General Journal

[Jack Halem]

There has been a lot of irrelevant email going on in the last few days.
I am depending upon GNU Cash for my small one man business and it is a 
little frustrating getting my mail box full of junk GNU Cash email.
We should be helping one another - not complaining about a GNU (free) 
program.
I have been trying to use GNU Cash for about four years and I am just 
getting the hang of it.
I discovered buying the book and having a lot (and I do mean a lot) of 
patience seems to be well worth the reward.
I discovered several helpful hints - if there are any "new" business 
type users, I might be of assistance.
Respectfully,
Jack
On 08/08/2013 02:38 PM, Dominic Grosleau wrote:
> 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.
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> 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
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> 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.
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> On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 2:55 PM, <cgw993 at aol.com> wrote:
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> 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
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> 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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