Re: Two Income Statement patches: Assets & Value

2009-01-29 Thread Mark Jenkins
> I'd use the cash flow statement to answer this question. The cash flow > statement should show you how much an account changed in a period. You I also find that transaction report does a good job of adding up new entries over a period. ___ gnucash-d

Re: Two Income Statement patches: Assets & Value

2009-01-29 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
Frédéric >Actually, it was not. But I can certainly understand how it could seem >that way to you. > >My question/need was actually technical: how much money went into asset >account X last year? [*] > >This need comes as a result of two things: > >* Under Canadian law, the half-year convention

Re: Installing SLIB 3b1 with Guile 1.8.6 (to work with Gnucash 2.8.8) [SOLVED]

2009-01-29 Thread Tom Browder
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: ... > Tom Browder writes: ... >> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > >>> The important point with this sentence is that SLIB is third-party >>> software, so it's the section of the SLIB manual referenced here that >>>

Re: Installing SLIB 3b1 with Guile 1.8.6 (to work with Gnucash 2.8.8) [SOLVED]

2009-01-29 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Tom Browder writes: > On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> The important point with this sentence is that SLIB is third-party >> software, so it's the section of the SLIB manual referenced here that >> has the last word anyway. > > Its instructions don't work, either.

Transaction API question

2009-01-29 Thread Charles Day
I have a question about how to destroy a transaction properly. Suppose I do the following to create a new transaction with one split. new_trans = xaccMallocTransaction (gnc_get_current_book ()); xaccTransBeginEdit (new_trans); xaccTransSetCurrency (new_trans,

Re: Two Income Statement patches: Assets & Value

2009-01-29 Thread michael.mckay
I'd use the cash flow statement to answer this question. The cash flow statement should show you how much an account changed in a period. You could use the report in a multi-column format to have 1st-half and 2nd half of the year. Specifically, if you set up the report to use your fixed asse

Re: Two Income Statement patches: Assets & Value

2009-01-29 Thread Frédéric Brière
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 09:33:03AM -0500, Mike or Penny Novack wrote: > Back to the original question which was really "how do I properly keep > the books to reflect "depreciation" and what information must I be able > to report for my jurisdiction. That's NOT a GnuCash question. That's a Ac

Re: Where can I find the Windows Install for 2.2.9?

2009-01-29 Thread Derek Atkins
Hi, writes: > Sorry for the newbie question, but the invoice/bill bug in 2.2.8 is driving > me nuts. I see that it has been fixed in 2.2.9 but that release has not > been published on sourceforge yet. Can someone point me to a location where > I can get a Windows install of 2.2.9. Unless y

Re: Installing SLIB 3b1 with Guile 1.8.6 (to work with Gnucash 2.8.8) [SOLVED]

2009-01-29 Thread Tom Browder
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: Hi, Ludo', thanks for the response. ... > Tom Browder writes: > >> [Note that instructions need to be updated to work with slib 3b1; note also >> that the link to the SLIB installation is broken.] > > IIUC, the only differences is that you

Where can I find the Windows Install for 2.2.9?

2009-01-29 Thread michael.mckay
Sorry for the newbie question, but the invoice/bill bug in 2.2.8 is driving me nuts. I see that it has been fixed in 2.2.9 but that release has not been published on sourceforge yet. Can someone point me to a location where I can get a Windows install of 2.2.9. Many thanks in advance, Mike.

Re: Two Income Statement patches: Assets & Value

2009-01-29 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >I don't want to rain on your parade, but in my opinion this is the >wrong thing to do. > >What would be better is to have a separate balance sheet report that >provides the delta over a time period. I don't begin to know how to do >that, but IMO, it is the proper thi

Re: Installing SLIB 3b1 with Guile 1.8.6 (to work with Gnucash 2.8.8) [SOLVED]

2009-01-29 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Tom Browder writes: > [Note that instructions need to be updated to work with slib 3b1; note also > that the link to the SLIB installation is broken.] IIUC, the only differences is that you used .../guile/site instead of ../guile/1.8, and that you removed the reference to $SCHEME_LIBRARY_PA