On 2023-03-11 10:23, Jamie Tolbert wrote: > Originally , I thought I would just pay each bill, and credit owner > equity and debit the bill, but that seems very cumbersome and confusing,
I mean no disrespect -- every one of us GnuCash users had to learn these things at some point, if we didn't already know them before coming to GnuCash. Unless you just made a "thinko", writing the above shows that your first step is not to get help with using GnuCash, but rather to learn about double-entry bookkeeping. There are a zillion books, and one is as good as another for teaching the basics, which is all you need. (But this is section 2.1 of the Tutorial and Concepts Guide. <https://code.gnucash.org/docs/C/gnucash-guide/chapter_basics.html> Did you skip over that section?) GnuCash is very much the old pen-and-ink double-entry bookkeeping, transferred to the computer. (This is different from most other accounting programs, which seem to think they know a way to do bookkeeping than the one that has survived for upwards of eight centuries.) It's not hard to master the general concepts of double-entry bookkeeping, but it _is_ absolutely essential. Otherwise you won't have a prayer of getting your bookkeeping right in GnuCash. Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
