Re: [GNC] Book keeping/accounting of club project funds

2019-05-02 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Report Options > Display (at least for P/Income Statement and the Balance Sheet) Parent account balances > Account Balance | Subtotal | Do not show Parent account subtotals > Show subtotals | Do not show | Textbook style (experimental) The first option will show the Account Balance if the

Re: [GNC] Book keeping/accounting of club project funds

2019-05-02 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Rod, I think AP/AR are already there if you have the Business Features available. (this was a subject of dispute not long ago on the list. I seem to recall a time when one had to specifically enable them as an option, but it’s been so long since I started a new book...) If you do have to

Re: [GNC] Account Types

2019-05-02 Thread Adrien Monteleone
What you are looking for is something more along the lines of operational and/or cost-center accounting. You *can* achieve that with an unconventional account tree, but you’ll encounter some oddities, like this one. You can export your P to a spreadsheet to manipulate it like you want with

Re: [GNC] Uninstall GC

2019-05-02 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Curious about that cmake line... Was that: /home/dennis/.local/home/dennis/Applications/gnucash-3.1? Looks like an extra nested /home/dennis in there or am I reading that wrong? (If I am, apologies for the noise) Regards, Adrien > On May 2, 2019, at 6:48 PM, John Ralls wrote: > > > >> On

Re: [GNC] 8.1 Find (^F) set default search preferences?

2019-05-02 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I agree, I find myself often having to face palm and then migrate to the the CoA to conduct my search. In fact, I rarely can get any results even *for* the register I’m in. But ‘finding’ from the CoA works every time. Regards, Adrien > On May 2, 2019, at 5:30 PM, David Carlson wrote: > > The

Re: [GNC] column widths - balance

2019-05-02 Thread David Carlson
The real problem comes if you use the program on two different monitors with different resolutions and/or different default text sizes. In one case you will want extra space to the left so that it is still ok on the other monitor. Double clicking doesn't leave extra space on the left. On Thu,

Re: [GNC] column widths - balance

2019-05-02 Thread David Carlson
When did that change? in release 2.6.19 you can still adjust the balance by moving the right edge of the title. On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 8:58 PM David T. wrote: > Note that Section 2.3.3 of the Guide includes the following: > > Note > > In the register windows, you can resize the various columns

Re: [GNC] Book keeping/accounting of club project funds

2019-05-02 Thread Stephen M. Butler
On 5/2/19 6:50 PM, Roderick Anderson wrote: > Thanks Stephen. > > This is kind of what I was thinking I needed to do. > > Can you offer some pointers to find out more about 'setting flags' and > roll-up account?  I figured there should be options like this but too > ignorant of accounting to even

Re: [GNC] Book keeping/accounting of club project funds

2019-05-02 Thread David Cousens
Rod, In the archives you will also find a number of discussions of accounting for restricted funds where funds are for a specified purpose and restricted to being used only for that purposewhich may be helpful.

Re: [GNC] column widths - balance

2019-05-02 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
Note that Section 2.3.3 of the Guide includes the following: Note In the register windows, you can resize the various columns that GnuCash displays, but keep in mind that the Description and Balance columns behave differently from other columns. The Description column is designed to expand

Re: [GNC] Account Types

2019-05-02 Thread David Cousens
Jimmy You would normally create a COGS account as a sub account of Expenses, not as a top level account in its own right. David Cousens - David Cousens -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html ___

Re: [GNC] Book keeping/accounting of club project funds

2019-05-02 Thread Roderick Anderson
Thanks Stephen. This is kind of what I was thinking I needed to do. Can you offer some pointers to find out more about 'setting flags' and roll-up account? I figured there should be options like this but too ignorant of accounting to even know where to look. 73, Rod - K7ZBE -- On 5/2/19

[GNC] Account Types

2019-05-02 Thread Jimmy R via gnucash-user
I've created a top level accounts called COGS which is fine, but when I run a report it is shown within the Expenses. Is it possible to have it shown like below displaying ( two expenses ) Expense COGS - Food - Beverages Expense Operating - Advertising - Auto ---Fees ---Gas ---Parking ---Repair

Re: [GNC] How to reorder account tree AND transactions?

2019-05-02 Thread Stephen M. Butler
On 5/2/19 5:56 PM, Jeff Earickson wrote: > Steve, > > Ahhh...  It worked beautifully.  Now the way I want it.  Schwab, here > I come.  Thank you. > > Jeff Earickson You are welcome.  -- Stephen M Butler, PMP, PSM stephen.m.butle...@gmail.com kg...@arrl.net 253-350-0166

Re: [GNC] How to reorder account tree AND transactions?

2019-05-02 Thread Jeff Earickson
Steve, Ahhh... It worked beautifully. Now the way I want it. Schwab, here I come. Thank you. Jeff Earickson On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 8:45 PM Stephen M. Butler wrote: > On 5/2/19 5:20 PM, Jeff Earickson wrote: > > All, > > > > I stared at the FAQ "How can I reorder accounts in the account

Re: [GNC] Book keeping/accounting of club project funds

2019-05-02 Thread Roderick Anderson
Thanks Rich. Yeah still in Idaho so and because our assets are so small we have only an Annual Report. At least that's what the Secretary of State says. :-) Federal tax reporting is just a simple. Somewhere/when the decision must have been made to not carry hardware on the books. Feels

Re: [GNC] How to reorder account tree AND transactions?

2019-05-02 Thread Stephen M. Butler
On 5/2/19 5:20 PM, Jeff Earickson wrote: > All, > > I stared at the FAQ "How can I reorder accounts in the account tree?" and > searched the archives, but remain stumped. > > A while back I opened a Schwab checking account, and I've got a couple of > years worth of transactions in it. Now I want

[GNC] How to reorder account tree AND transactions?

2019-05-02 Thread Jeff Earickson
All, I stared at the FAQ "How can I reorder accounts in the account tree?" and searched the archives, but remain stumped. A while back I opened a Schwab checking account, and I've got a couple of years worth of transactions in it. Now I want to reorder the account structure from: Schwab.

Re: [GNC] Book keeping/accounting of club project funds

2019-05-02 Thread Stephen M. Butler
On 5/2/19 3:18 PM, Roderick Anderson wrote: > Cryptic enough? :-) > > How should I make entries for club project funds. > > I am the treasurer for a small 501(c)(3).  Our income is mainly > memberships (dues), cash donations, and an annual swap meet like event. > > First off I have almost no

Re: [GNC] Uninstall GC

2019-05-02 Thread John Ralls
> On May 2, 2019, at 2:09 PM, Stephen M. Butler wrote: > > On 5/2/19 1:48 PM, Dennis Powless wrote: >> I've got GC 3.1 installed on my laptop running Ubuntu 19.04. Built from >> source. >> >> >> >> This was the command I ran to install GC back then. >> >> cmake -DWITH_AQBANKING=OFF -D

Re: [GNC] GC won't load on Ubuntu 19.04

2019-05-02 Thread John Ralls
Right. The problem is that you build GnuCash on Ubuntu 18.04 that provides libboost-regex.so.1.65.0 then upgraded to Ubuntu 19.04 that provides libboost-regex.so.1.67.0 instead. When the linker tries to assemble gnucash to run it it can't find libboost-regex.so.1.65.0 because it's no longer

Re: [GNC] Book keeping/accounting of club project funds

2019-05-02 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 2 May 2019, Rich Shepard wrote: I've been asked to track the funding(?) for the clubs main project, HAM radio repeaters. We paid for them out of checking. Some of it before I became treasurer. We are now needing to enhance those systems so we've asked for donations specifically for this

Re: [GNC] Check Printing Question

2019-05-02 Thread Jay Ridgley
On 4/30/19 7:28 PM, David Reiser wrote: On Apr 30, 2019, at 8:11 PM, Jay Ridgley wrote: Good evening, I use Quicken Wallet Style checks. Is there a way to include a line of text between the amount and the signature line? I need is to place the text "Void after ninety days" on every check

Re: [GNC] Book keeping/accounting of club project funds

2019-05-02 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 2 May 2019, Roderick Anderson wrote: Cryptic enough? :-) Hey Rod! How should I make entries for club project funds. I am the treasurer for a small 501(c)(3). Our income is mainly memberships (dues), cash donations, and an annual swap meet like event. First, I'd check with a CPA

Re: [GNC] 8.1 Find (^F) set default search preferences?

2019-05-02 Thread David Carlson
The part of the ^F search that I get most frustrated with is that it only searches the split lines belonging to the register that you start in, so I usually have to start by going to the CoA window or open a Ledger window before starting my search. An option to search all transaction accounts

[GNC] Book keeping/accounting of club project funds

2019-05-02 Thread Roderick Anderson
Cryptic enough? :-) How should I make entries for club project funds. I am the treasurer for a small 501(c)(3). Our income is mainly memberships (dues), cash donations, and an annual swap meet like event. First off I have almost no experience in accounting and mostly on-the-job learning.

Re: [GNC] * Unsaved book - Gnucash

2019-05-02 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 2 May 2019, at 23:07, Derek Atkins wrote: > > Michael, > > On Thu, May 2, 2019 5:44 pm, Michael Hendry wrote: >> >> PS Panic over! >> >> I removed all files created after the last known good .gnucash backup file >> - MDH.gnucash.20190502173103.gnucash - to a safe place. >> >> I then

Re: [GNC] * Unsaved book - Gnucash

2019-05-02 Thread Derek Atkins
Michael, On Thu, May 2, 2019 5:44 pm, Michael Hendry wrote: > > PS Panic over! > > I removed all files created after the last known good .gnucash backup file > - MDH.gnucash.20190502173103.gnucash - to a safe place. > > I then started Gnucash 3.4 in the normal way, and opened this backup file >

Re: [GNC] 8.1 Find (^F) set default search preferences?

2019-05-02 Thread Adrien Monteleone
`Memo` is the field for each split where you can put detailed information about that split. It is the second column, the wide one. (first column is called `Action`) To see splits, you either have to click the Split button on the toolbar, the Show Splits link on a transaction, or switch to

Re: [GNC] * Unsaved book - Gnucash

2019-05-02 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 2 May 2019, at 21:59, Michael Hendry wrote: > >> On 2 May 2019, at 00:47, John Ralls wrote: >> >> I sure hope so. >> >> Regards, >> John Ralls > > Thanks, John. > > Encouraged by your confidence in 3.5, I downloaded and installed it this > afternoon, from here: > >

Re: [GNC] Uninstall GC

2019-05-02 Thread Stephen M. Butler
On 5/2/19 1:48 PM, Dennis Powless wrote: > I've got GC 3.1 installed on my laptop running Ubuntu 19.04. Built from > source. > > > > This was the command I ran to install GC back then. > > cmake -DWITH_AQBANKING=OFF -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/dennis/.local >

Re: [GNC] * Unsaved book - Gnucash

2019-05-02 Thread Michael Hendry via gnucash-user
> On 2 May 2019, at 00:47, John Ralls wrote: > > I sure hope so. > > Regards, > John Ralls Thanks, John. Encouraged by your confidence in 3.5, I downloaded and installed it this afternoon, from here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnucash/ Having mounted the DMG file

[GNC] Uninstall GC

2019-05-02 Thread Dennis Powless
I've got GC 3.1 installed on my laptop running Ubuntu 19.04. Built from source. This was the command I ran to install GC back then. cmake -DWITH_AQBANKING=OFF -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/dennis/.local /home/dennis/Applications/gnucash-3.1 So, my build directory is Applications/gnucash-3.1

Re: [GNC] GC won't load on Ubuntu 19.04

2019-05-02 Thread Stephen M. Butler
I built the debian package for GnC 3.5 while on Ubuntu 18.04.  I since upgraded to 19.04 and found that GnC worked for me.  Since then I've been unable to build the debian package for GnC 3.5 on 19,04.  I am still working through the issues. Others have indicated that the debian packages built

Re: [GNC] column widths - balance

2019-05-02 Thread David Carlson
Every column except the description can be adjusted by grabbing and dragging the right edge with the mouse. The balance column is a little harder to do that way, but the double click method usually makes an acceptable width. For the Description drag the right edge left until the horizontal

Re: [GNC] GC won't load on Ubuntu 19.04

2019-05-02 Thread Dennis Powless
Yes, I did install the 1.67 version and it still didn't work. So, reinstall all the dependencies and reinstall GC. d On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 10:20 AM John Ralls wrote: > Boost has the annoying misfeature of versioning their library names so > that they can't be upgraded without rebuilding

Re: [GNC] GC won't load on Ubuntu 19.04

2019-05-02 Thread Dennis Powless
So, just to be clear I wasn't trying to build GC, just run it and after an upgraded ubuntu. From what I can tell, I'll need to uninstall GC and then reinstall it. I'll try to fully uninstall GC and then install GC. I'd like to have v 3.5, but I've been having issues with the removal of GC after

Re: [GNC] column widths - balance

2019-05-02 Thread Jeff Albrecht
Try double clicking on column headers.  - Jeff On 5/2/2019 12:00 PM, Elmar wrote: For some reason I can't seem to expand the column width for the account balance (e.g. a bank cash money market account, last column in the register) - it will only display 5 places in front of the decimal

[GNC] column widths - balance

2019-05-02 Thread Elmar
For some reason I can't seem to expand the column width for the account balance (e.g. a bank cash money market account, last column in the register) - it will only display 5 places in front of the decimal point.  Is this a bug? GC Version: 3.5 Build ID: git 3.5+(2019-03-30) on Linux Mint 19.1

Re: [GNC] GC won't load on Ubuntu 19.04

2019-05-02 Thread John Ralls
Boost has the annoying misfeature of versioning their library names so that they can't be upgraded without rebuilding everything dependent on them. Ubuntu 18.10 and 19.04 provide boost-1.67.0 and you built GnuCash with boost-1.65.0. ICU has the same misfeature but GnuCash doesn't directly link

Re: [GNC] GC won't load on Ubuntu 19.04

2019-05-02 Thread Geert Janssens
Op donderdag 2 mei 2019 10:41:55 CEST schreef Dennis Powless: > dennis@dennisLaptop1:~$ whereis gnucash > gnucash: /home/dennis/.local/bin/gnucash > > I'm surprised that I didn't have more. I don't see any other directories. > > dennis@dennisLaptop1:~/.local/bin$ ls > gnc-fq-check

Re: [GNC] GC won't load on Ubuntu 19.04

2019-05-02 Thread David Cousens
Dennis, I don't know how extensive the upgrade to 19.04 was but on Linux Mint upgrades I usually rebuild GnuCash because the Linux kernel has usually been changed and in some cases the libraries themselves may need to be reloaded as there will be versions in the repository built for that new OS

Re: [GNC] UK VAT and "Making Tax Digital"

2019-05-02 Thread Maf. King
On Wednesday, 1 May 2019 01:14:34 BST Christopher Lam wrote: > > Sorry for long answer, hope is informative. If you have a better strategy > > to offer, to account for your Asset:Bank -> Asset:CapitalAssets + > > VAT:Paid-on-Purchases use cases, I'm all ears! Meanwhile the short > > workaround

Re: [GNC] Problems with getting European share prices

2019-05-02 Thread Eric Coates
Hi John Thanks for the pointer. I'm told that building 3.5 from source is simple but it requires some screwing up of my courage. In the meantime I have a (very) rough and ready work round (totally outside of GnuCash) that'll satisfy my immediate needs. Eric =

Re: [GNC] GC won't load on Ubuntu 19.04

2019-05-02 Thread Dennis Powless
dennis@dennisLaptop1:~$ whereis gnucash gnucash: /home/dennis/.local/bin/gnucash I'm surprised that I didn't have more. I don't see any other directories. dennis@dennisLaptop1:~/.local/bin$ ls gnc-fq-check gnc-fq-helper gnucash gnc-fq-dump gnc-fq-update gnucash-valgrind This is the

Re: [GNC] GC won't load on Ubuntu 19.04

2019-05-02 Thread Dennis Powless
No, I did the upgrade to GC a while ago. I just upgraded ubuntu and got the error. I guess I'll have to uninstall GC and then get 3.4 d On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 4:22 AM Colin Law wrote: > Not sure whether our posts crossed there, I meant why are you trying > to build gnucash 3.1 when the

Re: [GNC] GC won't load on Ubuntu 19.04

2019-05-02 Thread Colin Law
Not sure whether our posts crossed there, I meant why are you trying to build gnucash 3.1 when the Ubuntu repo has 3.4? If you want to build from source then having upgraded Ubuntu I suspect you will have to do a full rebuild. Colin On Thu, 2 May 2019 at 09:17, Dennis Powless wrote: > > I ran:

Re: [GNC] GC won't load on Ubuntu 19.04

2019-05-02 Thread Colin Law
Why are you compiling and building an old version when you could install a more recent version from the Ubuntu repository? Colin On Thu, 2 May 2019 at 09:14, Dennis Powless wrote: > > build cmake > > D > > On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 4:10 AM Colin Law wrote: >> >> How did you install gnucash? >> >>

Re: [GNC] GC won't load on Ubuntu 19.04

2019-05-02 Thread Dennis Powless
build cmake D On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 4:10 AM Colin Law wrote: > How did you install gnucash? > > Colin > > On Thu, 2 May 2019 at 08:55, Dennis Powless wrote: > > > > Do I need to add this as a dependency? Libboost_reqex.so.1.65.1 ?? I > see > > boost as a dependency. > > > >

Re: [GNC] GC won't load on Ubuntu 19.04

2019-05-02 Thread Dennis Powless
I ran: sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev Same output as before. D On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 3:51 AM Dennis Powless wrote: > Do I need to add this as a dependency? Libboost_reqex.so.1.65.1 ?? I see > boost as a dependency. > > dennis@dennisLaptop1:~$ gnucash > gnucash: error while loading

Re: [GNC] GC won't load on Ubuntu 19.04

2019-05-02 Thread Colin Law
How did you install gnucash? Colin On Thu, 2 May 2019 at 08:55, Dennis Powless wrote: > > Do I need to add this as a dependency? Libboost_reqex.so.1.65.1 ?? I see > boost as a dependency. > > dennis@dennisLaptop1:~$ gnucash > gnucash: error while loading shared libraries:

Re: [GNC] GC won't load on Ubuntu 19.04

2019-05-02 Thread Dennis Powless
Do I need to add this as a dependency? Libboost_reqex.so.1.65.1 ?? I see boost as a dependency. dennis@dennisLaptop1:~$ gnucash gnucash: error while loading shared libraries: libboost_regex.so.1.65.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory d On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 2:59 AM

Re: [GNC] GC won't load on Ubuntu 19.04

2019-05-02 Thread Colin Law
On Thu, 2 May 2019 at 08:02, Dennis Powless wrote: > > I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 19.04 and when I click on icon on the dock on > the left, it attempts to open, then abruptly stops. No GC splash screen. > > I'm using GC 3.1 How did you install it? I thought 19.04 had a later version than

[GNC] GC won't load on Ubuntu 19.04

2019-05-02 Thread Dennis Powless
I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 19.04 and when I click on icon on the dock on the left, it attempts to open, then abruptly stops. No GC splash screen. I'm using GC 3.1 Dennis ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your