Questions tagged [gnucash]
For questions related to the GnuCash personal and small-business financial-accounting software freely licensed under the GNU GPL. As this is a personal finance site, questions about usage of the software are preferred over technology-related questions.
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Can you define multiple hierarchies for income and expense in GnuCash?
Given the following expense hierarchy:
Insurances
Car insurance
Health insurance
Mobility
Fuel
Is it possible to add a different hierarchy as an alternative view on the same data such as:
Health
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GnuCash Chargeback
I am trying to use the chargeback function in Gnucash. The chargeback
customer and job are both specified when I create the bill and the
"Billable" column is checked on all items on the bill. However, ...
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Moving expense transactions to different account
If I've already added an expense to 'Misellaneous' account but I later realise I should have added it to 'Office Supplies', how can I move it?
I tried changing the Transfer > Expenses:Office ...
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How do I specify optional modules in MacOS in Gnucash?
I'm trying to import invoices. On MacOS where do I specify
(gnc:module-load "gnucash/plugins/bi_import" 0)
as noted in
https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v3/C/gnucash-guide/import-invoices.html
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How do I see all outgoings in one Gnucash report?
I can use the P&L or Income Statement reports to see expenses for a month, but it doesn't include the mortgage payment since I set this up as another account, rather than just an expense. I'd ...
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Show net gain/loss for particular stock
For a particular stock that has been bought and sold a few times, is there a way to view the net gain or loss, rather than the piece-meal capital gains or losses? I found that only the current net ...
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How do I merge deposits to Checking/Savings into a split transaction for Salary in GnuCash?
I just started using GnuCash for personal use and am just as new to accounting, other than some college courses decades ago.
I am able to import Checking and Savings transactions from my credit union (...
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GNUCash — Adding Namespace Item to Price Editor
In the Price Editor in GNUCash you have to choose from a list of seven items: Currencies, All non-currencies, AMEX, EUREX, FUND, NASDAQ and NYSE.
Is there any way of adding an item to this list?
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GNUCash Totals On Expense Chart
Is there anyway of getting the totals of each bar in the Expense Cart in GNUcash?
Each bar is broken up into different accounts by color, see screen shot below, and you can get the numbers for each ...
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GnuCash not opening mysql database on Windows 10
I have a mysql server on my Ubuntu 20.04 server on a local network as the backend for my GnuCash installation. I can connect with no trouble using an SSH tunnel from my Ubuntu 20.04 desktop. However, ...
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How to properly model shared expenses and rent with Gnucash?
I share my flat with two other people and am currently having issues properly modelling the account hierarchy for our use case. Our intention is mostly to have a good overview about who-paid-what and ...
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GnuCash Transaction Import Assistant - Loading Bank Statements
Confused about setting up GnuCash file using the Transaction Import Assistant to load Bank Statements. Is there a GnuCash quickstart tutorial to cover this? Expecting to load the statements and the ...
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How to track a Tricount (IOU account) with partner in GnuCash
My partner and I have a shared ledger on Tricount, an app used for calculating how much money one owes on shared expenses.
From the perspective of mechanics in GnuCash, the simplest way would be not ...
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GnuCash Cashflow Report Account Display Depth
In a GnuCash Cashflow report how can i change the "Account Display Depth" of the sections?
Money into selected accounts comes from
Money out of selected accounts goes to
Detail:
In GnuCash's ...
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How to setup GnuCash with dual currencies
I am trying to set up GnuCash to keep track of my USD and CAD chequing accounts. I keep running into a problem where all of my imported bank statements into the USD account show empty transactions. ...
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correct usage of "R" field, esp. with respect to credit card account type
Using GnuCash to track where my money goes and what comes in. I have as assets my bank account and "cash in wallet", and many expense accounts for food, gas, water, electricity, clothes, transport/...
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Handling of credit card bill transactions on bank account when using online banking in Gnucash
I'm using HBCI for downloading both my bank account and the credit card account. The weekly credit card bill will be downloaded in two transactions, one in the bank account and one statement in the ...
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Recover gnucash mysql database transactions following cancelled import
I aborted (cancelled) an import of a small QIF file (< 50 records), and when cancelled that import fairly far along in the import dialog (the import seemed to be taking extremely long compared to ...
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Filtering Profit & Loss Report with GnuCash
I am using GnuCash v3.11 (I'm still on Windows 7)
I am tracking multiple entities (personal, wife's business, my small businesses, children, etc...) in one chart of accounts since they share Banking ...
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Gnucash OFX import transaction dates are wrong?
I have exported transaction data from my credit card company in OFX format. When I import it into Gnucash, the dates that show for the transactions are off by a day or two compared to the dates on my ...
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Reconciliation uses different number than entered
I'm doing a year-end reconciliation of one of my expense categories. In the reconcile-setup window, I enter the amount $36,387.59 for the ending balance:
However, the amount shown in the subsequent ...
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Half down; half on delivery - How do you invoice that?
I know of a business that charges $100 for a repair.
They charge $50 on acceptance of the job, then $50 on delivery.
One could issue two invoices, tying them together with a job for the customer. Post ...
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Recording Personal Loan
If I put $200 of groceries on my credit card for a friend while I'm out shopping, how do I record that transaction? Further, when she pays me back by bank transfer, how do I record that transaction to ...
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Does GnuCash have an easy way to track subsidiaries of companies within one account?
So is there a way to track expenses related to different companies from within the same gnucash file?
For example we have two companies that are subsidiaries of another company. We are constantly ...
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Gnucash accounts not opening!
I've used Gnucash for about a year now - Macintosh Version 3.3 Build 3.3+ (2018-09-29). Every month I open it and update the books, and output two reports. But today when opening, it gives a "-...
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Adding a expense category to transfer
I added a category to transfer a few years ago but I can't figure out how to do it now in GnuCash. How can I tag a transfer with an expense category?
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report: group account activity by accounting period instead of by month
I'm using GnuCash 2.6.12 and would like to create an annual report for tax reporting purposes. For that, I would like to create a report where transactions are grouped for the whole year, (the ...
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How do you set up current year bookkeeping based on previous year balance sheet and profit and loss items?
I'm setting up this year's accounting ledger for a sole proprietorship. It used to be done by CPAs in the past but I decided it's time to bite the bullet and start doing it myself.
All is going well,...
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gnucash cashflow reports - different years side-by-side
Is there a way within the gnucash reporting system to compare cashflow reports from two different years?
I'd like to see something like:
| ACCOUNT | 2015 | 2014 | DIFFERENCE |
|---------------|...
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Gnucash ghost entries: missing Credit Card journal
Gnucash seems to have lost hundreds of entries from my Liabilities:Credit Card account after importing transactions some months ago. The Credit Card journal shows no transactions after a certain date, ...
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Possible Bug with GNUCash - GNUCash cannot see/open files in OneDrive
I am wondering if anyone has encountered - or has a possible solution to - this bug I have found. I usually store my GNUCash file in OneDrive. However, with the new update of OneDrive, GNUCash cannot ...
