gnucash-user Digest, Vol 179, Issue 16

Roger Hatton roghat3 at gmail.com
Mon Feb 5 20:41:59 EST 2018


Hi Adrien (from Gold Coast Down Under)

1. I copied all the transaction files to Computer 2
2. I downloaded the latest version of GNU Cash to Computer 2
3. I presumed (wrongly?) that it would function identically to Computer 1
4. The purpose of Computer 2 is simply as a backup in case of issues on
Computer 1
5. On opening Balance Sheet in Computer 2 using the same date as Computer 1
the account balances appear
6. The aggregates totals show as Zero (Total Assets, Total Liabilities and
other sub-totals)
7. Thus I am unable to see at a glance that the systems as a whole is in
balance.

I would prefer not to have to export to a spreadsheet just to ensure
balancing is correct.

Is there a step that I have missed ?

Best Wishes, Roger H

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> Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2018 18:47:27 -0600
> From: Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at gmail.com>
> To: gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> Subject: Re: Backup files ... Report Totals Missing
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> Roger,
>
> So you only made a copy. That is, the original file is still in the same
> place. You opened GnuCash, you can see all of your transactions still
> there, but your reports (I presume Balance Sheet in this case) are blank?
>
> Did you go over the report Options? Some reports start blank until you
> specify the accounts, dates, etc.
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
>
> > On Feb 5, 2018, at 4:23 PM, Roger Hatton <roghat3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Greetings to all users
> >
> > I copied the data file to a back-up computer.
> > Reports open without totals such as
> > Totals Assets and Equity
> >
> > How can this be corrected?
> > Help appreciated
> >
> > Roger H
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> Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2018 18:50:30 -0600
> From: Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at gmail.com>
> To: GnuCash users group <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> Subject: Re: Tracking credit card points
> Message-ID: <A1E903E8-956C-4097-AA6C-B907BFF844CC at gmail.com>
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> Try pulling up a Google Search and entering this (without the quotes) as
> your search term:
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> "site:lists.gnucash.org credit card points? or something similar.
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> You?ll see links to various threads here on the mailing list discussing
> the subject.
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> Regards,
> Adrien
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> > On Feb 5, 2018, at 2:40 PM, AC <gnucash at acarver.net> wrote:
> >
> > I've decided to start tracking my points on my cards because the monthly
> > statements do a poor job of  showing me the activity.  For this
> > application, is it better to set up the point tracking account as a
> > stock-type account or a currency?  The value when redeemed fluctuates
> > but I will always know how many points were redeemed (an integer number)
> > and the total dollar value that is being converted (e.g. I will know I
> > spent 1830 points on a purchase that would have totaled $23.95 today but
> > it may not be that same total tomorrow).
> >
> > The only thing I don't want to have happen is for the system to see this
> > new tracking as some kind of value adjacent to my actual stock accounts
> > to include in reports.  For convenience it should live within the same
> > file but behave as an independent entity.
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> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2018 01:08:15 +0000 (UTC)
> From: Fran_3 <mailbox0600 at yahoo.com>
> To: gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>,  Adrien Monteleone
>         <adrien.monteleone at gmail.com>
> Subject: How to pay 2-bills to 1-vendor with 1-check?
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>  We get billed by one vendor weekly but pay every two weeks.We started
> entering each weeks bill into AP individuallyNow we want to pay two of
> those bills with one check.I assume this is a split transactionBut trying
> to do it from the check register I am unable to associate each split to a
> its associated bill...
> The normal sequence to me (not an accountant :-) for an individual bill
> would be... post the bill...
> Expense > Lawn? ? ? ? ? ? AP > pro Lawn Svc------------------------? ? ?
> ?------------------------? ? ? ? ? ? ?| 100? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 100 |? ? ? ?
> ? ? ?|? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? |
> Pay the bill
> ? ? ? ?Checking? ? ? ? ? ? ?AP > pro Lawn Svc------------------------? ? ?
> ?------------------------? ? ? 100 |? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ????|?
> 100? ? ? ? ? ? ?|? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? |
> But the below seems to do this when the bill is paid
> ? ? ? ?Checking? ? ? ? ? ? ?Liabilities > AP------------------------? ? ?
> ?------------------------? ? ? 100 |? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ????|?
> 100? ? ? ? ? ? ?|? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? |
> I would have thought in the "Account" column of the register I could get
> to AP > Lawn but it only let's me get to AP
> How can I associate the each split with a particular bill from the vendor?
> Thanks for any help.
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