Re: [GNC] Inaccurate information about GnuCash at https://www.capterra.com/

2022-12-18 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On Mon, 19 Dec 2022 at 03:53, Glenn Fowler wrote: > Anyone can make an account a submit a review - even fakes. > Also, most FOSS users probably aren't on Capterra. > I have never come across the site before. I guess that people looking for accounting software might look there, even if they don’

Re: [GNC] Roth IRA conversion

2022-12-18 Thread Dale Alspach
I do not know whether this is proper accounting or not, but I use an artificial expense account "Conversion to Taxable". Any withdrawal X dollars from an IRA or other pre-tax asset account gets some extra split entries. Credit IRA X Credit Taxable Income IRA X Debit Conversion to Taxable X Debit po

Re: [GNC] Inaccurate information about GnuCash at https://www.capterra.com/

2022-12-18 Thread Glenn Fowler
Anyone can make an account a submit a review - even fakes. Also, most FOSS users probably aren't on Capterra. On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 10:19 PM Dr. David Kirkby < drkir...@kirkbymicrowave.co.uk> wrote: > I stumbled across this link, comparing Sage to GnuCash > > > https://www.capterra.com/accounti

Re: [GNC] Is there a way to find date & time a transaction was entered?

2022-12-18 Thread David Cousens
You can generally edit an incorrect transaction and just change the details which are incorrect including the account in whose register it appears if that happened to be incorrect There is no problem with deleting a transaction in GnuCash. The formal accounting method is basically a hangover when

[GNC] Roth IRA conversion

2022-12-18 Thread Fred Tydeman
For a USA person, when I move cash from a regular IRA (tax deferred account) to a Roth IRA (tax free account), besides the movement of the cash, I need to also somehow show that the cash moved is considered income. What should be the other side of the income pair? _

Re: [GNC] Is there a way to find date & time a transaction was entered?

2022-12-18 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On Mon, 19 Dec 2022 at 01:36, Stephen M. Butler < stephen.m.butle...@gmail.com> wrote: > Personally, I would just go to that one line and change the account from > paypal personal to paypal company. It’s not quite as simple as that, but I am sure that I can sort it out. I realised that there w

Re: [GNC] Is there a way to find date & time a transaction was entered?

2022-12-18 Thread Stephen M. Butler
On 12/18/22 17:14, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: I have a transaction that I entered incorrectly. Is there a way to determine the date & time that the transaction was entered? If so, I could just load a backup file created just before I screwed up. It is easier to just correct the original transaction

Re: [GNC] New User: initial help getting up and running

2022-12-18 Thread Eric Chapman
Hello, Jim, Thanks for your response, and thank you to the others who responded! I appreciate it a lot! Below in blue are my answers & comments. Eric On 12/18/22 15:53, Jim DeLaHunt wrote: On 2022-12-18 12:20, Eric Chapman wrote: Tell me, what gives you the impression that GnuCash "is for

Re: [GNC] Is there a way to find date & time a transaction was entered?

2022-12-18 Thread Murugan Muruganandam
David if you have to only change the Debit account, you click on the same and change it to your company paypal account from your personal account. you dont need to delete the transaction at all Saludos Cordiales Murugan From: gnucash-user on behalf of Dr

[GNC] Is there a way to find date & time a transaction was entered?

2022-12-18 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
I have a transaction that I entered incorrectly. Is there a way to determine the date & time that the transaction was entered? If so, I could just load a backup file created just before I screwed up. I know that in formal accounting one should not delete transactions, but apply a reversing transac

[GNC] GnuCash 4.13 Released

2022-12-18 Thread John Ralls
The GnuCash development team announces GnuCash 4.13, the fourteenth release in the stable 4.x series Between 4.12 and 4.13, the following bugfixes were accomplished: • Bug 760274 - The Statusbar "forgets" when register doesn't have focus • Bug 798545 - Crash when updating documen

Re: [GNC] Doumentation in Linux

2022-12-18 Thread David Cousens
Mike I had a post a day or two ago in reponse to another question when I had V4.12 of GnuCash installed but an earlier version of the documentation ,4.11 ehich was installed to /usr/local/share/gnome/help/ and yelp, the gnome help utility utility was looking for it in a different locations when

Re: [GNC] Splitting a Transaction (Newbie Question)

2022-12-18 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Indeed, §6.4 Multiple Split Transactions, particularly steps 10–15 cover this. https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v4/C/gnucash-help/trans-multi-enter.html Regards, Adrien On 12/18/22 4:04 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: Though I also suspect this is covered in the Documentation which gets rare attenti

Re: [GNC] Splitting a Transaction (Newbie Question)

2022-12-18 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Certainly hitting Enter early is the cause. Before I sent the previous reply, I tried playing with Basic View and the Split button to see how I could manage it and was having difficulty. I guess that is because I already know how to avoid doing so. After a few more attempts, I'm going to hazar

[GNC] Doumentation in Linux

2022-12-18 Thread MW via gnucash-user
I installed the docs but when I choose the help file from the help menu it says they aren't installed. I have not been able to find how to link the docs I installed to the help menu. Is it possible? Mike ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnu

Re: [GNC] Splitting a Transaction (Newbie Question)

2022-12-18 Thread Liz Dodd
On Sun, 18 Dec 2022 13:15:41 -0600 Adrien Monteleone wrote: > I'm not certain of the exact keyboard mechanics you used to cause > this, but the solution is simple. It is often caused by pressing the Enter key prematurely. Adrien knows that, I'd just like to suggest it here, so you can watch what

Re: [GNC] New User: initial help getting up and running

2022-12-18 Thread Jim DeLaHunt
On 2022-12-18 12:20, Eric Chapman wrote: Hi, everyone, I just downloaded Gnucash-Intel-4.12-1.dmg for Mac. I plan to install in on Ventura (MacOS 13.1) on a late 2018 Mac Mini (Intel). I'm trying to migrate from another software on a Windows virtual machine on the Mac. Hello, Eric, and welc

Re: [GNC] New User: initial help getting up and running

2022-12-18 Thread David H
Probably also a good idea to post something along the lines of "I'm migrating from software package xyz to gnucash - any suggestions on the best way to do this?" Plenty here have migrated from the likes of Quicken/Quickbooks etc. They'll generally tell you to start small with perhaps a month's wo

Re: [GNC] New User: initial help getting up and running

2022-12-18 Thread Adrien Monteleone
On 12/18/22 2:20 PM, Eric Chapman wrote: Hi, everyone, I just downloaded Gnucash-Intel-4.12-1.dmg for Mac. I plan to install in on Ventura (MacOS 13.1) on a late 2018 Mac Mini (Intel). I'm trying to migrate from another software on a Windows virtual machine on the Mac. I have some quest

[GNC] New User: initial help getting up and running

2022-12-18 Thread Eric Chapman
Hi, everyone, I just downloaded Gnucash-Intel-4.12-1.dmg for Mac. I plan to install in on Ventura (MacOS 13.1) on a late 2018 Mac Mini (Intel). I'm trying to migrate from another software on a Windows virtual machine on the Mac. I have some questions: (1) Is it likely that Gnucash will be ma

Re: [GNC] Splitting a Transaction (Newbie Question)

2022-12-18 Thread Adrien Monteleone
On 12/18/22 5:09 AM, p.f.cuthb...@btinternet.com p.f.cuthbert--- via gnucash-user wrote: Investigation this morning has established:    * The system is set up in Basic Ledger Mode    * The test transactions were entered in the Bank Account    * The Bank Account shows no record of the test tran

Re: [GNC] Splitting a Transaction (Newbie Question)

2022-12-18 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/17/2022 6:27 PM, R Losey wrote: When you say "bank card", are you talking about something like a debit card, or a credit card? Also, was this at one shop where you spent 7.24? If it is a debit card (money comes directly from the bank account, in contrast to a credit card, where charges ac

Re: [GNC] Splitting a Transaction (Newbie Question)

2022-12-18 Thread p.f.cuthb...@btinternet.com p.f.cuthbert--- via gnucash-user
Good Morning from a very wet and windy Wales Thank you all very much for your helpful comments. Thank you also Michael for reminding me about the 'Journal'. As a fresh faced Articled Clerk in the early 1970s we came across a small number of firms that still had hand written leather bound Jo

Re: [GNC] Splitting a Transaction (Newbie Question)

2022-12-18 Thread Fred Bone
On 17 December 2022 at 22:19, p.f.cuthb...@btinternet.com p.f.cuthbert@ said: [...] > So let us have an example: > > Payment by bank card (credit entry to Bank Account) of £7.24 comprising a > book (debit £5.25 to Entertainment) and some milk (debit £1.99 to > Groceries). [...] > If any kind rea

Re: [GNC] Debug information to sort out Finance::Quote issue on macOS Ventura

2022-12-18 Thread Vincent Lucarelli
John, I opened an F::Q issue https://github.com/finance-quote/finance-quote/issues/254 to discuss with Bruce how to implement the enumeration in F::Q of modules with an API key. If you have time, please comment on any changes to the preliminary idea I outlined to make the feature work best fo

Re: [GNC] Debug information to sort out Finance::Quote issue on macOS Ventura

2022-12-18 Thread Vincent Lucarelli
Hi Richard, I’m running GnuCash on a Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2019 with an 3.7 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i5 and Ventura 13.0.1. I have an M1 MacBook, but don’t run GnuCash there. I didn’t follow the development of Ventura closely, so I don’t know when Apple changed course, but there are a few Intel mod

Re: [GNC] Debug information to sort out Finance::Quote issue on macOS Ventura

2022-12-18 Thread Vincent Lucarelli
Thanks John, I did in fact forget to replace the environment.local file after a fresh GnuCash install, but still no luck. I’m trying to sort through dtruss output, but it is a bit difficult to sort out what is going wrong. Happy to receive additional suggestions. For the API keys, I wrote seve