Newbie Transactions entry

John R. Sowden jsowden at americansentry.net
Tue May 14 15:05:24 EDT 2013


Problem already:
1) already exists
2) already exists
3) there is no accounts tab.  When I went to 'Accounts Summary' and 
selected my bank, that account is shown in the tab.  And there is only 1 
tab.

John

On 05/14/2013 11:59 AM, John R. Sowden wrote:
> Some of my recent emails went to the sender only-fixed it.  Recently 
> seant a msg re: screen is blank-could not open any accounts.  I just 
> solved that by going to 'Reports->Accounts Summary'
> Now I can execute the suggestions.
>
> John
>
>
>
>
> On 04/29/2013 11:37 AM, John R. Sowden wrote:
>> I must really be smokin' somethin.  In the Journal entries, the 
>> credits and debits should be reversed.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> I have tried several times over the recent years to use gnucash. The 
>>> big hangup is transaction data entry. I seems that the data entry 
>>> user interface was made to be like one of the Intuit products.
>>> I have seen several help programs discuss this issue, but I was only 
>>> able to learn "do not press <enter> until the transaction is complete".
>>> My OS is Ubuntu 13.04
>>>
>>> Could someone give me a sequence of keystrokes to execute the below 
>>> typical transactions.
>>> Please note: our accounting method is cash accounting, not accrual.
>>>
>>> tia,
>>> John
>>>
>>>
>>> Sample Transactions:
>>> Pay a Bill:
>>> 01/01/2013   Check #6454   Local Garbage Company         Memo: Jan - 
>>> Mar Service
>>> CR Cash-Local Bank              Account No. 111.0        $ 90.00
>>> DR Utilities                    Account No. 644.0        $ 90.00
>>>
>>> Pay an employee:
>>> 01/02/2013    Check #6555     Harry Smith                Memo: Payroll
>>> CR Cash-Local Bank              Account No. 111.0        $ 1200.00
>>> DR Salaries-Field Workers       Account No. 601.1        $ 1500.00
>>> DR Fed Income Tax With.         Account No. 211.0        $ 100.00
>>> DR State Income tax With.       Account No. 212.0        $ 50.00
>>> DR Social Security With.        Account No.: 213.0       $ 50.00
>>> DR Medicare With.               Account No. 214.0        $ 50.00
>>> DR State Disability With.       Account No. 215.0        $ 50.00
>>>
>>> Journal Entry:
>>> 03/30/2013    J0004                (no payee name)       Memo: Post 
>>> Quarter's Vehicle Depreciation
>>> CR  Depreciation-Vehicles       Account No. 602.3        $ 300.00
>>> DR  Vehicles-Accum Deprec.      Account No. 120.1        $ 300.00
>>> CR Depreciation-Office Eq.      Account No. 602.6        $ 125.00
>>> DR Office Equip-Accum Dep.      Account No. 121.1        $ 125.00
>>>
>>> Report:
>>> List all transactions for a vendor (or all vendors)
>>>
>>>
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