Introduction to GnuCash – Free Accounting Software

https://www.youtube .com/watch?v=wBPg_AKdlG0

GnuCash is a great FOSS tool for keeping business books, but it can complicated to setup. This is the start of a series of videos about how to get your business up and running with GnuCash. This video covers: Overview of Software Basic Account Creation https://www.gnucash.org/ #GnuCash #Linux #Business Related Videos: Linux Mint 19:

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32 thoughts on “Introduction to GnuCash – Free Accounting Software”

    1. Did you have a point? Apparently not, since you were too lazy to explain what you mean. You just posted a link.

      The computer field already has way too many abbreviations, which just reinforces the point that most computer boys are too lazy and lack the creativity to use proper English. On top of that, you don’t get to change the pronunciation of a word, just for the sake of being even nerdier than usual.

      And Linux guys are among the nerdiest of nerds.

      I checked your link, and it’s wrong.

      Gnu is pronounced like new. This is how to properly pronounce gnu.

      This is a link with with an actual description. Do you see how this works now?

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI8NALG_XGk

    2. @Anthony Starfield, you are correct that English speakers typically pronounce the animal name gnu with a silent g (although the original African word apparently begins with a click sound). But ​GNU the software project or operating system is typically pronounced with a hard g. Has been for presumably over 30 years. I fear that even if you get @Switched to Linux to bend to your arguments, you’ll have somewhere between tens of thousands and millions of others to go after that. 🙂 The person (Richard Stallman) who made that pronunciation decision was not lazy or lacking in creativity, but he was indeed “nerdier than usual”. For some the pronunciation is annoying, for others it is wryly eccentric. But as Stallman says in the “How GNU Was Named” audio clip @Switched to Linux linked to above, at least it doesn’t sound like you’re saying “New Cash” or “New Software Project” or “New Operating System”, which could be confusing.

  1. Can you explain what equity accounts mean ? For personal, i guess that it’s balances of my wallet or money in my bank at the time i’m starting to use gnucash.
    And, every year, when my account period end, i’ll need to write assets to equity of my new account ? Right ?
    Thank you.

  2. Potentially I think you could use QODBC to read a quickbooks file and import data. It’s free for read only. We currently use that to post from ms access into qb. However I think it’s for windows only. Just learned about gnucash today and found your video. Don’t think I am ready to switch yet but definitely want to keep an eye on this for the future.

  3. In my Gnucash version (dowloaded by Ubuntu Software) I don’t have the account choice “Business Accounts”. I would like to use it in my small business, but I can’t. It doesn’t seems to be any management of vendors, invoices, bills, deadlines. Could anyone help me, please? Sorry for my English

  4. If you don’t tell us what the options mean, then you are really telling us nothing more than what we could have gotten just by clicking around in the software ourselves. At 9:01, for instance, what the heck does “Use split action fields” even mean? If you are just going to wave your hands at important things like this during setup, why should we bother to watch any more of your videos. I don’t care that YOU know how to set it up for YOU. I care that you show ME everything I might need to be able to set it up for ME.

  5. Thank you for all the informative videos on how to use this fantastic software. It has been incredibly helpful at managing the finances of my small business!

    For some reason my values all display with a ‘+’ sign in front of it, yet it does not display like that on your desktop. Any idea how to change that? @switchedtolinux

    1. ​@Switched to Linux It displays +$0.00 instead of $0.00 (As seen in you video above). It is simply a notation setting used throughout my Gnucash account. Even when I create reports it displays values with a ‘+’ sign if front of the $0.00 amount, which I do not want there.

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