General Journal

[cgw993 at aol.com]

I just discovered this thing with GC being modeled after unethical
proprietary software, but I think I understand why it was done, and the most
beautiful thing is, the GPL license guarantees that users will never be
trapped by the software, they can change and modify it at will as an
individual or as a group.  Thanks for listening and your patience.   May I
suggest anyone not familiar with Richard Stallman view some of this videos
online.  I will continue to use Excel and VBA to do bookkeeping for now as I
don't know how to program in any other non proprietary spreadsheet and am
still making the transition to GNU + Linux operating system.  Thanks for the
discussion, take care.

 

 

 

From: Ian Konen [mailto:iankonen at gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2013 12:33 PM
To: cgw993 at aol.com
Cc: GnuCash Users List
Subject: Re: General Journal

 

I'm inclined to agree with David T here: this point about how to enter
transactions is getting repetitive and I don't really have anything new to
add.  I'm not going to engage on the merits of cloud computing, that's for
another mailing list.  

 

On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 2:55 PM, <cgw993 at aol.com> wrote:

 

For example, download the CSV from your bank.  GC should ask for the
appropriate fields, and you tell it.   GC sort does this, but does not use
Debits and Credits, no they  use deposits and withdrawals which is not the

 

Aha!  This, however, I can offer concrete help:  That is a preference
setting and it can be switched using Edit->Preferences, then in the dialog
Accounts tab -> "Use Formal accounting labels".  Rage at the injustice of
that not being the default setting, but at least you can change it. It is
documented and perhaps makes the point that you might not find GnuCash quite
so morally compromised if you spend a little more time reading the
documentation (and adjusting preferences where it helps...you might also be
interested in the Register Defaults->Default Style setting)

 

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