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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

Summary


We learned a lot in this chapter about exporting GnuCash data to a SQL database and using that data.

Specifically, we covered:

  • Export data from GnuCash in popular SQL database formats: We learned the benefits of this feature and the various ways in which we can use this data.

  • Query the exported data using popular tools: We looked at ways of using popular tools to query this data.

  • Create custom reports and charts using popular tools: We looked at ways of using popular tools to create custom reports and charts from this data.

  • Application integration using the exported data: We looked at ways of using the queried data for integration with other applications that you use.

  • Handle foreign currency transactions in GnuCash: We saw examples of foreign exchange transactions and how to handle them in GnuCash.

  • Customer jobs: We also saw how we can get reports at the contract level for the same customer by utilizing the Jobs feature of GnuCash.

  • Special actions: We saw two different ways to undo a transaction...