I currently use examples built in Excel but am exploring the possibility of moving to GnuCash, which allows its users to think in terms of double-entry accounting using debits and credits, and to make entries using these terms. It allows students to create different types of accounts (asset/liability/equity), make journal entries for them using proper accounting terminology, and then create financial statements.
You just have them choose the options "formal" (use debit and credit) and "journal entry mode" (otherwise just when entering "splits")
Question: Do you know of a simple accounting primer that uses GnuCash and has many examples and some problem sets as well? If so, I would be very appreciative if you would share it with me.
I'm no sure you'd need/want a specific primer EXCEPT the "how using gnucash part" (how do you choose "formal" and "journal view" and that you get to where you would enter in the journal from any ledger page (any account involved in the transaction). The problem sets would of course be useful. Note that this is a case where the gnucash tutorial might not be good for them as teaching all the shortcuts of "cashbook accounting" -- run before you walk. That's as far as I know (that the tutorial has no "formal accounting" section)
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