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Gnucash 2.4 Small Business Accounting: Beginner's Guide

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Gnucash 2.4 Small Business Accounting: Beginner's Guide

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Overview of this book

Attention, small business owners! Stop tax-day stress. Stop procrastinating with a shoebox full of receipts. Stop reinventing the wheel with a spreadsheet. Stop making decisions simply on a hunch. Stop wasting money on software that is overkill. Start by downloading GnuCash and getting your accounts in order. Designed to be easy to use, yet powerful and flexible, GnuCash allows you to track bank accounts, income, and expenses. As quick and intuitive to use as a checkbook register, it is based on professional accounting principles to ensure balanced books and accurate reports. You can do it and Gnucash 2.4 Small Business Accounting Beginner's Guide will help you get up and running with maintaining your accounts. Gnucash 2.4 Small Business Accounting Beginner's Guide speaks business language, not accountant-speak, because it is written by a former small business owner. It guides you to use GnuCash from scratch with step-by-step tutorials without jargon, pointing out the gotchas to avoid with lots of tips. It will teach you to work on routine business transactions while migrating transaction data from other applications gradually. You will be able to keep on top of transactions and run reports after reading just three chapters! Beyond Chapter 3, it is up to you how far you want to go. Reconcile with your bank and credit card statements. Charge and pay sales tax. Do invoicing. Track payments due. Set up reminders for bills. Avoid stress at tax time. Print checks. Capture expenses using your mobile phone. Gnucash 2.4 Small Business Accounting Beginner's Guide gives you the power. Know your numbers. Make decisions with confidence. Drive your business to its full potential.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Gnucash 2.4 Small Business Accounting
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Time for action – when the check is on hand


As we said earlier, the Accounts Receivable account is special. You didn't enter the invoice amount in A/R. You simply posted the invoice and the amount magically showed up in A/R. In the same manner, we won't enter the receipt of payment in the A/R directly from the account register either.

  1. When you are in the View Invoice tab, you will see an extra menu item under Business called Pay Invoice. You will also see the Pay Invoice toolbar button show up. Go ahead and click that. The Process Payment window will open as shown in the following screenshot:

  2. Pretty much everything on the left pane is pre-filled conveniently for you. You can change the Date, if needed.

  3. On the right hand side, you need to select a Transfer Account. In this case, you received a check. Go ahead and select Checking Account under Current Assets. Click on OK.

  4. Confirm that the appropriate entries have been made in Accounts Receivable and the Checking Account.

  5. Go to Find Invoice and...