GnuCash Tutorial and Concepts Guide

List of Figures

1.1. A Chart Of Accounts With Multiple Currencies And Investments

2.1. The basic accounts relationships

2.2. The Tip of the Day

2.3. The basic accounts relationships

2.4. The Checking Account Register

2.5. Save screen when xml or sqlite3 is selected.

2.6. Save screen when mysql or postgres is selected.

2.7. New Account Hierarchy Setup: Introduction

2.8. New Account Hierarchy Setup: Book Options

2.9. New Account Hierarchy Setup: Currency Selection

2.10. New Account Hierarchy Setup: Account Selection

2.11. New Account Hierarchy Setup: Account Setup

2.12. New Account Hierarchy Setup: Finish

2.13. Tutorial: Starting Account View of the Test File

2.14. The basic accounts relationships

2.15. Default Income Accounts

2.16. Default Expense Accounts

2.17. Creating an Assets account

2.18. The Basic Top-level Accounts

2.19. The Basic Chart of Accounts

2.20. Purchase Of 3 Jeans In Assets:Checking

2.21. Purchase Of 3 Jeans In Expenses:Clothes Account In Basic Ledger Mode

2.22. Purchase Of 3 Jeans In Expenses:Clothes Account In Transaction Journal Mode

2.23. Salary In The Assets:Checking Account

2.24. Salary In The Income:Salary Account

2.25. The Checking Account After Inserting The Opening Balance Transaction

2.26. The Checking Account Adding A Transaction For Groceries

2.27. Entering a split transaction

2.28. The Initial Reconcile Window

2.29. Reconcile Window

2.30. The Checking account after postponing the reconciliation

2.31. Step 1 Of Creating Scheduled Transaction From The Ledger

2.32. Step 2 Of Creating Scheduled Transaction From The Ledger

2.33. Step 3 Of Creating Scheduled Transaction From The Ledger

2.34. Filling In Data To A Scheduled Transaction

2.35. Empty Scheduled Transactions Tab

2.36. Overview Tab Of The Edit Scheduled Transaction Window

2.37. Frequency Tab Of The Edit Scheduled Transaction Window

2.38. Template Tab Of The Edit Scheduled Transaction Window

2.39. The Finally Entered Scheduled Transaction

2.40. Scheduled Transaction Popup Reminder

2.41. Starting Point For Putting It All Together

2.42. Chart Of Accounts After Setting The Opening Balance

2.43. Chart Of Accounts After Setting All The Various Transactions

2.44. Cash Flow Report For The Month Of March

2.45. Transaction Report For The Checking Account During March

2.46. Transaction Report For The Expenses Accounts During March

5.1. The Chart Of Accounts

5.2. The Checking Account Register

5.3. The Checking Account Register After Registering Some More Checks

5.4. The Checking Account Register With An ATM Withdrawal

5.5. A sample Bank Statement

5.6. The Reconcile Window

5.7. The Checking Account With Service Charge

5.8. The Reconciled Checking Account

5.9. The Chart of Accounts

5.10. Cash Flow report for the month of March

5.11. Transaction Report For The Assets During March

5.12. Transaction Report For The Expenses During March

7.1. Credit Card account after reversing a purchase

7.2. Expenses account after reversing a purchase

7.3. Starting account structure for tracking a credit card

7.4. Initial credit card purchases

7.5. Item return transaction refunded to credit card

7.6. Interest charge on the Credit Card

7.7. The Initial Reconciliation Window For The Credit Card

7.8. The Main Reconciliation Window With A Discrepancy

7.9. The Credit Card Account After Reconciliation And Payment

7.10. The Chart of Accounts After Account Reconciliation And Payment

7.11. The Cash Flow report for the month of March

7.12. The Transaction Report for the Visa account during March/April

7.13. The Transaction Report for the Expenses accounts during April

8.1. Loan Repayment Calculator

8.2. Accounts Before Receiving Loan

8.3. Mortgage Split Transaction

8.4. Mortgage Accounts

8.5. Calculation Of Private Loan Details

8.6. Chart of Accounts after lending money

8.7. First Payment

8.8. Second payment

8.9. Chart Of Accounts After Second payment

9.1. A New File Containinng Only The Default Investment Accounts

9.2. The Chart Of Accounts After Investing In A Certificate Of Deposit

9.3. The CD Account After 6 Months

9.4. The Savings Account After 6 Months

9.5. The Chart Of Accounts After 6 months

9.6. The “New Account” Window For AMZN

9.7. The “Select Security” Window

9.8. The “New Security” Window

9.9. The Chart of Accounts After The Creation Of The First Stock Account

9.10. The Transaction Register Of The AMZN Account After The First Purchase

9.11. The Transaction Register Of The IBM Account After The First Stock Purchase

9.12. The IBM Account After The First Stock Purchase With A Commission

9.13. Entering A Price Into The Database

9.14. The Price Database With The List Of All Known Commodities

9.15. Displaying Stock Values in the Chart of Accounts

9.16. Determining The Source Of The Stock Price/Currency Exchange Rate in Reports

9.17. An Asset Barchart Report Based On The “Nearest In Time” Price Source

9.18. Selling Shares, Gain Combined, Gross Pricing

9.19. The Account Tree after the Example of Selling Shares for a Gain

9.20. Selling Shares for Gain using Net Pricing in Transaction Journal View

9.21. Selling Shares for Gain Where the Sale and Gain are Recorded in Separate Transactions, in Transaction Journal View

9.22. Selling Shares for Gain Where the Sale and Gain are Recorded in Separate Transactions, in Transaction Journal View

9.23. Selling Shares - Capital Gains - Lots in Account window

9.24. Selling Shares - Capital Gains - Security register before scrubbing a single lot

9.25. Selling Shares - Capital Gains - Lots before scrubbing a single lot

9.26. Selling Shares - Capital Gains - Lots before scrubbing a single lot, after manual linking

9.27. Selling Shares - Capital Gains - Register after manual linking and scrubbing a single lot

9.28. Selling Shares - Capital Gains - Register before Scrub Account

9.29. Selling Shares - Capital Gains - Lots before Scrub Account

9.30. Selling Shares - Capital Gains - Lots after Scrub Account

9.31. Selling Shares - Capital Gains - Register after Scrub Account

9.32. Selling Shares - Capital Gains - Register after Scrub Account

9.33. Selling Shares - Capital Gains - Lot 0 after Scrub Account

9.34. Selling Shares - Capital Gains - Lot 1 after Scrub Account

9.35. Selling Shares - Capital Gains - Register after scrubbing a single lot

9.36. Example Of Cash Dividend Transactions

9.37. Example Of Dividend Reinvestment Transactions

9.38. Example Of Return Of Capital Transactions

9.39. Activation Of The “Stock Split” Assistant

9.40. Selection Of A Stock Account In The “Stock Split” Assistant

9.41. Split Details In The “Stock Split” Assistant

9.42. “Cash In Lieu” In The “Stock Split” Assistant

9.43. The NST Account After A Simple Stock Split

9.44. Selection Of A Stock Account In The “Stock Split” Assistant—Moderate

9.45. Split Details In The “Stock Split” Assistant—Moderate

9.46. The T Account After A Moderate Stock Split

11.1. Asset Appreciation Main Window

11.2. Asset Appreciation Main Window

11.3. Asset Appreciation Main Window

12.1. Initial multi currency Account Bank Setup

12.2. Initial multi currency Account Bank Setup

12.3. The Price Database Window—Still Empty

12.4. Setup Of Euro Exchange Rate

12.5. The Price Database window after setting the exchange rate between Euros and US Dollars

12.6. Chart of Accounts After Setting The Exchange Rate Between Euro And US Dollar

12.7. Price Database Before Obtaining Online Quotes

12.8. The Price Database After Obtaining Online Quotes

12.9. The Chart of Accounts After Obtaining Online Quotes

12.10. Transaction “Currency Transfer To Jamaica”

12.11. Edit Exchange Rate

12.12. Chart of Accounts before purchasing the boat

12.13. The Chart Of Accounts After Purchasing The Boat

12.14. The Chart of Accounts For International Stocks

12.15. International Securities

12.16. Transfer Funds

12.17. The Purchased international stocks

12.18. The Initial Multicurrency Bank Accounts Setup

12.19. The Initial Price Database Entries

12.20. The Initial Multicurrency Setup After Entering Exchange Rates Between USD, HKD and EUR

12.21. The Transfer Dialog To Create Transaction For Transfer From USD To HKD

12.22. The Transaction After Transfer Displayed in The US Bank Account Register

12.23. The Transaction After Adding The Splits For The Transfer Fee

12.24. The Account Tab Balances After Completion Of USD To HKD Transfer

12.25. The Transaction To Transfer Funds From Hong Kong To US Bank Account

12.26. The Price database after transfer of funds back to US account

12.27. The Accounts tab after transfer back

12.28. The Balance Sheet After Above Transactions

13.1. Sales Tax Tables Editor

13.2. New Sales Tax Table Entry

13.3. Entering Company Information

13.4. Billing Terms Editor

13.5. New Billing Term

13.6. New Customer Registration Window

13.7. Find Customer Window

13.8. Creating a New Invoice

13.9. Edit Invoice Window

13.10. Post Invoice Window

13.11. Invoice Print Output

13.12. New Customer Job

13.13. Process Payment From Customer

13.14. New Style Sheet Window

13.15. HTML Style Sheet Example Window

13.16. HTML Style Sheets Example Output

13.17. New Vendor Registration Window

13.18. Find Vendor Window

13.19. New Bill Registration Window

13.20. Edit Bill Window

13.21. Post Bill Window

13.22. New Vendor Job

13.23. Process Payment To Vendor

13.24. Payroll Example: Initial Setup

13.25. Payroll Example: Employee Split Transaction

13.26. Payroll Example: Accounts After Salaries Paid

13.27. Payroll Example: Accounts After Paying Government

16.1. Asset Accounts Before Depreciation

16.2. Asset Depreciation In The Register

16.3. Accounts Tab After Asset Depreciation