GnuCash Tutorial and Concepts Guide

Table of Contents

1. Overview

2. The Basics

3. Accounts

4. Transactions

5. Checkbook

6. Credit Cards

7. Loans

8. Investments

9. Capital Gains

10. Multiple Currencies

11. Depreciation

12. Accounts Receivable

13. Accounts Payable

14. Payroll

15. Budgets

16. Other Assets

17. Python Extensions

A. Migration Guide

B. Frequently Asked Questions

C. Contributed Account Trees

D. Auxiliary File Formats

E. GNU Free Documentation License

List of Figures

2.1. The basic accounts relationships

2.2. Save screen when XML or sqlite3 is selected.

2.3. Save screen when mysql or postgres is selected.

4.1. Entering a split transaction

List of Tables

2.1. Application Settings Locations

2.2. Saved Reports Locations

2.3. Online Banking Settings Locations

7.1. Buying a House Split Transaction

7.2. Personal loan to a Friend

7.3. Selling an asset (house) with a profit

7.4. Selling an asset (house) with a loss

7.5. Selling an asset (house) with a profit

7.6. Selling an asset (house) with a profit 2

8.1. Selling Stock using Split Transaction Scheme

8.2. Selling Stock Split Transaction Scheme

8.3. Selling Shares at loss Split Transaction Scheme

9.1. Turning an Accrued Gain into a Realized Gain

9.2. Turning an Accrued Gain into a Realized Gain

9.3. Turning an Accrued Gain into a Realized Gain

10.1. Buying a currency with a Split Transaction Scheme

10.2. Selling a currency with a Split Transaction Scheme

10.3. You come into some extra money

10.4. Paying of the house mortgage

10.5. Transfer money to overseas with a multiple currency transaction split.

10.6. Purchasing oversea stocks

10.7. Buying a NZ House Split Transaction

11.1. Linear Depreciation Scheme Example

11.2. Geometric Depreciation Scheme Example

11.3. Sum of Digits Depreciation Scheme Example

14.1. Transaction Map

14.2. Transaction Map for Employee 1

D.1. Overall Page Description Fields

D.2. Multiple Checks Per Page Fields

D.3. Individual Check Item Fields

D.4. Individual Check Item Types