Unsplitting vendor account

2017-05-23 Thread Rich Shepard
On occasion I'll split an expense for a vendor (e.g., a supermarket) into two or more accounts (e.g., groceries and household goods). The next time I purchase something from that same vendor the transfer column displays '-- split transaction --' and I cannot change that to a single expense

Reprinting business vendor check

2017-06-04 Thread Rich Shepard
Environment: Slackware-14.1 with gc-2.6.16. Testing a check format I printed an A/P check on plain paper. Determining that it fit the checks I have I wanted to re-print it on the actual check form, but the information was not visible following the menus Business -> Vendor -> Find Bill ->

Re: Business check formatting

2017-06-04 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 4 Jun 2017, Derek Atkins wrote: Go to the account (ap or bank), select the transaction, then File -> Print derek, Thank you. When I searched the Guide I missed seeing this. Rich ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-09-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 1 Sep 2017, Rich Shepard wrote: Rather than sending the build log, open a bug and attach the build log. Will do. Clicking the 'bug reports' link on the left side of the gnucash.org home page produces a '404 page not found' error. Will try again later. Rich

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-09-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 31 Aug 2017, John Ralls wrote: Guild is a guile script file that compiles scheme files into byte code. John, Thanks for that lesson. Rather than sending the build log, open a bug and attach the build log. Will do. But first, have you consulted the Slackware lists/fora to

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-09-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 1 Sep 2017, Maf. King wrote: worked for me too try the direct link? https://bugzilla.gnome.org/page.cgi?id=browse.html=GnuCash Maf., That worked for me. While I have (had?) a bugzilla account, I needed to create one for gnome's version. I wrote a detailed description and

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-09-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 1 Sep 2017, Derek Atkins wrote: What URL is showing the error? Derek, http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Bugzilla What is the exact error message? Unable to connect. Regards, Rich ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-09-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 1 Sep 2017, Geert Janssens wrote: What do you mean with "hardcoded" ? Gnucash doesn't hardcode it as far as I know. Is it the slackware build script that does ? If so that one should be fixed. Geert, I saw that in 2.6.16 and assumed it represented the library version on the system

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-09-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 1 Sep 2017, John Ralls wrote: Do you still have the older version of GnuCash installed? If so you'll need to remove it. John, No. Rich ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-09-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 1 Sep 2017, Rich Shepard wrote: Sure. In a couple of minutes. Had to play with the number of lines in each of three separate files to get the gzipped size < 3600 bytes. Concatenate the three parts in sequence to get the full file. R

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-09-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 1 Sep 2017, John Ralls wrote: It worked for me just now. John, Must be something upstream from me. I've tried firefox-52.3.0esr and chromium-60.0.3112.78 on two different machines and both tell me I cannot access the gnucash wiki bug reports page. I can attach the small file to

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-09-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 1 Sep 2017, Geert Janssens wrote: I would expect that as well really. Are the proper development packages for icu installed ? Geert, Slackware does not do separate dev packages. Everything's in each library package. Oh, wait! The 2.6 branch of gnucash is not even explicitly

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-09-03 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 2 Sep 2017, John Ralls wrote: It’s part of GnuCash. Any library that starts with libgnc or libgncmod is part of GnuCash. Its main external dependency is libgtk-x11.so though it has several others in the Gnome stack. John, I thought it was provided by gnucash. I don't have

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-09-03 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 3 Sep 2017, Rich Shepard wrote: I don't have libgtk-x11.so here ... Correction: the library is installed: $ ll /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 963 Sep 10 2016 /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.la lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Aug 19 18:39 /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-09-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 1 Sep 2017, Geert Janssens wrote: Good luck. With webkitgtk you're probably busy for a couple of hours... Geert, Sigh. Yes. It's a huge library. On the laptop with the Atom processor it took about 24 hours to build; took about 7 hours on this dual-core AMD II processor. There's

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-09-02 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 2 Sep 2017, tjoen wrote: This i how I did it: mkdir build cd build/ cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \ -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \ -DCMAKE_SKIP_RPATH=ON \ -DPORT=GTK \ -DLIB_INSTALL_DIR=/usr/lib64 \ -DUSE_SYSTEM_MALLOC=ON \

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-09-02 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 2 Sep 2017, John Ralls wrote: You're building too new a webkit. GnuCash 2.6.x requires the Webkit1 API which was removed after WebKitGtk-2.4.x. WebKitGtk-2.4.x uses autotools. GnuCash master uses the WebKit2 API and works with WebKitGtk-2.6.x. John, Thank you for clarifying.

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-09-02 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 2 Sep 2017, Rich Shepard wrote: I believe resolving version incompatibilities will fix the problem. Perhaps that upgraded libicul18n libraries broke gnucash led me down this long path. That'll be the next tests if needed. I've cleaned out the rest of the cruft from long ago

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-09-03 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 1 Sep 2017, John Ralls wrote: Do you still have the older version of GnuCash installed? If so you'll need to remove it. John, No. When gnucash-2.6.16 failed to load after the distribution upgrade I removed it. Since then I've not been able to build any version of gnucash. Rich

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-08-31 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 31 Aug 2017, John Ralls wrote: There are some dependency-tree problems with CMake builds, so if that's what you're doing just keep re-running make until the build completes. John, I've run into this on a couple of other applications that now use CMake. Does Slackware not provide

Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-08-31 Thread Rich Shepard
Since the beginning of this year I've depended on gnucash for business and personal bookkeeping. Version 2.6.16 was installed on my desktop server/workstation which was running Slackware-14.1/32-bit. Two weeks ago I upgraded the distribution to 14.2. Version 2.6.16 no longer loaded because of

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-08-31 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 31 Aug 2017, Rich Shepard wrote: Sure enough, that file's not there. Forgot to provide the gnucash dependents install here: gnucash-2.6.17 | +-goffice0.8-0.8.17 | +-libgnomecanvas-2.30.3 | +-libofx-0.9.11 | +-webkitgtk-2.4.11 | +-libwebp-0.5.2 Rich

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-08-31 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 31 Aug 2017, John Ralls wrote: Please remember to copy the list on all replies. John, Thought I had as that's my normal practice; I apologize for missing this time. It's not reporting a dependency failure, at least not here. I read the errors as internal to the gnucash build

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-08-31 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 31 Aug 2017, Rich Shepard wrote: May I send the build log (200k) so someone who knows guile well might see the source of the error? Before I do so I'm creating a build.log on the 32-bit system which builds 2.6.17 and will then run 'diff -y' on the two files. That ought to show where

Re: [GNC] Modelling employee expenses

2018-05-22 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 22 May 2018, Matthew Pounsett wrote: So.. I'd like to assign employee expenses to some other account type, and enter the receipts as vendor bills. I'm trying to decide how to tie the two together. Matthew, Why not enter employees as vendors and treat them as any other vendor? As a

Re: [GNC] Modelling employee expenses

2018-05-22 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 22 May 2018, Matthew Pounsett wrote: Because I'd like to treat the actual vendors as the vendors in this situation. I don't see how I could enter an employee expense voucher as a vendor bill, and then still track a vendor bill with the correct vendor attached to it. I'm confused by

Re: [GNC] Modelling employee expenses

2018-05-22 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 22 May 2018, Matthew Pounsett wrote: No, I have an expense item from an employee which they need to be reimbursed for. The employee includes as part of their expense report a receipt from the original vendor, which I'd like to track as a bill (for the reasons stated in my first email).

[GNC] Reconciling credit card and A/P accounts

2018-05-28 Thread Rich Shepard
I've read the reconciliation sections in the gnucash-guide and do not see how to fix my situations here. 1.) On a credit card account the displayed reconciled balance is $45 greater than the true balance as shown on the company's web site as of today. I'm not seeing where this discrepancy

Re: [GNC] Reconciling credit card and A/P accounts

2018-05-28 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 28 May 2018, Paul Konnersman wrote: For a balance error that is evenly divisible by 9 the likely error is an entry that is a multiple of 10. In this case you may have entered $50 rather than $5 or $5 rather than $50. Paul, That's not the issue. The A/P register has a transaction of

[GNC] A/P: invoice not displayed and payment is displayed

2018-05-28 Thread Rich Shepard
Looking at the A/P register there is a transaction from 06/19/2017 showing payment from the checking account, including the check number. There is no off-setting invoice displayed for that transaction. When I look under Business -> Vendor -> Find Vendor -> Find Vendor's Bills, there is a

Re: [GNC] Reconciling credit card and A/P accounts

2018-05-28 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 28 May 2018, Rich Shepard wrote: Yes, the process payment window appears (when I right-click on the transaction in the credit card register). However, when I select the telco as the Vendor, a different invoice (different date and amount; shows the invoice number and an off-setting pre

Re: [GNC] A/P: invoice not displayed and payment is displayed

2018-05-29 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 29 May 2018, Rich Shepard wrote: Rather than spending time trying to adjust each discrepancey I entered an adjustment transaction to bring the A/P balance to $0.00, which is what it actually is. Yet, the balance sheet report shows $642.99 while that account register has a zero balance

Re: [GNC] Delete a customer

2018-05-29 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 29 May 2018, Derek Atkins wrote: It will do that until you go and select a new customer. Derek, That's fine. As long as it doesn't appear in a register it doesn't matter to me. If you have thoughts on why vendor payments are not appearing in the A/P register to offset their

Re: [GNC] Delete a customer

2018-05-29 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 29 May 2018, Adrien Monteleone wrote: How did you delete the invoice? There’s no function to do so. All you can do with bills, invoices, vouchers, customers, vendors and employees is simply re-use them for someone/something else. Adrien, Cleared content from each field. But, it

Re: [GNC] A/P: invoice not displayed and payment is displayed

2018-05-30 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 30 May 2018, Rick Copple wrote: I have my A/R set up as sub accounts. Here's how I handle it. Rick, I had the problems with A/P, not A/R. And I did not intentionally make a subaccount for problem transactions nor consciously assign that subaccount when I paid the invoice. Rich

Re: [GNC] A/P: invoice not displayed and payment is displayed

2018-05-29 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 30 May 2018, Maf. King wrote: Can you see that $310 in the Expenses:Administrative:Accounting account. that will point to where the invoice is posted. I note from the register view of your current account that you have a sub-account in AP. Maf, Well, that explains the issue: why

Re: [GNC] A/P: invoice not displayed and payment is displayed

2018-05-29 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 29 May 2018, Rich Shepard wrote: Please suggest how I can move the bill transactions from that sub-account to the main A/P account (prior to deleting the sub-account). Oh, wait! I need to change each invoice to reflect the correct account. Rich

Re: [GNC] A/P: invoice not displayed and payment is displayed [FIXED]

2018-05-30 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 30 May 2018, Adrien Monteleone wrote: Yes, you’ll have to unpost and repost them accordingly. Adrien, Worked like a charm. Cleared the inadvertent subaccount and deleted it when it was empty. Still have a few wrinkles left to iron out and will get to them Real Soon Now. My

Re: [GNC] A/P: invoice not displayed and payment is displayed

2018-05-30 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 30 May 2018, Geert Janssens wrote: And note that unposting and reposting an invoice will drop the link with any of its payments. So after correcting the invoices you'll need to reapply each payment back to the appropriate invoice(s) (which is *not* the same as creating the payments

Re: [GNC] GnuCash Friendly Accountant

2018-06-03 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 3 Jun 2018, John Robins wrote: Are there any lists where you can locate a business/personal accountant that is ready to work with companies using GnuCash? I'm looking for one around Lakeland/Winter Haven, Florida John, Without knowing your specific interests I'll offer my

Re: [GNC] GnuCash Friendly Accountant

2018-06-03 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 3 Jun 2018, John Robins wrote: What I am hoping to find is an accountant whereby we can share the GnuCash file on Dropbox with them and then they can output the information they need for our filings. John, This may make more work for them than they're willing to take on. Especially

[GNC] Delete a customer

2018-05-29 Thread Rich Shepard
Cleaning up the A/R account. I sent an invoice to a client who said he wanted to hire me, but he refused to pay the invoice. Ergo, he is not a customer. I deleted the invoice I posted but cannot delete the customer record. The Guide does not seem to have this information. Thanks in advance,

Re: [GNC] Reconciling credit card and A/P accounts

2018-05-29 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 28 May 2018, Adrien Monteleone wrote: Was this paid by check or card? Adrien, I could not use a credit card to pay the credit card bill. The invoice was entered and posted to A/P as a credit, displays in the liability (credit card) account as a debit, As a matter of fact, I

Re: [GNC] Reconciling credit card and A/P accounts [RESOLVED]

2018-05-29 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 29 May 2018, Maf. King wrote: unless you are doing something esoteric (and I guess you are not!), the Expense cell on the vendor bill should point to an expense account - is this for some kind of annual card free? I'd suggest Expenses:BankingFees:CardFees or similar. I think that what

Re: [GNC] Delete a customer [RESOLVED]

2018-05-29 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 29 May 2018, Maf. King wrote: I don't believe you *can* delete a customer. You may be able to edit all the details and re-use the data object. YMMV, Maf, As there is no delete option nor mention in the guide I got the impression that once entered the record is permanent. I can

Re: [GNC] A/P: invoice not displayed and payment is displayed

2018-05-29 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 28 May 2018, Adrien Monteleone wrote: You may have to clean up your lots for the A/P account. (you later mention A/R, but I presume you meant A/P) Adrien, As this transaction is from last year I'm not going to worry about it. A/P may well have been thrown out of balance when I

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

2018-06-30 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 30 Jun 2018, Mike or Penny Novack wrote: The proper way is the way your tax lawyer/accountant tells you to. Once THAT has been settled, we can then tell you "how in gnucash". FWIW, I make non-cash donations to Goodwill several times each year. What I did (and my accountant confirmed

Re: info about action field in double-line view

2018-01-26 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 26 Jan 2018, Jack Slater wrote: my reconciled transactions display a Y not an R??? Jack, Could be. I was working from memory. Rich ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org

Re: Cannot print reports: 2.6.19

2018-02-12 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 12 Feb 2018, John Ralls wrote: What happens when you try to print from the personal account? John, That's what I'm trying to do with these reports. The message box, "Error printing. Operation not supported." appears when I view a report and select the Print menu item, then select

Cannot print reports: 2.6.19

2018-02-12 Thread Rich Shepard
Hi folks, I'm running 2.6.19 here on Slackware-14.2 with two separate accounts: business and personal. From the business account I can print trial balance, profit & loss, and balance sheet for 2017 to a disk file. From the personal account I cannot print any of them. Is there a

Recording non-cash donations

2018-02-13 Thread Rich Shepard
Hi all, For tax purposes non-cash donations of goods and services are deductible. I would like to track those as an account (or off-setting accounts) in gnucash and do not find how best to do this in the guide or help docs. I'm open to suggestions on how to track these transactions. Regards,

Re: 2.6.19: Accounts reconciled; trial balance has imbalance

2018-02-13 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 13 Feb 2018, Rich Shepard wrote: The trial balance report for 2017 for a checking account shows a 4-figure imbalance at the bottom, yet the account is properly reconciled with the bank (through yesterday). How can this be? I apologize for posting to two threads on the same issue

2.6.19: Accounts reconciled; trial balance has imbalance

2018-02-13 Thread Rich Shepard
The trial balance report for 2017 for a checking account shows a 4-figure imbalance at the bottom, yet the account is properly reconciled with the bank (through yesterday). How can this be? My accountant tells me that if the checking account register transactions balance with expense

Re: Cannot print reports: 2.6.19 [RESOLVED]

2018-02-13 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 12 Feb 2018, Rich Shepard wrote: That's what I'm trying to do with these reports. The message box, "Error printing. Operation not supported." appears when I view a report and select the Print menu item, then select print to file. John, Got it figured out. I hadn't paid

Re: Cannot print reports: 2.6.19

2018-02-13 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 13 Feb 2018, John Ralls wrote: What does "changed the report display for the business account" mean? John, It means I changed the stylesheet from Default to Footer. Yes, "Export to PDF..." does indeed run the same dialog, pre-populated with some options for printing to file. If

2.6.19: find source of imbalance in reconciled accounts

2018-02-13 Thread Rich Shepard
I'm puzzled how I can find the source of the imbalance at the bottom of the 2017 trial balance report when both the checking and saving accounts reconcile with the bank's records (as of today). The trial balance period is 1 Jan 2017 through 31 Dec 2017. Please provide a clue stick where I

Re: Cannot print reports: 2.6.19

2018-02-13 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 12 Feb 2018, John Ralls wrote: That's not coming from GnuCash, it's coming from the OS. Since it works for one user and not the other I'd suspect a permissions problem. John, When I changed the report display for the business account they refused to print, too. Regardless, I'll

Re: 2.6.19: Accounts reconciled; trial balance has imbalance

2018-02-14 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 13 Feb 2018, Adrien Monteleone wrote: If you’re using digest mode, I’d recommend turning it off. Adrian, I've never used digest mode for any mailing list. That makes it difficult to find a message of interest and to respond to it. I run my own MTA here (postfix) and have set

Re: Recording non-cash donations [RESOLVED]

2018-02-14 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 13 Feb 2018, Adrien Monteleone wrote: That was quick, you answered your own question with a recommendation from an accountant in 3 minutes. (at least by my clock) Adrian, Well, it was actually longer than that when I came up with the solution (and implemented it), and a couple of

Re: 2.6.19: find source of imbalance in reconciled accounts [RESOLVED]

2018-02-14 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 14 Feb 2018, Mike or Penny Novack wrote: But I'll try to help. Go to the Imbalance account. Mike, Aha! I had not noticed the Imbalance account in the CoA. This makes life much easier, especially since I found the major amount was mis-recorded for a credit card when I switched from

Re: 2.6.19: Accounts reconciled; trial balance has imbalance

2018-02-14 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 13 Feb 2018, John Ralls wrote: Try this: Set the Start of Adjusting/Closing on 1 Jan 2017 and the Date of Report on 30 June 2017. If it's in balance, change the report date to 30 September, otherwise to 31 March. If it's now (or still) in balance change it again to halfway between the

Re: How to export structure without transactions?

2018-02-14 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 14 Feb 2018, Fran_3 via gnucash-user wrote: We have setup a gnucash file for 2018 and created all our customer and vendor accounts... plus customized the chart of accounts... and entered all the transactions to date. Now we want to do 2017. Is there a way to export the structure

Re: How to export structure without transactions?

2018-02-14 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 14 Feb 2018, Fran_3 wrote: My concern was if we 'import' all the 2017 transactions it will mess up the balances... but I guess they will all just sit in checking assigned to no account. We just thought it would be cleaner to have a separate 2017 file...  I'm going to post another

Re: Creating Account for each Vendor to avoid Creating and Paying each Bill?

2018-02-14 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 14 Feb 2018, Fran_3 via gnucash-user wrote: For each Vendor Payment we must first create a Bill and then Pay that bill so that it remains associated with the vendor. That's a lot of clicking and typing. Fran3, Er, ... no. Before you create any bill (duck or no duck) enter all

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

2018-07-30 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 30 Jul 2018, Mike or Penny Novack wrote: THIS is perhaps what I am not making clear enough. We have been seeing calls for gnucash to be able to handle inventory, pos, and here payroll, etc. Functions important to businesses, functions which for some would be simple systems but for

Re: [GNC] Post invoice still wants to be paid

2018-07-29 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 28 Jul 2018, David Briggs wrote: Early on, I created an invoice (let's call it Invoice #2) that was posted and paid. when I open GnuCash I get a nag to pay it. When I open Vendor->Find Bills and search for that invoice I see it as posted and paid. I also see it in the appropriate

Re: [GNC] Post invoice still wants to be paid

2018-07-30 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 30 Jul 2018, Adrien Monteleone wrote: Open the A/P Register (since you’re dealing with a bill) and choose Actions > View Lots. Adrien, In my business books the issue is paid A/R invoices that still show open. Select a bill in that pane. Did so. You’ll see the original bill

Re: [GNC] Post invoice still wants to be paid

2018-07-30 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 30 Jul 2018, Adrien Monteleone wrote: I meant that as a reply for David Briggs who was having bill issues, but the process should be the same for A/R and invoices. (I’ve used it for both) Adrien, I know you were responding to David's A/P bills. My 'open' A/R invoices have no

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] Veihicle mileage cost such in HomeBank?

2018-08-25 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 25 Aug 2018, Riccardo Delpopolo Carciopolo wrote: thank you for the extended explanation! I think I would end to use a simple spreadsheet as you suggest. Riccardo, It is common for users to not be aware of the appropriate tool for a specific task. The choices can be overwhelming

Re: [GNC] help with software

2018-08-26 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 26 Aug 2018, Allison Cawdrey wrote: My software will no longer open. I have been using Gnucash for about a month, but not much in the last week. Now today, the program will no longer open. Do I have to download again and start all over? Allison, Help us to help you: what is your

Re: [GNC] help with software

2018-08-26 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 26 Aug 2018, Allison Cawdrey wrote: I am windows user. Not sure what version. I downloaded it about a month ago, so would have used most recent. I don't see anything. I click on icon in my start bar and nothing happens. When I try to open it directly from file, I get the same response.

Re: [GNC] help with software

2018-08-26 Thread Rich Shepard
, 2:16 PM Rich Shepard wrote: On Sun, 26 Aug 2018, Allison Cawdrey wrote: My software will no longer open. I have been using Gnucash for about a month, but not much in the last week. Now today, the program will no longer open. Do I have to download again and start all over? Allison, Help us

Re: [GNC] Reconcilliation deferal

2018-08-17 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 17 Aug 2018, mdfor...@forbii.com wrote: I've always been able to just edit the transaction while the reconcile window is still open.  I just switch over to the register window, make my changes and switch back.  I believe there might even be an option to edit the transaction in the

Re: [GNC] Reconcilliation deferal

2018-08-17 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 17 Aug 2018, Colin Law wrote: I think there was a bug that caused that in one of the earlier 2.x versions. Which version are you using? Colin, 3.2. If you double click an entry in the reconcile window it will take you to the corresponding transaction so you can modify it if

[GNC] Reconcilliation deferal

2018-08-17 Thread Rich Shepard
Perhaps I've missed something. If not I ask for a fix in the next release. When reconciling my bank accounts I sometimes need to go back to account registers and fix an error so I elect to defer the reconciliation process until later. However, when I return all previously checked

Re: [GNC] Reconcilliation deferal

2018-08-17 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 17 Aug 2018, Adrien Monteleone wrote: That might be a bug, not sure, you could file one or maybe a developer will chime in. But if you click the reconcile column in the transactions themselves until they change from ’n’ to ‘c’ they will be checked off the next time you attempt

Re: [GNC] Business Account Set Up Question & Customer Billing Question

2018-08-22 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 22 Aug 2018, Khristine Ann Ramella wrote: Each member contributed 720 to start the business. The first person 720 was put in checking immediately. I put it under Opening Balances and sent it to checking. So far so good. The second 720 came in a month later. When I go to make the deposit

[GNC] Report: single expense account

2018-08-18 Thread Rich Shepard
I would like to print a report for a single expense account listing transactions and total amount spent for a defined time period. I'm not seeing one on the Report menu but it might be there with a heading I don't associate with my need. Is there such a report available? TIA, Rich

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] Payroll add-on, module, software?

2018-07-25 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 25 Jul 2018, Adrien Monteleone wrote: Firefox is a browser, not a search engine, but I believe the current version defaults to using Google for it’s combo address bar-search field. (you can customize the toolbar to show the old separate search field where you can install many search

Re: [GNC] What is a 'pre-paymnet' and how do I remove it?

2018-09-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 1 Sep 2018, Adrien Monteleone wrote: Right-click the transaction in your checking register and choose “Edit Payment” or “Assign as Payment” (depending on if it was already assigned at one time or not) Then select both the payment and the invoice it should apply to and save the

Re: [GNC] What is a 'pre-paymnet' and how do I remove it? [RESOLVED]

2018-09-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 1 Sep 2018, Geert Janssens wrote: Likely Rich's earlier attempt to make a payment to cancel the pre-payment created this situation. Geert, Actually, I paid the outstanding invoice yesterday -- from the invoice itself ("pay invoice"). It was this morning when I opened the business

[GNC] A feature request for next release

2018-09-01 Thread Rich Shepard
I know how to read text, but don't have all icons for all applications memorized. The only three icons with accompanying text on the current (3.2) version are Save, Close, and Split. Every widget set has several choices for pictures so there's no standard. However, word such as Post, and

Re: [GNC] What is a 'pre-paymnet' and how do I remove it? [RESOLVED]

2018-09-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 1 Sep 2018, Adrien Monteleone wrote: Hmm... Not sure I’m following there. You assigned the payment to another payment? Is that even possible? Nope. I suspect you’ve got an errant extra payment somewhere. Nope. Perhaps Geert will need to chime in here. He has been very

[GNC] What is a 'pre-paymnet' and how do I remove it?

2018-09-01 Thread Rich Shepard
GC-3.2 installed here. Last Moday I sent an invoice to a client and entered it, posted to A/R. Yesterday I recieved payment and entered the check, posting it to checking account. Today I open GC and find a messag that that client had two 'pre-payments' (now down to one for some reason).

Re: [GNC] What is a 'pre-paymnet' and how do I remove it? [RESOLVED]

2018-09-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 1 Sep 2018, Adrien Monteleone wrote: Right-click the transaction in your checking register and choose “Edit Payment” or “Assign as Payment” (depending on if it was already assigned at one time or not) Then select both the payment and the invoice it should apply to and save the result.

Re: [GNC] Deleting duplicate client invoice [RESOLVED]

2018-09-07 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 7 Sep 2018, Adrien Monteleone wrote: You can’t delete invoices. (or Bills) Adrien, So I discovered. In addition to unposting, I’d suggest editing the invoice to remove as much info as allowed and probably change the invoice number to ‘use next’. Won't work here as invoice

[GNC] Deleting duplicate client invoice

2018-09-07 Thread Rich Shepard
I have a duplicate invoice for one client and have not yet learned how to delete it. The invoice was paid early last year. Both copies of the invoice in A/R are marked 'read only.' Please advise me how to remove one of these. TIA, Rich ___

Re: [GNC] Deleting duplicate client invoice [RESOLVED]

2018-09-07 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 7 Sep 2018, Rich Shepard wrote: I have a duplicate invoice for one client and have not yet learned how to delete it. The invoice was paid early last year. Both copies of the invoice in A/R are marked 'read only.' I unposted the invoice (but did not delete it) and there is now

Re: [GNC] Deleting duplicate client invoice [RESOLVED]

2018-09-07 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 7 Sep 2018, Geert Janssens wrote: Huh, I don't understand this. Geert, Adrien's suggestion likely was based on using an automatic sequential numbering system. I don't see why you can't reuse the invoice for the future. An unposted invoice is like a blank sheet of paper. You can

Re: [GNC] One account off by significant amount. Can't figure out why.

2018-09-10 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 10 Sep 2018, annapolishome via gnucash-user wrote: Have a problem with one of my accounts. It is off by a considerable amount, but can't see why or where the problem is. Something happened recently. Have you looked at a trial balance? If one account is off it should have an

[GNC] UI question

2018-07-08 Thread Rich Shepard
I just upgraded from 2.6.21 to 3.2 (on Slackware-14.2) and the text and images on the new display appear larger than the 2.x versions. Is there a way to select font size for the registers and controls? I found preferences for html reports which allows selection of typeface and size but not

[GNC] Where to find invoice actions in 3.2?

2018-07-08 Thread Rich Shepard
This morning I upgraded from 2.6.21 to 3.2 (on Slackware-14.2) and a couple of previously-balanced accounts lost their balance. The one I'm trying to fix is a vendor invoice entered, posted, and paid on 23 June. The payment check is a transaction in the checking account, but it's not

Re: [GNC] Where to find invoice actions in 3.2?

2018-07-08 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 8 Jul 2018, Geert Janssens wrote: All these functions can also be found in the menus. Post/Unpost invoice is in the Edit menu Process Payment is under Business->Customer or Business->Vendor. Geert, Thanks for the pointer. It's odd you don't have the little down-arrow on the

Re: [GNC] Version 3.2: Income Statement report anomaly

2018-07-10 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 10 Jul 2018, Adrien Monteleone wrote: Clicking the account name in the report (if you’ve enabled the setting to make account names hyperlinks) should take you to the relevant date area of that account where you can see how those figures were derived and what the balancing splits are.

[GNC] Version 3.2: Income Statement report anomaly

2018-07-09 Thread Rich Shepard
I prepared an Income Statement for June and there's an anomaly I'd like to resolve. There is one expense item for credit card interest and a second item for bank service charges with the same amount. There was no bank service charge for June so that line item should not appear. And, if that

Re: [GNC] Gnucash 3.2 Crashes Frequently

2018-07-09 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 9 Jul 2018, DenverJim wrote: Hi. Haven't seen any comments since 3.2 was released about sudden crashes. It's crashed for me probably 6 or 7 times since June 28th for various reasons. Last crash was caused when saving a transaction report to PDF. Just curious if others having same

Re: [GNC] Vendor invoice, A/P, and payment not reflected

2018-07-09 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 9 Jul 2018, Geert Janssens wrote: When unposting and reposting a bill the payment becomes disassociated from the bill. You have to reapply the payment to the bill. The easiest way to do this I think is to open Business->Vendor->Process Payment... Geert, This is what I forgot!

Re: [GNC] Version 3.2: Income Statement report anomaly

2018-07-10 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 10 Jul 2018, Adrien Monteleone wrote: Is Bank Service Charge the parent of Credit Card Interest by chance? Adrien, Nope. The former is an operational expense while the latter is an administrative expense. I'll check transactions and report dates again and let you know what I

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