Re: [GNC] GnuCash 3.9 still has problems with Budget ?

2020-04-01 Thread Phil Longstaff
True. However, the problem is that the budget report shows a payment to a liability as negative. So, unless the budget amount is also negative, the "diff" column is incorrect. On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 10:12 PM Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > Negative from the perspecti

Re: [GNC] mysql backend, second user (lock, for example)

2018-11-05 Thread Phil Longstaff
That may work fine for a single instance of gnucash. However, it this is 2 instances of gnucash on 2 separate computers, does libdbi provide any notification mechanism to notify gnucash on computer #2 that computer #1 has written to the db? On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 2:39 AM craigarno wrote: > Geert

Re: [GNC] Expenses on Credit Card account do not appear on cash flow report

2018-11-05 Thread Phil Longstaff
This is correct. When you use a credit card to pay for something, none of your cash is used, so there is no cash flow. There is only a cash flow when you pay your credit card bill. Phil On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 9:51 AM Felipe Ferri wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm new to this forum, though I've been

Re: Budgets: showing total-to-date in budget period, and previous month totals only

2018-03-26 Thread Phil Longstaff
I have attached a report which does this. I have attached ytd-budget.scm. I have this file in c:\Users\phill\.gnucash\reports. I then add this line to c:\Users\phill\.gnucash\config.user: (load "c:\\Users\\phill\\.gnucash\\reports\\ytd-budget.scm") This gives me a new "YTD budget" with 3 set

Re: Is "Transfer" same as making a "Journal Entry"

2018-02-05 Thread Phil Longstaff
In an accounting sense, giving money to pay off the principal of a loan is not an expense. It is a transfer to pay down a liability. Similarly, giving money towards an RRSP (Canada) or 401K (US) is not an expense. It is a transfer to an asset account. These are the transfers that are captured by "T

Re: budget

2017-09-21 Thread Phil Longstaff
h time to spend recently on the budget code but do hope to get back to it. Phil On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 4:40 AM, Gour wrote: > On Wed, 20 Sep 2017 20:48:03 -0400 > Phil Longstaff wrote: > > > There is no automatic carry over. > > That would be a cool feature to enable

Re: budget

2017-09-20 Thread Phil Longstaff
The budget for an account for a specific month is simply an estimate of the amount of money you expect to receive or spend in that account. Let's assume it's an expense account. If you don't spend as much as you expect, you can reduce it and increase another account's budget, so that the total budg

Re: Budget Slowing Down Windows 10

2017-09-02 Thread Phil Longstaff
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Re: Budget Slowing Down Windows 10

2017-08-29 Thread Phil Longstaff
I am aware of the very slow performance with budget. I have some ideas to improve it but have not found time to put into it. It seems to only affect Windows. It runs fine on linux. Phil On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 1:55 PM, Proberts042 wrote: > Slow to me is several minutes. > > I have installed Gnu

Re: Methods to Track Gift Cards and Similar Items

2017-07-31 Thread Phil Longstaff
I track gift cards as assets, under Current Assets On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 4:24 PM, Paul W. wrote: > I am seeking guidance on methods to track items such as gift cards, gift > certificates, merchant cards, bank reward cards, and store-credit cards > for returned purchases. > > On the one hand,