Re: [GNC] Credit card account with two cards

2019-09-25 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 9/25/2019 1:53 PM, Derek Atkins wrote: which is contrary to your statement that GnuCash cannot do it. Would you care to specify WHERE you saw that statement you claim is from me? And I believe we are talking about VERY different issues. As I have pointed out, not MY problem since all

Re: [GNC] Credit card account with two cards

2019-09-25 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 9/25/2019 12:14 AM, Zacharie Durand wrote: Hello, I’m wondering if anyone has dealt with multiple credit cards under a single credit card account? My spouse and I each have a credit card under a single credit card account. We make purchases on our separate credit cards. Each month I

Re: [GNC] Badly formed URL unknown-type

2019-09-20 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 9/20/2019 1:08 PM, Uttam Chakravorty wrote: To go back a little, I have become so sure of GnuCash I have become lazy about taking a milestone backup after every session. I have no excuse as we do the books every 3-6 weeks so it was not really too hard to do. I'm sure Uttam doesn't need

Re: [GNC] Bank check - debit and credit?

2019-09-19 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 9/19/2019 10:35 AM, orn...@tutanota.com wrote: Let me expand a little. This is for personal use, such as the purchase of artwork or a service, so its purpose is not for a business. Recent examples were for repair of a vintage fountain pen or a wrist watch. The repairers asked for a bank

Re: [GNC] Bank check - debit and credit?

2019-09-19 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 9/19/2019 9:20 AM, orn...@tutanota.com wrote: How does one debit and credit for a bank check when the person/company doesn't want to accept a personal check? I usually forgo reality and just record that I sent the personal check directly to the individual, but that's not exactly what

Re: [GNC] PSD2

2019-09-18 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 9/18/2019 3:42 PM, Fred Bone wrote: This is likely to be completely incompatible with fetching account data programatically, given that many seem to think the best approach is a one-time passcode sent via SMS to your mobile phone after validating your id and password. This seems to

Re: [GNC] Credit Card Format Good?

2019-09-16 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 9/15/2019 10:01 PM, Peter West wrote: . That means that increases in an Asset are debits, while decreases are credits; and increases in Liabilities (or Equity) are credits, while decreases are debits. Income increases assets; an increase in an asset is a debit; therefore the balancing

Re: [GNC] Having trouble trying to use Gnucash instead of Aplos

2019-09-16 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 9/15/2019 7:03 PM, David Carlson wrote: I think other GnuCash users often resort to spreadsheets or other software when the GnuCash reports don't meet their needs. David Carlson OR additional sets of books (virtual books, etc. ) Using this sort of entity as an example, suppose a

Re: [GNC] Having trouble trying to use Gnucash instead of Aplos

2019-09-15 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 9/15/2019 9:15 AM, Daniel Wieberdink wrote: I was hoping to transition to Gnucash to track finances for the small church we belong to. I started by optimistically trying to import about 3 years worth of transactions from Aplos into GC via a CSV file. That didn't go as smoothly as I hoped. Let

Re: [GNC] Gnucash not obtaining lock Solved

2019-09-14 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 9/14/2019 5:59 PM, R. Victor Klassen wrote: Well, actually, yes. And it makes sense. They’re trying to protect you from ransomware - software that encrypts your stuff and then offers to give you the decryption key if you pay up. The idea is that a known list of applications are allowed

Re: [GNC] Gnucash not obtaining lock Solved

2019-09-14 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 9/13/2019 1:50 PM, Bob Hammons wrote: The trouble was Windows Defender in a recent update blocked Gnucash, Quicken and Open Office data directories. This was in the Ransom ware section Here is a website that explains how to fix this .. Wasn't very nice of MS to do this without any

Re: [GNC] How to manage earmarked funds

2019-09-13 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 9/12/2019 1:49 PM, Fred Frazelle wrote: Dear sirs: We are a non-profit and receive contributions. Every once in a while the Assembly sets up a fund for something special, like a Center and the believers contribute. The money in this fund cannot be used for anything else. Since we

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

2019-09-12 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 9/12/2019 7:40 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: Um, no, it does not appear regularly. Indeed, this is the first time in 19 years that someone has asked about paying invoices for multiple customers with a single payment. I would think this situation rare, but not unheard of. As the customer, I

Re: [GNC] Simple Reports

2019-09-09 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 9/9/2019 10:28 AM, mrtibbsabq wrote: Hi. I have been using GnuCash for awhile now but I cannot see a way to tunnel down into the data and generate some simple reports. I would like to generate a report between two dates that show only the expenses for a specific expense category. That seemed

Re: [GNC] Thank you

2019-09-04 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 9/4/2019 9:09 AM, Doug wrote: Thanks Adrien. Every year I need to send my data to my accountant who does not (yet) use Gnucash. I did not have any success exporting to .qif files: not sure why. (Would not read into Quickbooks) I thought a spreadsheet might be better way to go. This is a

Re: [GNC] 2 Questions About Debit Cards

2019-08-28 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 8/28/2019 5:52 AM, Haim Roman wrote: I get separate statements for the checking account & debit card. On the checking account, it just notes that money was transferred to the debit card. It's the debit card statement that says to whom I paid. In addition, sometimes the checking statment

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

2019-08-27 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
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. "Wrong" is the wrong term. I did not say that. I said that adjustments might have to be made (the books kept on

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

2019-08-26 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 8/26/2019 6:49 AM, Greg Feneis wrote: Michael, I use GnuCash for my cash business and don't have any trouble with it. I think the only trouble you may have is with report generation. Kind regards, Greg Feneis (Pixel 3) Well yes, it is precisely that, adjustments necessary to convert

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

2019-08-25 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
er to export full reports and then copy into a document that gets edited to remove extraneous detail, insert annotations, etc. 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 t

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

2019-08-24 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
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 during the year. Many UK charities use this method to boost their income - for example, when you pay the

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

2019-08-24 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
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 charitable activities is passed to a trust which is registered as a charity with OSCR (the relevant regulatory authority in Scotland).

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

2019-08-24 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
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 meeting, and some members skip the meal and make a token payment to Charity

Re: [GNC] journal entries

2019-08-13 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 8/13/2019 10:57 AM, Dale Alspach wrote: The Gnucash documentation could make some general statements about differences between Gnucash and other accounting software, but it would be too much to expect specifics about the other software. Dale Gnucash IS ordinary, run of the mill, double

Re: [GNC] journal entries

2019-08-12 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 8/12/2019 12:45 PM, Clint Chaplin wrote: This is also similar to NetSuite, which is an on-line double entry bookkeeping service, and where "journal entries" are a special case transaction, even though by definition everything is really a journal entry. It is definitely a terminology

Re: [GNC] Questions on how best to setup a non-profit account in gnucash

2019-08-08 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 8/8/2019 12:24 PM, Larry Wagner wrote: I would like some comments about how one would set up gnucash for a non-profit. Here are some of the specifics: What kind of non-profit are you? What do you have to file with what jurisdictions? << There are non-profits that do not pay taxes, but

Re: [GNC] Newbie

2019-08-08 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 8/8/2019 6:47 AM, S. Sliackus wrote: Hi guys I am new to GnuCash. I came up with this piece of software by searching practical solution to couple of my charities and small business. I have quite mixed feelings about this program, I found some things over complicated (some invoicing aspects,

Re: [GNC] Income statement incorrect

2019-08-04 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 8/3/2019 6:16 AM, Liz wrote: On Wed, 31 Jul 2019 09:10:02 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard wrote: Would be nice to have a cash accounting option in addition to the default accrual accounting option. Whether a business uses cash or accrual accounting in Australia is set by the tax authorities, so

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

2019-08-02 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 8/2/2019 1:21 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: Yes, I understand they are different. The Business Features *could* still be used, just not considered in a formal way. But certainly, manual entries are possible. The tough part of pledges is they really don’t go anywhere in the account tree

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

2019-08-02 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
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 gnucash (or any alternative). For example -- the members may want to

Re: [GNC] Gnucash bug

2019-07-30 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 7/30/2019 3:52 AM, Wm via gnucash-user wrote: On 09/07/2019 03:45, John Ralls wrote: On 8 juil. 2019, at 08:55, R. Victor Klassen wrote: Perhaps this has been fixed. I’m using 2.6.21 for production. Using SQLite I am expecting every transaction to hit disk immediately. Saturday we

Re: [GNC] Inventory

2019-07-25 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 7/24/2019 9:38 AM, David Carlson wrote: Basically, GnuCash cannot handle inventory. It may be possible to create a fictitious commodity and assign a value to it, but You cannot do any of the usual inventory functions such as tracking locations, etc. Or store the other information (location,

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

2019-07-20 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
First of all, in theory appropriate spreadsheets obviously COULD be used. Remember,in the old days there was just pen and ink on paper. Still legal, and so would be spreadsheets with columns just like the old style accounting paper had. I do NOT recommend this because: 1) You would need to

Re: [GNC] multiple accounts

2019-07-18 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 7/18/2019 3:27 AM, David Cousens wrote: Bob An additional point. At least on Linux you can have multiple instances of GnuCash running open at different files at the same time. David But a word of warning. You might think you could save time by having more than one set of books open at a

Re: [GNC] multiple accounts

2019-07-17 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 7/17/2019 3:42 PM, Bob Sisk wrote: I tried setting up another set of books, then when I tried to open my original set it would not allow me to open it, it kept opening the second set. I had to uninstall Gnucash then open my backup date to open the original set of books. ?

Re: [GNC] Change a batch of transactions from income to Expense

2019-07-04 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 7/4/2019 10:06 AM, morayweb wrote: That sound brilliant. What would be the costs for that. I am in Scotland just thinking of time diference. Thank you. No charge (I am long retired from doing systems/business analysis for a living). Time difference matters less when it is exchange of

Re: [GNC] Change a batch of transactions from income to Expense

2019-07-04 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
Morayweb, Gnucash, well any method of double entry bookkeeping can do so much more for you. What you have described is much as double entry was many centuries ago. You can (and should) set up the accounts so that you can get much more information about the finances of the camp. Imagine

Re: [GNC] Balance sheet report period

2019-07-03 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 7/3/2019 9:44 AM, Christopher Lam wrote: Or, you could download 3.6 and test the new experimental multi date balance sheets :-) THAT, however, has nothing to do with this question. The "multi date balance sheet" report ISN'T a balance sheet with multiple dates but a report that shows

Re: [GNC] Balance sheet report period

2019-07-03 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 7/2/2019 4:20 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: Looking in the Guide the only reference I see to 'balance sheet report' is a brief description. When I prepare the report the only date option I see is the ending date. Is the start date that of the first entry in GnuCash? Can I produce a balancve

Re: [GNC] New computer to set up gnucash and migrate from old.

2019-06-18 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 6/17/2019 7:29 PM, Randy Rosebrock wrote: I'll check it out. You would thing gnucash would build in a backup/export/import function. You are slightly misunderstanding the problems because you are thinking of gnucash as being used to keep only one set of books. Also, gnucash keeps a list

Re: [GNC] New computer to set up gnucash and migrate from old.

2019-06-17 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 6/17/2019 12:58 PM, Randy Rosebrock wrote: Under normal default install where are these files location I need to copy from? On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 8:49 AM Mike or Penny Novack mailto:stepbystepf...@comcast.net>> wrote: Since you did not tell us the operating system of the old co

Re: [GNC] New computer to set up gnucash and migrate from old.

2019-06-17 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 6/16/2019 5:41 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: Randy, If the old computer still runs at all, you can network them together and use the Windows User Migration feature. (not certain of the exact name, but that term should get you close in a search engine) It will move all of your data and

Re: [GNC] New computer to set up gnucash and migrate from old.

2019-06-16 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 6/16/2019 2:22 AM, rhrosebr wrote: Just bought a new win 10 computer. Old computer hd unstable. How do I get gnucash to new computer? Do I install latest version then copy whole directory and overlay new directory. I'm not seeing anything on migrating gnu to new computer. TIA Randy If you

Re: [GNC] Local one-on-one tutorial help with Gnucash?

2019-06-12 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 6/11/2019 8:07 PM, Libby Shaw wrote: Looking for an experienced Gnucash user in or near Watertown, Massachusetts who could provide a few hours of tutorial help with Gnucash. Libby, I am both an experienced gnucash user and been Treasurer for 501(c)3's. Unfortunately, at my age,

Re: [GNC] Export files for audit

2019-06-07 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 6/7/2019 9:54 AM, Mike stagl wrote: This is end of my first year as Treasurer of a PTA, and my first year using gnucash. What is the best way to export or print a year's worth of gnucash data for an auditor to review? What is the auditor asking for? Is the auditor willing to install

Re: [GNC] Unsplitting a transaction

2019-06-06 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 6/6/2019 10:07 AM, Stephen C. Camidge wrote: For personal use and for most businesses, this would be the appropriate method. For larger businesses with EDP Auditors (do they still exist?) and regulations with accountability for the how data is maintained, the transactions should be locked.

Re: [GNC] Unsplitting a transaction

2019-06-06 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 6/5/2019 3:45 PM, Stephen M. Butler wrote: If you did that, then you didn't properly remove the other splits. You need to go into each cell and manually remove the data, then tab out.. Then use the arrow key to move up and the split will disappear. Continue until all the extra splits are

Re: [GNC] GAU as currency

2018-09-06 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 9/6/2018 12:26 PM, David T. via gnucash-user wrote: I am not an expert, but my understanding is that the currency codes are derived from the ISO standards. GAU isn't among those. David On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 12:19, Muhammad Bashir Al-Noimi wrote: Hi, How can use GAU (gold

Re: [GNC] [OT] Why is Debit abbreviated Dr?

2018-09-05 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 9/5/2018 2:42 PM, Geoff Jankowski via gnucash-user wrote: David I would love to agree with you but….. In standard journal notation cr is a debt and dr an asset. This is because it is nothing to do with credit (+ve) and debit (-ve) in any sense (or tense) but to do with a creditor (to

Re: [GNC] How to best set up account structure for multiple Tax IDs?

2018-09-03 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 9/3/2018 12:33 PM, Jens Dill wrote: On 2018-09-03 12:28 PM, Jens Dill wrote: And, I should add, my CPA has told me she would be perfectly happy if I kept everything in spreadsheets. Sure she would. You are paying her for her time. But do not sell spread sheets short. If you had learned

Re: [GNC] Veihicle mileage cost such in HomeBank?

2018-08-27 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 8/27/2018 10:17 AM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: I would think it possible to do this in your regular books, with a bit of care. I would favor using equity accounts only, but I suppose using Income/Expense (as you noted are really Equity anyway) is probably easier for many to wrap their head

Re: [GNC] Help breaking up a file

2018-08-27 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 8/27/2018 4:59 AM, Colin Law wrote: Wow, that is a lot of personal data, mine goes back to 2001 and is only 2MB. Is that the default file type (XML) and have you specified Compress files in Preferences > General? In my opinion it is best to keep all the data in one file, then you have

Re: [GNC] Veihicle mileage cost such in HomeBank?

2018-08-25 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 8/25/2018 2:32 PM, Riccardo Delpopolo Carciopolo wrote: Hello Rich, thank you for the extended explanation! I think I would end to use a simple spreadsheet as you suggest. Regards HOWEVER (since this might be useful for others) I use a spreadsheet for mileage since we want to be able to

Re: [GNC] Loan/Mortgage payments with "adjusted" principle (eg after an extra principle payment), SOLVED

2018-08-14 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 8/13/2018 11:29 AM, azalea4va wrote: I addressed this in the file I provided. There is one and only one correct answer mathematically. I am surprised the moderators have not stepped in. If you want to continue this, I suggest off list. Michael D Novack

Re: [GNC] keeping entities separate

2018-08-14 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 8/14/2018 1:28 AM, patrush...@aol.com wrote: Thanks for responding. I am clear that I want to have all the entities separate- I thought I had set them up that way, but cannot discern how to access them individually, and that's why I think I might have missed something in the initial set up

Re: [GNC] keeping entities separate

2018-08-13 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 8/13/2018 8:52 AM, patrushkha via gnucash-user wrote: I just started using Gnucash and thought I'd gotten through the learning curve; I have 2 small businesses and entered both of them as well as my personal data, but discovered they are all mixed together. At least I think so, I'm not

Re: [GNC] Loan/Mortgage payments with "adjusted" principle (eg after an extra principle payment), SOLVED

2018-08-13 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 8/12/2018 12:58 PM, azalea4va wrote: Sorry, I missed this reply. So a little late, but ... I should perhaps have indicated that writing this sort of thing used to be "my line of country". I have written these things. Mike or Penny Novack-3 wrote a) method? << by "pre

Re: [GNC] Operating Checking Account in Overdraft

2018-08-03 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 8/2/2018 10:15 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: GnuCash lets you create any account you want and put it (pretty much) wherever you want. Contra-Accounts are sometimes desired to be where they are as true contra-balanced accounts. Others prefer or need them on the opposite side of the

Re: [GNC] Operating Checking Account in Overdraft

2018-08-02 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 8/2/2018 9:21 AM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: I have sent an email to the Australian and New Zealand Chartered Accountants asking them the question. I will let you know what they say. Kind Regards, Murray This is something we here in the US can't help much on because we do not have "two

Re: [GNC] Payroll add-on, module, software?

2018-07-30 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
: Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable are in a similar vein. In fact, they share a common feature with payroll in that they deal with 3rd party entities (Receivable -- entities who owe you money; Payable -- entities to whom you owe money; Payroll -- entities who get paid for a

Re: [GNC] Payroll add-on, module, software?

2018-07-30 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
I often get accused (not just here) of leaving something critical out. Jumping over the obvious, just not so obvious to all. On 7/26/2018 11:21 AM, John Ralls wrote: All sharing the same feed format << and each "make" dependent on THAT but not each other, or for that matter gnucash except

Re: [GNC] Payroll add-on, module, software?

2018-07-30 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 7/26/2018 11:21 AM, John Ralls wrote: or as a separate program that maintains all of the HR stuff and just sends the financial transactions to GnuCash. << Just back from camping in the woods >> THAT is the sense I meant, though I would not think of it as a "plug in" but possibly one of

Re: [GNC] Payroll add-on, module, software?

2018-07-26 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 7/25/2018 8:20 PM, John Ralls wrote: GnuCash is actually very modular (perhaps a little too much, there are parts of it that are modules and probably shouldn't be). I wouldn't say it's easy, nothing in programming GnuCash seems to be easy, but it's possible for a third party developer to

Re: [GNC] Payroll add-on, module, software?

2018-07-25 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 7/25/2018 2:06 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: R. but the short answer is, no, there is no (and probably won’t ever be) any payroll module or features. Unfortunately, the jurisdictional requirement nightmare to comply with every nuance across the entire planet is beyond the time and

Re: [GNC] Future Payments

2018-07-14 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 7/14/2018 10:28 AM, adb34 via gnucash-user wrote: Sorry to trouble everybody, I know you have better things to do than answer a deft question. I have been trying to setup a future payment on 31st July for the value of £20. Then I setup the schedule. My question is - how do I stop this value

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

2018-07-13 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 7/13/2018 8:20 AM, Stan Brown wrote: I think there's a mechanism for entering that as a request for the product, and I think it would be a great idea. Programs in general ought to make it easier not just to move their settings but to back them up. P.S. I'm not really a programmer any more,

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

2018-07-13 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 7/13/2018 4:59 AM, Norbert Klein wrote: Thanks, Stan, for sharing your work with all. But it only makes me feel sorry - I am a non-programmer user of GnuCash :-( I still hope there will be - some time in the not too distant future - a program which can be used also by a non-programmer

Re: [GNC] How To Record an In-Kind Charitable Donation?

2018-06-30 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 6/30/2018 3:10 PM, Eric H. Bowen via gnucash-user wrote: I performed some design work and provided custom-printed envelopes and materials for a local 501c3 charitable ministry. I am not charging them money for the items, but I would like to receive credit for their fair market value as an

Re: [GNC] Fwd: The two modules

2018-06-28 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 6/28/2018 9:39 AM, D via gnucash-user wrote: Before you convert an existing parent account to a placeholder (by checking the placeholder checkbox in the Edit Account dialog), you will need to transfer any transactions into it to an appropriate child/sub-account. My experience is that a

Re: [GNC] Profit and Loss Spreadsheet

2018-06-03 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 6/3/2018 3:01 AM, John Robins wrote: Got it! Thank you. One quick follow up question. Would it be possible for a gnucash developer to add this report into the software, could I commission a developer to add this report in (or would it be too expensive), or is it not the type of report

Re: [GNC] Invoice tax rouding issue in 2.x

2018-05-23 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 5/23/2018 9:17 AM, Nathanial Jones wrote: The "It can't be fixed," attitude is just wrong, since there is a conceptually simple fix. It may take a while to code, but why not just put a check box or option group into the tax rate setup that defines whether it is a "per item" or "total" rate.

Re: [GNC] Invoice tax rouding issue in 2.x

2018-05-23 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
There is no solution to this. Among other things, it would be dependent on the rules of the jurisdiction whether the tax is supposed to be figured per item or on the total of all taxable items. So what would fix it in one case would break it in the other. It simply is true that rounded(a) +

Re: [GNC] House renovation Expense or Asset?

2018-05-11 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 5/11/2018 1:21 PM, Tony Vanson wrote: I assume that when all the construction is finished, the total cost could be assumed to be treated as an asset increase to the value of the house? In this instance, would all additional expenses occurring during construction be treated as a debit on my

Re: [GNC] using Guile

2018-05-10 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 5/10/2018 4:12 PM, John C wrote: How can I use Guile in an interactive window outside of Gnucash? I'm using Windoze 10 and Gnucash 2.6.17 I want refresh my scheme programming knowledge with small experimental code. Can you install emacs for windows? That should give you a LISP

Re: [GNC] Handling VISA Debit Accounts

2018-05-08 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 5/7/2018 8:45 PM, randix wrote: Did VISA debit cards do somethin' to you as a child, why are you pickin' on them (that reply is to no one in particular, only the thread, so pleeze, no one get defensive)? A debit card [to me] is a non-existent entity, it has no business having its own

Re: [GNC] Handling VISA Debit Accounts

2018-05-07 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 5/7/2018 10:36 AM, John Ralls wrote: On May 7, 2018, at 6:37 AM, Mike or Penny Novack <stepbystepf...@dialup4less.com> wrote: HOWEVER -- you have raised a more general question, perhaps misunderstanding something. The "built in default" accounts that come with gnuca

Re: [GNC] Handling VISA Debit Accounts

2018-05-07 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 5/7/2018 2:39 AM, Karen Stingel wrote: This is a Fix of my previous thread ... Re: gnucash-user Digest, Vol 182, Issue 8, apologies for not clarifying the subject line last time. How does gnc handle the Case of a VISA Debit card? Technically, this is a BANK account with a VISA enabled card

Re: [GNC] help setting accounts to track contributions

2018-05-05 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 5/4/2018 9:24 AM, Matthew Pounsett wrote: This doesn't sound straightforward at all. What's complicated about treating joint contributions to the household coffers as "income" to the household? Treating that income as ever-increasing equity would confuse P and cashflow

Re: [GNC] help setting accounts to track contributions

2018-05-04 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 5/4/2018 4:13 AM, Gio Bacareza wrote: Hi, My partner and I are moving in together and we'd like to share expenses like groceries, rent, etc. So we'd like to track expenses as well as our appropriate contributions to make sure that we both are contributing equally to house expenses. How

Re: [GNC] accounts setup for a cooperation with members

2018-04-28 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 4/25/2018 8:50 AM, Martina di Vertacollini wrote: Hi Everybody, I am new to GnuCash and wish to set up the financial administration for a cooperation with members/owners. Can anybody help me with this? -- Martina di Vertacollini You problem is not "how to do this

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

2018-04-25 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 4/24/2018 10:39 PM, DaveC49 wrote: Eric, Mike To be fair to GnuCash, I have not been able to find a formal definition of split in my accounting text books In the senses we are using here, there would not be a definition in accounting text books. In formal accounting, a transaction is

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

2018-04-22 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 4/22/2018 9:38 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: E.. Thus, what in accounting terms is a simple, un-split transaction, is stored in GnuCash as two "splits" (one each for the debit and credit entries). The reason we old timers don't see it that way. In old pen and in on paper bookkeeping for each

Re: [GNC] How do you edit the defaults for new account creation?

2018-04-22 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 4/22/2018 1:14 AM, johnblue wrote: Hello, I want to use individual folders to sort each year with the .gnucash database file named with the corresponding year. eg: 2018.gnucash Is there way to create a new "account" that is prepopulated with my bank, credit card, mortgage and expense

Re: [GNC] Treasury Bills

2018-04-21 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 4/20/2018 10:46 PM, Les wrote: Hi Gnucashers: Curious, I am wondering if it is correct to classify TBills as "Cash"? Suggestions? Thanks, Les Not cash but probably cash equivalents (so still under current assets). Other "negotiable paper" probably treated the same way. But I learned in

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

2018-04-20 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
Ah .. That is what had me confused about "three way splits" 1) A single debit and more than one credit or a single credit and more than one debit I would call a "one way split" (only one side of the transaction is split). You enter these beginning with the side that is single (enter

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

2018-04-19 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 4/19/2018 5:19 PM, Peter M. Coons wrote: I've tried to learn how to do a three way split like entering a months of checks and after an hour still can't get it right. a step by step or other help would be great. Thanks in advance What are you calling a "three way split"? Michael D

Re: [GNC] FINANCIAL STATEMENT COLUMNS

2018-04-12 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 4/11/2018 10:13 AM, tino mateka wrote: Hi How do I put my financials for different months in different columns under one aggregated financial statement. Tinotenda Mateka Well I can describe how I do it. Not different months in my case, but consecutive years, because that is how

Re: [GNC] Sending data to my accountant

2018-04-08 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 4/7/2018 7:23 PM, Liz wrote: ph hermes wrote: since i have a lot of irrelevant transactions in my account, i prepare reports that affect my taxes. i have a couple of businesses so i like to separate them from each other. then i save the reports as pdf files and send those to my accountant

Re: virus download version 3.0

2018-04-04 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 4/2/2018 11:56 PM, Dave via gnucash-user wrote: Thank you for your assistance and sorry for the false positive report I put out there. All virus checkers must sometimes give false positives or sometimes fail to detect viruses. Consider the special virus program "if the supposedly perfect

Re: Invoicing - percent of labor not taxable

2018-03-28 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 3/27/2018 6:28 PM, Matthew Pressly wrote: Our state tax laws are such that most of the work that I do is considered "data processing" of which 20% is exempt and 80% is taxable. Is there a good way to configure GnuCash to handle that when making an invoice? It's worse than this (the

Re: beginning balance of income and expense accounts

2018-03-25 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 3/24/2018 4:56 PM, Buddha Buck wrote: In general, I wouldn't bother entering starting balances for income and expense accounts from before the period I am accounting for. Traditionally, those accounts were temporary, and at the end of the accounting period the balances would be reset to zero,

Re: Date limit on transactions / freezing transactions

2018-03-23 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 3/23/2018 2:28 PM, Stan Brown wrote: I am entering historical data 2011-2017 in a Gnucash file separate from my current file (starting 2018). (1) In the historical file, I want to limit transactions so that I can't enter a date of 2018 or otherwise out a certain range. Is there any way?

Re: Finally ready to move from Windoze to Unix, suggestions of flavor of Unix to use **[solved]**

2018-03-22 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 3/21/2018 6:05 PM, David Carlson wrote: Linux is not Unix. Nor is BSD. Very few users are interested either of the other two, but they both are very important in the grand scheme of things. David C True about linux and the unixes not being the SAME operating system, but users do not

Re: GNUcash setup

2018-03-18 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 3/18/2018 4:27 PM, Ronal B Morse wrote: Have you looked at using the log files to duplicate transactions from one session into another? I don't think that would fit the case here, as in the general case, the transactions would NOT be duplicates. Take a look at the example Ken gives.

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

2018-03-15 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 3/15/2018 2:16 PM, Adonay Felipe Nogueira wrote: As you can see, such a question can generate more suggestions than people responding. +1 (I agree), this is mostly because there is no single "Linux", every GNU+Linux system distribution has different goals, different community rules, views,

Re: Request for a complete guide to setup and use GNUCash for online seller

2018-03-14 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 3/13/2018 1:53 PM, Souradeep Panda wrote: Dear Sir / Madam, I am a newbie online seller, selling my old stuff for some money. I currently use MS-Excel for accounting and stock keeping but it's getting very complicated and logical errors are popping up now and then. I am willing to make a

Re: Income shows as negative

2018-03-11 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 3/11/2018 3:14 AM, D wrote: Hello, Although I am *not* an accountant, I understand that in standard accounting, income is shown as a negative balance. The Tutorial covers this. There is a setting that allows you to display income accounts with reversed signs, if this bothers you. "debit"

Re: Account Report/Register Report

2018-03-09 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 3/8/2018 5:40 PM, Robin Chattopadhyay wrote: I've tested the report several times under varying use cases and cross-checked against both pen & paper and a spreadsheet, so I'm fairly confident that it's reporting what I want it to report. David C. suggested saving the register report and I

Re: Finding out taxable income at the end of the year

2018-03-08 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 3/8/2018 4:06 AM, Maf. King wrote I cannot look in income:sales to determine how much taxable income I report, because it would include how much I'm owed also. As such, what is the best way to find out how much taxable income I make per year to report on my taxes? Hi, This is the

Re: Integrating Profit and Loss Report into a set of books and the trial balance

2018-03-07 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 3/6/2018 10:13 AM, jcnw wrote: I am setting up a set of books for a small church and need to run a month profit and loss report. How do I enter the Net Income for the Period into the books so it shows up in the balance sheet? I have set up the books with Income, Expense, Asset and Liability

Re: GNUcash setup

2018-03-03 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 3/2/2018 8:01 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: Thanks Dave, Of course can do this. But let me put on my "business analyst" hat for a moment and ask a question. If you were set up this way and you accidentally entered a transaction with one account in the tree of one entity and the other

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