On 23/08/2017 18:11, mike.m...@gmx.net wrote:
A little more reading.
[1]https://www.cchdaily.co.uk/lords-probe-software-companies-lack-readiness-m
aking-tax-digital
Please note that this link is mostly outdated, espcially the deadlines
mentioned are not any more applicable.
The
On 13/12/2017 00:57, brad wrote:
I would like to see something on this in the wiki.
Just because Mac & windows don't have python and sql by default doesn't
mean that the knowledge base should be dumbed down.
It is not a case of dumbing down. Building gnucash with python on
windows is
On 17/12/2017 19:31, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
I'd like to export the general ledger to a csv file. When I use File ->
Export, however, I'm offered a choice of exporting income, expenses,
assets, or liabilities. But I'd like to have all transactions in the
csv file.
I think I see how to do this
On 18/12/2017 13:16, Sébastien de Menten wrote:
To export a gnucash book to a ledger-cli output, you may be interested by
the piecash python module and the related script
https://github.com/sdementen/piecash/blob/master/scripts/piecash_ledger.py
I already said that, you just have to wait
On 18/12/2017 10:32, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
On 18/12/17 03:26, Wm via gnucash-user wrote:
On 17/12/2017 19:31, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
I'd like to export the general ledger to a csv file. When I use File ->
Export, however, I'm offered a choice of exporting income, expenses,
ass
On 18/12/2017 18:13, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
Jeff,
If I recall correctly from other discussion, the General Ledger is not it’s own
entity. It’s a ‘view’ of the separate account ledgers all rolled into one. This
is probably why there is no export option for it.
You recall incorrectly. The
On 20/11/2017 00:37, Richard Ullger wrote:
There is an issue with prices for UK funds and investment trusts
downloaded on a Saturday and Sunday which are appearing 100 times too
small. When these prices are retrieved Monday to Friday they are
correct. Prices for stocks and bonds are not
On 08/02/2018 14:28, David Carlson wrote:
If you want to create a fictional stock and manually enter prices from time
to time that is easy.
Just use the security editor and invent a name and symbol, possibly under
the group called Fund. Do not set an online quote source. Then manually
use the
On 12/02/2018 17:12, Les wrote:
I use, in addition to USD. AUD, HKD, CAD, CNY and SGD. I buy in
tranches for average cost. So, not sure that means I have complicated
trades but I make sure I never have any orphan accounts. I checked my
test file for capital and it did not list any. Although,
On 12/02/2018 19:11, Cliff McDiarmid wrote:
Thanks Adrien I thought as much. That's a shame everything else is
what I need.
I don't know what a predictive bar graph is so, unsurprisingly, I'm not
missing one.
Hint: using terms you are familiar with and other people aren't usually
On 07/02/2018 18:17, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
Go to Preferences > General > Numbers. You can increase your decimal precision.
Did that solve the small fraction issue?
That isn't a good way to go if your base currency is a 2 decimal one.
Creating a commodity with the appropriate number of
Background: I am a p2x investor, I like it, it is fun and may do some
good to far away people and get me a better return on my money than more
conventional investments ... or I could lose it all. Ho hum.
the gnc point is how best to model a p2x investment.
my p2x investments involve hundreds
On 24/02/2018 18:05, Vin Ordinaire wrote:
Dollars are great - pick one of many flavours
USD,CAN,AUD,HKG,Bermuda,Singapore and about 10 others.
The problem is reporting a balance sheet multiple currency assets. I
located in the Windows version Options>Commodities>Show Foreign Currencies
that
On 06/03/2018 01:25, Robin Chattopadhyay wrote:
Hi-
Using Linux Mint 18.3, Gnucash 2.6.19...
There's a report I like to use called Account Report. You can get to it
after opening a register. I use this report to see what gnc has as the cost
basis for an investment.
I'm not sure that was how
On 06/03/2018 15:13, jcnw wrote:
I am setting up a set of books for a small church and need to run a month
profit and loss report.
How do I enter the Net Income for the Period into the books so it shows up
in the balance sheet?
I have set up the books with Income, Expense, Asset and Liability
On 07/03/2018 23:14, Stan Brown wrote:
On Wed, Mar 7, 2018, at 10:56 AM, John Wilson wrote:
Stan,
Thank you for your prompt help.
Attached is my first P statement which shows an income of $1,458.23
but when I run a trial balance it does not appear in Earnings, which
Equity:Earnings account that
On 03/03/2018 13:47, Stan Brown wrote:
On 2018-03-02 13:47, Wm via gnucash-user wrote:
On 23/02/2018 12:52, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
And unfortunately, this filter change is not sticky. You’ll have to
reset it each time you load the GL. This is already a filed bug.
AdrienM, it is not a bug
On 02/03/2018 16:22, Leo Bolta wrote:
Not to keep the thread alive but these are photos of select pages of the
1882 High School bookkeeping text book, I referred to earlier and promised
to distribute. Several of the previous commenter's may have been quite
accurate in regards to the historical
On 28/02/2018 23:24, Stefan Riha wrote:
I'm a beginner and I'd like to examine how sales and expenses change assets
and liabilities (a.k.a ."summary journal entry", see e.g. Accounting
workbook for dummies by J. Tracey, link to google books below).
cash sale or sale on account ?
expense on
On 26/02/2018 18:16, Greg Feneis wrote:
I keep seeing this email subject line and imagine you guys are discussing a
lesser known war hero
Thank you, Mr Feneis, I'm not sure what this thread is really about
either but commend your humour.
It doesn't really matter what the damn thing is
On 01/03/2018 18:02, Y B wrote:
Having problems posting: someone included paypc.com on the spam assassin list.
we are innocent !
Hello !
Following the suggestion of Fred Perrin to set Tools>Security Editor>Show
National Currencies, I'm posting here. Thanks also to Mike Alexander for his
On 23/02/2018 12:52, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
And unfortunately, this filter change is not sticky. You’ll have to reset it
each time you load the GL. This is already a filed bug.
AdrienM, it is not a bug if you have many years of tx, promise. I like
the narrow time window.
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On 23/02/2018 21:52, Buddha Buck wrote:
I suspect that GnuCash terminology regarding journals and ledgers is
somewhat confused and non-standard.
yeah, they are convenience terms
My basic understanding of classical accounting is that transactions were
first entered into journals, and then
On 27/02/2018 17:53, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
James,
Everyone has their own methods, but the Tutorial & Concepts Guide has a
suggestion that I’ve followed and it’s served me well.
I always enter transactions working in the account register the money is coming
FROM.
I never use the General
On 05/03/2018 15:23, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
I see then my first guess was wrong. I’ve never played with Docker so I wasn’t
aware you had to specify locales when creating the image.
Glad to see you got it worked out and thanks for posting the solution for
posterity!
Getting the locale
On 22/02/2018 07:53, David Carlson wrote:
I seem to recall that GnuCash uses a different printing system dialog than
most other windows programs. Perhaps a developer knows where to look for
this problem.
I'd prefer a developer to spend 0 time on a problem that can be solved
by copy and paste
On 03/03/2018 03:27, Mike Stillingfleet wrote:
I have used GNUCash for a couple of years now. in recent days I have come
across a couple of features or tricks which have completely transformed the
value of GNUCash to me. Yet neither of these features are in the help pages. Or
if the are in
On 27/10/2018 19:24, wail wrote:
Hello,
I have a list of invoices and a list of payments and I'm trying to assign
payments to invoices (I'm using Gnucash 3.3 on Ubuntu 18.10).
The problem is that my client pays sums that are not related to invoices,
e.g. invoices would be $4 $5 $3 $6 while
On 27/10/2018 13:46, Kim Wood wrote:
Here is another suggestion that works for me.
I use the most recent PortableApps build, and simply delete the
\PortableApps\GnuCashPortable\App\gnucash directory, and replace it with my
more recent c:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash directory. Works fine for
On 26/10/2018 21:36, Paul Kinzelman wrote:
Not ideal of course, but if you install GC on all the computers you want
to run on, you could just put the data on the flash drive and plug it in
to whatever computer you want and have already installed GC and
then start GC.
Wrong! the clever people
On 27/10/2018 09:34, Geert Janssens wrote:
Agreed. And on several occasions I have been thinking about adjusting the
gnucash code and its Windows installer to make this universally possible. It
never really happened so far due to lack of time and other priorities.
the .gnucash folder model
On 29/10/2018 14:55, Eric Gwin wrote:
Hi,
I'm pretty new to to application, and have basically 0 accounting
background. I've setup my books and all is working pretty well, but I am
running into an issue with subaccounts I hope I'm doing something wrong,
but if not I'd also like to know so I can
On 29/10/2018 16:49, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
We’ve discussed envelope budgeting quite a bit here on the list. Do a list
restricted search to find the threads. I’ve tried it myself in the past, and
currently have the account tree set up to use, but honestly, it is probably
better to use an
On 26/10/2018 21:27, aeneas wrote:
Very nice reply!
It looks like knowing about GNC_DATA_HOME goes a long way toward solving my
problem. From what I can see I'm not using AQBANKING. Also, I'd speculate
that my scheme may not be be completely fool-proof. I did search the
registry for
On 31/10/2018 01:24, D via gnucash-user wrote:
Check out https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Backup
You should not point people to incorrect and misleading links
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On 27/10/2018 13:30, rsbrux via gnucash-user wrote:
You can just move the account, but the transaction currency is immutable so you
will have to delete and re-create the transaction.
As for adding a trading currency to the security editor, it’s possible but the
code for creating transaction
On 31/10/2018 00:52, Bob Hammons wrote:
I have been using Gnucash since the first of the year. The data files are in a
directory named gnucash and it save a lot of backups. I am using Windows 10. I
open filer and control c the days files, sometimes as high as 20, and paste
them to a thumb
On 01/11/2018 09:27, Geert Janssens wrote:
Op woensdag 31 oktober 2018 17:09:27 CET schreef Wm via gnucash-user:
On 31/10/2018 01:24, D via gnucash-user wrote:
Check out https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Backup
You should not point people to incorrect and misleading links
What's misleading
On 21/10/2018 11:18, José A. Fernández Troncoso wrote:
Yes, when I create a sale transaction on the stock, a capital loss is
calculated automatically by the report and shown as a negative amount in
the Realized Gain column. That's fine by me.
It presumes a tax regime, unfortunately.
The
On 01/11/2018 10:39, Wail Yahyaoui wrote:
Wm:
If the payments really are unrelated to the invoices use the old
fashioned payment on account method, i.e. reduce the balance on the
Liability and tidy it up occasionally.
>
> I wanted to clean the unpaid invoice list. #
> What do you mean by
On 21/10/2018 10:32, rsbrux via gnucash-user wrote:
Dear John,
Thanks for the tip! After a bit of experimentation, it seems that the
problem has to do with the number of currency exchange rates requested.
If I reduce the number to five or fewer, the price update works. I
guess this has to
On 01/11/2018 16:40, Ronal B Morse wrote:
I don't see any reason to change the Wiki. People who
already have a backup plan in place know what they need to
do.
So long as no-one is ever allowed to say "I followed your instructions
and lost my data" I agree.
I am waving and saying, "I have
On 03/01/2019 19:03, nvsoar wrote:
On 01/02/19 08:51, Dave Cooper via gnucash-user wrote:
Hi gnucash
I have returned to gnu-cash having not used it for several years so
please bear with me.
I have reloaded the system and set it up to get some UK stock prices
(LSE) using Alphavantage
On 22/02/2019 15:34, John Ralls wrote:
Our position has always been and will likely always be that we support writing
to a GnuCash file or database only through the GnuCash API. That's not the same
thing as from inside of GnuCash.
Nods, in theory.
GnuCash's libraries expose their API
On 21/02/2019 21:03, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
Otherwise, if you have a case of say, high volume day trading, you are probably
limited to tracking most of the activity outside of GnuCash, generating daily
net transactions and just entering/importing those.
Good advice, Adrien. The gnc data
On 02/02/2019 04:24, Mike Alexander wrote:
A few weeks ago I received a check in payment for an invoice I had sent to a
customer. I recorded the payment and deposited the check. A couple of weeks
later I got notice from my bank that the check had bounced. My question is how
to record this.
On 23/08/2019 09:24, Michael Hendry wrote:
First, Adrien makes some very valid points which I think you should
consider.
As previously mentioned on the list, I’ve just become Treasurer of our local
Rotary Club, which has two sets of books, one relating to the business of
running the club
heads up, folks
morningtstar.co.uk (and possibly other European versions) have changed
some stuff that mean some F::Q requests have stopped working.
This isn't gnc's fault.
If you use a quote source such as
mstaruk
expect it to fail until the F::Q folks catch up.
Would people with
On 09/07/2019 03:45, John Ralls wrote:
On 8 juil. 2019, at 08:55, R. Victor Klassen wrote:
Perhaps this has been fixed. I’m using 2.6.21 for production.
Using SQLite I am expecting every transaction to hit disk immediately.
Saturday we had a power failure and lost about five days’ worth
On 25/08/2019 00:06, Richard Ullger wrote:
On 23/08/2019 14:26, Wm via gnucash-user wrote:
heads up, folks
morningtstar.co.uk (and possibly other European versions) have changed
some stuff that mean some F::Q requests have stopped working.
This isn't gnc's fault.
If you use a quote source
On 01/12/2019 15:36, John Ralls wrote:
On Nov 30, 2019, at 12:58 PM, Wm via gnucash-user
wrote:
On 24/11/2019 23:07, Richard Ullger wrote:
On Sunday, 24 November 2019 04:05:23 GMT Wm via gnucash-user wrote:
Which OS and perl version are you on? At the moment it is looking like
gnc
On 01/12/2019 15:36, John Ralls wrote:
On Nov 30, 2019, at 12:58 PM, Wm via gnucash-user
wrote:
On 24/11/2019 23:07, Richard Ullger wrote:
On Sunday, 24 November 2019 04:05:23 GMT Wm via gnucash-user wrote:
Which OS and perl version are you on? At the moment it is looking like
gnc
On 25/11/2019 18:33, Michael or Penny Novack wrote:
On 11/24/2019 6:17 AM, Wm via gnucash-user wrote:
Is anyone interested in resurrecting the possibility of gnc dealing
with restricted funds and other charitable / not-for-profit / whatever
they are called where you live accounting better
On 23/11/2019 20:12, Richard Ullger wrote:
I get (on Saturday evening)...
gnc-fq-dump -v mstaruk GB00B4PQW151
Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
symbol: GB00B4PQW151 <=== required
date: 11/22/2019 <=== recommended
currency: GBP <=== required
On 24/11/2019 18:26, Kevin Reid wrote:
On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 10:14 AM Art Chimes wrote:
I have an expense account called "charity:non-cash contributions" where I
record these (potentally tax-deductible) donations, but I don't know how
best to record the other side of the transaction.
…
Is anyone interested in resurrecting the possibility of gnc dealing with
restricted funds and other charitable / not-for-profit / whatever they
are called where you live accounting better?
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On 24/11/2019 23:07, Richard Ullger wrote:
On Sunday, 24 November 2019 04:05:23 GMT Wm via gnucash-user wrote:
Which OS and perl version are you on? At the moment it is looking like
gnc might need a more recent version of strawberry perl on Win but I
can't quite work out why. If you
On 19/11/2019 16:27, Derek Robinson via gnucash-user wrote:
Vanguard investors using GnuCash may be frustrated that many Vanguard products (like
their 529 portfolios, any 401(k) / 403(b) products with the word "Trust" in the
title) do not have prices that are easily obtainable from one of the
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