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] 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

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] 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] 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] 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] 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] (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] Payroll add-on, module, software?

John I had considered writing a payroll plugin a few years ago but found that finding my way around the Gnucash code made it difficult so I have great respect for the business features that Derek has created so far. I started to think more in terms of a separate payroll program which maintained

Re: [GNC] Nabble Delay? (was Re: Future Payments)

Adrien, I do use Nabble and also get the user list posts by email but as I am in Australia I sometiimes notice there is a long delay associated with being in this timezone. I'm not sure where the moderators are located but, I tend to post usually in the morning AEST (UTC -10:00) and my posts

Re: [GNC] GNUcash 3.2 file open issue

Adrien, David, The same issue occurs in Linux Mint 19(Tara) which is Ubuntu 18.04 based. Nemo (file explorer) can see the mounted USB stick and access it directly or via the /media// mount point for the device but the Gnucash file open dialog neither sees the USB stick or /media// mount point

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

Adrien, >From what little I know of the automatic gains/loss calculations by default the gain or loss on a transaction is created in an Orphan-Gains-CCC account by default and the user has to reassign the gain or loss to an appropriate income account. See

Re: [GNC] Getting My Account To Trial Balance

Adrien, The main function of the trial balance is to ensure the accounts are numerically correct before any adjustments to the accounts are made before producing the final financial statements. It should be just a straight listing of the balance (credit or debit) of all accounts in the chart of

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

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

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] balance sheet and account equation for Business Accounts

As well as the internal funds transfer from Euro to USD in your Asset:bank account are you also converting the corresponding income account in Euro to an Income account in USD at the same exchange rate? If not this is a possible spurce of any imbalance in the accounting equation. David Cousens

Re: [GNC] Imbalance bug in credit note generation?

Hi Amish' I can also confirm that the credit note has a bug for GnuCash 3.2 running on Linux Mint 19 from the flat pack. I have created an Invoice for $100 for a dummy company in a test file and then a credit note for the same dummy company for $50. I have not used a tax table. After the two

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

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

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] Building v3 - Wiki entry for Ubuntu

Colin, A correction. The latest LM 18.3 Software Manager now installs Gnucash 3.2 as a flatpack in /usr/bin. There are no identiable gnucash directories apart from the user configuration. David - David Cousens -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html

[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] Upgrading GC under Ubuntu

Stephen, Colin Just a correction to my last post. There is no problem with the icon installation on Linux Mint 18.3. It seems to possibly be a problem with Nemo (Linux Mint file explorer) rather than the installation. All of the icon files are actually there but there is something with the

Re: [GNC] Upgrading GC under Ubuntu

Stephen, Colin I think there is a problem with the cmake creation of the scripts that do the install, that is not installing the icons correctly. I just did an uninstall of v3.2 on Ubuntu, deleted any gnucash files left in my install location (/usr/local) relating to gnucash so that all

Re: [GNC] Uninstalling previous versions

Stan, The previous discussion on uninstalling related to Linux (the Ubuntu distribution in particular) where users have built GnuCash from the source code. On Linux, if you use the particular Linux distribution's (Ubuntu, Debian, Redhat, Centos etc.) supported version of Gnucash, it normally has

Re: [GNC] GnuCash 3.2 Released

Geert, I had realised the same thing about needing to uninstall before building and shifted the section on uninstalling to before the section on Building on the Wiki page and specifically mentioned using the previous version's build directory. I might make the note clearer about retaining the

Re: [GNC] GnuCash 3.2 Released

John, Just some further information. I rebuilt GnuCash with the -G Ninja option. The build.ninja seems to contain a build uninstall target but it has no commands. If I run sudo ninja install it installs GnuCash (in/usr/local the prefix I set with cmake) and creates install_manifest.txt. If i

Re: [GNC] GnuCash 3.2 Released

John, I'm using CMake v 3.5.1. Presumably the same or similar could be used to create an uninstall target for Ninja. Their argument for providing a default uninstall target seems a bit weak to me as you are not going to be issuing the command in a build directory unless you really intend to

Re: [GNC] Dark theme on Windows

Geert, The default theme is Mint-X. There is a Mint-X Dark GTK-3 theme available as well and GnuCash comes up nicely in it. It is installable from the Menu->Preferences->Themes dialog in the Cinnamon desktop. I would say on Mint all you have to do is select a dark theme at the system level.

Re: [GNC] Rethinking the placeholder account concept (was: Re: Fwd: The two modules)

Stephen John, Geert In accounting terms there are really only 3 basic account types: Asset Liability Equity These all *must *satisfy the basic accounting equation Assets=Liabilities +Equity. The two sides of this equation are what the German /European system defines as Activa and

Re: [GNC] GnuCash 3.2 Released

Hi John, If GnuCash is not built with Ninja, there is a cmake_uninstall.cmake file in the top level of the build directory which seems to read the install_manifest.txt file. The Makefile in the same level produced by CMake has an uninstall target - not sure how it executes the commands in the

Re: [GNC] Dark theme on Windows

Geert, I tried this on Linux Mint 18.3 but had no changes from the default theme. David - David Cousens -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To

Re: [GNC] Upgrading GC under Ubuntu

John, The GnuCash wiki Installation instructions now link to the build instructions for Ubuntu (and derivative distrubutions like Linux Mint) https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building which in turn has a link specifically for building V3 on on Ubuntu16.04, 18.04 and derivatives which now hopefully

Re: [GNC] GnuCash 3.2 Released

Stephen, It is generally a good idea to remove the previous version before installing a new one. Gnucash will generally overwrite any existing files of the same name, but you may be left with unnecessary files in some cases. Going from 3.1 to 3.2 should be OK as there are unlikey to be major

Re: [GNC] Fwd: The two modules

Hi Stephen, I agree with your wife about not including the Income Statement inside a Balance Sheet. These serve different functions and it just makes a Balance Sheet more complicated than necessary. From an accounting perspective you should be able to evaluate a balance sheet fairly quickly and

Re: [GNC] Fwd: The two modules

John, I agree with you that making the accounts with child accounts have no transactions is being unnecessarily restrictive and may not meet all possible use cases but perhaps having the option of being able to restrict it to that case if it suits an individual's purpose is a suitable compromise.

Re: [GNC] The two modules

John, Just to clarify. While I have accounting qualifications, I am not a practising accountant and my judgement is primarily an opinion based on my formal studies and my accounting experience in a small business in my particular country. We all need to keep in mind that accounting, while

Re: [GNC] New Balsheet (and P report)

Christopher, " except that Placeholder accounts can also contain transactions therefore must not necessarily accumulate their children account amounts. " I have to disagree with the above from an accounting perspective. If accounts are setup as Placeholders initially (i.e. the checkbox set in

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] Fwd: The two modules

Stephen, There is no need to install the libofx7specifically. If you install libofx-dev that should install the the appropriate version of the library for your ubuntu version (i.e. libofx4 on 14.04(Trusty), libofx6 on 16.04 (Xenial) and libofx7 on 18.04 (Bionic) David Cousens - David

Re: [GNC] Fwd: The two modules

Stephen, You can possibly force the case of sum of the children account totals being the parent account total by making the parent a placeholder account. Then it cannot have any transactions into it, only the child accounts. David Cousens - David Cousens -- Sent from:

Re: [GNC] Is there a Save As command line option

Steve, One possibility is to use synchronized data bases using master-slave replication. I know this works with MySQL and it is a bit of a pain to set up but once it is going it is generally pretty good. Also a bit of a pain to restart if the replication gets out of sync. I have been meaning to

Re: [GNC] Wiki:Installation/Building; was: Ubuntu 18.04

Hi Frank & David T , Thanks for the info re the main page. I will try and hook into the Wiki Installation page as you suggest and have a go at making the build instructions friendlier for general users and split off a more specific page for developer builds. i will then link that back to the

Re: [GNC] Ubuntu 18.04

Hi Geert, I think one of the reasons people are not finding the Build#Ubuntu instructions and main build instructions in the wiki is that the main page is identified as Build Instructions for Developers rather than a general GnuCash Build Instructions page which gets listed in the top level

Re: [GNC] Cash Flow report

Adrien, I think with the default account selection, the Cash Flow report seems to do the right thing. The double selection of accounts seems a bit strange, I haven't really got a proper set of business accounts to check it out on anymore and the dummy set I have put together have been for testing

Re: [GNC] Cash Flow report

Martijn, I can't really comment on the Cash Flow reportas implemented in GnuCash and it's options but the doubling of accounts in the selected list when the show subaccounts is selected does appear to be strange and may be a bug. My understanding of a Cash Flow Report is that it includes: cash

Re: [GNC] Associated Files in 3.1

Christian V3.1 compiled on Linux Mint using the XML backend works fine with associated files/locations setting them, retrievingthem after closing and reopening the program and opening the locations without any problems so it is possibly associated with the sqllite backend or perhaps the DB

Re: [GNC] copying files

Varda, I travel with a laptop and use a desktop at home. If you have internet access while travelling I have had no problem with putting the GnuCash files in a Dropbox account synced to both the desktop and laptop. You can work without internet access and it syncs next time access is available.

Re: [GNC] A/P: invoice not displayed and payment is displayed

Rich, How are you creating the payment of the Bill? If you open the Bill and then use the payment icon in the Toolbar (no need to search for the bill to pay) or alternatively use the Business->Vendor->Process Payment and search for the Bill by Vendor and select the Bill the transactions for the

Re: [GNC] Error Message on trying to Open a gnucash file "There was an error parsing the file...."

Francis, If you look in the folder which contains your gnucash file there should be a set of backup files. Gnucash creates a backup file. I am assuming you are using the XML format files and not a database. The file will have a name of the form .gnucash and the backups will have the form

Re: [GNC] Credit Card Charge Decreasing Account Balance

What version of Gnucash are you using and what platform is it running on. When you look at an individual charge transaction, the balance after the transaction should be larger than the balance before the transaction with the reverse for a payment. Whether that balance is shown as a negative or

Re: [GNC] Reconciliation

Bill, This is not the case for GnuCash v3.1 on Linux Mint 18.3. You can readily check and uncheck the boxes. The only hassle I have had is that by default the credit and debit entries are not ordered by date but by reconcile status and when you check a box, it is automatically placed at the end

Re: [GNC] Editing Scheduled Transaction

Robin, I'm also using 3.1 on Mint 18.3. I have tried to duplicate your problem without being able to. I am able to edit the fields in the template transaction without any diffculty and I don't receive that error message at all. I can create 2 scheduled transactions and edit them both at the same

Re: [GNC] New User-Clueless on Investments

The best place to start is the Tutorial and Concepts guide. http://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.6/C/gnucash-guide/invest-setup1.html is the link for V2.6 documentation. There will be a similar section in the V3 docs if you are using that version. While that is mainly aimed at stocks and mutual funds,

Re: [GNC] Advice needed, how to handle a medical reimbursement account...

I think you are overcomplicating the issue by recording the appllication for the refund from the MRA account. No money chnages hands at this point so you could record paying the Doctors bill as Asset:Check Credit $100 Expense:Medical Debit $100 When you receive the

Re: [GNC] Up grade from 2.6.xx to 3.1

Dennis, The instructions for v3.1 should work. The only problem I had when i compiled 2.6.21 after upgrading to 3.1 was that I had installed guile 2.2.3 and v 2.6.21 looks for guile-1.8 or guile-2.0. It is possible to have several versions of the guile libraries and headers installed as they

Re: [GNC] Up grade from 2.6.xx to 3.1

Dennis It is probbaly a good idea to uninstall the previous build of 2.6.x before upgrading. With the changes between 2.6 and 3.1 there may have been changes in the libraries/library names such that some older libraries may not necessarilybe overwritten. How to remove it will depend upon how you

Re: [GNC] new v3.0 install Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Dennis, You are missing the third part of the cmake command when you type cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/dennis/.local which is why you are getting the cmake error. You need to append either ../gnucash-3.1 or /home/dennis/Applications/gnucash-3.1 on to the end of the cmake command

Re: [GNC] new v3.0 install Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Dennis, The obvious place to put the build-cmake directory is in the Applications directory. I personally would not name it build-cmake but build-gnucash-3.1. The reason for that is, to uninstall Gnucash there is no need to retain the gnucash-3.1 source directory which can be deleted, but you

Re: [GNC] new v3.0 install Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Hi Dennis, Almost there but not quite. In which directory in your home directory /home/dennis have you extracted the gnucash-3.1 directory from the tarball gnucash-3.1.tar.bz2 which you downloaded. Can you tell me the full path to that directory and the full path to the build-cmake directory you

Re: [GNC] new v3.0 install Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Hi Dennis, I updated the BuildUbuntu16.04 page after having similar problems while building Gnucash3.0. My apologies for any errors and lack of clarity in a few areas and thanks for reporting the problems. I will edit the page to try and make some issues clearer as I or other users uncover my

Re: [GNC] new v3.0 install Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Hi Dennis, I recently updated the Ubuntu 16.04 build instructions so I am glad to get your feedback on issues which may be unclear and any errors I may have incorporated. I will try to modify the instructions to make it clearer and eliminate errors. If you find any issues that are specific to

Re: [GNC] ofx/qfx import to V3

John, For your info OFX import is working fine on Linux Mint/Ubuntu 16.04. The only problem I had was that the previous automatic matching to accounts seemed to have had the data cleared in the swap over to the V3 user preferences files. After one import it had reestablished most of the matching

Re: [GNC] Building issues

Hi Carlos, I had the same original problem during Make while building Gnucash 3.0 that you did. Aboout half way down the following thread there is a recipe of what worked for me in getting a successful build. It may not address your second problem, but I hope it helps. Cheers David -

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] 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] 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] 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: [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 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] 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: 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 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"

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 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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

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: 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: 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: QFX Import and Reconciled Transactions

Hi David, Agreed that the process of importing of transactions to an account is a separate and distinct process from that of reconciliation with an external statement. Given that however, the import process, if it matches an existing transaction in your accounts will classify a transaction as

Re: QFX Import and Reconciled Transactions

Any matching procedure on an import is not going to be perfect. Make the criteria too tight and almost nothing is matched. Too loose and everything is matched, so it is always a compromise. I have found the order in which I process the OFX imports from my various accounts can have some impact on

Re: gnucash-user Digest, Vol 179, Issue 59

Elmar, If you have narrowed the date range in which the error has occurred then it is down to old fashioned accounting practices for finding errors. Some of these articles may help: http://www.reallifeaccounting.com/pubs/Article_Theme_Detecting_Accounting_Errors.pdf

Re: Reconcile problem

If its any help the reconcile dialog should allow you to change both the date and the ending balance. The observed behaviour on Gnucash 2.6.18 ( and it hasn't changed for me since changing from 2.6.16 or from previous versions over the last 2-3 years) on Linux Mint 18.3 (Ubuntu 16.04) is that if

Re: Period End Accounts

Mike, 1. it is unlikely but it is possible to unset the reconciliation status but a warning with an opt out of the change is issued before it is changed and it is possible to edit a reconciled split of a transaction but you will normally get a warning even if the split you are editing is not into

Re: Bank reconciliation question

It should be no problem at all. Just record the original transactions you already have recorded against something like a miscellaneous expenses account. Add notes to the description that they were direct debits in error. The refunds should also appear in your OFX records so just load then and use

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