I changed the subject because I want to start a discussion regarding the below comment, which regularly appears in this group (I am not throwing rocks at Stan).
Sometimes, it is not a matter of understanding double-entry accounting or bookkeeping, but much more "how is this commonly done?". This group, at times, seems to throw out the "go learn double-entry bookkeeping" or "read the manual" just a shade too often, when some people may just want to know "How is -X- usually done?" (Look, I know it is tricky due to different tax requirements, how detail-oriented the person wants to be, and the flexibility of GnuCash to accomplish something in multiple ways, to name a few). As an example, consider Equity. From a brief look through the Tutorial and Concepts Guide, it doesn't seem to be mentioned a lot (I didn't see a search, but I looked at likely areas). Perhaps it is a general accounting concept to close out the books by zeroing income and expenses into equity, but I didn't know that until it was mentioned here. I am very grateful to this list for learning about ways to make this happen. I could have just been told to "go learn more about accounting", but a few ideas about how to record such events was incredibly helpful. On Fri, Nov 22, 2024 at 2:40 PM Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) < [email protected]> wrote: > What Flavio _does_ really really need, in my opinion, is to read Chapter > 2 of the Tutorial and Concepts Guide, and read it again until he's > mastered it. He would save himself a lot of confusion if he would get > absolutely clear in his head about debits versus credits, and the effect > of a debit or credit on each type of account. Instead, it seems > to me that he's just throwing splits together and then asking on this > list about one transaction after another. Asking about every tree is not > an efficient way to learn about the forest. > > GnuCash isn't hard to use, as software goes, but it's not very forgiving > to folks who just dive in without understanding double-entry bookkeeping. > -- _________________________________ Richard Losey [email protected] Micah 6:8 _______________________________________________ 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.
