Re: [GNC] Repeatable Mac crash

2018-09-30 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On Sep 29, 2018, at 4:30 AM, Robert Kesterson wrote: When I open Gnucash, it opens the last file I had open, which is great. Then I start the second instance from a terminal with “open -n /Applications/GnuCash.app” and it starts up. Since the most recent file is already open, it will

Re: [GNC] Monthly reports

2018-10-14 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 10/12/2018 6:21 AM, Michael Beard via gnucash-user wrote: I have to prepare a monthly report to my local bowling club detailing income and expenditure in the various categories set up. Can you explain how I go about this please. If this was already answered, pardon me. The usual name

Re: [GNC] Is GnuCash the right application for me?

2018-10-12 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
I run the accounts for a couple of clubs with similar needs. Setup one accounts file for each club so they are kept separate. I have not bothered with the complexities of the business features (invoices etc) as I have not found them necessary. I am a person who is treasurer for

Re: [GNC] Help please setting up savings account

2018-10-28 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 10/28/2018 5:07 PM, David Cousens wrote: In the account tree page, right click to bring up the popup menu then select new account. It will need to have an account type of Asset. More specifically. Assets Current assets (meaning cash and cash equivalents -- there are other sorts of

Re: [GNC] Accidentally Created .LNK file and now my entire GnuCash file is overwritten and I can't get back to work

2018-11-05 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 11/4/2018 9:10 PM, David T. via gnucash-user wrote: As others explained, the lck and lnk files are created by gnucash to prevent users accidentally opening the data file on multiple machines. They are zero bytes in size and there is no point in trying to open them up. There is no there

Re: [GNC] Below are my screen shots in .pdf format/previously they were .png files which did not go thru

2018-11-05 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 11/5/2018 5:08 AM, Colin Law wrote: On Mon, 5 Nov 2018 at 09:40, Anita Graves via gnucash-user wrote: Dear Geniuses, I primarily want to know how to get rid of this .LNK file and unlock my gnucash program so that I can use it again. You do not need to get rid of it. However .

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

2018-11-11 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 11/11/2018 6:23 AM, elvis wrote: Seriously? Are you just telling someone to type stuff stuff in? The WHOLE point of computers is to automate stuff. What if they have 1000 transactions? At a minute a transaction that a whole day entering stuff that could be in under a SECOND I

Re: [GNC] Auto Save Ledger

2018-09-20 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 9/20/2018 4:51 AM, Maf. King wrote: Hi Lesley, Save your account data file into a folder - don't work directly from the desktop. (File menu -> Save As while GC is running is probably the best way to do this) GC creates its own backup files each time you save (if using the default &

Re: [GNC] Balance Sheet Report keeps listing all my individual stocks

2019-01-01 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/1/2019 1:59 PM, Stephen Knapp via gnucash-user wrote: @Michael. Thank you for the response. I have toggled through all the options in the reports. Selecting and deselecting subtotals. I have also tried putting the individual stocks at different levels in the hierarchy. No matter the

Re: [GNC] Balance Sheet Report keeps listing all my individual stocks

2019-01-01 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/1/2019 10:32 AM, Stephen Knapp via gnucash-user wrote: Hello. I am having a problem that all my individual stocks are showing up in my Balance Sheet report. I have a hierarchy with INVESTMENTS (Asset): BROKER ACCOUNT(Asset): COMPANY A (Stock), COMPANY (Stock), etc. I have tried all

Re: [GNC] Copying settings, layout, and colors to another computer

2019-01-17 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/17/2019 5:55 PM, Tim Kallmer wrote: What folder or files can I copy from one Ubuntu to another to avoid having to set up settings, layout, and colors again? Both have 3.4. Question --- is there some reason why you DON'T want to be moving some of your user data from one to the other?

Re: [GNC] Copying settings, layout, and colors to another computer

2019-01-18 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/17/2019 6:31 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: I have sometimes wanted to migrate my data and my desired configs without carrying over configs from no longer used apps, thus trimming cruft for a *fresh* start. Yes indeed, that is a time when I also might want to do such "clean up". BUT

Re: [GNC] Basic Question (I hope) - End of Year Procedure

2018-12-26 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/25/2018 1:53 PM, John Ralls wrote: That’s pretty much what the GnuCash close books function does. IIRC it’s two transactions, one for income accounts and one for expense accounts. Regards, John Ralls As I noted before, were I doing it manually, I would probably use two transactions

Re: [GNC] How To Handle Prepayments

2018-12-16 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/15/2018 4:06 PM, tbalaban wrote: My Company pays an initial payment to our insurer at the beginning of each policy year. As we incur insurance costs based on event participants, that initial payment is charged. After it is exhausted we get a monthly bill for the amount due. In no case do

Re: [GNC] Biils in credit

2018-12-17 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/16/2018 11:04 PM, Andrew Clark wrote: I get a bill from my electricity provider. For part of the year, the solar feed in payments mean our bill is actually in credit. eg. .. What the best way to keep track of this? This may depend on the EXACT details. For example, in my

Re: [GNC] Basic Question (I hope) - End of Year Procedure

2018-12-24 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/24/2018 4:22 AM, David Cousens wrote: Jenny As well as the wiki that David T mentioned the help manual also has a section on closing the books: I will add something to this because of your "no magic undo button" There sort of is. You can always make a copy of a file before you do some

Re: [GNC] Basic Question (I hope) - End of Year Procedure

2018-12-24 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/24/2018 3:45 PM, Colin Law wrote: I don't do this, for me there is no point. It is possible to view or report on only transactions within a date range if one wants so I don't see the advantage of closing the books. If you do then you loose easy access to the history, so for example when

Re: [GNC] Basic Question (I hope) - End of Year Procedure

2018-12-25 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/25/2018 4:45 AM, Colin Law wrote: You could be right though, perhaps the Close Books feature built into the s/w does what she wants. Colin Because I don't use it, I don't know what gnucash's "close the books" actually does BUT what I described (entering a giant split transaction that

Re: [GNC] Australian Initial Setup Q's

2018-11-25 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 11/25/2018 5:26 PM, David Cousens wrote: Stephen, Fixed Assets is available in the new file wizard when you create a new set of books. In the Choose Accounts to Create dialog Fixed Assets is one of the options in the drop down list of available accounts which can be added to the tree.

Re: [GNC] Accounting Modules

2018-11-27 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 11/27/2018 1:04 AM, Jeff Abrahamson wrote: I second that you can just start with C++. C++11 and beyond permits and encourages programming styles that are very different from C's. I'd stress that encourages rather than permits, but very strong encouragement as being permitted to do

Re: [GNC] Accounting Modules

2018-11-27 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 11/26/2018 11:27 PM, David Cousens wrote: Steve, I'd reinforce John and Adrien's comments about diving right in. I originally learned C somewhere in the late 1980's from Kernigan and Ritchie's book and used the language for a couple of years. Not a bad way to learn I used that book too.

Re: [GNC] Column labels in Credit Card accounts

2018-11-19 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 11/19/2018 5:33 AM, Maf. King wrote: Hi Barry, The option I suggested will swap between formal "Debit & Credit" column labels and "Friendly Text". The "Freindly Text" will vary depending on the account type that you are looking at - by way of example my credit card accounts are Payment /

Re: [GNC] Gnucash-created "closing" entries

2018-12-30 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/29/2018 6:13 PM, David Cousens wrote: Stan, The main thing is your books are telling you what you need to know and it is working for you. i get your point about net worth. It should be possible to generate a custom report which will just calculate that without having to close all the

Re: [GNC] Basic Question (I hope) - End of Year Procedure

2018-12-28 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/27/2018 7:31 PM, David Cousens wrote: This was why accountants introduced an artificial 13th month into the financial year so that all closing transactions were forced to occur fater any other transaction that occurred within the year. Any required adjustments to the accounts are also

Re: [GNC] Loan Mortgage repayment assistant problem

2019-01-09 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/8/2019 11:50 PM, John Ralls wrote: The answer is probably in app-utils/calculation. All of that was probably written before Guile grew a rational number class and I think that GncNumerics get converted to doubles before being passed to the interest functions. That would pretty much

Re: [GNC] - File Path for associated files

2018-09-12 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 9/11/2018 8:00 PM, John Sears via gnucash-user wrote: So my files were all stored on G:/documents/xxx.pdf Now that I have transferred to Linux, this path is not recognised - " GNUCash could not open the associated URI: file:///G:/documents/xxx.pdf" Is there a way to bulk edit the paths of

Re: [GNC] GnuCash methodolgy

2018-12-08 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/8/2018 1:52 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: The budget module doesn’t enforce zero-sum practices, but it does give you the information to use it that way if you want. What it is not very good at is the ‘envelope’ method of budgeting. Budgeting should likely be handled outside of GnuCash if

Re: [GNC] Other Income Account

2019-01-26 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/26/2019 9:51 AM, Lorrie Laskey wrote: Hi all, My "Other Income" account is showing bank transfers from a fried to my bank account when reimbursing me for, say, shared vacation costs. It is not income but reimbursement of some sort, isn't it? Should this be categorized as income? No. If

Re: [GNC] PDF export of reports

2019-01-28 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/26/2019 10:57 AM, Raimund Strehl wrote: If I am not mistaken the same problem occurs when printing the report from Gnucash using print to pdf or to a printer. I think this is an issue that should have high priority as the export and print functions are rendered unusable by this. Any

Re: [GNC] Sorting accounts

2019-03-29 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/29/2019 10:39 AM, Matthew Andrews wrote: Hello everyone, GnuCash has been working well for me, but it's beginning to get cumbersome to look at. My accounts seem to just appear in the order I created them, which was just as they were needed. It would be a lot easier to read, for

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

2019-03-24 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/23/2019 6:04 PM, aeg via gnucash-user wrote: Thank you to those who have tried to educate me on the use of the word "split" in GnuCash, but whilst I believe that I understand how it is being used, the reason for using such an ambiguous term remains puzzling when better alternatives exist.

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

2019-03-23 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
I think this dispute has more to do with how we begin to learn about transactions in double entry bookkeeping and that gnucash (and yes, most equivalent "direct entry into the ledger" alternatives) begins with a SIMPLIFIED entry that makes it quick/easy to enter the overwhelming majority of

Re: [GNC] Restoring backups

2019-04-06 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 4/5/2019 7:48 PM, Fuchs Ira wrote: Conversely, if I move the current .gnucash to another machine that only has this file (and gnucash app) and open it, I don't see any recent transactions (only transactions from several years ago when I last used this test machine). Does the .gnucash file

Re: [GNC] Accounting for gold coins

2019-02-24 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 2/24/2019 9:35 AM, Joseph Vernice wrote: Treat the gold coins as investments just like stocks. Instead of shares just use your unit of purchase (ounces, grams, etc.). On 2/24/2019 9:30 AM, Gary Holtum wrote: I purchased 3 lots of gold bullion coins at different times at different prices. I

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

2019-02-24 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 2/24/2019 7:02 PM, Chary Chary wrote: Hello everybody, I just started learning gnucash with the goal to depart from my from my Excel-based bookkeeping system with pivot tables, so forgive me if I ask stupid question. i think I read pretty much all of the help file, but still didn't

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

2019-02-28 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 2/28/2019 8:43 AM, Chary Chary wrote: csingley, thanks for feedback. I found the correct report name, which I think I want. In finance world it is called "Statement of Comprehensive Income" https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/comprehensiveincome.asp === .

Re: [GNC] Accounting for gold coins

2019-02-28 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 2/28/2019 10:01 AM, Gary Holtum wrote: Adrien, Thank you for the detailed response. I will work on the steps you describe but I am beginning to think GnuCash is not suited for providing the data I would like. Maybe an Excel spreadsheet would be easier. Thanks again for your expertise.

Re: [GNC] Closing books questions

2019-02-21 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 2/21/2019 12:59 AM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: If you don’t ‘close books’ there really aren’t any ‘brought forward’ numbers. (there’s nothing to bring forward from, the books are still ‘open') If your books don’t agree with your CPA, you’ll have to make the adjusting entries he recommends.

Re: [GNC] insurance policy with guaranteed value: how to record increase in value?

2019-02-23 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
Ah, my line of country, insurance. Some questions (details) a) Do they not give you an annual statement? One that indicates increase in "cash value". b) I do not QUITE understand the guaranteed return of 0% UNLESS that is increase in value OTHER than the component from "survivorship". If

Re: [GNC] Archive part of my data

2019-03-14 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/14/2019 2:46 PM, Jonathan Heard wrote: Good Morning, I have been using GnuCash for a long time and the file containing my records goes back 10 years. Is there a way to snip off the first 5 years and hold in a separate (Archive) file? This would speed up the loading of my system. There

Re: [GNC] HELP! No lock!?

2019-03-13 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/13/2019 2:57 PM, Derek Atkins wrote: I would think just clicking "Open Anyway" would be easier. But glad you got it working :) -derek The important thing is that BEFORE you jump to either using "open anyway" or deleting the lock file you take a few seconds to think about WHY this

Re: [GNC] where did it go

2019-03-09 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/9/2019 7:52 AM, David Carlson wrote: GnuCash is like your document editor or spreadsheet program. When you close it the first time, it asks you where to save it and what to call it. Then, when you re-start it, it opens the same file automatically. If you skip that step, you have a

Re: [GNC] How do I create a last year (2018) expense report

2019-03-15 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/15/2019 3:53 PM, Jack Slater wrote: By Category? Are you wanting to see the individual transactions or just the account totals (and subtotals of categories) If the latter (which is what I suspect you want) then run an Income Statement with a date range covering the entire year (start,

Re: [GNC] Setting up chart of accounts

2019-03-07 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/7/2019 12:56 PM, Teresa wrote: I have 25 years experience in Accounting, however never set up a chart of accounts. I just started working for my daughter, who has done everything in excel. I have put all the gl accounts in GnuCash, but they all went in as parent accounts, I new term to

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

2019-02-17 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 2/16/2019 4:18 PM, Peter von Kaehne wrote: The main obstacle I can see for us right now is we have as far as I can tell no way to file Tax returns from inside the programme. Is there anything you have in the pipeline? We can hardly be the first or only who will have a problem... As others

Re: [GNC] Problem with Splits

2019-02-12 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
xperienced entering splits << entering two sided often can mean first "lying" about an amount and correcting that only after the other side of the transaction has been done >> Michael D Novack Am 11.02.2019 um 22:15 schrieb Michael or Penny Novack: On 2/11/2019

Re: [GNC] Problem with Splits

2019-02-11 Thread 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 side) split transaction is to enter it from the side (debit or credit) that is NOT being split. That this is most often

Re: [GNC] Cash Account Question

2019-01-23 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/23/2019 10:25 AM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: Yep, I’m one of those. I track every expense, entered from *where* I spent the funds. So if the money was the green folding kind (or coin) out of my wallet or pocket, I have an account for that. If I move money to/from my wallet, I track that

Re: [GNC] lost data

2019-01-25 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/24/2019 10:55 PM, Chris Good wrote: Hi John, I'm pretty sure there is no secret list of all the gnucash data files you've opened. This is not a different problem than finding OTHER data on your computer (data created by other apps, say a document created by a word processor). Your

Re: [GNC] Transferring portion of mutual fund account to another fund account

2019-02-05 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 2/4/2019 8:09 PM, David Carlson wrote: If you are in the US and both funds are within the same custodial account the answer is trivial, just sell one and buy the other. It only matters when you withdraw cash. If you are somehow moving shares from one custodian to another, that is more

Re: [GNC] help lost data file

2019-04-08 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 4/8/2019 5:44 PM, Eric Rathhaus office wrote: Hi John - sorry to be so dense. So those applications are old versions, I believe. But I navigated to me as user and still no option of show library files appears. I think I used to store the data in the fold err office data, but all the

Re: [GNC] credit card opening balance

2019-04-11 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 4/11/2019 12:58 AM, ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user wrote: Hi All, On a credit Card account, they owe me $18.00 (I over paid). What do I enter for opening balance? $18 or -$18? And do I put in Payment or Charge? When I enter a charge, why does "Transfer auto enter "Orphan-USD"? What is

Re: [GNC] two lines for every entry

2019-04-11 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 4/11/2019 1:55 AM, ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user wrote: Should I attend a class in book keeping too? I just want to know how to use the d*** thing. I am starting to think I may be better off using a spreadsheet. It would take a LOT more experience with double entry bookkeeping to keep

Re: [GNC] US Bans Free tax Software

2019-04-11 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 4/11/2019 12:33 AM, David Cousens wrote: Just noticed this post. https://news.yahoo.com/free-irs-software-filing-taxes-191746938.html?fbclid=IwAR3-GIPM3S6SazRqcyKb1Lywu4wMhtWB9Je8YU_cK_usuW4FLf13y07ATJs. Impact on the use of GnuCash for Tax preparation in the US could be profound. Looks like

Re: [GNC] Need help with a Savings account

2019-04-16 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 4/15/2019 6:11 PM, ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user wrote: Hi All, Now that I am feeling brave coming off of creating a charge card account, I decided to create a saving account. My bank statement shows deposits as positive numbers and withdrawals as negative numbers, so I decided to follow

Re: [GNC] How to treat benefit payments from government?

2019-04-18 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 4/17/2019 6:16 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: Someone on the list from Canada (even better, a local CPA) should offer better advice, but the first question you probably want answered is, “Is this taxable next year?” That will likely influence how you record it now. Regards, Adrien Adrian,

Re: [GNC] US Bans Free tax Software

2019-04-11 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 4/11/2019 11:14 AM, David Cousens wrote: Mike The problem I see for free software developers here is to register as a developer for the software, you have to be an existing business as you require a registration only available to an existing registered business. SDKs and APIs which appear

Re: [GNC] Recording Deposits in Checking

2019-05-15 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 5/15/2019 4:16 PM, Jimmy R via gnucash-user wrote: I just curious if this is the way to record a deposit for a restaurant using GNC and later the tax payment. Seem like this is the way to go since you can see what funds are available for expenses - tax liabilities

Re: [GNC] Custom Report

2019-05-09 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 5/8/2019 6:24 AM, confused wrote: Hello, I'm new to GnuCash. Would anyone be able to help me with custom reports. I would like to generate a monthly report to show my profit and loss. Is there a way to customise the dates? Many thanks! The P (aka Income Statement aka (for a non-profit)

Re: [GNC] Custom Report

2019-05-10 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 5/9/2019 8:28 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: Excel might be a problem, but LibreOffice has no issues either opening saved GnuCash reports, or importing them as plain text. (copy/paste also works) The only issue with doing comparative P’s in a spreadsheet is that each period needs to have all

Re: [GNC] Upcoming report deprecation

2019-05-21 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 5/20/2019 4:22 PM, Geert Janssens wrote: You can choose to install the report as a custom report as explained in our wiki: https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Custom_Reports The whole assumption here is these reports are rarely used and unmaintained. We don't want to completely remove them as they

Re: [GNC] Dimensions in Accounts

2019-04-29 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 4/28/2019 11:59 PM, Sachin Danave wrote: Traditional accounting packages deal with this by allowing to define a dimension to different accounts, whereby you can classify the accounts. This classification field then can be used in reporting. No, TRADITIONAL accounting is one dimensional

Re: [GNC] Questions

2019-05-06 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 5/6/2019 8:22 AM, Stephen C. Camidge wrote: 3 - G/L is General Ledger Ah. being misled by the name of the report. This is a situation where useful to understand how traditional pen and ink on paper bookkeeping worked. You FIRST entered transactions in chronological order into a

Re: [GNC] Questions

2019-05-06 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 5/6/2019 7:13 AM, Stephen Camidge wrote: 1) I set up a new book on the Mac version of gnucash using "A Simple Checkbook". The Chart of Accounts places Income below Expenses - why? I added Top Level Accounts for Liabilities and it was put below Income. The Transaction Report shows Income

Re: [GNC] Book keeping/accounting of club project funds

2019-05-03 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
OK, I can help with this << I am the Treasurer of 501(c)3's How should I make entries for club project funds. I am the treasurer for a small 501(c)(3). Our income is mainly memberships (dues), cash donations, and an annual swap meet like event. I am using three Asset accounts. Checking,

Re: [GNC] Questions

2019-05-08 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 5/7/2019 11:22 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: Comparative-period P is not yet implemented in GnuCash. (but as Chris Lamm noted, he has a testing version of the report that *might* fit your needs - if you can try it, please do so) One reason it has not been implemented is that when I began

Re: [GNC] How to treat benefit payments from government?

2019-04-21 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 4/19/2019 7:17 AM, R. Victor Klassen wrote: Unlike in the US where state tax refunds are income for federal purposes, provincial and federal taxes do not interact. So these are purely tax-free. This is an example of why no one size fits all. In the US state tax refunds MAY be income for

Re: [GNC] Recording dividend payoffs

2019-04-24 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 4/24/2019 2:15 AM, Justin Mathew via gnucash-user wrote: I certainly prefer the approach of declaring dividends as a contra acunt to Retained Earnings and/or debiting it directly to Retained Earnings but it will require closure of the books to provide retained earnings to handle it properly.

Re: [GNC] GNU Cash End of Year Closing of Accounts

2019-04-26 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 4/25/2019 5:54 PM, Stephen Brandt wrote: I am looking for a way to archive out all transactions for the Year ending . I would like to remove all transactions from all accounts and start the new year with the ending balance from the previous year. To view prior years I'd like to be able

Re: [GNC] How to run report on Paid Sales for a period? (Cash Accounting Method)

2019-10-01 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 10/1/2019 5:20 PM, doncram wrote: Since GnuCash does not have the Cash Flow Statement report as an option, WHAT? for your immediate purpose you can/should generate one manually, working from a printout of the Balance Sheet at the beginning and another at the end of your period, and an

Re: [GNC] Transaction Report: 1)Print only totals 2)Add comment to print out ?

2019-11-01 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 11/1/2019 9:46 AM, Fran_3 wrote: Michael, no request for added features to GC was intended. I was just exploring the existing capabilities of the program. Understood. But I come to this from a different position. When I took over as treasurer (of the first organization) I asked the

Re: [GNC] Rental property - How to account for delinquent rents?

2019-11-03 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 11/3/2019 6:22 PM, David Cousens wrote: When you are on a cash basis then you only really record in your accounts the income received and expenses incurred at the time of handing over of the cash so there is really no alternative to maintaining a separate record of occupancy and arrears etc

Re: [GNC] Want to find some GnuCash example files

2019-10-30 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
hello, guys. I am a newcomer here and want to learn how to use GnuCash. I don't speak english well, so if I made some strange sentences please let me know or just ignore them. Now I want to find some GnuCash example files, which maybe include foreign currencies, stocks,vendors,bills, invoices

Re: [GNC] Moving from Sage Accounting and would like to keep sub-account totals viewable

2019-11-17 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 11/16/2019 9:29 PM, David Carlson wrote: I searched the help for information on account codes but all I found was: https://www.gnucash.org/viewdoc.phtml?rev=3=C=help I thought there used to be a lot more information than that. I know that you can use account codes in the account fields when

Re: [GNC] Server

2019-11-11 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 11/10/2019 10:19 PM, D via gnucash-user wrote: It's a known issue that is being addressed. Do we have any idea/prognosis when gnucash installation downloads will again become available? I am currently in the process of getting a (new) machine ready to replace this ailing one and gnucash

Re: [GNC] Journaling taxable benefit

2019-11-15 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 11/15/2019 6:05 AM, Christopher Lam wrote: It's a regular asset account. On Fri, 15 Nov 2019, 11:17 gn00b, wrote: First of all, this is not as much a gnucash question as an accounting question and we are not properly qualified to answer accounting questions << I know that I am not >>

Re: [GNC] Export Report Issue: "There is no disk in the drive." I must click Continue 21 Times !

2019-11-06 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 11/6/2019 6:54 PM, Fran_3 via gnucash-user wrote: Running GC3.7 on Win7 Pro. Here is the issue When I click File > Export > Export Report I get a popup message... "There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into drive \Device\Harddisk9\DR-9" This isn't QUITE a gnucash problem,

Re: [GNC] Locked out of gnucash

2019-11-18 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
I think PART of this problem is confusion about "another user". Remember that need not be another human being. YOU perhaps have more than one log in << say one with administrator rights and then a another for regular use >> Rather than "in use" the terminology MIGHT be "checked out but not

Re: [GNC] A question on loans

2019-11-21 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 11/21/2019 1:06 PM, Mark Phillips wrote: David, Thanks for your emails and explanations. What I am really looking for, is how to do this transaction: Increase the loan amount by $30,000 to bring it to the current value. I don't know where to put the offsetting entry for the $30,00 When

Re: [GNC] how to migrate data to new computer

2019-12-09 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/9/2019 1:20 AM, Colin Law wrote: The easiest way to get the right file may be to open gnucash on the old machine and use File > Save As to save it to a USB stick or similar. Then you can copy it to a suitable folder on the new machine and use File Open in gnucash to open it. That might

Re: [GNC] Problems organizing accounts to process reimbursement of expenses

2019-12-15 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
Just a periodic reminder about questions like this. We may be able to help you BUT this is not a question about gnucash, not a question "how do I do this in gnucash" but how do I set up these accounts/transactions using ANY method of doing double entry bookkeeping, even the old fashioned way

Re: [GNC] Problems organizing accounts to process reimbursement of expenses

2019-12-15 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/15/2019 5:35 PM, Daffy Duck wrote: Mike, I figured it out with your suggestions, thanks! BTW, sorry if I made it more complicated than you might have expected BUT was assuming that you would want/need to be able to report on what portion of the electric bill that was not going to be

Re: [GNC] How should I enter values on a budget in gnucash ?

2019-10-29 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 10/29/2019 9:40 AM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: No objection here —I always thought it odd that Liabilities didn’t have its own total line, and thought ’Transfers’ should only include Assets & Equity. (you are transferring one asset to another, with no effect on net position, but paying a

Re: [GNC] Reporting on expenses of multiple revenue strams

2019-12-02 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/1/2019 10:21 PM, Robert Slippey wrote: That's an interesting perspective I didn't consider. How would this look from the LLC's perspective. Would each sub-entity just send over it's rolled up expenses and income? I do like that idea though... just need to work out in my mind how it

Re: [GNC] Reporting on expenses of multiple revenue strams

2019-12-01 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/1/2019 6:23 PM, David Cousens wrote: Rob AFAIK there is no equivalent of classes. In Gnucash you can use the sub-account capability to provide the separation. e.g. Under Income you can have a subaccount for each revenue stream and similarly under Expenses if you need to match expenses to

Re: [GNC] Restricted funds and other charitable / not-for-profit specifics

2019-11-25 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 11/24/2019 6:17 AM, Wm via gnucash-user wrote: Is anyone interested in resurrecting the possibility of gnc dealing with restricted funds and other charitable / not-for-profit / whatever they are called where you live accounting better? What do you mean? Gnucash can deal with restricted

Re: [GNC] Transaction Report: 1)Print only totals 2)Add comment to print out ?

2019-11-01 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 11/1/2019 8:46 AM, Fran_3 via gnucash-user wrote: I think I know the answer to this but I wanted to double check. . 2 - Is there any way to add a comment to the report before you print it... other than making the title long? 3 - Can you include HTML tags like and to have a report's

Re: [GNC] A question on loans

2019-11-20 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 11/20/2019 1:13 PM, Mark Phillips wrote: A PS to my last email about the mortgage accounts. My gnucash accounts are for my financial tracking purposes only. My accountant gets bank statements and other original documents for tax purposes. He has nothing to do with my gnucash accounts, and is

Re: [GNC] Print Report does not "page" properly

2019-10-07 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 10/7/2019 5:04 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: The only work around I can think of right off is to instead copy/paste or save/open into a spreadsheet app like LibreOffice Calc and handle printing there. And not necessarily a"work around" if you have SERIOUS editing/formatting to do. But

Re: [GNC] How can I add statement balances to my accounts as checks?

2019-10-07 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 10/7/2019 1:24 PM, Derek Atkins wrote: Let me add my $0.02 to this.. There are multiple ways to enter transactions into GnuCash (specifically, importing and hand-entering), and there are multiple ways that errors and discrepancies can happen. The most common error/discrepancy is human error

Re: [GNC] Outstanding Check Problem

2019-10-03 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 10/3/2019 5:52 PM, Jean-David Beyer via gnucash-user wrote: On 10/3/19 1:29 PM, Matthew Lybanon wrote: This is more of an accounting question than a GnuCash question; what I would like to know is how to handle this within GnuCash. I???m sure that this situation isn???t unique, and there is

Re: [GNC] Interest on savings account

2019-10-04 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 10/4/2019 11:40 AM, KenWA wrote: How does one enter interest on a savings account which has been automatically paid in to that account. Just entering the amount as an increase results in an Imbalance? sinc Fundamentals of double entry bookkeeping. There are always two sides to every

Re: [GNC] Credits

2019-12-23 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/22/2019 10:20 PM, Christopher Lam wrote: FWIW the 'Credit Limit' customer property seems to be currently unused. On Thu, 19 Dec 2019 at 12:16, Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: I would suspect the ‘credit limit’ feature in the new customer dialog is there to

Re: [GNC] Incorrect starting balance for 2019

2020-02-10 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
But I would NOT simply edit the amount. It is better accounting practice to leave an audit trail for corrections. You can create a "correction transaction". If, as described, you want the effect to be as if you had entered the correct amount initially, date the transaction so it will appear

Re: [GNC] new computer - program & data transfer

2020-02-12 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 2/12/2020 1:00 AM, Carl Hofinga wrote: I have purchased a new computer(Windows 10 home) and need to transfer the GNUCASH program and data file from the old computer to the new computer. My computer technician could not make the program transfer to the new computer. Do I need to

Re: [GNC] Bug while trying to select date (01/01/2019) - immediately changes to 12/31/1969

2020-03-01 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/1/2020 1:50 AM, Barufa wrote: I would appreciate your help with a date selecting bug. Don't know if I changed something in the Preferences menu or somewhere else, but I'm not able to select date 01/01/2019. When I type that date or select it in the calendar, as soon as I move the cursor

Re: [GNC] grouping deposited items

2020-03-03 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/3/2020 10:17 AM, Ian D Henry wrote: I may have used the wrong search terms, but I can't find out if Gnucash has a way of grouping deposited items so they can be matched with the deposit amount on the bank statement. Ian Model the deposit ticket. This was a touch more obvious for me since

Re: [GNC] Best way to have "Expense - Income" Monthly Report ?

2020-02-27 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
Hi everyone, I want to have a Report like "Profit & Loss" to know what am i spending and where am i earnings. But, for Each Month in one place, not for specific month. Look like GnuCash doesn't have that option, and everytime i want to have a report for that month, i need to change the

Re: [GNC] How to change MANY Deposits to Withdrawals? (Import error)

2020-02-16 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 2/16/2020 11:28 AM, Fran_3 via gnucash-user wrote: I imported a big bunch of checking transactions and guess I got the Deposit & Withdrawal columns labeled wrong during the import process. Is there any way to select a bunch of checking transactions and change Deposits to Withdrawals? Thanks

Re: [GNC] Non monetary transactions?

2020-02-22 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 2/22/2020 1:00 PM, Roderick Anderson wrote: I am the treasurer (volunteer) for a small 501(c)(3).  I have only self-inflected OJT and this list for experience so this may be a not-GNUCash question. How, or can, I make non monetary entries.  I'm looking at when I file (US) Federal taxes

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