Question about Gnucash tutorial

[jomali]

Tim,

The "secret" is to use the tab or arrow keys, not the mouse, to enter the
debit or credit cells of the entry. When you do so, the suggested entry is
selected, and you merely have to type over it. I occasionally forget this
and use the mouse to select the desired cell, enter data without looking and
find myself obtaining an error message because the figures contain an odd
mixture of commas and periods.

John

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Tim T. <tim.timmerman at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ok.. this is what I do:
> - create the accounts according to section 3.3.2, and 3.3.3. My
> display matches with the pictures in the manual
> - Section 4.2.1: follow the instructions for the Opening balance.
>  For the groceries purchase, I put the amount 45.21 in the Withdrawals
> column
>  Once again, exact match with the image in the manual
>
> - Then comes the split:
>  Click on empty line, then click on button 'split'
> On the first line, enter Employer R Us
> Click on second line of split, enter "after tax", select
> Assets:Checking, enter a deposit of 670
> On third line of split, enter: Federal Tax, Select Expenses:Taxes:Federal
>  (At this point 670 appears in the Withdrawals column of this line)
>  delete the 670, enter 180 in deposits, <tab> twice to get a new line.
>  At this point 850 appears in the deposits column of the new line
>  On this line enter Medicare, Expenses:Taxes:Medicare and the deposit of 90
>  delete the amount in withdrawal again
>  <Tab> to get the new line, with a Withdrawal amount of 940
>  On this line enter Social Security, Expenses:Taxes:Social Security, amount
> 60
>   Clear the 940 from the Withdrawals again
> <Tab> to get the new line and enter
>  Before tax, Income:Salary, with a withdrawal of 1000 (Which is
> automatically entered there) and press enter
>
> Hey.. this time it worked !
>
> Ok, so what did I do differently from the last three times ?
> the last three times, I did not clear the withdrawal column. And then
> I wind up with an imbalance of 940
> And some really strange balances in the accounts overview page.Also,
> the deposits have gone.
> I'd guess that my deposit gets subtracted from the amount in withdrawals.
>
> I would call this a bug: the 'automatic withdrawal' should not be
> taken into account (I'd agree that this is good visual reminder of the
> amount you still have to account for).
> A quick fix would be to add the warning about clearing the withdrawals
> column to the doc.
>
> (Also, I think the example is somewhat contrived: I'd normally deposit
> 1000, then use seperate transactions for each Tax deposit. The net
> effect is the same. ;-)
>
> Thanks for making me go through this again.. Always nice to be right:
> I *was* doing something not quite right ;-)
>
> TimT.
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 15:12, Derek Atkins<warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
> > Tim,
> >
> > "Tim T." <tim.timmerman at gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >> Apart from the email fail..
> >>
> >> I just worked through the 4.2.2 section of the tutorial using a fresh
> >> download of 2.3.3 on Windows Vista again.
> >>
> >> Unfortunately, that doesn't work as advertised. Instead of the list of
> >> deposits to the tax accounts, I get a list of withdrawals from the
> >> checking account, and an imbalance of 940 Euro.
> >
> > Are you putting in the correct accounts for the splits?  Also, are you
> > including the split for the checking account itself?
> >
> >> With tab, I can indeed get 'more lines'.. But the tutorial doesn't
> >> work as described in the manual..
> >>
> >> Could somebody with more experience please check this ? (And explain
> >> what I should have done ?)
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>  TimT.
> >
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> >
> > -derek
> >
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