Eric, Mike
To be fair to GnuCash, I have not been able to find a formal definition of
split in my accounting text books . The only formal references I could find
were under IAS39 which deals with embedded derivatives in a hybrid financial
instrument
(https://www.ventureline.com/accounting-glossary
Hi Carlos,
I had the same original problem during Make while building Gnucash 3.0 that
you did. Aboout half way down the following thread there is a recipe of what
worked for me in getting a successful build. It may not address your second
problem, but I hope it helps.
Cheers
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John,
For your info OFX import is working fine on Linux Mint/Ubuntu 16.04. The
only problem I had was that the previous automatic matching to accounts
seemed to have had the data cleared in the swap over to the V3 user
preferences files. After one import it had reestablished most of the
matching
Hi Dennis,
I recently updated the Ubuntu 16.04 build instructions so I am glad to get
your feedback on issues which may be unclear and any errors I may have
incorporated. I will try to modify the instructions to make it clearer and
eliminate errors. If you find any issues that are specific to Ubun
Hi Dennis,
I updated the BuildUbuntu16.04 page after having similar problems while
building Gnucash3.0. My apologies for any errors and lack of clarity in a
few areas and thanks for reporting the problems. I will edit the page to try
and make some issues clearer as I or other users uncover my mist
Hi Dennis,
Almost there but not quite. In which directory in your home directory
/home/dennis have you extracted the gnucash-3.1 directory from the tarball
gnucash-3.1.tar.bz2 which you downloaded. Can you tell me the full path to
that directory and the full path to the build-cmake directory you h
Dennis,
The obvious place to put the build-cmake directory is in the Applications
directory. I personally would not name it build-cmake but build-gnucash-3.1.
The reason for that is, to uninstall Gnucash there is no need to retain the
gnucash-3.1 source directory which can be deleted, but you will
Dennis,
The instructions on the BuildUbuntu16.04 have now been modified so that
they recommend the preferred place for the build directory is in the parent
directory of the GnuCash sources as John and Geert recommended this as the
preferred location.
It can actually be anywhere you wish to put
Dennis,
You are missing the third part of the cmake command when you type
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/dennis/.local
which is why you are getting the cmake error.
You need to append either
../gnucash-3.1
or
/home/dennis/Applications/gnucash-3.1
on to the end of the cmake command sep
>From an accounting perspective, this is just a current asset account like any
other bank account. There is not really any need for any new sort of account
type specifically for it. Perhaps just indicating in the account name that a
debit card is attached, if you specifically need to know that. The
Dennis
It is probbaly a good idea to uninstall the previous build of 2.6.x before
upgrading. With the changes between 2.6 and 3.1 there may have been changes
in the libraries/library names such that some older libraries may not
necessarilybe overwritten.
How to remove it will depend upon how you
Dennis,
The instructions for v3.1 should work. The only problem I had when i
compiled 2.6.21 after upgrading to 3.1 was that I had installed guile 2.2.3
and v 2.6.21 looks for guile-1.8 or guile-2.0. It is possible to have
several versions of the guile libraries and headers installed as they
insta
I think you are overcomplicating the issue by recording the appllication for
the refund from the MRA account. No money chnages hands at this point so you
could record paying the Doctors bill as
Asset:Check Credit $100
Expense:Medical Debit $100
When you receive the ref
The best place to start is the Tutorial and Concepts guide.
http://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.6/C/gnucash-guide/invest-setup1.html is the
link for V2.6 documentation. There will be a similar section in the V3 docs
if you are using that version. While that is mainly aimed at stocks and
mutual funds, th
Robin,
I'm also using 3.1 on Mint 18.3. I have tried to duplicate your problem
without being able to. I am able to edit the fields in the template
transaction without any diffculty and I don't receive that error message at
all. I can create 2 scheduled transactions and edit them both at the same
t
Bill,
This is not the case for GnuCash v3.1 on Linux Mint 18.3. You can readily
check and uncheck the boxes. The only hassle I have had is that by default
the credit and debit entries are not ordered by date but by reconcile status
and when you check a box, it is automatically placed at the end o
What version of Gnucash are you using and what platform is it running on.
When you look at an individual charge transaction, the balance after the
transaction should be larger than the balance before the transaction with
the reverse for a payment. Whether that balance is shown as a negative or
pos
Francis,
If you look in the folder which contains your gnucash file there should be a
set of backup files. Gnucash creates a backup file. I am assuming you are
using the XML format files and not a database. The file will have a name of
the form
.gnucash
and the backups will have the form
.gnuc
Rich,
How are you creating the payment of the Bill?
If you open the Bill and then use the payment icon in the Toolbar (no need
to search for the bill to pay) or alternatively use the
Business->Vendor->Process Payment and search for the Bill by Vendor and
select the Bill the transactions for the
Varda,
I travel with a laptop and use a desktop at home. If you have internet
access while travelling I have had no problem with putting the GnuCash files
in a Dropbox account synced to both the desktop and laptop. You can work
without internet access and it syncs next time access is available. On
Christian
V3.1 compiled on Linux Mint using the XML backend works fine with associated
files/locations setting them, retrievingthem after closing and reopening the
program and opening the locations without any problems so it is possibly
associated with the sqllite backend or perhaps the DB backends
Martijn,
I can't really comment on the Cash Flow reportas implemented in GnuCash and
it's options but the doubling of accounts in the selected list when the show
subaccounts is selected does appear to be strange and may be a bug. My
understanding of a Cash Flow Report is that it includes:
cash r
Adrien,
I think with the default account selection, the Cash Flow report seems to do
the right thing. The double selection of accounts seems a bit strange, I
haven't really got a proper set of business accounts to check it out on
anymore and the dummy set I have put together have been for testing
Hi Geert,
I think one of the reasons people are not finding the Build#Ubuntu
instructions and main build instructions in the wiki is that the main page
is identified as Build Instructions for Developers rather than a general
GnuCash Build Instructions page which gets listed in the top level direct
Hi Frank & David T ,
Thanks for the info re the main page. I will try and hook into the Wiki
Installation page as you suggest and have a go at making the build
instructions friendlier for general users and split off a more specific page
for developer builds. i will then link that back to the pages
Steve,
One possibility is to use synchronized data bases using master-slave
replication. I know this works with MySQL and it is a bit of a pain to set
up but once it is going it is generally pretty good. Also a bit of a pain to
restart if the replication gets out of sync. I have been meaning to se
Edy,
GnuCash is a double entry accounting system. There is no "placing of money
from a POS under income and transferring it to the Cheque account". Each
transaction associated with a POS sale has two components one of which
increases the balance of the Cheque account (a debit to the Cheque account
Stephen,
You can possibly force the case of sum of the children account totals being
the parent account total by making the parent a placeholder account. Then
it cannot have any transactions into it, only the child accounts.
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Stephen,
There is no need to install the libofx7specifically. If you install
libofx-dev that should install the the appropriate version of the library
for your ubuntu version (i.e. libofx4 on 14.04(Trusty), libofx6 on 16.04
(Xenial) and libofx7 on 18.04 (Bionic)
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Stephen,
As an accountant I would prefer to have parent accounts as placeholder
accounts which cannot be the target of transactions directly (this can be
set in the edit Account dialog and marks the account as read only) as the
placeholder total should then be the sum of its active child accounts
Christopher,
" except that Placeholder accounts
can also contain transactions therefore must not necessarily accumulate
their children account amounts. "
I have to disagree with the above from an accounting perspective.
If accounts are setup as Placeholders initially (i.e. the checkbox set in
John,
Just to clarify. While I have accounting qualifications, I am not a
practising accountant and my judgement is primarily an opinion based on my
formal studies and my accounting experience in a small business in my
particular country. We all need to keep in mind that accounting, while
adhering
John,
I agree with you that making the accounts with child accounts have no
transactions is being unnecessarily restrictive and may not meet all
possible use cases but perhaps having the option of being able to restrict
it to that case if it suits an individual's purpose is a suitable
compromise.
Hi Stephen,
I agree with your wife about not including the Income Statement inside a
Balance Sheet. These serve different functions and it just makes a Balance
Sheet more complicated than necessary. From an accounting perspective you
should be able to evaluate a balance sheet fairly quickly and ha
Stephen,
It is generally a good idea to remove the previous version before installing
a new one. Gnucash will generally overwrite any existing files of the same
name, but you may be left with unnecessary files in some cases. Going from
3.1 to 3.2 should be OK as there are unlikey to be major chang
John,
The GnuCash wiki Installation instructions now link to the build
instructions for Ubuntu (and derivative distrubutions like Linux Mint)
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building which in turn has a link specifically
for building V3 on on Ubuntu16.04, 18.04 and derivatives which now hopefully
sh
Geert,
I tried this on Linux Mint 18.3 but had no changes from the default theme.
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Hi John,
If GnuCash is not built with Ninja, there is a cmake_uninstall.cmake file in
the top level of the build directory which seems to read the
install_manifest.txt file. The Makefile in the same level produced by CMake
has an uninstall target - not sure how it executes the commands in the
cmak
Stephen John, Geert
In accounting terms there are really only 3 basic account types:
Asset
Liability
Equity
These all *must *satisfy the basic accounting equation Assets=Liabilities
+Equity.
The two sides of this equation are what the German /European system defines
as Activa and Passiv
Geert,
The default theme is Mint-X. There is a Mint-X Dark GTK-3 theme available
as well and GnuCash comes up nicely in it. It is installable from the
Menu->Preferences->Themes dialog in the Cinnamon desktop. I would say on
Mint all you have to do is select a dark theme at the system level. There
John,
I'm using CMake v 3.5.1. Presumably the same or similar could be used to
create an uninstall target for Ninja. Their argument for providing a default
uninstall target seems a bit weak to me as you are not going to be issuing
the command in a build directory unless you really intend to uninst
John,
Just some further information. I rebuilt GnuCash with the -G Ninja option.
The build.ninja seems to contain a build uninstall target but it has no
commands. If I run
sudo ninja install
it installs GnuCash (in/usr/local the prefix I set with cmake) and creates
install_manifest.txt.
If i co
Geert,
I had realised the same thing about needing to uninstall before building and
shifted the section on uninstalling to before the section on Building on the
Wiki page and specifically mentioned using the previous version's build
directory. I might make the note clearer about retaining the buil
Stan,
The previous discussion on uninstalling related to Linux (the Ubuntu
distribution in particular) where users have built GnuCash from the source
code.
On Linux, if you use the particular Linux distribution's (Ubuntu, Debian,
Redhat, Centos etc.) supported version of Gnucash, it normally has
Stephen, Colin
I think there is a problem with the cmake creation of the scripts that do
the install, that is not installing the icons correctly. I just did an
uninstall of v3.2 on Ubuntu, deleted any gnucash files left in my install
location (/usr/local) relating to gnucash so that all directorie
Stephen, Colin
Just a correction to my last post. There is no problem with the icon
installation on Linux Mint 18.3. It seems to possibly be a problem with
Nemo (Linux Mint file explorer) rather than the installation. All of the
icon files are actually there but there is something with the permis
Hi Colin,
I'm responsible for m,ost of the update on the build Ubuntu. No problem for
me with a more generic page name at all. I had stuck with the names that
were there as I updated it with the more recent build instructions. I have
tried to generalise the page and make it a bit more user orient
Gnucash V3.2 is available in the Software Manager in Linux Mint 18.3
downloading from the flatpack form from the flathub
website(https://flathub.org/apps/search/GnuCash).
Installs OK and indistinguisable from my own build on my system. Can be
downloaded from the flathub site directly if you're not
Colin,
A correction. The latest LM 18.3 Software Manager now installs Gnucash 3.2
as a flatpack in /usr/bin. There are no identiable gnucash directories apart
from the user configuration.
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Hi Colin,
Sorry for the confusion. I had gone back to check where LM installed from
its software manager to check that it was into /usr/local and discovered it
was now using flatpack and didn't install in any manner I was previously
accustomed to. I appreciate that apt installs to /usr but my memo
Colin,
There is a link labelled issues to the Gnome bugzilla site on the flathub
GnuCash page which links to the now becoming defunct Gnome Bugzilla which is
being transferred to Gnome Gitlab and has a link to it,
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME . I could not find any reporting of issues
with flat
Dick,
All that is necessary is to copy the .gnucash file from that
directory to the new computer (usb stick is probably easiest) where
is the name you originally gave your Gnucash file. This is the
only file that it is necessary to copy to transfer to your new machine
You will find a lot of files
Thanks Liz,
I didn't think of the preferences.
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Hi Amish'
I can also confirm that the credit note has a bug for GnuCash 3.2 running on
Linux Mint 19 from the flat pack. I have created an Invoice for $100 for a
dummy company in a test file and then a credit note for the same dummy
company for $50. I have not used a tax table. After the two tran
As well as the internal funds transfer from Euro to USD in your Asset:bank
account are you also converting the corresponding income account in Euro to
an Income account in USD at the same exchange rate? If not this is a
possible spurce of any imbalance in the accounting equation.
David Cousens
Joe,
I've been using GnuCash on Linux Mint for approx 5 years with no problems.
The Software manager version is sometimes a little behind the current
GnuCash version but at present it has a flatpak GnuCash V3.2 available that
worked fine under LM18.3 and is working fine on LM19. I'm currently run
Johnnie
Use File ->Open from the menu and navigate to the location where you saved
the file. Hopefully you did not save the file to a read only CD. You should
have received a warning that the device could not be written to if you had
attempted to do that.
Open the file .gnucash where filename is t
Adrien,
The main function of the trial balance is to ensure the accounts are
numerically correct before any adjustments to the accounts are made before
producing the final financial statements. It should be just a straight
listing of the balance (credit or debit) of all accounts in the chart of
ac
Adrien,
>From what little I know of the automatic gains/loss calculations by default
the gain or loss on a transaction is created in an Orphan-Gains-CCC account
by default and the user has to reassign the gain or loss to an appropriate
income account.
See
https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v3/C/gnuca
Adrien, David,
The same issue occurs in Linux Mint 19(Tara) which is Ubuntu 18.04 based.
Nemo (file explorer) can see the mounted USB stick and access it directly
or via the /media// mount point for the device but the Gnucash file
open dialog neither sees the USB stick or /media// mount point whe
Adrien,
I do use Nabble and also get the user list posts by email but as I am in
Australia I sometiimes notice there is a long delay associated with being in
this timezone. I'm not sure where the moderators are located but, I tend to
post usually in the morning AEST (UTC -10:00) and my posts don't
John
I had considered writing a payroll plugin a few years ago but found that
finding my way around the Gnucash code made it difficult so I have great
respect for the business features that Derek has created so far. I started
to think more in terms of a separate payroll program which maintained it
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