[GNC] Donations

2020-01-16 Thread Phillip Walsh
Have used GNUCash for some time and wish to donate via Bank Transfer .I used Transferwise for all my international payments, excellent exchange rates. But as well as bank details I have to input receivers name and address. So I require the address of Geert Janssens. From Transferwise app "For

Re: [GNC] Handling of Equity and Retained Earnings

2020-01-16 Thread David Cousens
Adrien, A Retained earnings account will be created under Equity and at the start of a new book/file it is appropriate that its value is zero until transactions from the Asset and Liability accounts to the Income and Expense accounts have been made. The information about Assets and Liabilities

Re: [GNC] Handling of Equity and Retained Earnings

2020-01-16 Thread Adrien Monteleone
David, I agree that substitution and transposition doesn’t change the equation as long as all such moves are ‘legal’ for math, and in this case they are. And I understand what you mean by Opening Balances reflecting the proper amount of Equity. But I just did a new test book, entering various

Re: [GNC] Handling of Equity and Retained Earnings

2020-01-16 Thread David Cousens
Hi Michael An equation is not changed if terms are transposed from one side to another with a change of sign. It is still equally valid. I rearranged the extended fundamental accounting equation including the temporary accounts from Assets =Liabilities +Equity +( Income - Expenses) to

Re: [GNC] Handling of Equity and Retained Earnings

2020-01-16 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/15/2020 10:54 PM, David Cousens wrote: ...but if just the balances of the Asset and Liability accounts are transferred to the new book, then the Opening Balance entries in Equity automatically include the Retained Earnings to that point implicitly since at the point of closure of the

Re: [GNC] QIF import - set default Transfer account

2020-01-16 Thread David Carlson
During the QIF import process GnuCash will try to assign an account to each transaction and it will give you a chance to accept the assignment or change it before you complete the import. There is no shortcut to change more than one account assignment at a time. In subsequent imports it will