Re: [GNC] How to record 'balancing' trnsactions?

2023-07-12 Thread Chris Green
On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 04:41:27PM +0100, Paul Feakins wrote: > On 12/07/2023 16:35, Chris Green wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 03:51:53PM +0100, Paul Feakins wrote: > >> On 12/07/2023 15:44, Stan Brown wrote: > >>> On 2023-07-12 05:19, Paul Feakins wrote: > &

Re: [GNC] How to record 'balancing' trnsactions?

2023-07-12 Thread Chris Green
On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 02:25:33PM +0100, Paul Feakins wrote: > On 12/07/2023 13:55, Chris Green wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 01:19:41PM +0100, Paul Feakins wrote: > >> Why would you have 2 separate instances of GnuCash rather than simply 2 > >> Asset

Re: [GNC] How to record 'balancing' trnsactions?

2023-07-12 Thread Chris Green
On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 04:56:23PM -0400, Michael or Penny Novack wrote: > On 7/12/2023 8:12 AM, Chris Green wrote: > > This is as much an accounting question as a GnuCash one but how one > > does this depends on the sofware's capabilities so it makes sense > > to ask he

Re: [GNC] How to record 'balancing' trnsactions?

2023-07-13 Thread Chris Green
at gets zeroed when the check is > deposited. > > The opposite movements then are made for payments from the building fund to > the main accounts of needed. > Thank you Vincent, I think you have outlined an approach that will work for me. I will start trying it out and see how things

Re: [GNC] Two Instances as opposed to two separate files

2023-07-14 Thread Chris Green
anging the dates on reports to see different years, I never have to explicitly specify which data file to use (because it's in the directory for the year I'm looking at). -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To

Re: [GNC] Two Instances as opposed to two separate files

2023-07-15 Thread Chris Green
On Sat, Jul 15, 2023 at 10:58:27AM +0100, Michael Hendry wrote: > On 14 Jul 2023, at 13:24, Chris Green wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 01:06:36PM +0100, Maf. King wrote: > >> On Friday, 14 July 2023 12:34:28 BST Fross, Michael wrote: > >>> I

Re: [GNC] Reply convention

2023-07-19 Thread Chris Green
tend is likely to be lost on many users. There are standard ways of indicating emphasis and such using just plain text. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: http

[GNC] How to record payments for several items paid with a single transaction?

2023-07-21 Thread Chris Green
his? However I thought split transactions are for joining together payments to 'different' places rather than joining together several payments to and from the same places. Any/all help would be very welcome. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user maili

Re: [GNC] How to record payments for several items paid with a single transaction?

2023-07-22 Thread Chris Green
On Fri, Jul 21, 2023 at 10:17:12AM +0100, Michael Hendry wrote: > Hello again Chris. > Hi! :-) > Comments inserted below: > > On 21 Jul 2023, at 09:09, Chris Green wrote: > > > > > I quite often seem to have cases where several 'items' (see below fo

Re: [GNC] How to record payments for several items paid with a single transaction?

2023-07-23 Thread Chris Green
hat doesn't exist and isn't going to exist, for my trivially simple accounting system (which satisfies both the accountant and the Diocese) it just complicates things. I simply want to be able to able to have (conceptually) a multi-line entry in the income sub-account called 'Collec

Re: [GNC] How to record payments for several items paid with a single transaction?

2023-07-23 Thread Chris Green
On Sun, Jul 23, 2023 at 10:12:05AM +1000, Liz wrote: > On Sat, 22 Jul 2023 17:56:09 +0100 > Chris Green wrote: > > > But what if one has cash from two collections to go to the same > > account. I.e. a collection on 22nd July and a collection on 29th > > July bo

Re: [GNC] How to record payments for several items paid with a single transaction?

2023-07-23 Thread Chris Green
orded as Income when the cash is moved from Assets: Current Assets:Cash to Assets:Current Assets:Bank ? -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gn

Re: [GNC] How to record payments for several items paid with a single transaction?

2023-07-23 Thread Chris Green
On Sun, Jul 23, 2023 at 12:02:25PM +0100, Fred Bone wrote: > On 23 July 2023 at 9:34, Chris Green said: > > [...] > > I simply want to be able to able to have (conceptually) a multi-line > > entry in the income sub-account called 'Collections at services' which

Re: [GNC] How to record payments for several items paid with a single transaction?

2023-07-23 Thread Chris Green
On Sun, Jul 23, 2023 at 11:05:24AM +0100, Michael Hendry wrote: > On 23 Jul 2023, at 10:03, Chris Green wrote: > > > > >> > > > Petty Cash is also used in the UK for this. > > …but is primarily a mechanism used for staff to make small purchases of &

[GNC] Another try at "How to record payments for several items paid with a single transaction?"

2023-07-24 Thread Chris Green
the transaction. How do I do this? -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user - Please remember to CC this l

Re: [GNC] Another try at "How to record payments for several items paid with a single transaction?"

2023-07-24 Thread Chris Green
On Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 11:06:26AM +0100, Maf. King wrote: > On Monday, 24 July 2023 10:38:35 BST Chris Green wrote: > > Maybe I should put this a different way, the answers so far don't seem > > to quite address my question, probably because I'm not describing

Re: [GNC] Another try at "How to record payments for several items paid with a single transaction?"

2023-07-24 Thread Chris Green
Thanks both for the 'how to do it' for split transactions. I'm getting there slowly! :-) -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://li

[GNC] GnuCash 'Help' returns "Dcoument not found" but I have gnucash-docs installed

2023-07-24 Thread Chris Green
I'm running GnuCash 4.8 on [x]Ubuntu 22.04.2, I have gnucash-docs installed as well as the gnucash and gnucash-common packages but when I click on things in the Help menu I just get "Document not found". So, how do I get the help to work?

[GNC] Accounts which are both Income and Expense accounts

2023-07-24 Thread Chris Green
it's very definitely one account and one wants to see all the payments in one place. I guess one can just say it's an 'Expense' account and make payments in either direction as required, is this the only way or is there a special name for suc

Re: [GNC] Accounts which are both Income and Expense accounts

2023-07-24 Thread Chris Green
On Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 06:08:00PM +0100, Fred Bone wrote: > On 24 July 2023 at 16:53, Chris Green said: > > > Is there a 'right' way to handle an account which gets payments in two > > directions? > > > > E.g. I have good relations with a friend and we

[GNC] How to split an existing account into two sub-accounts?

2023-07-25 Thread Chris Green
Is there an easy way to take an existing account and make it into two sub-accounts and, at the same time, move transactions in the account to one of the sub-accounts. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your

Re: [GNC] How to split an existing account into two sub-accounts?

2023-07-25 Thread Chris Green
On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 10:31:23AM +0100, Paul Feakins wrote: > On 25/07/2023 10:27, Chris Green wrote: > > Is there an easy way to take an existing account and make it into two > > sub-accounts and, at the same time, move transactions in the account > > to one of the sub-

Re: [GNC] How to split an existing account into two sub-accounts?

2023-07-25 Thread Chris Green
On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 10:58:37AM -0500, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > On 7/25/23 4:27 AM, Chris Green wrote: > > Is there an easy way to take an existing account and make it into two > > sub-accounts and, at the same time, move transactions in the account > > to one of the s

Re: [GNC] GnuCash 'Help' returns "Dcoument not found" but I have gnucash-docs installed

2023-07-26 Thread Chris Green
TO/DOCUMENT > from a command line, > > To use the abbreviating protocoll you have to check, if the docs are > stored where the protocoll, which your yelp version understands, expects > them. > Thanks Frank, I use xubuntu rather than ubuntu but yelp is in xubuntu even though it

Re: [GNC] Unable to enter data in "Description" field of a Transaction

2023-07-29 Thread Chris Green
-fills the field when you enter just one or two characters. On my system most of the issues occur with the Transfer column, it sometimes locks up in the same way that you're describing for the Description field. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user maili

Re: [GNC] Unable to enter data in "Description" field of a Transaction

2023-07-29 Thread Chris Green
On Sat, Jul 29, 2023 at 09:28:40AM +0100, G R Hewitt wrote: > On Sat, 29 Jul 2023 at 09:03, Chris Green wrote: > > > On Fri, Jul 28, 2023 at 10:48:37PM -0400, AgedLace wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > Recently, I've been having a problem ent

Re: [GNC] Unable to enter data in "Description" field of a Transaction

2023-07-29 Thread Chris Green
On Sat, Jul 29, 2023 at 09:59:37AM -0700, john wrote: > For bug-filing instructions see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Bugzilla#Commenting_on_existing_bugs_or_entering_new_ones. > > > > Chris Green and G R Hewitt, what OS/distro are you running and how did you > in

Re: [GNC] Today's search....for .lck

2023-08-06 Thread Chris Green
allows one to keep them out of the way, I know files can be moved 'by hand') -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/list

Re: [GNC] Today's search....for .lck

2023-08-06 Thread Chris Green
On Sun, Aug 06, 2023 at 10:58:55AM -0500, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > On 8/6/23 6:28 AM, Chris Green wrote: > > > At least someone agrees with me! :-) > > > > I've been muttering about this, on and off, for quite a while! There > > should be a way to move the c

[GNC] Some questions about the Account Summary Report

2023-08-31 Thread Chris Green
e total of all the Income sub-accounts. Have I got something wrongly configured? -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/

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