GnuCash User Manual
Table of Contents
About GnuCash
Introduction
Versioning
Lead Developers
Other Contributors
Supported Operating Systems
History
Editing an Account
Account Types
Account Hierarchy Creator
First Explanatory Frame
Currency Choosing
Account Type Choosing
Setting Starting Values
Final Frame
Asset and Liability Barcharts
Asset and Liability Piecharts
New Account Window
Accounts Payable/Accounts Receivable
Accounts Receivable
Accounts Payable
Prepaid Expenses
Depreciation and Capital Gains
Capital Gains - Asset Appreciation
The Handling of Capital Gains in GnuCash
Caution about Valuation
Taxation of Capital Gains
Depreciation of Assets
Depreciation schemes
The Handling of Depreciation in GnuCash
A Word of Caution
Balance Tracking Report
Balance Sheet
Loan and Interest Calculations
Using the Financial Calculator
Explaining Compound Interest
Introduction
How Interest Works
Creating a "commodity"
Common Report Options
Currency Handling and Double Entry Bookkeeping
How to set up a foreign-currency account
ISO Currency Codes
Understanding Double-Entry Accounting
What is Double-Entry Accounting?
Why Use Double-Entry Accounting?
The Rule of Double-Entry Accounting
Using Double-Entry in GnuCash
Creating Accounts
Creating Transactions
Changing Transactions
GnuCash and the EURO
Introduction
EMU Member Countries and Exchange Rates
EURO support in GnuCash
Date Accelerator Keys
Features
Basic features
Advanced Features
File Operations
GnuCash Data Files
The File Menu
Exporting Your account Hierachy
Using PostGres to store your data
The Gnome MDI
Notebook View
Multiple Windows
Single Window
Selecting MDI Modes
GnuCash as a Web Browser?
Using Expense/Income Accounts
What are Incomes and Expenses?
Recording Income and Expenses
Using Income/Expense Accounts
Use of Terminology In Other Software
Income & Expense Barcharts
Income & Expense Piecharts
Locating transactions with the "Find Transactions" dialog
Overview
How to use the Find Transactions dialog
Setting up a search
Account searches
Date searches
Amount searches
String searches
Modifying your search
Preferences
Chart of Accounts and Account Numbering
Chart of Accounts
A Sample Chart of Accounts
GnuCash Help Main Window
User Documentation Overview
Extended Help/System Documentation
Account Window
Multicolumn Views
Net Worth Barchart
Profit And Loss Statement
Stock Portfolio Report
Updating Share Prices and Currency Values
Introduction
The Price Editor
Updating prices manually
Getting quotes online
Stock Ticker
Price Sources for Automatic Price Updates
Printing Checks
Check format
Custom Check Format
Check position
Custom check position
Date format
Custom date format
Printing
Importing Quicken Data Into GnuCash
Overview
Introduction to the QIF file
Multi-account Quicken exports
How to use the QIF Import dialog
The "Files" Tab
The "Accounts" and "Categories" Tabs
The Account Picker
The "OK" Button
More hints
Opening Balance
Empty category
Dividend category
Fund families
Brokerage accounts
A Guide for Former Users of Quicken
Quicken (TM) User's Guide
Quicken Categories
Quicken QIF File Import
Creating QIF Files
Loading QIF files into GnuCash
Things To Note About QIF Import
Getting Started
Welcome
Remedial Accounting 101
Setting up accounts from scratch
Importing data from other personal finance programs
Starting to use GnuCash
The Reconciliation Window
Reconciling
The Account Register
Introduction
Basic Ledger Transactions
Auto-Split Ledger Transactions
Transaction Journal
Sort Order
Date Range
The General Ledger
Register Keyboard Shortcuts
Reports
The Report Window
Multiple Reports In A Window
Web Pages as reports
Style Sheets
Constructing custom reports
Tax Report /
TXF Export
Top-level Menus
The Main Menu
The Toolbar and the Summary Bar
Docking, Moving, and Tearing Off
Transaction Report
Detailed TXF Category Descriptions
TXF Export - Known Anomalies and Limitations
TXF Export of tax data
Hacking GnuCash Documentation
About DocBook
The GnuCash Documentation Set
GnuCash and Scheme
Scheme
Scheme Documentation
Guile Scheme
Stock Price Report
Report Development
Report Development
Report Overview
The options-generator function
Accessing GnuCash Data
HTML Generation functions
The rendition function
For More Information
What's New?
What's new in GnuCash 1.6?
New File Format
New Interface
Reports
Graphs
The Online World
A taste of the Future
GnuCash Y2K Readiness
GNU General Public License
Preamble
GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
NO WARRANTY
Importing MYM Files
Managing Your Money to GnuCash Conversion
Duplicate Transactions
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