Deposits Report

Fri Nov 7 14:21:39 EST 2014

I appreciate your efforts. I apparently am not explaining things well 
from your reply. The report I desire is one that matches the deposits 
slips that went into the real world checking account that shows what 
funds/uses those monies were directed towards. That is required by my 
church oversight person. The reimbursement is under offerings because 
that is the generic name I use when depositing funds into the checking.

The Bus is a real bus, not a fund. It is an owned fixed asset.

As I stated in prior response, the A/R was how I did it in the 
beginning when I was experimenting with the program and different 
methods to see how things showed up on reports but then shifted to 
current system.

I am not having issues with results on any of the standard GnuCash 
reports, except that I would like to organize the information 
differently (which was a previous response about net income).

I am not able to look at the sample file currently, but wanted to 
express these items based on your comments. I appreciate your help but I 
don't think we are on the same page and are mixing up different 
discussions in this thread. My apologies.

I have been reading sections of help as directed and I haven't seen 
anything that I didn't already know about accounting and such. So again 
I think I am not communicating clearly.

TM

On 2014-11-07 09:38, Aaron Laws [via GnuCash] wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 9:40 AM, Aaron Laws <[hidden email] [1]> 
> wrote:
>
>
>>
>>
>> Now then, I think I can begin to try to reproduce this. I'll take a
> look
>> at creating a minimum example, and get back with you later.
>>
>>
>>
> Attached is a .gnucash file with what seems to me to be a minimum
> working
> example. It has a Bus Fund, a General Fund, a Missions Fund, and the
> Manse
> Reimbursable account. Your original question was "I'd like a report
> that
> totals the deposits by the accounts they went into, whether it be an
> asset
> or an income account." First, this question betrays some
> misunderstanding
> of account type. You really shouldn't want a report like this that
> treats
> the different account types the same way. So, in my example, to get a
> listing of what happened to the General Fund, Missions, and Manse
> Reimbursable (all assets!), run a Transaction Report and select those
> accounts. If you only want summary information, as I understand it,
> you'll
> need to run different reports for each account. Do a Cash Flow report
> on
> the General Fund account to see each account that affected its 
> balance
> at
> any time, and a summary. Unfortunately, I don't see in the report
> anything
> that indicates which account is the subject of the report. It's
> important
> to note that, given a greater-than-two-line transaction, you can't
> exactly
> tell whither or whence the money is moving. You can say, "Money comes
> from
> accounts A,B,C and goes into D,E,F.". It's impossible to deduce that
> money
> is going from A to E and from B to D and F, and from C to D without
> splitting the transactions. To see this, do a Cash Flow report
> choosing the
> Bus Fund. You'll see that 1540 goes into said account, and 1528 from
> which
> is outrageous :-). You can also run this report on Revenue accounts,
> but
> the result is confusing because it's a Credit-balance account.
>
> Do you understand the example? Do you disagree with or have questions
> about
> anything in it?
>
> Although you said that you understand double-entry accounting quite
> well, I
> would beg you to reconsider. Double-entry accounting means more than
> the
> five account types and whether a debit increases or decreases said
> account,
> and the fact that "debits must equal credits". Double-entry 
> accounting
> is
> an encoding for the Accounting Formula, and everything it represents.
> For
> instance, it is nearly sure that treating Sunday morning donations as
> an
> Accounts Receivable is a mistake. If you have pledges or something
> along
> that line then that's fine, but otherwise, please do read the gnucash
> guide. You've been referred to it by a few people a few times now 
> ;-).
> It's
> light reading that can be done with a full-time family, and a
> full-time job
> (I know because I did it at the beginning of this year and enjoyed it
> immensely).
>
>>
>>
>>
>> In Christ,
>> Aaron Laws
>>
>>
>
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