General Journal

[Dominic Grosleau]

Hi,

As a new GnuCash user, I have closely following this thread developing from a basic Q+A format to an all out flame war that I hadn't experienced since my newsgroup days following M$ vs Apple or any of the asm threads ...

Unfortunaately I believe that this thread has reached its usefulness and should be closed.

Yes I agree that Gnucash isn't perfect (like all software) but at least when I exposed my issue a few days ago the devel or users freely and promptly replied back to me with solutions that work.  All I had to do was pick the one I could live with for the time being until it gets readressed in a later version (aka hopefully gnucash will one day default the report headers to the standards found in any accounting books lol ).  In the meantime, I caan take the extra few seconds and add html break codes to remodel the header ... If I don't want to do that I can still move back to any of the free alternatives or proprietary one.  The beauty: gnucash didn't cost me anything besides a 5 mins of email drafting to adress my issue.  Oh and mebe an hour to familiarize myself with the interface.  Don't like it, don't use it.

Onto the DR / CR vs deposit / withdrawal issue at hand... Gnucash has the option to revert the columns to the standard DR / CR if its what you want.  Go in options and click the checkbox and voila!

Let's either keep this discussion PG and constructive or close it and move on to the next user issue..

My 2 cents worth!

Dom
Ontario, Canada
Sent by my Blackberry, I-Pod Touch, Computer, PSP, DS, PDA, Tablet, smoke signal, ESP, Cell Phone, Other device nobody but the manufacturer cares about....

-----Original Message-----
From: cgw993 at aol.com
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2013 20:00:33 
To: <iankonen at gmail.com>
Cc: <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Subject: RE: General Journal


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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Ian Konen
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www.linkedin.com/in/iankonen <http://www.linkedin.com/in/iankonen> 
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