On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 07:39:20PM -0700, DaveC49 wrote:
> 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 [a couple of specific cases that are clearly beyond the scope of
> this
On Sun, Apr 22, 2018 at 09:38:23AM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> I find it's *usually* easy to determine based on context. A Split, by
> itself, usually means an individual Gnucash Split. On the other hand, a
> Split Transaction usually implies a transaction with >2 splits.
To be sure, as an
On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 04:29:49PM -0400, Mike or Penny Novack wrote:
> Ah .. That is what had me confused about "three way splits"
To make things worse, the GnuCash source code uses "split" in yet
another way: each of a transaction's entries is stored in a data
structure called a split.
On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 01:24:50PM -0400, Eric Siegerman wrote:
> 3. "Unbalanced CAD" (or whatever) [...] just means
> "you're not done finagling yet".
Corollary: even if you've committed the transaction, and thus
ended up with an "Unbalanced XXX" in your acc
A few things I've learned the hard way:
1. A split transaction usually has one debit and several credits, or
vice versa. Whichever side there's only one of, enter that one *first*.
Otherwise things tend to get tangled up -- not beyond recovery, but it's
easier to stay out of that situation than
On Mon, Apr 02, 2018 at 10:10:16PM -0400, lj wrote:
> When viewing the accounts tree, my summary bar at the bottom displays this,
> exactly:
> $: Net Ass Profits:
I'm seeing almost the same thing on Ubuntu 16.04, XFCE. Image
attached, showing the summary bar both "at rest" and clicked-on;
On Wed, Apr 04, 2018 at 10:56:01PM -0700, DaveC49 wrote:
> fatal error: gdk/gdk.h: No such file or directory
This looks like the problem. Maybe you don't have the relevant
package installed. On my Ubuntu 16.04 system, I think that's
"libgtk-3-dev".
- Eric
On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 09:34:58AM -0400, Mike or Penny Novack wrote:
> [...] it is usual to start a set of books JUST from the balance sheet
> with income and expense zero.
This is what I was going to suggest -- very tentatively and with
many caveats that I'm not an accountant. Since Mike (I
Caveat: I'm not an accountant.
On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 07:21:31PM -0700, Steve Kelem wrote:
> How do I keep track of whether I've requested enough
> disbursements?
Presumably you have a GNC account for the 529 plan already,
reflecting its balance, earnings, etc. Here's an approach that,
while
On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 10:21:55PM -0600, Jeff Hobson wrote:
> [...] a true conflict would arise if both platforms were
> modifying the data at the same time. That caveat, understood is
> the real barrier to mutual and simultaneous access.
Indeed!
If there will be multiple people involved, one
On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 02:14:31PM -0500, davel...@mac.com wrote:
> Yes, 2.6.18 is newer. Each number between the periods is a
> separate number and 18 is greater than 3.
To expand on that: software version numbers don't work like
decimal fractions, even though they use "." as a separator.
On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 02:31:10PM +0530, Amish wrote:
> cp ~/.gnucash/saved-reports-$1 ~/.gnucash/saved-report-2.4
> exec gnucash /path/to/$1.gnucash
Problem: If you modify any reports, you'll have to remember to
copy the new file back again.
It might be better to create a symlink rather than
On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 03:58:41PM -0700, John Ralls wrote:
> > On Sep 14, 2017, at 3:05 PM, Maxim Cournoyer
> > wrote:
> > [broken "search" link at
> > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user]
>
> We know.
>
(Lost the attribution; sorry):
> Assets:TIAA (cash)
> Assets:TIAA:Lifecycle 1 (commodity)
> Assets:TIAA:Lifecycle 2 (commodity)
> Assets:TIAA:TIAA Mutual Fund (commodity)
I've never heard of TIAA before, but from what's been said, I
infer that an account there behaves enough like a normal
On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 03:00:41PM +, Richard Ullger wrote:
> Could you not, having created the new account, delete the old account
> containing the transactions and when prompted, select the new account to
> move the transactions to?
That was my first thought. But it turns out that the
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