Jay, There is no gnucash organized template for estate accounting. With that said, gnucash is a general purpose accounting tool, so it is well suited to estate accounting. I have used to to keep a set of books for an estate where i was the executor. However, the annual accounting report required by my attorney, and so I assume the courts in the US, are not available as a template for gnucash. Instead, I exported the transactions from the relevant accounts and used a spreadsheet to create the report in the correct format.
If you are truly an accounting noob, then I strongly suggest you get some professional help for the estate accounting. I don't know how large the estate is, or what country you are in, but in the US the executor has a fiduciary responsibility to the beneficiaries for all the money/assets/liabilities in the estate. Any mistakes, and you can be sued and or go to jail. Money can make even the closest of familys fight - and fighting in court is nothing but a waste of your estate's money. The small cost of a professional book keeper/accountant who can keep the books and create the annual report for the estate is peanuts compared to the time you will need to invest in learning to be the estate accountant. Good luck! Mark On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 8:14 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > hello... > > new to this list... & total noob regarding accounting & gnucash > software... > > am pretty sure there must be some sort of organised template out there > to make job as estate executor "easy" & am making a plea for help in its > locating... > > any help rcv'd gratefully & ALL advice appreciated... > > jay c > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > 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. > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] 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.
