Philosophical Question (GnuCash)

[Carl Parrish]

I've got some good links posted on this here. 
http://209.96.136.140/nuke/html/modules.php?op=modload&name=Web_Links&file=index&req=viewlink&cid=28



On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 12:44, David Mandala wrote:
> You might want to get a book on double entry bookkeeping. Any accountant
> knows how to set it up and make entries. It is not intuitive without so
> type of training. That said double entry bookkeeping is how most
> businesses track their finances. Single entry is frowned up in
> accounting circles.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Davidm
> 
> On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 11:45, Nathan England wrote:
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> > What I don't like about gnucash, and admittedly it's because I really don't 
> > know how to use it, but I realy wanted to use financial something! for my 
> > finances.
> > 
> > Anyway, if I click on my income account, type in a description, then add $300 
> > to the income field, it gives me a window saying:
> > 
> > "The current transaction is not balanced.
> > 
> > [ ] Balance it manually
> > [ ] Let GnuCash add an adjusting split
> > [x] Adjust current account split total "
> > 
> > If I select the "adjust current account split total" everything disappears. It 
> > still shows the transaction, but no money involved. If I select the "Let 
> > GnuCash add an adjusting split" the same thing happens. If I select Balance 
> > it manually, I get a whole bunch of negatives everywhere and nothing makes 
> > sense.
> > 
> > I'm running version 1.6.8
> > I also have 1.4 (not installed) and that one works grand, but I wanted all the 
> > new flashy things, and it's not working for me!! lol
> > 
> > Am I doing something horribly wrong or what?
> > 
> > nathan
> > 
> > Am Freitag 31 Januar 2003 02:55 nachmittags/abends schrieb Carl Parrish:
> > > On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 06:46, Vaughn Treude wrote:
> > > > My two cents again:
> > > > I'd also like to try GnuCash.  I use QuickBooks right now, but the most
> > > > annoying thing (other than the fact that it runs in Windows) is that they
> > > > keep trying to wring extra money out of you.  Every year there's a new
> > > > set of tax tables, and they're not cheap.  And they're always pushing new
> > > > versions and changing the file formats.  I got tired of paying for the
> > > > new tax tables - since I'm my company's only employee, it was a small
> > > > convenience.  I finally just took the IRS Employers' Guide and used it to
> > > > do a spreadsheet to calculate my withholding, then I'd enter all those
> > > > figures in manually.  I would've already converted to GnuCash, but the QB
> > > > file formats are different than Quicken's, and the last time I checked,
> > > > there were no converters for QB's files.  If I can ever make the time,
> > > > maybe I'll look into working on that myself.
> > > >
> > > > Vaughn Treude
> > >
> > > I'm using GNUCash I *love* it. If you're looking for a replacement for
> > > quicken I'd say easy. If you're a quickbooks user....I'd say depends.
> > > 1.8 should be released sometime next week. But gnucash is *hard* to
> > > install. Its like all the nightmares people associate with installing on
> > > Linux. For me it was worth learning how though. With the new Account
> > > Payable / Account Receivable accounts. The invoice / bill druid and the
> > > scheduled transactions. It has now become the only finance tool I need
> > > (oh did I mention that you can connect it to gnuTimeTracker to auto
> > > create Invoices?). Its great but its not an out of the box solution. I
> > > *often* need to pull in support from CVS. For instance I *think*
> > > Quickbooks can export in OFX format. And if you have the OFX library
> > > installed Gnucash can read that but you have to compile support for it
> > > in. So if you like playing with code, by all means get gnucash. If not
> > > you may want to wait till your distro has the features you need.
> > 
> > - -- 
> > Nathan England
> > 
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