Re: Tracking a TIAA mixed fund account

(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

Re: Flipping account types by hacking the XML

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

Re: Broken link at for the gnucash-user archives search

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. >

Re: Customized saved-reports file per gnucash file (i.e. per company)

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

GnuCash release numbering

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.

Multi-user suggestion: an edit token

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

Re: Gnucash 3.0 Build error

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

Re: [GNC] What does your Summary Bar say in Gnucash-3.0? Mine is rude

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;

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Re: Gnucash and 529 plans

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

Re: beginning balance of income and expense accounts

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

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

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