Re: [GNC] Consolidated billing of two credit cards

2024-07-08 Thread NoobAlice
On 2024-07-08 07:01 AM, rsbrux via gnucash-user wrote: *snip* The reconciliation process in GnuCash generates a separate transaction for each credit card, resulting in two charges to the current account in GC. From the advice below, the obvious solution seems to be to combine the two

Re: [GNC] Can I set an option to stop auto-fill ?

2024-06-04 Thread NoobAlice
On 2024-06-03 03:44 PM, fromvendor wrote: Anyway, what I'd like is if the "prior" transaction has splits, then simply leave the whole thing un-populated. If it doesn't have splits, go ahead and put in the account. Leave the cursor in the account field and don't fill in anything else (notes,

Re: [GNC] Reconciliation Roll Back (Peter Cuthbert)

2024-05-29 Thread NoobAlice
On 2024-05-29 04:39 PM, Peter Cuthbert via gnucash-user wrote: The dates associated with the reconciled/not reconciled flag struck me as an easy way to do a roll back without using the backups.  Something along the lines of if date = [specified reconciliation date] then flag = n (I have no

Re: [GNC] Separating tax years for payments in next year

2024-03-17 Thread NoobAlice
I just start my description "2023 Q1 fed estimate" or similar in my tax payable account. If you do that, you can use a filter for reports. Also, since I use a liability account, I can reconcile it after filing. Then you can filter the account itself for unreconciled transactions, which will

Re: [GNC] Minor silliness bugs

2024-02-17 Thread NoobAlice
On 2024-02-13 11:44 AM, David G. Pickett via gnucash-user wrote: I run the latest gnucash from flatpak on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Linux.  When I launch gnucash from my taskbar of favorites, it sends a notification to my top central bar menu that it is ready, when it is only ready to display a splash,

Re: [GNC] Reports for Personal Finance

2023-12-07 Thread NoobAlice
On 2023-12-05 10:46 AM, Tom Balazs wrote: For the case of an individual or a family, what are the most useful reports? First, make sure to Save Config As for any report you've had to do a lot of customizing to generate. For my own personal use, there are a few reports I use most: These

Re: [GNC] Account reconciliation -- Gnucash's beginning balance is incorrect.

2023-11-11 Thread NoobAlice
On 2023-11-07 12:26 PM, John Reagan wrote: > ... but the starting balance for that period was $299.46 > which is the reconciled balance at the end of July. Instead, Gnucash is > showing a starting balance of $ -200.54. > > I tried entering a correction transaction of $200.54, but it didn't >

Re: [GNC] GC Best Practices for Investment Management

2023-11-11 Thread NoobAlice
On 2023-11-08 01:16 PM, Jediator wrote: ... I noticed that a major feature in GC is the stock and investment management function, which I was hesitating to get into.  I'd like to hear from fellow GC users on the usefulness and best practices for using GC for investment management. Especially:

Re: [GNC] Reply convention

2023-08-22 Thread NoobAlice
On 2023-08-22 06:21 PM, Brad Morrison wrote: ...but does anyone know if the various email formatting conventions (https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/MailingListEtiquette) can be adjusted by the mailing list user at the email client level? I don't know about other email clients, but Thunderbird

Re: [GNC] Construction Billing By Project

2023-07-27 Thread NoobAlice
On 7/27/23 3:43 AM, Angela Haggerty wrote: Firstly, it's past 3 AM and I am arguing with myself on how to enter construction projects into GNUCash for a bookkeeping LLC client. Currently people tend to "tag" transactions by putting @job1 in the description of any transaction that affects Job

Re: [GNC] Transaction line debit/credit in split view

2023-07-23 Thread NoobAlice
On 2023-07-23 02:54 PM, john wrote: https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=799041 coomplains that the transaction line in split view shows the amount for the anchor split in the register account in the Tot Debit or Tot Credit columns instead of the value in the transaction currency as is

Re: [GNC] "Comparative" reports?

2023-07-19 Thread NoobAlice
our fiscal year like February 23 - April 5, then you'll have to run separate reports and not use these nice ones. Enjoy! NoobAlice ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://l

Re: [GNC] Can not resize GnuCash Preferences window

2023-06-25 Thread NoobAlice
Default User hunguponcontent, This is probably a Wayland windowing system problem, not a GnuCash problem. On Xorg, the window is easily resizable and movable. What have you tried besides changing the display resolution back and forth? If you were on Xorg, I would say try these individual

Re: [GNC] Standard Report - Equity Statement

2023-06-25 Thread NoobAlice
ge to the Equity Statement. But the Advanced Portfolio will show the stock investment. I hope I didn't over-explain anything, but I'm trying to make this clear for you and anyone else who has a similar question in the future and finds this mailing list post. NoobAlice On 2023-06-23 11:08 PM,

Re: [GNC] Merging Two Accounts

2023-06-18 Thread NoobAlice
I would say, in addition, make sure that neither your source account nor your destination account is marked as "hidden" or "placeholder." Or, if it is, use the little configuration icon (for me it is a wrench and a screwdriver crossed) to show hidden and placeholder accounts. Accounts should

[GNC] In Praise of Excellent Features

2023-06-02 Thread NoobAlice
Hello All! No questions, just joy! Thank you to all the devs and to everyone who gives advice in the mailing list! I have been happily using GnuCash for years. Today I was poking through the menus to see if I could find an Expand All/Collapse All option for the accounts tree, when I saw

Re: [GNC] report cutoffs - Trial Balance opening date

2023-05-19 Thread NoobAlice
Just send him a trial balance AND the income statement and balance sheet. The "closed books" trial balance he wants is going to look similar to the balance sheet plus income statement stacked anyway, just without totals. The trial balance will let him see that nothing from the other two

Re: [GNC] Auto commit with auto save?

2023-05-19 Thread NoobAlice
A little bit of a topic change, but I find setting Edit > Preferences > Scheduled Transactions > check box Review Created Transactions as an overall preference (as opposed to remembering to check the box on the popup scheduled transactions window) really simplifies scheduled transaction fixing

Re: [GNC] Easy way to delete old transactions

2023-05-06 Thread NoobAlice
In my opinion, you are opening a can of worms, but if you are set on this course... If you have separate tax returns or other documents that let you know the income/loss of each entity each year, you may need those to let you determine correct starting equity by entity. You will need to

Re: [GNC] Tags for classification/category/dimension transaction report

2023-05-04 Thread NoobAlice
Seconded!  This would be a massive improvement to the excellent GnuCash, in my opinion.  Thank you so much, Vincent!  As described, this feature would add so much more utility in so many areas of reporting. Besides flywire's "classification/category/dimension," I would also add

Re: [GNC] Locking the side bar items

2023-04-14 Thread NoobAlice
/23 1:00 PM, NoobAlice wrote: make close-program button bigger to cover up clickable close-tab space - THE INVISIBLE CLOSE BUTTON IS STILL CLICKABLE, though this hacky stuff makes the clickable space smaller... */ There is no "close-program" 'button' save what is on the window

Re: [GNC] Locking the side bar items

2023-04-13 Thread NoobAlice
I can't help with the "pin tab" idea, but for those who want to keep the toolbar around, I've come up with an admittedly-hacky way to hide the "Close [tab]" toolbar button. I also have a hide for the File menu item, but it still leaves a small, clickable area that will close a tab,

Re: [GNC] User defined currencies in "Expense Accounts"

2023-03-12 Thread NoobAlice
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2023 08:45:18 -0700 From: john To: Charles Crossan Cc: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: Re: [GNC] User defined currencies in "Expense Accounts" Message-ID: <204d86ba-9b99-470c-960d-b15cd7ef0...@ceridwen.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Mar 12, 2023,