GnuCash Tutorial and Concepts Guide

About This Document

Table of Contents

I. Getting Started
1. Overview
2. The Basics
3. Accounts
4. Transactions
II. Managing Personal Finances
5. Checkbook
6. Credit Cards
7. Loans
8. Investments
9. Capital Gains
10. Multiple Currencies
III. Managing Business Finances
11. Business Introduction
12. Business Setup
13. Accounts Receivable
14. Accounts Payable
15. Payroll
16. Budgets
17. Other Assets
18. Depreciation
19. Python Bindings
20. Importing Business Data
IV. Appendices
A. Migration Guide
B. Frequently Asked Questions
C. Contributed Account Trees
D. Auxiliary File Formats
E. GNU Free Documentation License

List of Figures

2.1. The basic accounts relationships
2.2. Save screen when XML or sqlite3 is selected.
2.3. Save screen when mysql or postgres is selected.
4.1. Entering a split transaction
12.1. Tax Tables
12.2. New Sales Tax Table
12.3. Company Registration
12.4. Billing Terms Editor
12.5. New Billing Term

List of Tables

2.1. Application Settings Locations
2.2. Saved Reports Locations
2.3. Online Banking Settings Locations
7.1. Buying a House Split Transaction
7.2. Personal loan to a Friend
7.3. Selling an asset (house) with a profit
7.4. Selling an asset (house) with a loss
7.5. Selling an asset (house) with a profit
7.6. Selling an asset (house) with a profit 2
8.1. Selling Stock using Split Transaction Scheme
8.2. Selling Stock Split Transaction Scheme
8.3. Selling Shares at loss Split Transaction Scheme
9.1. Turning an Accrued Gain into a Realized Gain
9.2. Turning an Accrued Gain into a Realized Gain
9.3. Turning an Accrued Gain into a Realized Gain
10.1. Buying a currency with a Split Transaction Scheme
10.2. Selling a currency with a Split Transaction Scheme
10.3. You come into some extra money
10.4. Paying of the house mortgage
10.5. Transfer money to overseas with a multiple currency transaction split.
10.6. Purchasing oversea stocks
10.7. Buying a NZ House Split Transaction
15.1. Transaction Map
15.2. Transaction Map for Employee 1
18.1. Linear Depreciation Scheme Example
18.2. Geometric Depreciation Scheme Example
18.3. Sum of Digits Depreciation Scheme Example
D.1. Overall Page Description Fields
D.2. Multiple Checks Per Page Fields
D.3. Individual Check Item Fields
D.4. Individual Check Item Types