Re: [GNC] Splitting a Transaction (Newbie Question)

Indeed, §6.4 Multiple Split Transactions, particularly steps 10–15 cover this. https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v4/C/gnucash-help/trans-multi-enter.html Regards, Adrien On 12/18/22 4:04 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: Though I also suspect this is covered in the Documentation which gets rare

Re: [GNC] Splitting a Transaction (Newbie Question)

Certainly hitting Enter early is the cause. Before I sent the previous reply, I tried playing with Basic View and the Split button to see how I could manage it and was having difficulty. I guess that is because I already know how to avoid doing so. After a few more attempts, I'm going to

Re: [GNC] Splitting a Transaction (Newbie Question)

On Sun, 18 Dec 2022 13:15:41 -0600 Adrien Monteleone wrote: > I'm not certain of the exact keyboard mechanics you used to cause > this, but the solution is simple. It is often caused by pressing the Enter key prematurely. Adrien knows that, I'd just like to suggest it here, so you can watch

Re: [GNC] Splitting a Transaction (Newbie Question)

On 12/18/22 5:09 AM, p.f.cuthb...@btinternet.com p.f.cuthbert--- via gnucash-user wrote: Investigation this morning has established:    * The system is set up in Basic Ledger Mode    * The test transactions were entered in the Bank Account    * The Bank Account shows no record of the test

Re: [GNC] Splitting a Transaction (Newbie Question)

On 12/17/2022 6:27 PM, R Losey wrote: When you say "bank card", are you talking about something like a debit card, or a credit card? Also, was this at one shop where you spent 7.24? If it is a debit card (money comes directly from the bank account, in contrast to a credit card, where charges

Re: [GNC] Splitting a Transaction (Newbie Question)

Pete -- Original Message -- From: "Michael or Penny Novack" To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Sent: Saturday, 17 Dec, 2022 At 23:04 Subject: Re: [GNC] Splitting a Transaction (Newbie Question) At this point things look good. So what does one do next? Press Return seems like

Re: [GNC] Splitting a Transaction (Newbie Question)

On 17 December 2022 at 22:19, p.f.cuthb...@btinternet.com p.f.cuthbert@ said: [...] > So let us have an example: > > Payment by bank card (credit entry to Bank Account) of £7.24 comprising a > book (debit £5.25 to Entertainment) and some milk (debit £1.99 to > Groceries). [...] > If any kind

Re: [GNC] Splitting a Transaction (Newbie Question)

Peter, Their are a couple of preference entries which can help make things a bit clearer. Under the Edit Preferences dialog in the Register defaults there are 3 options basic Ledger, Autosplit Ledger and Transaction Journal. These control how a transaction is displayed in the register for an

Re: [GNC] Splitting a Transaction (Newbie Question)

When you say "bank card", are you talking about something like a debit card, or a credit card? Also, was this at one shop where you spent 7.24? If it is a debit card (money comes directly from the bank account, in contrast to a credit card, where charges accumulate, and you pay them off

Re: [GNC] Splitting a Transaction (Newbie Question)

At this point things look good.  So what does one do next? Press Return seems like a safe bet.  However it is far from it.  All that happens is that the whole transaction disappears.  The alternative, using another Tab is almost as bad.  The £1.99 debit in Groceries is now replaced by a

Re: [GNC] Splitting a Transaction (Newbie Question)

Based on your description, I can see that you understand the concept but run into some peculiarities of the user interface. One is the transaction autotill or autocomplete (not sure what the official name is). I assume you start with a new transaction in your checking account and as you seem to

Re: [GNC] Splitting a Transaction (Newbie Question)

The transaction didn't disappear entirely when you pressed ENTER. And that is the proper way to commit the transaction. There's nothing random about how it works. If you are viewing a register that is not one of those you are entering amounts for, it will be gone from view, because it doesn't

Re: [GNC] Splitting a Transaction (Newbie Question)

On Sat, 17 Dec 2022 at 22:19, p.f.cuthb...@btinternet.com p.f.cuthbert--- via gnucash-user wrote: > > Hi > > Having today transferred all my data from Quicken to GNUCash I am just > trying to understand how it works. Entering single data items is easy, > but the difficulty I have hit is with

Re: [GNC] Splitting a Transaction (Newbie Question)

Pete, You're on the right track. If the transaction disappears after you press return to commit it, it sounds like you are not entering this transaction from any of the registers involved, or if you are in one of the registers involved the date you entered is out of the range of dates displayed

[GNC] Splitting a Transaction (Newbie Question)

Hi Having today transferred all my data from Quicken to GNUCash I am just trying to understand how it works. Entering single data items is easy, but the difficulty I have hit is with payments that require multiple debits (ie. a split payment) The User Guides that I found today uses an

Re: [GNC] newbie question

Shevach, I think you need to step back and understand the way in which double entry book keeping/accounting works. There is a section labellsed basic in the Tutorial and Concepts Guide which explains the basic concepts. https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v4/C/gnucash-guide/chapter_basics.html.

Re: [GNC] newbie question

On 06 February 2022 at 22:32, Shevach Pepper said: > Hello there, > I have two accounts: income (n.ya.) and cash (my pocket) > I got payed $500 from n. ya. and the money is now in "my pocket". > My problem is when I record in n. ya. charge $500 and in the transfer > column 'my pocket" it records

Re: [GNC] newbie question

vach Pepper Sent: 06 February 2022 20:32 To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: [GNC] newbie question Hello there, I have two accounts: income (n.ya.) and cash (my pocket) I got payed $500 from n. ya. and the money is now in "my pocket". My problem is when I record in n. ya. charge $500 and in

[GNC] newbie question

Hello there, I have two accounts: income (n.ya.) and cash (my pocket) I got payed $500 from n. ya. and the money is now in "my pocket". My problem is when I record in n. ya. charge $500 and in the transfer column 'my pocket" it records it as a "spent" right hand column. I just can't figure out

Re: [GNC] Newbie question

switched to non-digest. Still getting used to the mail listserve. It’s been a minute since I was on one of these :) Steve > > -- > > Message: 2 > Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2021 21:59:34 -0400 > From: Steve Welch > To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org > Subjec

Re: [GNC] Newbie question

Thanks Michael! Yep, makes total sense (I do accounting work as part of my day job, so I understand double entry). I played around with making an opening balance entry, but things are still way off. Sigh. Now I’m gonna have to get creative and figure out what didn’t import correctly via

Re: [GNC] Newbie question

One quirk I noticed about opening balances is that that account seemed to be locked. When setting up a new account you could set the opening balances, but you couldn't change them later. I had to go into the account editor and unlock the opening balances account. Will On 2021 Sep 26, at 09-26

Re: [GNC] Newbie question

Steve, I switched from Moneydance as you did about six months ago. The conversion went fine for me except the account balances were off. To correct for that I just went to each account that was off and entered an opening balance, at the very beginning of the ledger, for the amount that was

Re: [GNC] Newbie question

Hello Steve. Welcome to GnuCash! While I'm not an expert, in my experience, an opening balance is just a normal transaction. There are typically two splits. (1) is a deposit into the account, and (2) is a withdrawal from the Equity:Opening Balances account. Remember GnuCash used double entry

[GNC] Newbie question

Hi! I’m just getting started with GnuCash and have imported my QIF file from Moneydance. Excited to take it for a spin! My question is regarding beginning (opening) account balances. Moneydance has an opening balance field in the account setup window, but evidently that field isn’t

Re: Newbie Question

All the account data is in a single file, whose name depends on what you called it when you did the first save, something like myaccounts.gnucash. If you have moved that file then when you open GC it will try to reopen the original and will show an error when it can't find it. Just ignore that

Re: Newbie Question

Thanks, That was the answer I was looking for However I now have a more serious problem; in the process of trying to move all the GnuCash files and application to their own directory, I have lost all the work I have done the last 3 days the application has lost links to all the

Newbie Question

Hi, I am new to GnuCash. I have finished setting up my chart of accounts manually, but now I need to populate Opening Balances. I understand that option was only available in the wizard. The question is how to set up Opening Balances Manually? ___

Re: Newbie question .

Hi George, How you record these items will depend a great deal on the exact nature of the item and the nature of the future benefit you receive from them. In the case of a pension the future value may be different from simply the paid in value of the contributions. Depending on the nature of

Re: Newbie question .

On Sat, Sep 2, 2017 at 3:24 PM, George Laczko wrote: > Hello , > > I have a question . > > I'm saving money on various accounts (pension , insurance , etc ) that > will be used years later and which i currently pay monthly . Where should > i put them in my bookkeeping ?

Newbie question .

Hello , I have a question . I'm saving money on various accounts (pension , insurance , etc ) that will be used years later and which i currently pay monthly . Where should i put them in my bookkeeping ? Expenses or savings ? ( sorry i'm a new user and english isn't my native language )

Re: Newbie Question

> On Jul 7, 2017, at 10:54 AM, Paul Leniston wrote: > > I have just downloaded gnucash and am a little confused. > > > I have two bank accounts, one in UK and one in Spain. Do I need a > differrent common account for each one? > > > In the UK bank I have three

Re: Newbie Question

On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 1:54 PM, Paul Leniston wrote: > I have just downloaded gnucash and am a little confused. > > > I have two bank accounts, one in UK and one in Spain. Do I need a > differrent common account for each one? > > > In the UK bank I have three

Newbie Question

I have just downloaded gnucash and am a little confused. I have two bank accounts, one in UK and one in Spain. Do I need a differrent common account for each one? In the UK bank I have three accounts. There is a current account, a deposit account and a credit card account. Do I need a