[GNC] Individual Job Balances? Project List?

[Christian Peritore]

Greetings.
I'm still completely new to GNC and trying to learn to use it effectively for production 2022. Plus your generous support.

The hardest part is the change of paradigm and approach coming over from QuickBooks. QB is what it is, but does some things well.

That said, my structure is relatively few Clients that I do several Projects (called Jobs in GNC) done in phases or component parts we call Deliverables that possibly each get their own Invoices. Example might be Client X doing first a Consultation, then basic promo campaign, then special Videos later.
Thus Client X has 3 major Projects/Jobs, thus at least 3 Invoices.

It's essential I am able to see at a glance the entire gamut of Client X but equally important to see the running balance of EACH Project/Job as he pays down the services.

I've been exploring the Job Reports and Experimental Job Reports, but it seems to be missing a nice clean OVERVIEW OF JOBS + their balances to be viewed at a glance.

Any help or insight is appreciated.
Christian




On Sep 2, 2021, 18:47, at 18:47, Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>The starting balance is computed from all the reconciled transactions
>"to
>date".  It *can* be safe to ignore the starting balance if, for
>example, a
>transaction became unreconciled.  For example, let's say you reconcile
>from some starting balance X to a final balance of $1000.  Then you
>accidentally unreconcile a $100 transactions.  If you try to
>re-reconcile
>that same statement/date/ending-balance of $1000, it won't show X as
>the
>starting balance, but something else (PROBABLY $900, but I'm not 100%
>sure).  But that's okay -- just ensure the ending balance is correct
>and
>all the transactions that SHOULD be reconciled ARE reconciled.
>
>There is no way to get a transaction to reconciled status (y) manually
>--
>the only way is through a reconcile process.  So if you have reconciled
>transactions, that must've happened through a reconcile.
>
>I would recommend you just go ahead with March, ignore the starting
>balance, enter the correct March ending balance, and see if the
>reconciliation works (ensure you re-reconcile anything from earlier
>that
>might have become unreconciled).
>
>Good Luck,
>
>-derek
>
>On Thu, September 2, 2021 12:22 pm, Paul Warthe wrote:
>> Derek,
>> Thanks for your reply. I generally try and reconcile one month at a
>time.
>> I have reconciled January and February 2021. I attempted to reconcile
>> March but found too many problems and left it for lack of time.
>Recently I
>> have had some time to catch up and am trying to pick up from where I
>left
>> off. One of my first problems is that my starting balance in the
>opening
>> reconciliation window at the beginning of March is off. It no longer
>> matches what February ended with. Another problem is that some of
>March
>> appears to be reconciled and some transactions are not (I believe
>these
>> latter ones are ones I have discovered and entered while getting
>caught
>> up.) In QuickBooks, I can undo a reconciliation and redo it from
>scratch,
>> which has been a big help in clearing up some situations. (It also
>means
>> undoing and redoing every reconciliation since the corrected one, but
>that
>> is part of the process.) Where is Gnu Cash pulling the starting
>balance
>> from in the opening window? Can it be adjusted?
>>
>> Paul
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com>
>> Sent: September 2, 2021 10:42 AM
>> To: Paul Warthe <warthes7 at gmail.com>
>> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
>> Subject: Re: [GNC] Redo account reconciliations
>>
>> In GnuCash, reconciliation is always "from the beginning of time".. 
>So if
>> you reconcile an account at August 31, 2021, that will "force" you to
>> reconcile all transactions prior to that date.
>>
>> So.... It's not clear exactly what you mean by "go back and
>re-reconcile."
>>
>> If you unrecocile a transaction (for whatever reason) you should only
>need
>> to go in and re-reconcile the last process once more and re-select
>the
>> transactions.
>>
>> -derek
>>
>> On Thu, September 2, 2021 11:35 am, Paul Warthe wrote:
>>> Hello fellow gnu-cash users,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I am behind on my bank reconciliations due to an inability to make
>>> sense of some errant entries. I think I have located them all, but
>>> need to go back and redo the reconciliation attempts on the last 2
>>> months I attempted it on.
>>> I know how to do this in QuickBooks (the program we use at my
>office)
>>> but have not figured it out in Gnu Cash. Any assistance in this
>would
>>> be appreciated.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> PLW
>>>
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>> --
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>>        derek at ihtfp.com             www.ihtfp.com
>>        Computer and Internet Security Consultant
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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