Newbie Transactions entry

[John R. Sowden]

I googled and found the 'Report Options' selection in one of the menu's 
on the left.
Now I have a pretty good feel for how this works, so I can exercise it 
with some real  date.

Thank you all for your help'

John




On 05/14/2013 03:34 PM, Michael Hendry wrote:
> On 14 May 2013, at 23:24, "John R. Sowden" <jsowden at americansentry.net> wrote:
>
>> 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.
> With the Balance Sheet Report on the screen, you should have an "Options" button in the toolbar above.
>
> Click "Options", choose the General tab, and enter the Balance Sheet date you want.
>
>> I might be spoiled by my existing program.
> Or just familiar with it.
>
> Michael
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>
>> John
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>>
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>> 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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