ubuntu-ca Digest, Vol 33, Issue 2--gnucash

[Alfred]

Hi:

For anyone else interested in GNUCASH, as an alternative to Quickbooks,
etc. Check out this seven lesson course in accounting:
http://www.dwmbeancounter.com/tutorial/Tutorial.html

It gives the Terminology, needed to allow you to make use of an
accounting program.

Alfred!
On Sun, 2007-12-02 at 21:51 -0500, Alfred wrote:
> Thankyou for the help!
> 
> Alfred!
> On Sun, 2007-12-02 at 12:37 -0500, Gordon Dey wrote:
> > ubuntu-ca-request at lists.ubuntu.com wrote:
> > 
> > > I have never used GNUcash, and don't know anything about accounting.  
> > > But the gnucash web site has 4 links for documentation:
> > 
> > I've used gnucash with a non-profit, worked nicely to give us the sense of how 
> > things are and how they are going.
> > 
> > The thing is, you really need some underpinnings on double-entry accounting to 
> > understand why a mess of things are where they are and what they're going to 
> > do. Suggestion: if accounting isn't your forte (and it isn't mine--IANAA) I 
> > suggest starting off with something like the 'accounting for dummies' which can 
> > be borrowed from libraries.
> > Once you have a grip on the 'what it's trying to achieve', you'll be able to 
> > take any one of the templates that comes with gnucash and tune it to your 
> > needs. I typically spread the 'books' across multiple desktops all at the same 
> > time so it's easy to flip back and forth between the most heavily referenced 
> > parts. Of course, with underpinnings, you probably could make any such 
> > accounting package work for you...
> > 
> > 
> > 
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