Profit account, crash, sort accounts

[John Sowden]

On Thursday 04 November 2004 06:26, Derek Atkins wrote:
> John Sowden <jsowden at americansentry.net> writes:
> > 1) How do we transfer profit to a capital account?
> > I cannot tell where the profit is being stored.
>
> The profit is computed from Income.  It is "stored" in the fact that
> you have income transactions.  It sounds like you want to "close the
> books".  Gnucash has no feature to automatically do that.  However the
> reports should deal just fine with non-zero'd accounts, so there is
> really no need to zero it out.
>
My objective is to move the profit to the appropriate capital account.
So if I want to move the profit to "retained earnings", what do I DR and what 
do I CR?

> > 2) In order to make use of my account numbers, I am putting the account
> > numbers in the name:   "613.0 Rent"
> > Somehow a fixed asset account got to the top of my "Accounts Summary",
> > even though it starts with 166.0, and my cash account starts with 101.0. 
> > How do I sort the accounts, or move this one account, or if I delete it
> > and re-create it, how do I control where it will show up in the list?
>
> Gnucash sorts first by "account code" and then by "account name"
> within an account group.
>
Thanks-that lead me to think that I missed entering an "account code" ofr this 
account. That was it.  Thanks

> > 3) When I am in the account summary and I change an option, when I click
> > OK, the program crashes/closes.  When I re-start it, I get an error
> > message saying that someone else is using the database.  It is
> > consistant.
>
> What's printed on the terminal?  (you ARE running from a terminal
> so you can see error output, right???)   What version of gnucash are
> you using?
>
The program just closes.  No error message.  I am running a PC, not a 
terminal.  Suse 82. gnucash 1.8.0. under kde 3.1.

John Sowden
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