gnucash-user Digest, Vol 112, Issue 8

INFO info8824 at gmail.com
Sat Jul 7 12:27:44 EDT 2012 

Topic 1.
	If you are not an advanced user, a less elegant and more troublesome 
method is to export the report (it will be html) and then import it into 
Calc in Libreoffice, or some similar app, and then dress it up anyway 
you like in Calc or even put it in Writer. If you decide to do this, you 
may want to create a custom report with only the info you want and then 
set up a template in Libreoffice.

On 07/07/2012 11:00 AM, gnucash-user-request at gnucash.org wrote:
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>     1. Re: Print invoice or easy-invoice on to a letterhead
>        (Anna's unattended mail)
>     2. formulas and joint accounts (Cala)
>     3. Re: Reconcile Credit Card Account-Transaction After Statement
>        Closing (Colin Law)
>     4. Re: Reconcile Credit Card Account-Transaction After Statement
>        Closing (INFO)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 15:28:22 +0000 (UTC)
> From: "Anna's unattended mail"<anna.morris-1okt59qe at cool.fr.nf>
> To: gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: Print invoice or easy-invoice on to a letterhead
> Message-ID:<jt706m$qh8$1 at dough.gmane.org>
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> On 2012-07-06, hereinoz<gnucash at wayville.net>  wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I would really like to print my invoices on to a pre-printed letterhead type
>> of page, which would need around 2cm of white space at the top of the
>> invoice to allow for the letterhead.
>>
>> Is there any way in which this can be achieved?
>
> If you're an advanced user and comfortable with markup languages,
> nothing beats the gc2latex package.  Check out:
>
>    http://stefans.datenbruch.de/gnucash/gc2latex.shtml
>
> It's a perl script that generates a highly presentable and
> customizable invoice (in LaTeX) from a gnucash data file.
>
>
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 15:44:09 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Cala<calamity.paname at hotmail.fr>
> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Subject: formulas and joint accounts
> Message-ID:<1341614648695-4655598.post at n4.nabble.com>
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>
> Hi,
>
> I have an account A1 which correspond to a joint account with my partner.
> I have a account A2 which correspond to the money in the joint account which
> belongs to my partner (half of the value in A1).
> Both A1 and A2, are first level sub-account of an account A which correspond
> to my part of money  in the joint account.
> I never put any operation in account A, but it's value is automatically
> computed with the values of the two sub-accounts.
>
> I often have splitted operations.
>
> If I buy $10 at the grocery shop with the credit card of the joint account
> I will have an operation like this:
>
> groceries  +5$ my_grocery_account
> groceries  +5$ A2
> groceries  -10$ A1
>
> By completion, I can re-enter groceries and I get a copy of this operation,
> but then I have to modify all the amounts and always write myself the split
>
> I would like to have something like that:
>
> groceries  -var1/2         my_grocery_account
> groceries  -var1/2         A2
> groceries  -10$(=var1)  A1
>
> so that when I open the account A1, I just type groceries and completion,
> and then it creates this operation and I just have to change the value -10$
> into what I've spend this time and the other values will adjust to half of
> it.
>
> Do you know if there is a way to do that ?
> Do people have other solutions to deal with joint accounts ?
>
> Thank you,
>
>
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2012 09:00:47 +0100
> From: Colin Law<clanlaw at googlemail.com>
> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: Reconcile Credit Card Account-Transaction After Statement
> 	Closing
> Message-ID:
> 	<CAL=0gLs3+BFThHqzgv7ngJPUtgZ1umSa8WJOzf4by--stT70FA at mail.gmail.com>
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> On 6 July 2012 23:50, Paula Hendricks<paula at ph-webnet.com>  wrote:
>> and also check the date... i've found most times gnu cash does it just right, but every once in a while the date or the ending balance is off...
>
> Getting the date wrong will not stop it reconciling provided the
> ending balance is entered correctly.
>
> Colin
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2012 10:58:30 -0500
> From: INFO<info8824 at gmail.com>
> To: Paula Hendricks<paula at ph-webnet.com>
> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: Reconcile Credit Card Account-Transaction After Statement
> 	Closing
> Message-ID:<4FF85CA6.5000100 at gmail.com>
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>
> I was convinced I was doing something foolish. I just did everything
> from scratch and it went fine. I have no idea what I did wrong.
> Sometimes dimple mistakes can be frustrating.
>
> The rapid informative responses make Gnucash a delight to use. Now that
> the app itself has added a few things, like sql back-end, I don't see
> why this real double entry system doesn't take off. One possible
> drawback is the documentation. If you know what you are doing, the
> documentation is more than adequate. For people new to Gnucash, there
> might be a problem. We are familiar with computerised accounting, so
> Gnucash has functions where we expect to find them. Someone from a more
> simple one-write system might need a little more detail in the
> documents. But I don't think anyone should try to teach accounting in
> the documentation. That is asking too much.
>
> We have a real warm and fuzzy feeling starting out with a system we
> haven't used extensively because of the really quick and helpful
> responses. The user support is the lifeblood of open source.
>
> On 07/06/2012 05:50 PM, Paula Hendricks wrote:
>> and also check the date... i've found most times gnu cash does it just right, but every once in a while the date or the ending balance is off...
>>
>> 	ph
>>
>> ~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~
>> paula hendricks ~:~ cinnabar bridge communications
>> writing ~:~ photography ~:~ book design
>> san francisco ~:~ 415.975.0950
>>
>> On Jul 6, 2012, at 1:00 PM, Colin Law wrote:
>>
>>> On 6 July 2012 20:51, INFO<info8824 at gmail.com>   wrote:
>>>> Greetings:
>>>>
>>>> I am trying to reconcile a credit card account - my first attempt at using
>>>> Gnucash reconciliation. I encountered the following problem.
>>>>
>>>> Everything went fine. I checked all the transactions on the statement, the
>>>> reconciled balance was exactly the same as the statement. However, when I
>>>> tried to click the check mark to complete the reconciliation, it was greyed
>>>> out. I had one transaction that was a charge made after the closing date of
>>>> the statement. I could not complete the reconciliation unless I also checked
>>>> that transaction, which was not part of this reconciliation.
>>>>
>>>> After I checked the transaction that occurred after the closing date of the
>>>> statement, then I could complete the reconciliation. However, now the
>>>> account shows the interest charge in a negative red, then shows it correctly
>>>> thereafter, and now shows a zero balance for the account.
>>>>
>>>> I can avoid the interest problem by checking no auto interest and entering
>>>> it manually, but that still doesn't allow me to complete the reconciliation
>>>> without checking the transaction that occurred after the statement closing
>>>> date.
>>>>
>>>> Clearly, I am missing something here, something simple no doubt. I followed
>>>> the instructions in the guide, but with no success. Any directions?
>>>
>>> When starting the reconcile it pops up a dialog with an Ending Balance
>>> field.  You should set this to the closing balance on the statement
>>> (which may not be the value filled in by gnucash).  Also check that
>>> the starting balance shown there matches the starting balance in the
>>> account.  When you have finished reconciling the figure against
>>> Difference in the reconcile window should be zero.
>>>
>>> Colin L
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