[GNC] Editing the General Journal

[Jediator]

Thanks Stan for the response and sorry for the confused language. By 
accountant-made entries I meant certain bookkeeping actions by the end 
of an accounting period, such as manually calculating the depreciated 
asset value, credit an asset account and debit an expense account 
accordingly.  If I want to find out all these "accountant-made" 
transactions, is there an easy way to just filter through the general 
journal entries?  Certainly creating a customized report would be an 
option, but I will have to change the report options every time when 
adding or deleting an asset account, which is not very convenient.  Thanks!

-- ND

On 3/31/25 4:27 PM, Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) wrote:
> On 2025-03-31 13:10, Jediator wrote:
>> Is there any easy way in GNC to distinguish journal entries between
>> accountant-made entries (e.g., depreciation of assets) and general
>> transaction entries?  Coming from a Quickbooks background, the view of
>> general journal in QB contains only accountant-made entries by default.
> I confess I don't understand your distinction between "accountant-made
> entries" and others, so this may or may not be helpful:
>
> Can you set up a filter that will capture the entries you want? A
> time-honored way would be to tag "accountant-made entries" with some
> unique character code in the Description or Notes field, and filter on
> that character code.
>
> Another thought: You mentioned depreciation. Can you distinguish between
> "accountant-made entries" and others based on the presence or absence of
> a split in the transaction being posted to one of a particular set of
> account names? If so, I'll bet there's a report that presents the
> information you want, and on the report's Options screen you can specify
> those accounts.
>
> Stan Brown
> Tehachapi, CA, USA
> https://BrownMath.com
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