On 2023-02-02 12:42, Joel via gnucash-user wrote: > Dear Support Team, > I hope this post finds you well. We are posting to request your assistance > with setting up GnuCash for our new business and understanding its > fundamentals. I have already watched all the Busy Bee training videos on > YouTube, which were incredibly helpful, but I still have some basic questions > that I need help with. > I would greatly appreciate any guidance or support you can offer, including > tutorials, walkthroughs, or one-on-one tutoring sessions. I am eager to get > started with Gnu Cash and ensure that I have a strong foundation for managing > my business finances. > Thank you for your time and support. I look forward to hearing from you soon.
Welcome to GnuCash! Please note: There isn't a "support team". Peer support is offered through this mailing list, other users like yourself who try to help out of the goodness of their hearts. Please bear that in mind and try to solve things on your own before asking for help -- then if you do need to ask for help, describe specifically what you've tried and in what way the results you got aren't what you wanted. Don't expect the level of hand-holding you would get with a purchased support contract for paid software. As usual, the Internet helps those who help themselves. It's nice that you've been through those videos, but have you worked through the help manual, "Tutorial and Concepts"? It's really important to work through that, the sections that apply in your situation anyway. If you aren't pretty familiar with double-entry bookkeeping, you'll definitely want to come up to speed on that: google for "double-entry bookkeeping". Have you figured out what accounts will be in your Chart of Accounts? With GC's hierarchical account structure, you can create placeholder accounts that automatically roll up totals from their child accounts, and it's simplest to plan those before you start entering transactions. You can add or remove accounts later, but the more thought you give up front the easier you'll make it on yourself for entering transactions. Are you going to keep your books on a cash or accrual basis? Changing between cash and accrual basis _can_ be done, but it would be pretty difficult and error-prone, so it's important to make the right choice for _your_ business up front. Remember, GnuCash is basically just a labor-saving device -- there's nothing different _in_principle_ from doing your accounting in ink in big ledger books. Sure, GC automates the arithmetic and production of reports, but at bottom it depends on your setting up your accounts as they suit your business, and then on entering transactions properly, just as you would do in a pen-and-ink ledger. Lastly, you say you "have some basic questions". What are they? And have you looked in the Tutorial and Concepts guide to see if they are answered there? Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] 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.
