On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 10:34 AM Alain Williams wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 01:48:13PM +0000, Buddha Buck wrote:
>
> > I concur. Gmail does server-side filtering and labelling, not
> client-side.
>
> Please be aware that not everyone uses gmail.
>
The topic of conv
On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 8:37 AM Colin Law wrote:
> On 10 April 2018 at 12:51, Adonay Felipe Nogueira
> wrote:
> > 2018-04-10T09:51:58+0200 Saša Janiška wrote:
> >> E.g. gnucash-users list uses Mailman which does provide e.g. List-Id
> >> header for simple filtering...
> >
> > Probably some weak
In general, I wouldn't bother entering starting balances for income and
expense accounts from before the period I am accounting for. Traditionally,
those accounts were temporary, and at the end of the accounting period the
balances would be reset to zero, being transferred to equity. That isn't
nec
It's not an Australian accounting thing, unless I managed to grab
Australian book out of my small-city upstate New York library system some
30 years ago...
On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 5:38 AM elvis wrote:
> On 25/02/18 07:54, Dave H wrote:
> > Well from my point of view that is confusing. Nobody i
I suspect that GnuCash terminology regarding journals and ledgers is
somewhat confused and non-standard.
My basic understanding of classical accounting is that transactions were
first entered into journals, and then posted into ledgers, one per account.
The collection of ledger books was the "gene
On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 10:08 AM Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> Thanks. I see my question wasn't clear. My problem is that I want to
> import the splits and it seems I can only import transactions.
>
Splits do not exist independently of transactions. Transactions have a
collection of splits. The col
I don't know if it is what new users usually do, but I think it's probably
one of the better ways to do it. A lot of the difficulties I see on the
gnucash-users list come from trying to import data from other programs,
especially multi-year Quicken imports.
On Sun, Feb 4, 2018 at 6:52 PM Graham Ja
Here's the workflow that I ideally go through.
During the month, I order something online using a credit card.
When I enter the transaction into GnuCash, the split associated with the
transaction in the credit card account is tagged "n".
The next day, I check my online banking, and I see that th
I would account for it as your original thought: debit cash, credit gift
expense.
As far as you are concerned, you paid for half of the gift, so your total
expense is half the cost of the gift. Not all money you receive is income.
On Sun, Jan 14, 2018, 14:00 Keith Lewis wrote:
> I'm new to GC,
My basic approach to such questions is to think about the "5 W's" of
reporting (after all, "accounting" is fundamentally about telling an
accurate story of what is going on with your money.
How you tell that story is dependent on what the standard practices in your
local jurisdiction, as well as h
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>
> Regards.
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 1:33 AM, Buddha Buck
> wrote:
>
>> You should talk to your accountant about how to set up your accounts to
>> handle this type of transaction. Your proposed solution (a liability
>> account under the concrete expense
You should talk to your accountant about how to set up your accounts to
handle this type of transaction. Your proposed solution (a liability
account under the concrete expense account) is not how I would do it, and I
believe is generally not considered the proper method of doing it. Things
may be d
GnuCash also doesn't do any network access, either as a client or server.
For things like financial quote lookup, it calls 3rd-party tools. That's
another way that GnuCash minimizes its security footprint.
On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 8:44 AM Aaron Laws wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 8:35 PM, Marcus
It's entirely possible that Frank has a "mybooks.gnucash" file that doesn't
have everything, and a bunch of "mybooks.gnucash..gnucash" files
which have (incrementally) more of everything, as well as the "*.log" files
which go along with them, but beign a new user doesn't realize what those
timestam
Remember that your books are supposed to reflect your view of the
transactions you are making, not those of other entities.
Instead of a credit card payment or an account-to-account transfer,
consider the more traditional case of paying a vendor with a check.
On January 1st, you buy a CD from a f
What might be a nice feature for GnuCash to have is the ability to generate
an "available credit" column for credit cards in some sort of report.
As long as I pay more to credit cards than I spend each month, I pay no
interest on the balance. As such, I sort of treat debit and credit cards
interch
You can't delete a credit note or invoice.
But you can edit it, including changing the customer involved and the
invoice number. So the next time you need an invoice or credit note, you
can just reuse this practice one instead of generating a new one.
You might want to create a customer of "Unuse
Keith,
The "Transfer" column isn't ever going to go away. It's fundamental to the
concept of double-entry bookkeeping as GnuCash implements it. Double-entry
bookkeeping tracks flows of value, and the transfer column says what the
other side of the flow is.
As for debit and credit, roughly speakin
You probably also have a "den.gnucash", a
"den.gnucash.20161107142750.gnucash", a
"den.gnucash.20161107142750.gnucash.20161201140745.gnucash",
and a
"den.gnucash.20161107142750.gnucash.20161201140745.gnucash.20170208132409.gnucash"
as well.
When you are using GnuCash to work on the file "foo.gnuc
As a continuation/clarification of Geert's remarks...
If you do end up doing a search for files with the .gnucash extension, you
will likely see many files with names like
mydata.gnucash.20170324180307.gnucash in addition to mydata.gnucash. The
long ones with the timestamp in the name are backups
As far as I am aware, there shouldn't be any licensing issues on the FOSS
side about including a government-granted key in the distribution. There
are severe technical issues, which may impact licensing, in keeping the
government-granted key a secret. Since the last bit is the important part,
as fa
All those cards represent something that you own and can convert into stuff
of value. As such, they are assets, much like cash. They are not, in and of
themselves income, any more than cash is. They are not your liabilities,
which makes them different than credit cards, and should not be tracked
th
I seem to be transitioning from full-time employment to software dev
contracting. I don't know really what's involved in that, accounting-wise,
in the US.
Does anyone know of any resources for how to do the proper accounting as a
contractor in the US, especially using GnuCash?
Thanks,
Buddha
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On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 6:53 PM wrote:
>
>The need for a secret code to identify approved software was mentioned.
>Secret or not, why is it against OpenSource ideals when HMRC wants to
>assure that only software with the right capabilities can be used?
>
One of the ideals of FOSS is
On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 11:46 AM Dan Rawson wrote:
> Is it possible to automate the splits associated with a home mortgage
> transaction? I am
> downloading the checking account transactions as QFX from my bank, so from
> their point of
> view, it's a single check. As an example:
>
This is a
On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 4:13 PM Martijn Heuts
wrote:
> Good afternoon and thank you for your answer.So I understand now that the
> cash flow report and P&L can be different and you explained why.
> I owe a business loan to the previous owner (owner financed). I made a
> payment to her and I was t
I would mention both on a glossary, cross-referenced. I would probably also
consider changing references in the text to FinTS, with the first reference
mentioning that it used to be HBCI. On a Wiki, I would redirect HBCI to
FinTS, and mention on the page the naming history.
But I'm not a user of t
I believe, perhaps incorrectly, that the .log files are updated when a
change is made, and are dated based on the last (auto)save. So the most
recent log file will have an entry for each transaction since the last save.
On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 3:32 PM David Carlson
wrote:
> I didn't say that cor
I think it is *possible* to make a static version of GnuCash, but it is
impractical.
>From the GnuCash side, it would involve modifying the build engine's calls
to the compilers and linkers to build and link statically instead of
dynamically. The problem is that when it tries to link against, say
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