GIFI Tax TXF Categories for Canada

Hi.

I'm in the process of finishing tax returns for my company.  This is the
first year of using Gnucash.

I would like to investigate how difficult it would be to add/create a
similar set of tax codes to the US ones provided.  In Canada that would
be the GIFI codes.

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The current implementation is US-specific.  Nobody has defined a tax
mapping for other locales.  Take a look in src/report/locale-specific/
and you'll see us/taxtxf.scm -- nobody has defined a taxtxf.scm for
other locales.

-derek
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I've been looking for these scm forms within the Gnucash package without
any luck.  I'm probably completely confused and stupid when it comes to
what I should do, but I'm trying to figure it out.

Can someone tell me where the US codes are found on the Mac
implementation so I can find the files and look at them?  If they don't
look to complicated, I'll try to transfer the GIFI codes into a similar
format.

I'd appreciate some guidance on what to read to learn how to do this and
then I'll give it a whirl.

Using stock investment account

Dear all,
As months pass by I try to use new Gnucash possibilities (new for me)

One of my banks let you buy stocks as an investment where they pay an  
interesting interest...

In order to control it, I created an Investment account and posted my  
initial balance, following the tutorial, I established the initial date,  
and posted the purchase of 1 (one) stock at 61 € (price).
The problem is that when I finish posting quantity and amount, GnuCash  
moves 61 to Quantity field and 1 to Price, therefore I now have 61 stock  
valued 1€ each (and that's wrong.
I've tried with the following purchase (19 stocks @ 61 € = 1159 €). Again,  
Gnucash calculated 1159 and now I have 1159 stocks @ 1€. It added to te  
previous one and I finish with 1220 stocks @ 1 €

I don´t know if this is an error or there is something wrong I'm doing  
(most probable)

Thanks a lot,
Néstor

PS.: I'm attaching a screenshot although I don't know if it is allowed by  
this mailing list.

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Re: E-money balance update.

On May 16, 2012, at 7:11 AM, Sergey wrote:

> Ok, thank you!
> But why it is not development question?
> I think I have to write Scheme function, that will check my balance
> and update account.
> Or do Scheme scripts relate to users' maillist?
> 
> On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 8:41 PM, John Ralls <jralls <at> ceridwen.us> wrote:
>> 
>> On May 16, 2012, at 5:59 AM, Sergey wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi all!
>>> 
>>> I want to add a ability to update my electronic-money asset balance
>>> from Internet.
>>> Can you point me to the related documentation? I found only Custom
>>> reports examples in the wiki.
>> 
>> That is a user question, and therefore not appropriate for the development list. I've CC'd the user list
with this reply, please do the same for any followups.
>> 
>> Neither Gnucash nor AFAIK AQBanking support any of the "electronic-money" schemes, so you'll have to
arrange to get a transaction file in one of the formats supported by File>Import and import it.

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QIF import creates duplicate account

Hello,

I try to use QIF import for credit card account data. It works for
most transactions, but has a problem when a transaction is matched to
one of my GnuCash accounts (my Assets:Current account). When I click
"Apply" on the QIF import, the importer creates a duplicate account,
identical to the original (Assets:Current account), even with exactly
the same name, but containing only the newly imported transactions.
This happens even if I "match" every QIF transaction with an existing
one -  so the QIF importer imports no transactions, making the newly
created duplicate account have no transactions.

I have read some previous emails to this list that said a duplicate
account is created if the currency or account type is different. In
this case, the duplicate account and original account both have type
"Bank", and same currency (GBP). The QIF import is done with currency
GBP, which is set from the locale.

I am not particularly bothered about this one transaction as it is
easy to work around, but this looks like a bug in the QIF importer? I
tried to reproduce the problem by creating a new set of accounts, and
then importing the QIF, but that worked ok.
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Average Value in Barchart Report

I often use the expense barchart report for a specific account at a selected period of time.

Is there any way of tracing a dotted line of the average value in the graphic? Or show the average value any
where on the screen(not necessary on the graphic)?
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Account alphabetization lost

I began as treasurer of a charity in March of this year and started  
using GnuCash 2.4.10 on Windows 7 (I prefer linux or Mac but the  
charity director prefers Windows). When I generated a balance sheet  
for a particular date and profit/loss statement up to that date  
yesterday, I was able to do so with some fumbling, but somehow I lost  
the alphabetical listing of subaccounts (e.g., our list of donors  
under income now appears to be in the order in which I first added  
that donor rather than alphabetical as it was before, making it much  
harder to find the donor as new donations come in). Is there a way to  
have GnuCash alphabetize the subaccounts again? I tried bring up an  
earlier .gnucash file when I knew it showed them alphabetically, but  
it was not alphabetized so the problem seems to be something I changed  
in the program. I have looked through a few months of posts on the  
user mailing list, but didn't see anyone else having this problem.  
Thanks for any help.
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Owner drawings to equity

Hello.  I recently started a UK business (Sole Proprietor) and after dabbling
with a few different software packages have settled on Gnucash.  It seems
much more user friendly than others.

I have set up most of the accounts I need to but have a couple of little
questions.  Not urgent per se but some niggling doubts.

One that is easy to answer and maybe some could give me a preference here. 
All my transactions go through paypal.  Should I record the transactions in
full then have an expense account for Paypal fees or should I just deduct
the paypal fee from the amount I enter into Sales?

Next a little more technical - I was buying items for the business from my
personal bank account prior to setting the business up.  I assume I account
for these by way of the owner loaning money to the business.  Should I set
this up as a loan in liabilities?  This is not cash in the business, it has
already been spent and therefore would be an expense or Asset already (Some
was spent on equipment and some on bits and bobs)

Secondly and I have nearly a year to work this out :)  I have never had to
do any kind of book-keeping or accounts involving drawings before.  I am
struggling to grasp what happens at the end of year really.  I know al
profit becomes taxable at the end of the year which is fine.  So at year end
do I just calculate tax and put the relevant entries in tax and NI within
expenses?

Then all that is left becomes drawings.  This goes to Owner drawings I
assume?

If for example (theory to make it easy for me to understand) I made profit

Accounts tab balance as currency value possible for Stock accounts?

In our Accounts tab, all our stocks (Assets>Shares>..., Type=Stock) show 
up as a count of shares held and the exchange code in the Balance column 
(1234 XYZ, rather than $9876.54). Since our highest price stocks have a 
share value ~35 times our lowest price stocks, and the numbers of shares 
we hold changes infrequently, I'd much prefer a display of value in 
currency terms rather than a count of shares held.

I can't work out how this can be done (apart from opening each holding's 
account tab). Is it possible?

Peter

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Canberra, ACT

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Mac

I'm a treasurer and my term for my organization is completed.  I am
using an older version of GC on linux and I want to pass off the file
to the next person.  He is using a MAC and I was wondering if the file
will be usable.  I have heard the file can be used on all platforms,
but I really concerned about the older version and what he will
download is the latest version.

I'll post what version I'm using when I can figure it out.

Dennis
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Top level account without any type (or file links)

Dear All,
Looks like gnucash does not allow you to link between separate files. To
circumvent the problem, let us say that we want to create three separate
accounts (A, B and C) at the top level. Under each of A, B and C, we want to
create our usual accounts (Assets, Equity, Expenses, Income and
Liabilities). But when I try to do this, I can not create a top level one
without any type. You have to choose one (Liability, Income, Asset ...)
type. 

I need to do this since the three entities A, B and C have some kind of
dependency relationship among them which needs to be reflected. One solution
will be to have Income.A, Income.B and Income.C, Equity.A, Equity.B and
similar ones. But this is counterintuitive for the scenario.

Any suggestion will be appreciated.

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ofx transaction description problem

I have been using gnucash and downloading transactions from my bank with 
OFX.  Recently, the descriptions have been mixed up.

For example, the description of a purchase at Stater Bros (grocery 
store)  is now imported as "2 PURCHASE #651913 PALM SPRINGS CA; 
STATERBROS126 05-11 CUSTOMER 927" instead of "STATERBROS126 05-11 
CUSTOMER 9272 PURCHASE #651913 PALM SPRINGS CA; " as it was previously.

This just started since I upgraded to gnucash version 2.4.10.

Any ideas?

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