2013-04-12 GnuCash IRC logs

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03:41:14 <diver> Hello guys, I have a question regarding booking GnuCash. I am doing the accounts for a dive club, and have to book incoming membership fees (income) against a cash account (asset). So far so good. However, the membership fees include a bond for equipment people can borrow, which is to be paid back if the member leaves (or forfeit if gear is damaged). How can I make a transaction that allows me to pay cash (all of it) into assets, but also introduces t
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04:46:38 <aqua___> hi
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04:47:28 <aqua___> I'm using lubuntu 12.10 and i just did the regular apt-get update && upgrade and gnucash disappered
04:47:43 <aqua___> sudo apt-get install gnucash results in:
04:48:03 <aqua___> Paket libaqbanking33 is not avaible
04:48:35 <aqua___> i have (since the update?) libaqbanking34 installed
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04:53:38 <aqua___> ok deinstalled liba...34, installed liba...33 from ubuntu.com and installed gnucash
04:54:08 <aqua___> only thing i lost (as far as i see) is my aqbanking-configuration
04:54:32 <aqua___> i'll have to look at the nightly backup
04:54:54 <aqua___> does anybody know, where the questionable files are?
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06:36:25 <aqua___> hi again
06:37:12 <aqua___> on the command line (aqhbci-tool4 listaccounts) the accounts are avaible, but i can't the the accounts in gnucash via the aqbanking tool
06:37:24 <aqua___> any idea what could be wrong?
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08:07:04 <daniel_> Hi. I have an apartment and I'm paying mortgage for it. I rent it to a friend. I have the accounts Liabilities:Apartment, Expenses:Interests and Income:Rent. How can I graph or report how much I'm gaining or losing monthly considering (Liabilities:Apartment+Expenses:Interests)-Income:Rent. I know that Liabilities are not Expenses, but I can't figure out how to report it.
08:07:19 <daniel_> In other words, the gain or loss between the mortage I pay and the rent I receive.
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08:16:17 <warlord> diver: your message from 03:41am EDT ended early with: "but also introduces t".
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08:17:35 <warlord> diver: The answer would be a split transaction.. The way I would book it (IANAA, so YMMV) would be to debit cash with the full amount, credit income with the dues, and credit Liabilities:Member Bonds with the rest
08:18:42 <warlord> aqua___: they are stored in ~/.banking or ~/.aqbanking. But if the version of AqB changed then you might need to manually reconfigure.. The upgrade of AqB probably "upgraded" your configs.
08:20:34 <warlord> daniel_: You could run a P&L and only include the apartment accounts.. Although that wont include the mortgage.
08:22:40 <daniel_> Is there a way or workaround to include the mortgage?
08:25:39 <warlord> Not in a P&L, because that only includes Income and Expenses. A Mortgage, technically, is paying down a liability..
08:26:04 <warlord> You could include the mortgage interest in the P&L, but not the Liability paydown. The report just wont include it.
08:26:25 <warlord> There's no existing report to do what you want..
08:27:23 <warlord> (AFAIK)
08:27:35 <daniel_> Then I'm going to export the data to a speadsheet and do the analysis there.
08:27:46 <warlord> ok.
08:28:27 <warlord> You can try going through the reports to see if there is anything that seems to give you what you want. Maybe a Cash Flow report?
08:29:07 <warlord> (it would be backwards, but you could try a cash flow and select the income/expense/liability accounts instead of the asset account)
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08:31:43 <daniel_> Yes, i was playing with cash flow but it returns some weird totals. I'm going to refine the accounts selections.
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08:34:15 <diver> warlord: Thx for letting me know - the rest is: ... introduces the liability of the bond (Example: 60$ membership + $40 bond = 100$ cash). Currently I see only the option to split the income into 60 -> cash, 40-> bond, but this does not reflect the actual cash amount (100). Any ideas? Hope this question is somewhat clear. Btw, I am not an accountant and pardon for this obviously overly long post ;)
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09:33:27 <daniel_> warlord: I did it with a Transaction Report. Is not a graph, but it shows the montly gain/loss, with an annual total.
09:34:10 <daniel_> exactly what I wanted.
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09:48:22 <warlord> daniel_: excellent. I wasn't sure whether to suggest that report. (I had thought about it but wasn't sure it would do what you wanted)
09:48:54 <warlord> diver: I dont know if the 'bond deposit' is technically "income"
09:48:58 <daniel_> For the record, I had to use filters to obtain the result I wanted.
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09:49:11 <warlord> daniel_: not surprising.. But that's what they exist for ;)
09:50:17 <warlord> diver: so for example, if they pay you 100, 60 for dues, 40 for bond, I would enter it as: debit cash 100, credit income 60, credit liability 40
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10:55:05 <swinchen> Hi all. Book keeping question: I just paid to have my taxes my done out of my personal checking account. What is a good way to enter this a capital investment for my business in gnucash?
11:05:00 <warlord> The same way you would account for any other investment into your company
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11:57:04 <UnderBill> Anyone understand how Gnucash figures basis for Advanced Portfolio report?
12:06:17 <UnderBill> I have three lots of VZ for a total basis of 15175 for 460 shares.
12:06:22 <UnderBill> The Advanced Portfolio report shows this basis as I expect.
12:06:28 <UnderBill> Then, to record a spinoff, I enter a split which sells the 460 at 15175, and buys them (460 shares) back at 14499.26, and also buys 23 IDAR for 675.74.
12:06:34 <UnderBill> I expect GC to close out the old position of three lots, and create a new position with basis 14499.26.
12:06:39 <UnderBill> But for whatever reason, the basis is now reported as 14837.13.
12:06:44 <UnderBill> This value is at half the difference I expect from the old basis, which seems like a useful clue, but I don't know what it means.
12:06:49 <UnderBill> Advice, please. Anyone?
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12:15:22 <UnderBill> I'm suspecting I need to switch basis calc method to LIFO. But I can't find the config option.
12:20:37 <warlord> UnderBill: Sorry, I don't know how that report works. You could try asking on the gnucash-user mailing list.
12:27:15 <UnderBill> warlord, tnx
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13:25:52 <warlord> UnderBill: See! Much better responses than I could've provided.
13:26:31 <warlord> UnderBill: Oooh, one other thing to try is the PriceDB Method -- make sure you use something other than Weighted Average
13:51:02 <UnderBill> warlord, sorry - I don't know what PriceDB Method refers to. Regarding Weighted Average, I was just informed that only FIFO is currently supported.
13:51:25 <UnderBill> So maybe I misunderstood? In any case, I cannot find a place in the UI to set such a thing.
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13:51:36 <warlord> Price Source
13:51:39 <UnderBill> But there are references to it in a .scm file on Github
13:51:54 <warlord> What Price Source do you have set in the report?
13:52:29 <UnderBill> Price Source? As in current value? I'm not even looking at that. I'm interested in getting cost right (basis)
13:53:27 <UnderBill> I don't care about unrealized gain. I will know the real, realized gain whenever a key in the actual sale.
13:53:46 <UnderBill> s/ a / I /
13:54:51 <warlord> I understand, but please check which one you have set.
13:56:06 <UnderBill> Sure. Can you direct me to the option setting? Tnx!
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14:25:24 <warlord> Open the report options..
14:25:35 <warlord> (I dont recall which page it is on)
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15:50:08 <fell> Underbill: Right-click in the report or on the toolbar the sheet with pencil or Edit->Report options
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17:43:04 <UnderBill> fell, Bingo. Thank you.
17:46:57 <fell> :-)
17:48:20 <UnderBill> Weird to have to generate a report once before changing options. Not complaining, though.
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18:58:10 <fell> Underbill: After adjusting, you can rename and save the report: http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Using_GnuCash#Custom_Reports
18:58:36 <fell> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Custom_Reports might also be of your interest.
19:10:56 <UnderBill> Thanx. Scheme and Guile. Looks like Lisp or Forth. Joy. Let me put Scala and Ruby aside for a moment (-;
19:11:50 <UnderBill> Well, I got my basis right by splitting the splits. Enough for now. Thanks for your help.
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