2014-03-26 GnuCash IRC logs
00:06:12 <amjam> Also, how can I combing two expense accounts into one and have all transactions that previously used one or the other reflect the new merged expense account?
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00:39:29 <kpreid> amjam: use the xml format
00:39:47 <kpreid> when you delete an account, you get the choice of where to move the transactions in it to
00:40:25 <kpreid> (note that there is _no_ way to _split_ them again in any bulk-edit sort of way, so be careful)
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07:30:06 <amjam> thanks kpreid
07:30:34 <amjam> Is there a way, however, to move an expense account to a sub-account of another?
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08:03:00 <amjam> nevermind, I figured it out. thanks.
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08:33:59 <amjam> When I import my credit card's .qfx transaction file, I have a line with six vertical colored bars -- three red, two yellow, and one green. What is that supposed to signify?
08:35:15 <amjam> Does that show up because it's already recognized a transaction already present with the same date and amount or something?
08:37:09 <amjam> Also, final question (for now): When I split my paycheck so that I can expense my taxes, do I split my Income:Salary or my Assets:Checking Account transaction?
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13:50:25 <wafflejock> Hello is anyone around by chance? I have a few questions about recording some NSF bounced checks in GNUCash, basically in the Cash Flow report I see the bounced checks showing up as part of the Money In but really it's just cancelling out some of the Money Out, (2K paid to gov for taxes, bounced eventually repaid with a new check but now shows +4K in income and 6K in expenses for taxes instead of 2K of taxes)???
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13:51:44 <wafflejock> Any help is appreciated as is I recorded all of this using the checking account to enter the transactions as a debit from the checking account going into the expenses/taxes then just the opposite when the check bounced
13:52:15 <wafflejock> honestly I'm not very educated when it comes to finance so perhaps this is how it should appear on the Cash Flow since that money did sort of move but I'm just not sure
13:52:49 <jmd> If a cheque bounced, then technically the money didn't move anywhere.
13:53:10 <wafflejock> Okay should I just remove those pairs of transactions then
13:53:30 <warlord> Or VOID them
13:53:30 <gncbot> warlord: Sent 1 day, 4 hours, and 50 minutes ago: <gour> here is what i got in #opers: our ircd software is too old for regular services, and noone has had time to do something useful about it.
13:54:05 <jmd> I didn't know that cheques still existed outside of France.
13:54:18 <wafflejock> okay thanks people I will try to get it corrected
13:54:21 <warlord> jmd: they are used in US
13:54:38 <wafflejock> yeah IRS requires it for some things others can be paid online
13:55:26 <jmd> actually I think there are used here too, but only for business - and then only for big business. No retailers will accept a cheque today.
13:56:17 <jmd> Most govt depts absolutely refuse cheques.
13:59:18 <wafflejock> oh I see in the transactions menu there is an option to add reverse transaction I'll see if this works since that's basically how the bank has it recorded and I'd like them to match just to keep things easier, but see the void option there now too so will go with that if this doesn't work (let me know if it doesn't make sense)
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14:00:15 <jmd> makes sense to me.
14:00:51 <jmd> It's usually best not to change a transaction once it's been entered. Lest you get accused of cooking the books.
14:01:19 <jmd> Don't forget the $30.00 bank fee for a bounced cheque!
14:04:56 <wafflejock> yup 35 :( thanks for your help though
14:06:50 <wafflejock> got hit with that 3 times! ridiculous, they reversed 1, I screwed up and we had an ebay shipping fee we didn't account for when checking funds for taxes and had an outstanding payment for 10K that really screwed us up (finally came in), just a small bussiness with my brother so that was really hurting us
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14:27:27 <wafflejock> ah just left... well warlord I ended up having to void the transactions to avoid having them show up on the Cash Flow but I suppose from what you two were saying it makes sense not to have it show the money moved
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16:37:54 <warlord> wafflejock: that is of course up to you.
16:48:46 <wafflejock> yup after playing with the cash flow report and options some more I see it depends on which perspective/accounts your viewing from how things end up showing up
16:52:11 <warlord> Yep
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21:19:39 <boilthreetimes> i'm inheriting a non-profit (my baseball league) which was managed in Simply Accounting. A feature my mentor used was 'projects', whereby (example) the food-and-beverage account was used for different meetings, social events. He could then print an income summary report for each project, and the portion of the food-and-beverage account that was tagged to that project would appear. Can I do this in GnuCash? Or, should I have a
21:19:40 <boilthreetimes> meeting-food-and-beverage, social-event-1-food-and-beverage, ...?
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