I highly concur with you, Liz, about learning incrementally. I learn one part, and when I have it down, I branch out and learn something new. Of course, it's very true that people learn in different ways.
I started out just using GnuCash to register my expenses... I kind of ignored deferred income situations and I wasn't closing out income & expense categories at the end of the year until I saw the sense and benefit of doing it from this list. Even so, I was confused about some things, and am grateful for the help I received here... but even then, I seem to recall some answers about "you don't understand accounting" -- well, that may be true, but what I really didn't understand was how such transactions should be entered. If I had been using accounting regularly, I probably would have known, but having people in the list take pity on me and help me is wonderful. So, this is also a big "thank you" to every who contributes to the list - not only the answers, but the questions as well. On Sat, Nov 23, 2024 at 5:33 PM Liz <ed...@billiau.net> wrote: > On Sat, 23 Nov 2024 13:08:54 -0500 > David Warren <da...@warren1.net> wrote: > > > I understand this answer, and agree that double-entry accounting does > > not need to be 'daunting', but I don't really agree that the typical > > 'basic' personal finance user is mostly going to make simple entries > > that credit a bank account and debit an expense account simply to > > record purchases. Here are just a few examples of 'basic' personal > > finance transactions for most users and require more thinking about > > how to record debits and credits correctly: > > So we learn incrementally... I last paid for Quicken in 2000, and > believe I started with Gnucash about v1.6. > > So in over 20 years I have been slowly learning, and it's quite OK to > learn each task as required. (playing educator again) > > LIz > _______________________________________________ > 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. > -- _________________________________ Richard Losey rlo...@gmail.com Micah 6:8 _______________________________________________ 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.
