Re: [GNC] Getting My Account To Trial Balance

2018-07-28 Thread David Cousens
as a > > profit since that will make the profit double. Clearly there¹s > > something > > I¹m still not getting ŠŠŠ > > > > Thanks to everyone for their input so far. > > > > From: gnucash-user > > on > > behalf of > > Stan &g

Re: [GNC] Getting My Account To Trial Balance

2018-07-28 Thread Hugh MacDonald OBE
me up. I’m really sorry if I’m wasting all your >> >> time – you’ve all been really helpful and maybe its just that gnucash >> >> won’t >> >> do what we expect. >> >> >> >> From: gnucash-user > >> gnucash.org> on behalf of David Carlson >

Re: [GNC] Getting My Account To Trial Balance

2018-07-28 Thread H M MacDonald OBE
been really helpful and maybe its just that gnucash won’t do what we expect. From: gnucash-user on behalf of David Carlson Date: Friday, 27 July 2018 at 14:19 To: Hugh MacDonald OBE Cc: Gnucash Users , Stan Brown Subject: Re: [GNC] Getting My Account To Trial Balance If you sold an asset

Re: [GNC] Getting My Account To Trial Balance

2018-07-27 Thread David Carlson
eally sorry if I’m wasting all > your > >> time – you’ve all been really helpful and maybe its just that gnucash > won’t > >> do what we expect. > >> > >> From: gnucash-user >> gnucash.org> on behalf of David Carlson > >> Date: Fri

Re: [GNC] Getting My Account To Trial Balance

2018-07-27 Thread H Millar MacDonald OBE
org> on behalf of David Carlson >> Date: Friday, 27 July 2018 at 14:19 >> To: Hugh MacDonald OBE >> Cc: Gnucash Users , Stan Brown < >> the_stan_br...@fastmail.fm> >> >> Subject: Re: [GNC] Getting My Account To Trial Balance >> >> If you sol

Re: [GNC] Getting My Account To Trial Balance

2018-07-27 Thread David Cousens
Hugh, When you are creating the transaction for the sale if you are using the automated process as described in the Tutorial and Concepts Guide (https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v3/C/gnucash-guide/index.html) section 9.7 on selling shares Gnucash will automatically assign the profit/gain on the

Re: [GNC] Getting My Account To Trial Balance

2018-07-27 Thread David Carlson
ks to everyone for their input so far. > > From: gnucash-user > on behalf of > Stan > Brown > Date: Thursday, 26 July 2018 at 13:21 > To: GnuCash User List > Subject: Re: [GNC] Getting My Account To Trial Balance > > David T. wrote: >

Re: [GNC] Getting My Account To Trial Balance

2018-07-27 Thread David Carlson
at 13:21 > To: GnuCash User List > Subject: Re: [GNC] Getting My Account To Trial Balance > > David T. wrote: > > > For those who *do* have such holdings, a balanced transaction will > still fail > > the trial balance if the gain or loss isn?t entered. In

Re: [GNC] Getting My Account To Trial Balance

2018-07-27 Thread H M MacDonald OBE
as a profit since that will make the profit double. Clearly there¹s something I¹m still not getting ŠŠŠ Thanks to everyone for their input so far. From: gnucash-user on behalf of Stan Brown Date: Thursday, 26 July 2018 at 13:21 To: GnuCash User List Subject: Re: [GNC] Getting My Account

Re: [GNC] Getting My Account To Trial Balance

2018-07-26 Thread David Carlson
For some reason I have not seen RTFM in this discussion yet. I do not have the manual for release 3.2 handy, but the chapter on investments in the Tutorial for the 2.6.x series is fine reading and there is an entire chapter on ways to track capital gains in GnuCash. The Trial Balance report is

Re: [GNC] Getting My Account To Trial Balance

2018-07-26 Thread Stan Brown
David T. wrote: > For those who *do* have such holdings, a balanced transaction will still fail > the trial balance if the gain or loss isn?t entered. In this instance, there > will be no entries in IMBALANCE-XXX, since each transaction balances. > Example: buy 10 shares of X for $100, using cash

Re: [GNC] Getting My Account To Trial Balance

2018-07-26 Thread Adrien Monteleone
David, I must admit, I knew about all of those cases, and my brain didn’t even register them. (I’m on a much simpler basis now, so generally don’t bother, or I just do the entries as I go.) It’s been nearly 20 years since I dealt with a 13 period year, but for sure, that would be a good use

Re: [GNC] Getting My Account To Trial Balance

2018-07-26 Thread DaveC49
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] GETTING MY ACCOUNT TO TRIAL BALANCE

2018-07-26 Thread H M MacDonald OBE
: [GNC] GETTING MY ACCOUNT TO TRIAL BALANCE Shug, I would ask you to tell us what error message you have received, since I don't usually see any error messages when I run this report. (I do have trouble getting this report to balance, however). However, David has made useful advice regarding

Re: [GNC] Getting My Account To Trial Balance

2018-07-25 Thread Adrien Monteleone
On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 3:13 PM, H M MacDonald OBE < >> > sassunach...@gmail.com> >> > > wrote: >> > > >> > >> Hi David/Richard >> > >> >> > >> The error message is as follows: >> > >> >> >

Re: [GNC] Getting My Account To Trial Balance

2018-07-25 Thread David Carlson
> > wrote: > > > > > >> Hi David/Richard > > >> > > >> The error message is as follows: > > >> > > >> *Report error* > > >> > > >> *An error occurred while running the report.* > > >>

Re: [GNC] Getting My Account To Trial Balance

2018-07-25 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
follows: > >> > >> *Report error* > >> > >> *An error occurred while running the report.* > >> > >> It doesn’t give any clue as to what’s wrong. > >> > >> Thanks. > >> > >> Shug > >> > >> From: D

Re: [GNC] Getting My Account To Trial Balance

2018-07-25 Thread David Carlson
gt;> *Report error* > >> > >> *An error occurred while running the report.* > >> > >> It doesn’t give any clue as to what’s wrong. > >> > >> Thanks. > >> > >> Shug > >> > >> From: D > >> Date: Wednesd

Re: [GNC] GETTING MY ACCOUNT TO TRIAL BALANCE

2018-07-25 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 26 Jul 2018, H Millar MacDonald OBE wrote: The release is 3.2 and the OS is High Sierra. I’m not very savvy so complex debugging is probably beyond me. If all else fails then i can do the trial balance manually but it rather defeats the purpose. My accountant likes to see a trial

Re: [GNC] GETTING MY ACCOUNT TO TRIAL BALANCE

2018-07-25 Thread H Millar MacDonald OBE
> >> An error occurred while running the report. >> >> It doesn’t give any clue as to what’s wrong. >> >> Thanks. >> >> Shug >> >> From: D >> Date: Wednesday, 25 July 2018 at 20:33 >> To: David Carlson , Hugh MacDonald OBE >>

Re: [GNC] Getting My Account To Trial Balance

2018-07-25 Thread Adrien Monteleone
ile running the report.* >> >> It doesn’t give any clue as to what’s wrong. >> >> Thanks. >> >> Shug >> >> From: D >> Date: Wednesday, 25 July 2018 at 20:33 >> To: David Carlson , Hugh MacDonald OBE < >> spahonsec...@gmail.

Re: [GNC] GETTING MY ACCOUNT TO TRIAL BALANCE

2018-07-25 Thread David Carlson
to what’s wrong. > > Thanks. > > Shug > > From: D > Date: Wednesday, 25 July 2018 at 20:33 > To: David Carlson , Hugh MacDonald OBE < > spahonsec...@gmail.com> > Cc: Gnucash Users > Subject: Re: [GNC] GETTING MY ACCOUNT TO TRIAL BALANCE > > Shug, >

Re: [GNC] GETTING MY ACCOUNT TO TRIAL BALANCE

2018-07-25 Thread D via gnucash-user
Shug, I would ask you to tell us what error message you have received, since I don't usually see any error messages when I run this report. (I do have trouble getting this report to balance, however). However, David has made useful advice regarding tracking transaction gain or loss; I would

Re: [GNC] GETTING MY ACCOUNT TO TRIAL BALANCE

2018-07-25 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 25 Jul 2018, H Millar MacDonald OBE wrote: However, when I try to get a Trial Balance I get an error message which according to Google seems to be quite common. I don¹t know where to start to fix this. Can anyone offer any advice please? I am an absolute novice at all of this so please

Re: [GNC] GETTING MY ACCOUNT TO TRIAL BALANCE

2018-07-25 Thread David Carlson
I assume that you mean the debits do not equal the credits rather than that GnuCash failed to generate the report. This is commonly the result of selling a commodity for a different price than what was originally paid without correctly accounting for the profit or loss. One technique to close in

[GNC] GETTING MY ACCOUNT TO TRIAL BALANCE

2018-07-25 Thread H Millar MacDonald OBE
Hi I¹ve just become involved with GnuCash 3.2 and set up my first accounts for our club. It all looks okay except and will provide a profit and loss report on Income and Expenditure which is good. However, when I try to get a Trial Balance I get an error message which according to Google