Re: [GNC] new to gnucash

> On 5 Jan 2019, at 16:41, Mike Kerstetter wrote: > > Hello all. I'm brand new to gnucash. I want it to do just the basics of > keeping a register and reconciliation of a couple bank and credit card > accounts. I had Money Sunset Deluxe and currently have Quicken (which is now > charging a

Re: [GNC] Reconciling different periods?

> On 11 Dec 2018, at 16:40, Finbar Mahon wrote: > > Hi, > > My reconcile is a bit erratic. So, I thought of trying to find the error by > reconciling for different periods. If I put in the date for the last > statement for the period I want to check, can I just put in an amount as the >

Re: [GNC] Reconciling different periods?

> On 13 Dec 2018, at 17:13, Finbar Mahon wrote: > > Thanks, Michael, I have been trying that using end March of this year as the > last 'OK' date but doing it up to latest balance seems to catch other errors, > so I was wondering if I could 'stage' the process. > > Looks like D's reply

[GNC] Crash - advice please!

Following reconciliation of recent bank statements, I had prepared several income and expense reports for the year ending 31/10/2018. The crash occurred when I requested a Balance Sheet for the same period. The file I was working on is ESJE.gnucash, and the most recent version of it is:

Re: [GNC] Crash - advice please!

> On 24 Nov 2018, at 12:17, John Ralls wrote: > > > >> On Nov 24, 2018, at 7:20 PM, Michael Hendry wrote: >> >> Following reconciliation of recent bank statements, I had prepared several >> income and expense reports for the year ending 31/10/2018. &g

Re: [GNC] Crash - advice please!

> On 24 Nov 2018, at 23:31, John Ralls wrote: > > > >> On Nov 25, 2018, at 1:38 AM, Michael Hendry wrote: >> >>> On 24 Nov 2018, at 12:17, John Ralls wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> On Nov 24, 2018, at 7:20 PM, Michael

Re: [GNC] Migrating to iMac from PC

> On 27 Nov 2018, at 14:36, Robert Heller wrote: > > At Tue, 27 Nov 2018 13:47:16 + Richard Jones > wrote: > >> >> I know gnucash runs on both Macs and PCs but I cannot find anything about >> the migration procedure. >> I have gnucash 3.3 on Windows 10. I am considering buying an Apple

[GNC] Export Report to PDF - characters split across pages

Here is a screen-shot to demonstrate the problem: https://www.dropbox.com/s/mmde3eqphnhabp6/Screenshot%202018-12-19%2011.22.14.png?dl=0 The report is readable, but inelegant. Any suggestions? Regards, Michael ___ gnucash-user mailing list

Re: [GNC] Export Report to PDF - characters split across pages

> On 19 Dec 2018, at 13:29, Geert Janssens wrote: > > Op woensdag 19 december 2018 12:29:05 CET schreef Michael Hendry: >> Here is a screen-shot to demonstrate the problem: >> >> https://www.dropbox.com/s/mmde3eqphnhabp6/Screenshot%202018-12-19%2011.22.14 >

Re: [GNC] Export Report to PDF - characters split across pages

> > Thanks, Geert (and Victor and David). > > Now I know that it’s not a matter of my failing to spot an option within > Gnucash, I’ll go for the “print-to-pdf” feature on my iMac - it’s a single > step as opposed to HTML->PDF. > > Michael > > Well, that would have worked if Gnucash

Re: [GNC] Upgrade Path from version 2.6.16 on MacOS High Sierra (10.13.6) and beyond

> On 28 Jan 2019, at 16:15, John Ralls wrote: > > > >> On Jan 28, 2019, at 3:47 AM, Adrien Monteleone >> wrote: >> >> A developer could chime in but my recollection from when this arose last >> year or so is, “no.” If it were critical to run a 32-bit version, you’ll >> need a VM running

Re: [GNC] Cancel Sub. Thanks mguszak

> On 2 Apr 2019, at 20:49, MICHAEL GUSZAK wrote: > > > ___ > 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

Re: [GNC] The Meaning of Split (previously Example of multi-split feature of CSV importer?)

> On 22 Mar 2019, at 19:33, aeg via gnucash-user > wrote: -- I agree with Michael's points.A simple transaction consists of just one split but two parts, and saying (pretending) that a simple transaction has two splits is misleading. I see no problems with the

Re: [GNC] is there a way to undo last months reconciliation

> On 7 Apr 2019, at 16:33, David T. via gnucash-user > wrote: > > Adrien, > > I have seen how easy it is to have this happen; I had an import that had > extraneous spaces in the Description field, and when I corrected that, the > transactions de-reconciled. > > There were no warnings. I

Re: [GNC] Downgrading to 2.6.21

> On 7 Apr 2019, at 16:32, Greg Feneis wrote: > > Hi John, > > The path length issue was with 3.5 on Win 7-64. Previously used 2.6.x to > save to the same location without trouble. > > The path that 3.5 failed to write to is: > > C:\Dropbox\My Docs\Thorough C & D\GnuCash\GnuCash >

Re: [GNC] The Meaning of Split (previously Example of multi-split feature of CSV importer?)

> On 22 Mar 2019, at 19:33, aeg via gnucash-user > wrote: -- I agree with Michael's points.A simple transaction consists of just one split but two parts, and saying (pretending) that a simple transaction has two splits is misleading. I see no problems with the

Re: [GNC] I would like different Preference settings for different files, same user

> On 3 Mar 2019, at 15:34, Jeff Abrahamson wrote: > > A bug was filed on this issue in November of 2007 (!). > >https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=493789 > > I've updated it to to point to this thread. I strongly encourage those > of you who who feel that this is important to add

Re: [GNC] I would like different Preference settings for different files, same user

> On 4 Mar 2019, at 08:31, Liz wrote: > > On Sun, 3 Mar 2019 11:58:14 + > Michael Hendry wrote: > >> The manual tells me quite clearly that Preferences are per-user, not >> per-file, so I can’t complain that Gnucash isn’t doing what’s >> intended! BUT it i

[GNC] I would like different Preference settings for different files, same user

My personal accounts run according to the UK tax year - 6th Apr one year to 5th Apr the next - but I also keep the books for East of Scotland Jazz Education (ESJE), a charity whose reporting year runs from 1st Nov one year to 31st Oct the next because its peak activity in bookkeeping terms is

Re: [GNC] Example of multi-split feature of CSV importer?

> On 18 Mar 2019, at 16:36, Patrick wrote: > > That makes sense. Thank you for the very helpful response and the example. > > Regards, > Patrick Am I alone in finding the use of the word “split” in this context to be confusing? In ordinary everyday English, splitting an object involves its

[GNC] The Meaning of Split (previously Example of multi-split feature of CSV importer?)

> On 20 Mar 2019, at 10:52, Geert Janssens wrote: > > Op woensdag 20 maart 2019 10:51:55 CET schreef Michael Hendry: >> Which supports my contention that the use of the term “split” for a Ledger >> Entry causes confusion. >> > Fair enough. As I said if there's

Re: [GNC] Example of multi-split feature of CSV importer?

> On 20 Mar 2019, at 08:23, Geert Janssens wrote: > > Op dinsdag 19 maart 2019 22:10:29 CET schreef Adrien Monteleone: >> I never understood the need or benefit to differentiate simple vs. split >> transactions since *all* transactions are split into two entries at least >> once. Perhaps

Re: [GNC] The Meaning of Split (previously Example of multi-split feature of CSV importer?)

> On 21 Mar 2019, at 14:46, D via gnucash-user wrote: > > It seems circular to say that there is a distinction between a simple and > compound transaction, and then say a simple transaction is a special case > compound transaction. Then we're back at defining the difference between, > say, a

Re: [GNC] The Meaning of Split (previously Example of multi-split feature of CSV importer?)

> On 21 Mar 2019, at 15:15, Adrien Monteleone > wrote: > > I’m not sure ‘ledger entry’ is a prime choice either. If we were to consider > the pen and paper world, this is done as a ‘journal entry’ but that entry > always has two components (debit and credit) with at minimum two accounts >

Re: [GNC] The Meaning of Split (previously Example of multi-split feature of CSV importer?)

> On 22 Mar 2019, at 15:10, Derek Atkins wrote: > > D writes: > >> It seems circular to say that there is a distinction between a simple >> and compound transaction, and then say a simple transaction is a >> special case compound transaction. Then we're back at defining the >> difference

Re: [GNC] postpone reconciliation broken: ignores my changes

> On 7 Feb 2019, at 17:22, John Ralls wrote: > > > >> On Feb 7, 2019, at 12:52 AM, Colin Law wrote: >> >> On Thu, 7 Feb 2019 at 07:37, Michael Hendry >> wrote: >> >>>> On 3 Feb 2019, at 14:59, Jamestk wrote: >>>> >&g

Re: [GNC] postpone reconciliation broken: ignores my changes

> On 8 Feb 2019, at 08:38, Colin Law wrote: > > On a Mac is it possible to open a second instance of GC while one is > still running? Yes, but opening the second instance brings up the lock file warning, and this is the first time I’ve seen that warning in many weeks. It usually happens

Re: [GNC] postpone reconciliation broken: ignores my changes

> On 8 Feb 2019, at 09:25, David T. wrote: > > I know that on my Mac, it takes some time for gnucash to actually finish the > save process. Mine is a somewhat older macbook pro with an SSD. Is it > possible that you failed to wait for it to finish saving? > > David T. That’s what I was

Re: [GNC] postpone reconciliation broken: ignores my changes

> On 8 Feb 2019, at 10:02, Michael Hendry wrote: > >> On 8 Feb 2019, at 09:25, David T. wrote: >> >> I know that on my Mac, it takes some time for gnucash to actually finish the >> save process. Mine is a somewhat older macbook pro with an SSD. Is it >&

Re: [GNC] postpone reconciliation broken: ignores my changes

> On 8 Feb 2019, at 15:42, John Ralls wrote: > > > >> On Feb 8, 2019, at 7:31 AM, Michael Hendry wrote: >> >>> On 8 Feb 2019, at 10:02, Michael Hendry wrote: >>> >>>> On 8 Feb 2019, at 09:25, David T. wrote: >>>> >

[GNC] GC 3.4 quit aborts file save process (was Re: postpone reconciliation broken: ignores my changes)

I’ve been experimenting with the timing of Gnucash->Quit after clicking Save. There is an activity indicator after Save is clicked, which disappears when the mouse is moved away from the Save button, which makes it look as though the process is complete. If Gnucash->Quit is clicked promptly

Re: [GNC] GC 3.4 quit aborts file save process (was Re: postpone reconciliation broken: ignores my changes)

> On 9 Feb 2019, at 23:16, John Ralls wrote: > > > >> On Feb 9, 2019, at 3:07 PM, Michael Hendry wrote: >> >> I’ve been experimenting with the timing of Gnucash->Quit after clicking Save. >> >> There is an activity indicator after Save is

Re: [GNC] Using 4.3 on Mac - contradictory notification message on startup

> On 10 Feb 2019, at 09:39, Colin Law wrote: > > On Sun, 10 Feb 2019 at 08:56, Michael Hendry wrote: >> >> On starting GC this morning, I got this message: >> >> https://www.dropbox.com/s/k0pw5bs11od7cpm/Screenshot%202019-02-10%2008.49.0

Re: [GNC] Using 4.3 on Mac - contradictory notification message on startup

> On 10 Feb 2019, at 08:53, Michael Hendry wrote: > > On starting GC this morning, I got this message: > > https://www.dropbox.com/s/k0pw5bs11od7cpm/Screenshot%202019-02-10%2008.49.03.png?dl=0 > > It seems to say that there are no Scheduled Transactions to deal with to

[GNC] Using 4.3 on Mac - contradictory notification message on startup

On starting GC this morning, I got this message: https://www.dropbox.com/s/k0pw5bs11od7cpm/Screenshot%202019-02-10%2008.49.03.png?dl=0 It seems to say that there are no Scheduled Transactions to deal with today, then that two have been created. There appears to be no action for me to take, so

Re: [GNC] Version 3.4 Mac OS - intermittent fault with transaction editing popup

> On 11 Feb 2019, at 18:59, Adrien Monteleone > wrote: > > All context menus for me on a Mac have a ‘lag’ or delay on some or all items > in the menu. At most this lasts about 2 seconds. In most cases it is only one > menu entry (consistently a ‘delete’ variant) that doesn’t seem to want to

Re: [GNC] postpone reconciliation broken: ignores my changes

> On 3 Feb 2019, at 14:59, Jamestk wrote: > > Ira me again, this seems to be happening on v3.4 > > Changes made by ticking entries are no longer saved after opting to > postpone, anyone else noticed this? A slightly different (but perhaps connected?) reconciliation problem happened to me

Re: [GNC] postpone reconciliation broken: ignores my changes

> On 8 Feb 2019, at 23:48, John Ralls wrote: > >> >> Is it up to me to initiate this? > > It works best if you do, but if you prefer not to I'll do it for you with the > information in this thread. > > Regards, > John Ralls I think you would express the problem more coherently than I. But

Re: [GNC] postpone reconciliation broken: ignores my changes

> On 8 Feb 2019, at 23:54, John Ralls wrote: > > > >> On Feb 8, 2019, at 2:02 PM, Michael Hendry wrote: >> >> Actually, the first file was modified on 8th Feb at 00:01, followed by the >> lock file at 00:03. >> >> The MDH.gnucash.tmp-ea6

Re: [GNC] postpone reconciliation broken: ignores my changes

> On 8 Feb 2019, at 17:37, John Ralls wrote: > > > >> On Feb 8, 2019, at 8:11 AM, Michael Hendry wrote: >> >> PS Looking at the log files, I’m reminded that a number of scheduled >> transactions took place during the session. Inspecting these it seem

Re: [GNC] postpone reconciliation broken: ignores my changes

> On 9 Feb 2019, at 11:20, Michael Hendry wrote: > >> On 8 Feb 2019, at 17:37, John Ralls wrote: >> >> >> >>> On Feb 8, 2019, at 8:11 AM, Michael Hendry wrote: >>> >>> PS Looking at the log files, I’m reminded that a number of

[GNC] Version 3.4 Mac OS - intermittent fault with transaction editing popup

This came to my notice when trying to examine a number of Split Transactions. I selected the first transaction and right-clicked to bring up the menu, but when I clicked Split Transaction nothing happened. I tried one or two other transactions, and sometimes the popup menu options work and

Re: [GNC] Version 3.4 Mac OS - intermittent fault with transaction editing popup

> On 11 Feb 2019, at 15:07, John Ralls wrote: > > > >> On Feb 11, 2019, at 3:27 AM, Michael Hendry wrote: >> >> This came to my notice when trying to examine a number of Split Transactions. >> >> I selected the first transaction and right-clicked to

Re: [GNC] Upgrade Path from version 2.6.16 on MacOS High Sierra (10.13.6) and beyond

Progress notes on upgrade: I downloaded Gnucash-Intel-2.6.21-3.dmg this morning and dragged-and-dropped Gnucash.app into my Applications folder after renaming the earlier version. The verification failed when I tried to run the App. I downloaded Gnucash-Intel-3.4-1.dmg also, and went through

Re: [GNC] Upgrade Path from version 2.6.16 on MacOS High Sierra (10.13.6) and beyond

> On 29 Jan 2019, at 17:45, John Ralls wrote: > > > >> On Jan 29, 2019, at 9:08 AM, Michael Hendry wrote: >> >>> On 29 Jan 2019, at 16:54, Michael Hendry wrote: >>> >>> Progress notes on upgrade: >>> >>> I downloaded

Re: [GNC] Upgrade Path from version 2.6.16 on MacOS High Sierra (10.13.6) and beyond

> On 29 Jan 2019, at 16:54, Michael Hendry wrote: > > Progress notes on upgrade: > > I downloaded Gnucash-Intel-2.6.21-3.dmg this morning and dragged-and-dropped > Gnucash.app into my Applications folder after renaming the earlier version. > > The verification fa

Re: [GNC] Upgrade Path from version 2.6.16 on MacOS High Sierra (10.13.6) and beyond

> On 29 Jan 2019, at 18:50, John Ralls wrote: > > I just uploaded a new Gnucash-Intel-2.6.21-3.dmg to both SourceForge and > Github with a re-signed app. It validates successfully for me but I got a > different spctl error from Michael's. > > I've also updated the SHA-256 (which changed

[GNC] Upgrade Path from version 2.6.16 on MacOS High Sierra (10.13.6) and beyond

I have been contentedly using Gnucash since 2010, initially on Ubuntu but more recently on iMac, and although I have no problems with the version I’m using it’s probably time I upgraded. I have a few questions: 1. Will 2.6.16 still run on the Mac when the withdrawal of support for 32-bit

Re: [GNC] Upgrade 2.6.18 to 3.5

> On 10 Apr 2019, at 08:21, aeg via gnucash-user > wrote: > > I am currently using version 2.6.16 so should I upgrade to 2.6.21 before 3.5 > or is another intermediate step recommended? > Kind regards,Alan For what it’s worth, I can report no file incompatibility problems in making the

Re: [GNC] Payment month after reconcile

> On 30 May 2019, at 05:05, Adrien Monteleone > wrote: > > Thanks David, > > Now that you mention it, I vaguely seem to recall this from reading the > documentation. (I might retain a bit of info I don’t need from time to time) > > Is there anyone who uses this feature (or that programmed

Re: [GNC] Stock quotes

> On 27 May 2019, at 00:02, Jean-David Beyer via gnucash-user > wrote: > > On 5/26/19 4:34 PM, Steve wrote: >> That was it. I still had one set up as Alphavantage. "Unknown error" >> is not the most helpful error message. >> > > I wrote a big program once, and at one point in the program, I

Re: [GNC] extra column?

> On 19 Jun 2019, at 13:02, Larry Evans wrote: > > You're not the first to request that feature: > > https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2015-August/061582.html > > I'd also like such a feature. As things are now, I create 2 subaccounts > for a bank account, one subaccount

Re: [GNC] A really basic question ...

> On 12 May 2019, at 01:50, gp wrote: > > Hi Sachin, > > This is what I used to have (from an old Gnucash file) and the view I'm > trying to get back: > > > I accidentally closed that Business Account tab, so this is all I see now:

[GNC] * Unsaved book - Gnucash

I’m using version 3.4 on Mac OS X High Sierra. This comes up briefly in the Gnucash title bar when I’ve finished working on one file and File->Open another one, although the file that is being closed has definitely been saved already. It doesn’t seem to have any adverse effect (apart from

Re: [GNC] * Unsaved book - Gnucash

> On 1 May 2019, at 16:02, John Ralls wrote: > > > >> On May 1, 2019, at 6:46 AM, Michael Hendry wrote: >> >> I’m using version 3.4 on Mac OS X High Sierra. >> >> This comes up briefly in the Gnucash title bar when I’ve finished working on >&g

Re: [GNC] * Unsaved book - Gnucash

> On 2 May 2019, at 23:07, Derek Atkins wrote: > > Michael, > > On Thu, May 2, 2019 5:44 pm, Michael Hendry wrote: >> >> PS Panic over! >> >> I removed all files created after the last known good .gnucash backup file >> - MDH.gnucash.20190

Re: [GNC] * Unsaved book - Gnucash

> On 2 May 2019, at 21:59, Michael Hendry wrote: > >> On 2 May 2019, at 00:47, John Ralls wrote: >> >> I sure hope so. >> >> Regards, >> John Ralls > > Thanks, John. > > Encouraged by your confidence in 3.5, I downloaded and

Re: [GNC] Need help reconciling

> On 27 Apr 2019, at 10:29, Liz wrote: > > On Sat, 27 Apr 2019 14:16:25 +0530 > "David T. via gnucash-user" wrote: > >> ToddAndMango, you might try reading the documentation. > > I'm going to put my education hat on here > > We all learn in different combinations of three main ways >

Re: [GNC] Account report: defined date range

> On 21 Apr 2019, at 18:16, Rich Shepard wrote: > > I've read the report section of the guide and tried various reports > (including Account report) from the menu without finding the one I want: a > list of all transactions in my checking account defined by starting and > ending dates. > > The

Re: [GNC] Budget (combine 2 categories?)

> On 21 Apr 2019, at 16:44, randix wrote: > > I have two categories, that together I want to create a budget line for in a > budget report, eg I really don't have a specific budget for either one, but > I do for the total of the 2... is there any creative way to do that? > > Thanks... I

Re: [GNC] I can't see above the current widow

> On 22 Apr 2019, at 04:45, Adrien Monteleone > wrote: > > I’ve never tried to move ‘up’ the register page with an arrow key. > > Can you not use the scroll bar? > > Also, please always reply to the list address. > > Regards, > Adrien Is it possible that the OP has set up a filter to

Re: [GNC] Column Width

> On 17 Apr 2019, at 11:48, Justin Mathew via gnucash-user > wrote: > > > > Is there any way to enter dates from keyboard? Eg, if you have to enter a > record for past dates, you have to choose the dates from the drop down > calendar. Any format that I can type to get the dates? > > > - >

Re: [GNC] Accelerator Key for Jump button

> On 1 Jul 2019, at 19:21, Deva - wrote: > > Sorry, yes - the file you located in $HOME/Library/Application Support/ > appears to be the one you have to edit. > > Yes, CMD-S is a problem for split action, so I use CMD-L instead. That works > for me. > > Cheers. Magic! Thanks. Just one

Re: [GNC] First Day of the Week

> On 13 Aug 2019, at 17:00, Adrien Monteleone > wrote: > > I think Christopher confirmed earlier that the Transaction Report code is not > considering locale at all. > > There’s already a bug on it from 2015: > https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=752395 > > Though it seems at that

Re: [GNC] Club membership fees and charitable contributions - Business Features or Assets?

> On 2 Aug 2019, at 13:09, Mike or Penny Novack > wrote: > > On 8/2/2019 3:34 AM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: >> I’m not sure about keeping track of member donations in an Asset account. >> > There are difficult issues doing financials for non-profits which can require > some fiddling using

Re: [GNC] Club membership fees and charitable contributions - Business Features or Assets?

> On 3 Aug 2019, at 01:28, David Cousens wrote: > > Michael > > 4 sets of books is possibly overkill and likely confusing. At worst you > would need two, one for the club operations and one for charity. I agree, and have set up the two sets you describe. I have created an "Income:Intended

[GNC] Struggling with Export/Import of Accounts

I’m using GC version 3.5 on iMac with OS X High Sierra, set up to use UTF-8 by default. I’ve created a GC file with accounts for each member of my Rotary club in the form: Assets:Current Assets:Member:Surname, Forename and thought I should be able to copy these Accounts to another GC file

[GNC] Deleting a transaction which includes a reconciled split doesn't bring up a warning

Income from various members of my Rotary Club at weekly meetings destined for a particular charity (say Income:CharityX) now needs to be attributed to individual members for Gift Aid tax reclamation purposes. I have set up individual accounts (Income:CharityX:Member01, Income:CharityX:Member02

[GNC] Selective Export of Transactions omitting sub-accounts

I have set up some accounts as Liabilities and want to change them to Income. This can’t be done by deleting the accounts and transferring the transactions to another account because only Liability Accounts are offered as alternative destinations. I would like to export the transactions to

Re: [GNC] Selective Export of Transactions omitting sub-accounts

> On 13 Aug 2019, at 08:48, Adrien Monteleone > wrote: > > I have a somewhat detailed asset tree, but I did a test on a subset of it. > > I have the following: > > Assets:Current Assets:Currency > > And under that I have: > > Cash in Wallet > Coin Jar > Envelopes > > The latter was for an

Re: [GNC] First Day of the Week

> On 13 Aug 2019, at 09:13, Adrien Monteleone > wrote: > > I spoke too soon. > > It turns out that GIMP has a date picker when editing meta data. > > It also does not honor the first day of week setting in MacOS preferences. > > So this is a problem with GTK, not just GnuCash. > > The

Re: [GNC] Selective Export of Transactions omitting sub-accounts

> On 13 Aug 2019, at 09:36, Michael Hendry wrote: > >> On 13 Aug 2019, at 08:48, Adrien Monteleone >> wrote: >> >> I have a somewhat detailed asset tree, but I did a test on a subset of it. >> >> I have the following: >> >> Asset

Re: [GNC] First Day of the Week

; > Maybe some sort of user profile corruption myself and the OP share? > > Anyone out there on Mojave with Monday working as the first day? > > Regards, > Adrien > >> On Aug 13, 2019, at 3:49 AM, Michael Hendry wrote: > >> When I bring up the date-

Re: [GNC] Bookkeeping for a club's charity account - use business features?

> On 24 Aug 2019, at 23:03, Mike or Penny Novack > wrote: > > On 8/24/2019 5:39 PM, Michael Hendry wrote: > >> This is for the Gift Aid claim. We have to put in an annual claim to the >> taxman, identifying each contributor and his/her total amount donated d

Re: [GNC] Bookkeeping for a club's charity account - use business features?

> On 24 Aug 2019, at 21:58, Mike or Penny Novack > wrote: > > On 8/24/2019 11:57 AM, Michael Hendry wrote: > >> Thanks, Mike. >> >> The club itself keeps its own financial records for running expenses etc. >> Any income arising from charitabl

Re: [GNC] Bookkeeping for a club's charity account - use business features?

> On 24 Aug 2019, at 15:41, Mike or Penny Novack > wrote: > > On 8/23/2019 10:59 AM, Wm via gnucash-user wrote: >> >>> For example, the price of the meals at meetings is rounded up to the >>> nearest pound, and the remainder is earmarked for “Charity Choice”. Not all >>> members attend every

Re: [GNC] Bookkeeping for a club's charity account - use business features?

> On 26 Aug 2019, at 17:27, Adrien Monteleone > wrote: > >> >> On Aug 26, 2019 w35d238, at 3:43 AM, Michael Hendry >> wrote: >> >> >>> And I see that your organization does pledges. Here in the US, pledges ARE >>> receiva

Re: [GNC] Bookkeeping for a club's charity account - use business features?

> On 27 Aug 2019, at 03:36, doncram wrote: > > In your case, Michael Hendry, are there other persons who need or work with > some of the information? No, I’m playing in a one-man-band - which is (mostly) a good thing! > Surely then there are communication / information > sh

Re: [GNC] Bookkeeping for a club's charity account - use business features?

> On 27 Aug 2019, at 08:20, elvis wrote: > > >>> If #1 one, that is quite messy, yes, and you’ll need lots of manual >>> transactions and some sort of searchable/filterable tag system as I >>> described previously. (to avoid hundreds or thousands of accounts and >>> sub-accounts) >>> >>>

Re: [GNC] Bookkeeping for a club's charity account - use business features?

> On 27 Aug 2019, at 09:41, Adrien Monteleone > wrote: > > > >> On Aug 27, 2019 w35d239, at 1:40 AM, Michael Hendry >> wrote: >> >> >> OK, so provided I’m careful to clean up any outstanding invoices before the >> end of the financi

Re: [GNC] Bookkeeping for a club's charity account - use business features?

> On 27 Aug 2019, at 13:24, Mike or Penny Novack > wrote: > > On 8/27/2019 2:40 AM, Michael Hendry wrote: > >> I had understood from a recent response from Mike Novack that using an >> accrual-basis system for cash-basis organisation would be wrong. > "Wron

Re: [GNC] 2 Questions About Debit Cards

> On 28 Aug 2019, at 10:05, Haim Roman wrote: > > Hi. I'm new to GnuCash and to bookkeeping/accounting in general. I have 2 > questions about debit cards. > > (1) I made my debit card account a Liability account, as I did with my > credit card accounts. In the GnuCash archives, someone wrote

Re: [GNC] Bookkeeping for a club's charity account - use business features?

> On 27 Aug 2019, at 22:29, elvis wrote: > >>> >>> Hi Michael, >>> >>> This is how I would do it. I'm assuming you have around 30 people to >>> account for. >>> >>> Make up all your accounts and sub accounts and sub sub accounts and cross >>> accounts. >>> >>> Have a transaction in each

Re: [GNC] Issue with adding transactions afterwards

> On 31 Aug 2019, at 10:38, Petra Pynnönen wrote: > > Hi there, > > I'm doing the accounting of association and I got a small issue because > there's one transaction I forgot to add in 02.04.2019. Is there any > possibility to add it afterwards without having to alter all the transactions >

Re: [GNC] Bookkeeping for a club's charity account - use business features?

After looking at various ways of recording members’ individual contributions (using multiple children of Income: accounts), and examined the scope for simplifying data entry from using the Business Features, I’ve decided the answer to my question is “No”! It’s much simpler to use a spreadsheet

Re: [GNC] Non-expense, non-income transactions?

> On 4 Sep 2019, at 00:29, Rich Shepard wrote: > > On 9/3/2019 3:08 PM, Roderick Anderson wrote: > >> I am looking for suggestions on how to account for cash pulled from the >> checking account to be used for making change for our fund raising event >> and then redeposited into checking. > >

[GNC] Bookkeeping for a club's charity account - use business features?

As previously mentioned on the list, I’ve just become Treasurer of our local Rotary Club, which has two sets of books, one relating to the business of running the club (annual subs, insurance, secretarial support, etc) and the other to the club’s charitable activities. The club part is

Re: [GNC] Bookkeeping for a club's charity account - use business features?

> On 23 Aug 2019, at 14:48, Adrien Monteleone > wrote: > > The business features certainly offer some perks with respect to reporting, > reminders and info lookups. > > I’d probably take that approach in some fashion if I had to tackle the > problem myself. > > However, if the only reason

Re: [GNC] Bookkeeping for a club's charity account - use business features?

> On 25 Aug 2019, at 15:55, Mike or Penny Novack > wrote: > > On 8/25/2019 3:25 AM, Michael Hendry wrote: > > First (and an important question) >Is your organization om the cash or accrual basis? You should always state > that. Cash. > The business fe

Re: [GNC] Bookkeeping for a club's charity account - use business features?

gt; that simple. > > Regards, > Adrien > >> On Aug 27, 2019 w35d239, at 5:30 AM, Michael Hendry >> wrote: >> >> Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be a way of creating regularly repeated >> invoices as Scheduled Transactions, but I’m currently th

Re: [GNC] cryptocurrency with many decimals

> On 13 Sep 2019, at 18:40, Christian Pinedo Zamalloa > wrote: > > Hello, > > I am taking part in the airdrop of Stellar Lumens (XLM) in the keybase > application so I received some free XLM cryptocoins that I would like > to account with gnucash. > > The problem I have is the number of

Re: [GNC] Import error on QIF file

> On 10 Sep 2019, at 09:46, Michael Meador wrote: > > A QIF file exported from Quicken 2017 that is the largest account (a bank > account) will not complete an import into gnucash. The last step of the > import process just says "failed" with no errors listed. The other accounts > (several)

Re: [GNC] Assign one payment to multiple invoices (from several customers)

> On 5 Sep 2019, at 16:07, Bat wrote: > > Hi > > this is a subject that appears regularly on the mailing list, but I can not > find fine answer neither plan to improve the situation. > > Some of my customers often pay for their invoices plus for the one of other > customer. So I get one

[GNC] Club membership fees and charitable contributions - Business Features or Assets?

I have just become Treasurer for my Rotary Club, and my predecessor used spreadsheets to record the club’s finances. Everyone is required to pay an annual subscription, but there are a number of ways in which members may opt in to regular or occasional charitable payments (e.g. an annual

[GNC] GC Crash Report

I had just completed the editing of a number of transactions, transferring them from an asset account to a liability account by opening the asset account and changing each one in turn until the asset account was empty. I then deleted the (now empty) asset account, without closing the tab

Re: [GNC] GC Crash Report

way as I did it last time! Michael > > Regards, > Adrien > >> On Jul 28, 2019, at 6:45 AM, Michael Hendry wrote: >> >> I had just completed the editing of a number of transactions, transferring >> them from an asset account to a liability account by openin

Re: [GNC] GC Crash Report

> On 28 Jul 2019, at 15:26, John Ralls wrote: > > > >> On Jul 28, 2019, at 4:45 AM, Michael Hendry wrote: >> >> I had just completed the editing of a number of transactions, transferring >> them from an asset account to a liability account by opening the

Re: [GNC] Report - How to track savings?

> On 27 Jul 2019, at 10:49, Christopher Lam wrote: > > Try the Cash-Flow report, select your savings as the source account. This will pick up all transactions between your savings account and any other account, in either direction. If you want to see only transactions between CHECKING and

Re: [GNC] Struggling with Export/Import of Accounts

> On 4 Aug 2019, at 16:32, Adrien Monteleone > wrote: > > I’ve had no issue exporting and importing an account tree myself. > > I see you’re using a comma as part of an account name. While changing the > separator and using quotes should work, I try to avoid commas in CSV data as > a rule. >

[GNC] Non-profit accounts - reporting of restricted funds and of future commitments

I’ve just taken over as Treasurer of our local Rotary Club, which involves two sets of accounts: 1. The Club’s own business accounts - membership fees, stationery, travel, etc 2. The accounts of the Charity set up by members of the club, which receives income from the Club’s fund-raising

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