Any suggestions for UK businesses - program seems quite American
Dr. David Kirkby - Kirkby Microwave Ltd
drkirkby at kirkbymicrowave.co.uk
Fri Nov 25 18:38:19 EST 2016
On 11/25/16 03:48 PM, Mike Evans wrote:
>> IMHO it would be good if some non-American terms could be added to GnuCash, so
>> it has things like a "current account", which everyone is familiar with in the
>> UK. It is the first bank account someone will get for personal use. Here in the
>> UK at least, I strongly suspect a "current account" is by far the most common
>> account in use.
>>
>
> GnuCash has a British (proper English) translation and there is a specific account structure provided for UK VAT accounts.
>
> When you start up GnuCash and set up a new account/book your locale should be correctly detected as en_GB and you will get the British translations. If you are seeing American phrases/spelling then check your computer is correctly set to the correct locale.
Thanks. When I installed, the default currency was GBP, not USD, so it seems at
least some of GnuCash knew I was in the UK.
I checked XP, and whilst some bits of it seemed to indicate it was English(UK),
there were bits indicating US. So I fixed that. I intended re-installing
GnuCash, as I thought that more sensible, given I'd not done anything other than
mess around.
I'm still fighting a problem, in that even after deleting GnuCash, it seems to
know about my old "test" account. I'm pretty sure this is a bug, so have
reported this.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=775124
Next I'll have to hunt down the registry, to hopefully finally clean out
GnuCash, and do a fresh install, where hopefully it picks up everything
properly, and knows about VAT and other UK related things.
--
Dr. David Kirkby Ph.D CEng MIET
Kirkby Microwave Ltd
Registered office: Stokes Hall Lodge, Burnham Rd, Althorne, Essex, CM3 6DT, UK.
Registered in England and Wales, company number 08914892.
http://www.kirkbymicrowave.co.uk/
Tel: 07910 441670 / +44 7910 441670 (0900 to 2100 GMT only please)
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