How do I email my gnucash accounts to my accountant?

[Feidhlim Harty]

Hi Maf.,

Thanks a million for that. I managed to move the accounts around and didn't
think that was possible.

I'll just out the accounts receivable reconciliation and tick off the
entries on paper.

All the best

Féidhlim

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On 24 January 2013 09:30, Maf. King <maf at chilwell.net> wrote:

> On Wed 23 January 13 22:30:52 Feidhlim Harty wrote:
> > Hi Maf.,
> >
> > I'm running a bit aground on VAT. I placed my taxes in the expense folder
> > and my accountant has asked me to move them to Liabilities. Gnucash will
> > let me move my taxes folder within my expense folder only, but not out to
> > liabilities. Is there any way to do this?
> >
> > Also, in a reconcile for accounts receivable - is there any automatic way
> > for one column to reflect the entries in the other. i.e. if I have
> clientA
> > owing 100 at the LHS, and showing as paid in the RHS, clientB owing 150
> in
> > the LHS but not represented at the RHS, is there a facility to flag these
> > unpaid clients?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
>
> Hi Féidhlim
>
> Don't forget to send your questions to the list, there are others there who
> know more about GC than me, and also, with the spread of timezones you may
> get
> a quicker response too.
>
> I don't know how the VAT systems work in Eire, I can only speak to my
> knowledge of UK rules - and I'm not an accountant....
>
> VAT you have paid to a supplier (input tax) is an asset - you are able to
> reclaim it from the government at some interval.  VAT you have charged to
> your
> customers (output tax) is a liability  - it belongs to the government, you
> are
> just "looking after it" for a while.
>
> If you want to re-parent an expense account under a liability parent, I
> think
> that you would have to change the account type too - it's in the "edit
> Account" dialogue box, just to the left of the "parent account" section.
>
> As to the A/R unpaid customers question, have you tried the Receivables
> Ageing
> report - see Reports menu -> Business -> Receivables Ageing ?
>
> AFAIK, the reconcile box has no way to know which invoice is paid.
>  Reconcile
> is mostly set up to let you compare your version of an (eg Bank/Credit
> Card)
> account with a statement from that organisation.  You can certainly
> reconcile
> the A/R account, but it seems to me that the business module wasn't created
> with the intention of regular reconcilliation.  The register doesn't show
> the
> "reconciled Y/C/N" flag, for example.
>
> HTH,
> Maf.
>
>
>