Any suggestions for UK businesses - program seems quite American

Dr. David Kirkby - Kirkby Microwave Ltd drkirkby at kirkbymicrowave.co.uk
Fri Nov 25 18:38:19 EST 2016


On 11/25/16 03:48 PM, Mike Evans wrote:

>> IMHO it would be good if some non-American terms could be added to GnuCash, so
>> it has things like a "current account", which everyone is familiar with in the
>> UK. It is the first bank account someone will get for personal use. Here in the
>> UK at least, I strongly suspect a "current account" is by far the most common
>> account in use.
>>
>
> GnuCash has a British (proper English) translation and there is a specific account structure provided for UK VAT accounts.
>
> When you start up GnuCash and set up a new account/book your locale should be correctly detected as en_GB and you will get the British translations. If you are seeing American phrases/spelling then check your computer is correctly set to the correct locale.

Thanks. When I installed, the default currency was GBP, not USD, so it seems at 
least some of GnuCash knew I was in the UK.

I checked XP, and whilst some bits of it seemed to indicate it was English(UK), 
there were bits indicating US. So I fixed that. I intended re-installing 
GnuCash, as I thought that more sensible, given I'd not done anything other than 
mess around.

I'm still fighting a problem, in that even after deleting GnuCash, it seems to 
know about my old "test" account. I'm pretty sure this is a bug, so have 
reported this.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=775124

Next I'll have to hunt down the registry, to hopefully finally clean out 
GnuCash, and do a fresh install, where hopefully it picks up everything 
properly, and knows about VAT and other UK related things.


-- 
Dr. David Kirkby Ph.D CEng MIET
Kirkby Microwave Ltd
Registered office: Stokes Hall Lodge, Burnham Rd, Althorne, Essex, CM3 6DT, UK.
Registered in England and Wales, company number 08914892.
http://www.kirkbymicrowave.co.uk/
Tel: 07910 441670 / +44 7910 441670 (0900 to 2100 GMT only please)
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