2 is available in the Software Manager in Linux Mint 18.3 downloading from the flatpack form from the flathub website(https://flathub.org/apps/search/GnuCash). Installs OK and indistinguisable from my own build on my system. Can be downloaded from the flathub site directly if you're

Re: [GNC] Building v3 - Wiki entry for Ubuntu

Hi Colin, I'm responsible for m,ost of the update on the build Ubuntu. No problem for me with a more generic page name at all. I had stuck with the names that were there as I updated it with the more recent build instructions. I have tried to generalise the page and make it a bit more user

Re: [GNC] How to move my Windows 10 2.6.17 to a new Windows 10 machine?

Thanks Liz, I didn't think of the preferences. David - David Cousens -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or

Gnucash 3.0 Build error

After following the build instructions https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building#Ubuntu I have checked glib-2.0 and libglib2.0 are installed I received the following errors when building using cmake (v 3.5.1) on Linux MInt 18.3 : /$ cmake -D

Re: Gnucash 3.0 Build error

The CMake error log for the above is /$ cat /home/david/Applications/gnucash-3.0/build-cmake/CMakeFiles/CMakeError.log Performing C SOURCE FILE Test have_mod_mask failed with the following output: Change Dir: /home/david/Applications/gnucash-3.0/build-cmake/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp Run Build

Re: GnuCash 3.0 Released

Also congratulations to John Geert and the rest of the team and thanks for all the effort. David - David Cousens -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org

Re: Gnucash 3.0 Build error

*$ cat /home/david/Applications/gnucash-3.0/build-cmake/CMakeFiles/CMakeError.log* Performing C SOURCE FILE Test have_mod_mask failed with the following output: Change Dir: /home/david/Applications/gnucash-3.0/build-cmake/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp Run Build Command:"/usr/bin/make" "cmTC_549d5/fast"

Re: [GNC] gnucash 3.0 installation

James, The target will depend upon the distribution you are running. As Adrien has said /opt is one possibility. If you are running a version released by the Ubuntu distribution managers, i.e. installed with sudo apt-get install gnucash, it is likely to be installed in /usr/local. The

Re: [GNC] GnuCash 3.0 under Windows 10

Hi Knut, This suggests that you may be missing a required library/dll. There have been some changes in the dependencies from GnuCash2.6 to Gnucash 3.0 that may be worth checking out. You mayu get help a bit quicker posting on GnuCash-Dev with Gnucash-3.0 problems. David Cousens - David

Re: [GNC] New User Needs Set-Up Help

Jack, the tutorial and cocepts guide can be found here . There is also the reference manual here . If you are not already familiar with double entry accounting the wikipedia pages on it are also

Re: [GNC] [GNC-dev] GnuCash 3.0 wine versus Windoze 10

David It is not really all that difficult to build a version from scratch if you are on Linux. I'm on Linux Mint and the distro package version is often behind the current stable. There are a few little twists with setting up googletest and the move from Autotools configure to CMake for the

Re: [GNC] Treasury Bills

Les, As they have a specified maturity date even though they are generally short term I doubt if you would usually classify them as cash, normally reserved for currency. They are basically short term investments with a maturity generally within the current accounting period so you would classify

Re: [GNC] splits 3+ accounts, how to

Eric, Mike To be fair to GnuCash, I have not been able to find a formal definition of split in my accounting text books . The only formal references I could find were under IAS39 which deals with embedded derivatives in a hybrid financial instrument

Re: [GNC] Is it safe to update?

Hi , I upgraded from v2.6.19 to v3.0 recently. I had some initial build problems, mainly to do with not having cleared out the previous versions libraries and my own lack of understanding of CMake, but otherwise pretty painless. No problems opening my datafiles and so far looks good. There have

Re: [GNC] GnuCash 3.0 wine versus Windoze 10

Consider running WIndows in a VM rather than using Wine. David Cousens - David Cousens -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your

RE: beginning balance of income and expense accounts

Lori, The Opening Balances account is an account of type equity. *It is always the offset account for the opening balances of all other accounts.* Your procedure for starting to use Gnucash from the 30/9 is fine. The entry for the opening balance for your income and expense accounts at 30/9

Re: Getting started

Johnathon, Just to amplify a little bit on Kevin's answers. If you are opening a file generated at home using Gnucash on your home computer, the copy of Gnucash running on your work computer cannot know where your files are located until it is has opened a file for the first time. You have to use

Re: Files don't export as html- text edit instead.

Peter, For your info. No problem with report export ( balance sheet) as html in Gnucash 2.6.19 running on Linux Mint 18.3, so it may be a specific Mac bug. It may also be a change in the html import for the spreadsheet you are using, if that has been recently updated. On Linux the .html

Re: Dealing with a bookkeeper and GNU

Martin Have you tried https://gnucashtoqif.us/ . It can apparently export to QIF and IIF formats. Haven't used it or Quickbooks so don't know how effective it is or how well it is maintained but it was updated moderately recently (2016-01-17) from a 2012 original.

Re: Intuit Mint to GnuCash

Transferring data out of Intuit Mint will depend upon whether that program/app has the ability to export data in a suitable form like OFX or Excel CSV format. Gnucash can import OFX file data if correctly structured and the current Gnucash versions can import CSV with some limitations (the

Re: Finally ready to move from Windoze to Unix, suggestions of flavor of Unix to use

Hi Jeffrey, I have been using Linux Mint which is a Debian/Ubuntu distribution for 4-5 years with no major problems. The interface is fairly easy to transition to from Windows particularly if prior to Windows 8. The RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express controller should work with the standard Ubuntu

Re: Refund invoice

and https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.6/C/gnucash-help/busnss-ar-invoices1.html David - David Cousens -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update

Re: Refund invoice

Check out https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Credit_Notes David - David Cousens -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription

Re: How can I recover lost transactions

It is most likely that the transactions are not missing but are being filtered out either by explicit filters or by preference settings for the accounting period although the latter should not restrict the range ofdates dislayed to my knowledge. The accounting period is set under

Re: Printing no longer works on Windows 10 Pro

Jeffrey, You could always run the legacy Windoze apps in a Virtul Machine on Linux and make the break. - David Cousens -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html ___ gnucash-user mailing list

Re: GNUcash setup

Ken, Adrien Just a quick note re "separate account trees for each business". I have experimnted to try to do this within the one set of books (i.e. file) in Gnucash and have never found a way of doing it. My problem has always been creating an entity level top account as there is no top level

Re: Printing no longer works on Windows 10 Pro

David, We ex -Windows users are just like ex-smokers - never miss an opportunity to prosleytize to the unconverted. David - David Cousens -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html ___ gnucash-user mailing list

Re: Building 2.6.19 on Ubuntu Xenial

Just an additional comment Adrien, ./configure usually checks all the dependencies. First time I compiled gnucash from sources I just reran ./configure installing any packages it flagged as missing. i've just recompiled 2.6.19 on Linux Mint 18.3 (Ubuntu 16.04 derivative updated to Linux kernel

Re: Building 2.6.19 on Ubuntu Xenial

Hi Adrien, See this page (https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Ubuntu) from the website for installing on Ubuntu. There is also a link at the bottom of the page for building Gnucash on Ubuntu (https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building#Ubuntu) but as you observed it has the dependency list for 2.8. There

Re: [GNC] Fwd: The two modules

Stephen, As an accountant I would prefer to have parent accounts as placeholder accounts which cannot be the target of transactions directly (this can be set in the edit Account dialog and marks the account as read only) as the placeholder total should then be the sum of its active child

Re: [GNC] Large Negative Account Total

Jack, GnuCash has by default, top level accounts for Assets, Liabilities, Income, Expanses and Liabilities. These are also the names of account types. All accounts of account type Assets should be somewhere under the top level Asset account and likewise for accounts of each other account type.

Re: [GNC] (no subject)

Roger, The Locations for saved reports changed between V2 and V3 of GnuCash. Details are given in the Wiki page https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations#:~:text=The%20default%20locations%20are%3A,gnucash. I think they relate to Windows 8/10 but not sure about Win 7. There are links

Re: [GNC] WHY ARE THERE "IMBALANCE ENTRIES" AT ALL ?? JUST CURIOUS

Laura, The reason Imbalance entries exist is that it is a fundamental principle in double entry accounting that the sum of the debits and credits to the various accounts that make up a transaction must be zero. The Imbalance results if a user creates and saves a transaction in which this is not

Re: [GNC] New Imbalance-XXX Behavior

David, I'm not sure why the behaviour has changed, but from a programming prospective, it is much simpler to create the imbalance accounts at the top level. There is no need to search for a location which may be different in every user's CoA. One reason perhaps for keeping it at the top level is

Re: [GNC] question - how do I move one or more transactions between accounts?

To move one split of a transaction from one account to another if you edit the transaction in the register for the account of the split which is going to be unchanged. A all you have to do is change the account in the Account column. Delete the existing selected account and you should get a drop

Re: [GNC] Import Format

The developers' link looks interesting. It seems to be mainly about making authorized payments for e-commerce functions on a quick look at it and nothing about downloading transaction data, but it is a move in the right direction. The Python version of the API may provide a way of creating a

Re: [GNC] How do I manage IOUs between household members?

Arman Equity is not the way to go to do this. All of the funds are assets and since they are in a single bank account the obvious way is to have 3 sub accounts of the main asset bank account which could simply be a placeholder Assets:Bank Account Assets:Bank Account:Arman Assets:Bank

Re: [GNC] Import Format

The CBA in Australia offers CSV, OFX and QIF (2 variants) downloads from the bank website. They only offer direct connect OFX downloads via MYOB or Quicken where these companies have a software deal/agreement with the bank about security. i have approached them about direct connect access but

Re: [GNC] Reconcile multiple child accounts

Kalpesh, The reconciliation process has an option to include sub accounts. When the dialog first comes up there is a checkbox underneath which you can check to include sub accounts in the reconciliation. David -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html

Re: [GNC] Frustration (recently used files)

Andrew, Are these rental properties are all part of a single business owned by a single legal entity? If so do you really need to maintain 4 sets of books? It is possible within Gnucash to set up an accounting structure in which the four properties would be separate with their on

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