[GNC] Setting up a new accounting scheme in GnuCash

[Frank ter Braak]

Thanks for all the help and suggestions!!!
Very happy but not sue yet if it really got clear yet.

Now I wonder:

Does it really matter that much what type I use for a new account? And could I change this Type as I find out I was wrong or think an other might be more convenient? As long as I put credit and debit right it might not influence the calculations...

Or does the program handles my data very different or is only the sorting different?
But I can choose to sort by group or by number as well I think.

(I have been doing my own accounting for over 20 years, including complicated export from Filemaker, converting it and importing the journal records in my accounting software. But now changing to GnuCash everything seems different and I feel a newbee very much. And I am not a educated accountant too.)

Greetings Frank ter Braak





> Op 8 aug. 2019, om 00:13 heeft Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> het volgende geschreven:
> 
> Ah, thanks for the clarification.
> 
> Regards,
> Adrien
> 
>> On Aug 7, 2019, at 4:10 PM, Frank H. Ellenberger <frank.h.ellenberger at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Adrien,
>> 
>> part of the confusion might be:
>> Frank asked for the account type to create a few, which you tried to answer.
>> I saw, the requested accounts were already defined in the template and
>> referenced the group containing them, not the type itself.
>> 
>> Am Mi., 7. Aug. 2019 um 21:54 Uhr schrieb Adrien Monteleone
>> <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net>:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Aug 7, 2019, at 2:41 PM, Frank H. Ellenberger <frank.h.ellenberger at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 7 Kostpijs rekeningen                           (Cost price bills?)
>>>>>> This is where I book my bikes if I buy them from my supplier during the year. It will raise my Assets I suppose.
>>>>> 
>>>>> These are the invoices from the supplier or the value of the bikes themselves? If the bikes, that would be inventory above, if the invoices, that would be Accounts Payable - a liability.
>>>> 
>>>> Not quite, while buying they increase VOORADEN, on sale they move to
>>>> INKOOPWARDE VAN DE UMZET.
>>> 
>>> So Cost of Goods Sold? That would be an expense account. Curious that NL mixes purchases (inventory) with COGS rather than separating them out.
>> 
>> No, it is the same:
>> VOORADEN/Inventory: Activa/assets
>> INKOOPWARDE VAN DE UMZET/Cost of Goods Sold: Kosten/expense
>> UMZET/Goods Sold: Opbrengsten/income
>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> Adrien
>> 
>> Regards
>> Frank
> 
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