Hi John, Can you please provide a link on the available command line switches and syntax? I have searched everywhere and came up short.
On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 12:34 PM John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: > > > > On Apr 21, 2021, at 3:51 PM, Jay Bouxsein <dianan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I have been using GNUCASH for several years to basically track income and > > expenses for rental properties my wife and I own. I do not use it for > any > > other purposes, I enter all of our expenses and income and then produce > a P > > $ L report and send that to our accountant who keeps our historical books > > and prepares our tax returns. Obviously I could use a spreadsheet as my > > accountant suggested, but I really like your aids in completing the entry > > process, the plus and minus feature, and typing just the first few > > characters and so forth. > > > > In the past, we have done all of the data entry in March of the next > > year and it goes fast because we do not have a lot of units (less than > 10 ) > > and limited suppliers (less than 30). My procedure is to call up the > > program and it opens to a register automatically, displaying all of our > > transactions from the previous year and all I need to do is update the > date > > of the first transaction which by default is the current date. For > > example, the date displayed was April 21, 2021 and our first transaction > > was for January 2, 2020. All was going well until we got to March of > 2020 > > when I could not find an expense account and tried to add a new expense > > account and all hell broke loose. I could not get back to the account > > register data entry screen we always used. Eventually I figured out that > > the account that I thought was missing actually was not and what I had > done > > was to create a nearly duplicate account so I deleted the account that I > > had just created and then I was able to get a screen that looked just > like > > the one we always had, but we noticed some differences. > > > > On our old register screen we used to have a column for deposits to our > > checking account and checks written out of that account. Now our screen > > shows "Expense" in the column which used to have "Deposit" and "rebate" > has > > been substituted for the check amount. That does not seem right to me. I > > am 72 years old and actually was pretty good with the software which was > > available back in the 70's, 80's & 90's but not so much any more. I > have a > > feeling that my problem should be a simple one to fix, but my weakness in > > dealing with accounting software is holding me back. I should add that I > > do have a hard copy of a "transction report, Income statement and P&L > which > > I have attached to this email in the hope it will give you enough > > information to understand my missive. > > > > I thank you in advance for your attention to this matter. > > > > IIUC the difference is in the column headings in a register view. If > that's the case you're looking at an Expense (not Bank, which is what a > checking account should be) account in Register2 view. That's hard to do: > You have to start GnuCash with the --extra command-line option and open > registers from the Extensions>Reg2>Open Account menu item. > > But you chose to illustrate the problem with transaction reports from 2018 > and 2019 instead of a screen shot so I wonder if you really mean something > else. > > Regards, > John Ralls > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
