[GNC] Setting up a new accounting scheme in GnuCash

[Christopher Lam]

>From my understanding, the account-type is mainly used in reports.
Otherwise you're right, you can tweak any account-type at leisure within
limits eg can't change currency-type account to stock-type account;
subaccounts of Asset/Liability/Income/Expense are limited according to the
parent-type.

e.g. Net worth reports will calculate asset balance less liability balance.

C

On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 at 13:02, Frank ter Braak <frankterbraak at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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