Re: GNUCash value proposition

2017-06-05 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I started out with GnuCash casually and quickly found that approach was going to get me in trouble. (or at least make the effort useless) I now get receipts for everything possible and make it a point to enter them every day. (usually the next morning when my memory is fresh) It really is not

Re: GNUCash value proposition

2017-06-05 Thread John Morris
> If we all had the time and discipline to enter every transaction as it > was made, this is all true. Entering transactions as they are made is > very hard, and without a client that you carry with you it is virtually > impossible, even if one existed, it would be tedious. The fact is the > Bank

Re: GNUCash value proposition

2017-06-05 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
I won’t tell you how much trouble I had years ago when a bank employee accidentally keyed in the dollar portion of a check twice, and instead of a $621 check, I got tagged for $621,621. Imagine my surprise when I saw that my account was overdrawn by some $600,000… David > On Jun 5, 2017, at

Re: GNUCash value proposition

2017-06-05 Thread prl
On 5/06/2017 18:24, Colin Law wrote: On 5 June 2017 at 03:21, Lincoln A Baxter wrote: If we all had the time and discipline to enter every transaction as it was made, this is all true. Entering transactions as they are made is very hard, and without a client that you

Re: GNUCash value proposition

2017-06-01 Thread Abhijit Kshirsagar
This is a superb note about how reconciliations should be used. Abhijit On 24 April 2017 at 12:02, Buddha Buck wrote: > I am not a Quicken convert, but I'll point out a benefit of entering your > transactions manually as Russell and CM suggest: It gives you a point of >