Data Entry
Derek Atkins
warlord at MIT.EDU
Wed Apr 19 18:56:27 EDT 2006
"John R. Sowden" <jsowden at americansentry.net> writes:
> 2) The ledger text area for the account starts with:
> "100 Current Assets:101 Cash-Bank Name"
> Unfortunately, due to the size of the box, All I see for all of the entries
> is:
> "100 Current Assets:"
> so I cannot scan the ledger to see what accounts were affected, and I cannot
> easily keep track of which entries have been made. I am entering beginning
> balances from a printout of my existing accounting system trial balance.
Resize your window (or the just the column)... Or you can hit the
right-arrow key and move the cursor to the right and the words will
scroll inside the cell.
> 3) If I am making a series of entries to a transaction, the system carries
> the balance down to the next line. When I make my amount entry, the program
> calculates the difference (dr and cr) and changes my entry to what it thinks
> it should be. I understand the concept of not closing a unbalanced
> transaction (gigo) but this is agrevating.
"when I make my amount entry"... Are you overwriting the exiting number?
Or are you entering something in the other column? If you're entering
something in the other column, do you zero-ize out the existing number?
If the gnucash puts in a debit of $10 and you enter a credit of $5
without zeroing the $10, then yes, gnucash takes the difference and
makes the amount a $5 debit. But if you enter a $5 credit AND zeroize
the debit column, the line will remain what you intend.
> 4) The order of my entries are changed also, so the one that I just got
> through entering is no longer immediately above the one that I entered.
It always displays all the debits and all the credits together. If
you're entering in a random order of debits and credits, yes, it will
move them around. But if you enter your debits and credits "in order"
it wont move it around.
-derek
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Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
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