Re: [GNC] building gnucash on ubuntu 20.04

2021-12-17 Thread Geert Janssens
Op vrijdag 17 december 2021 00:15:09 CET schreef John Griessen: > I've been using flatpak 4.8-1 on ubuntu, but it has some glitches in the GUI > selection of check boxes on an invoice such as taxable, tax included, tax > table. To get those to be changed takes mousing and clicking several > places

[GNC] Beginner Accounting Question Using GnuCash

2021-12-17 Thread Patrick Skelton
Hi, I am trying to get my head around double-entry accounting. I think I have kind-of got it. I have just set up a stripped down set of accounts and tried a handful of transactions, to see how they affect profit-and-loss and the balance sheet. It all seems to make sense except that there is one pi

Re: [GNC] Beginner Accounting Question Using GnuCash

2021-12-17 Thread David H
Patrick, Look carefully at point 2, one side of your transaction should be an expense as you are expending funds to buy stock eg Expense >> Stock Purchases rather than Stock on Hand ? Cheers David H On Fri, 17 Dec 2021 at 21:20, Patrick Skelton wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to get my head aro

Re: [GNC] Beginner Accounting Question Using GnuCash

2021-12-17 Thread Patrick Skelton
Hi, David, Thank you for that. I have actually just kind-of worked that bit out but I would like the £8 spent on paper to become an asset. Is it simply then a case of entering a transfer from Expenses-Stock Purchases to Assets - Stock on Hand? Kind wishes - Patrick On Fri, 17 Dec 2021

Re: [GNC] Beginner Accounting Question Using GnuCash

2021-12-17 Thread R. Victor Klassen
There are two kinds of expenses - current expenses and capital expenses (specific terms may vary). Capital expenses convert one asset (usually money) to another. Current expenses just deplete an asset (or increase a liability). In the case where you are converting money to inventory of materi

Re: [GNC] Coloring the Action field

2021-12-17 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/17/2021 1:06 AM, AC wrote: I DO NOT want to open yet another register every time I want to look for transactions that need to be updated. I prefer just to skim through the checking account register which has a variety of transactions both fully documented and some that are awaiting doc

Re: [GNC] Beginner Accounting Question Using GnuCash

2021-12-17 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/17/2021 6:48 AM, Patrick Skelton wrote: Hi, David, Thank you for that. I have actually just kind-of worked that bit out but I would like the £8 spent on paper to become an asset. Is it simply then a case of entering a transfer from Expenses-Stock Purchases to Assets - Stock on Hand? Kind

Re: [GNC] Beginner Accounting Question Using GnuCash

2021-12-17 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
You are doing things correctly. Your question " Is there a better way to do these transactions so that I could ask the question: how much have I spent on stock this month?" isn't about what accounts to have or how to enter the transactions (of your little example -- and BTW, that's a good way

Re: [GNC] Coloring the Action field

2021-12-17 Thread AC
Sorry Michael, I didn't miss the suggestion, it's just not applicable to my question. I was not asking for advice on accounting methods or changing workflow. I was asking about a specific programming/theming/coding question for the software itself. I already have many account tabs open alread

Re: [GNC] Beginner Accounting Question Using GnuCash

2021-12-17 Thread davidcousens49
Patrick, You obviously tried the reports. The most general report is the Transactionn report which you can set to view the transactions in any one account or combination of accounts. The trick with reports is when the report comes up its options are set to default values. If you then choose the Ed

Re: [GNC] Coloring the Action field

2021-12-17 Thread John Ralls
It's not supported and it wouldn't be easy to implement in a general way. Gtk nodes aren't HTML or XML elements with attributes, so Gtk CSS styling can't query attributes as a selector. Regards, John Ralls > On Dec 16, 2021, at 11:11 PM, AC wrote: > > Yeah, I know there's a good likelihood t

Re: [GNC] Beginner Accounting Question Using GnuCash

2021-12-17 Thread davidcousens49
David, Patrick's recording is perfectly valid if his purchase of stock is a capital expense, i.e. it is intended that the asset will be consumed over more thanone accounting period, and not simply within the current period in which latter case it is a direct expense expense. The transactio

Re: [GNC] Beginner Accounting Question Using GnuCash

2021-12-17 Thread David H
Hi David, Thanks, my bad I was thinking in terms of my personal Gnucash book not realising it was more appropriate to be thinking in terms of business books in Patrick's case. Lesson learned, glad I'm still learning after all this time :-) Cheers David H. On Sat, 18 Dec 2021 at 09:15, wrote:

Re: [GNC] Coloring the Action field

2021-12-17 Thread AC
That's what I figured. No worries, I'll deal with the text-only fields. I've adjusted the columns widths enough that, in combination with white text on a dark overall theme, the text is a little more pronounced than it was when it was the light green/yellow registers with black text. It's sti