Newbie Transactions entry

[John R. Sowden]

So now I have another problem.  I seem to have the data entry down.  The 
numbers changing was because in a split transaction, the tan colored 
fields are the data entry fiends and when I didn't understand what it 
was doing, it confused me.

Anyway,I did a depreciation entry by opening the accumulated 
depreciation -office equipment account and transfered an amount to/from 
the depreciation-off equipment expense account.

So, to check my work I decided to look at the balance sheet. 
Unfortunately the date of the balance sheet is a year old when there 
were no entries, and there seems to be no way to edit the dates, such as 
when you select 'Balance Sheet' and the program says for what date?  No 
reference in the help system re: reports. Same for 'Income Statement', 
only that one needs a start date and an end date.  I might be spoiled by 
my existing program.

John



On 05/14/2013 12:05 PM, John R. Sowden wrote:
> 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)
>>>>
>>>> using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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