CREDIT CARD OPENING BALANCE

[Xeena Wallington]

Brilliant - that sounds like it will work.  Thanks

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Derek Atkins" <warlord at MIT.EDU>
To: "Xeena Wallington" <xeena at tiscali.co.za>
Cc: <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 3:10 PM
Subject: Re: CREDIT CARD OPENING BALANCE


>I have an Assets:Cash account.  When I make an ATM withdrawal I
> transfer from Assets:Checking to Assets:Cash.  Then as I spend
> my cash I transfer from Assets:Cash to Expenses:<whatever>
> 
> Periodically I count the cash in my wallet and "reconcile" with
> what GnuCash thinks I should have and I'll add a "Balancing"
> expense transaction to fix it all up.
> 
> -derek
> 
> Quoting Xeena Wallington <xeena at tiscali.co.za>:
> 
>> I wonder if you can help with this one.
>>
>> When I withdraw cash from the bank for expenses, I want to record 
>> that withdrawal, but then allocate the various things I buy, e.g. 
>> R400 petrol, R300 groceries, etc.  I am finding it difficult to do 
>> this and still see the amount of the cash withdrawal in the register, 
>> without looking at the splits, so when it comes to reconciling with 
>> the bank statement I have to look at the splits each time.
>>
>> Is there an easier way of managing cash withdrawals that are spent on 
>> various items which need to be recorded separately.  I read somewhere 
>> that Gnu Cash is more user friendly than Quicken, but in this 
>> instance I have to disagree.
>>
>> Perhaps I am doing it wrong.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Xeena Wallington
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Derek Atkins" <warlord at MIT.EDU>
>> To: "Xeena Wallington" <xeena at tiscali.co.za>
>> Cc: <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 6:39 PM
>> Subject: Re: CREDIT CARD OPENING BALANCE
>>
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> "Xeena Wallington" <xeena at tiscali.co.za> writes:
>>>
>>>> Thanks, but I don't know what LC_COLLATE means and where to find it -
>>>> sorry for my ignorance!
>>>
>>> LC_COLLATE is an environment variable.  You set it like you'd set
>>> any other environment variable --- in your environment.  man bash(1)
>>>
>>>> If you could let me know how to carry out this procedure it would be
>>>> appreciated.
>>>
>>> bash% env LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF8 gnucash &
>>>
>>>> I have put the opening balance as a payment as you suggested and the
>>>> register seems to look ok.  Will reconcile and see if it works.
>>>> Thanks again.
>>>> Xeena
>>>
>>> You're welcome.
>>>
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>>>
>>> -derek
>>>
>>> -- 
>>>       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
>>>       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
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>>
>>
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
>       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
>       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
>       URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
>       warlord at MIT.EDU                        PGP key available
>