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[Arthur Dyck]

Sure.  Treat your donors as customers and create an account for them:
Business-> Customers-> New Customer.  You can process their payments
(Donations) and then there is a Customer Report available under Reports.

Arthur

On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 19:26 -0700, funzero wrote:
> Would there be a way to track giving of individual donors?
> 
> 
> 
> Arthur Dyck-2 wrote:
> > 
> > Technically, it's not the correct usage of a AR account which is assets
> > expected but not yet received.  I would create an asset account like
> > Undeposited Funds to record the checks and then make a transfer to your
> > checking account when deposited.  It would make your balance sheet
> > easier to understand for your members.
> > 
> > Arthur
> > 
> > On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 14:29 -0700, funzero wrote:
> >> No I didn't  - thanks for showing me the mistake.  I just left it as an
> >> asset.
> >> 
> >> Derek Atkins wrote:
> >> > 
> >> > Are you SURE that you set the Account Type to A/Receivable?
> >> > 
> >> > -derek
> >> > 
> >> > Quoting funzero <randy at vision-india.org>:
> >> > 
> >> >>
> >> >> I am a newbie and keep records for a small non profit.  GnuCash has
> >> been
> >> >> working well for us - at least for two weeks.  I wanted to try
> >> something
> >> >> -
> >> >> using customers to track donors.  To do this I would show a donation
> >> as a
> >> >> payment associated to a customer.  The  payments would go into an A/R
> >> >> account that was undeposited checks.  When deposited it would be moved
> >> to
> >> >> the appropriate account such as checking.  I set up a customer and
> >> tried
> >> >> to
> >> >> do a payment but it says that don;t have a post to account.  I did set
> >> up
> >> >> a
> >> >> A/R account under Assets but still cannot get a post to to show up. 
> >> What
> >> >> do
> >> >> I need to do.
> >> >>
> >> >> Randy
> >> >> --
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> >> > 
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