gnucash-user Digest, Vol 125, Issue 16

Mike or Penny Novack stepbystepfarm at mtdata.com
Mon Aug 12 18:22:20 EDT 2013


R. Victor Klassen wrote:

>On 2013-08-12, at 4:09 PM, Tom Balazs wrote:
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>>I also miss "Memo". If I spend $500 at "Johns Auto Repair", that's an
>>"Accounts/Auto/Repair and Maintenance" expense, "Transfer/Liabilities/Tom's
>>Credit Card" but where do I write "Front brakes, water pump, and wipers" or
>>"John's Auto Repair Transaction #JAR256". Those pieces of information can
>>be very important.
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>If you make Joh's Auto Repair a vendor, then create a bill - which is a condensed version of the one you received.   You can then itemize the front brakes, water pump, etc.  on separate lines, just like on the invoice.   If you have taxes set up, it will calculate the sales/value added tax for you as well.
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But let's suppose you don't want to create a vendor each time  you need 
to record more than just to whom the check (or which store the credit 
card payment).

Maybe there is a limit to how long the description entry can be, but if 
so, so far I haven't run into it. So that could be "John's Auto Repair 
-- front brakes, water pump, and wipers".

What is perhaps annoying is that you can SEE much of the description at 
one time. THAT is perhaps the change that should be requested, that if a 
description is too long to fit the column, following lines are used to 
continue the description (and not immediately the next transaction). 
Note that this wouldn't be affecting how data is stored, just how the 
display on the screen works.

Michael


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