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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 – exporting reports


Let us see how we can export reports and charts in HTML format and open them in popular spreadsheet applications:

  1. As the first step, create or open the report that you want to export.

  2. From the menu select File | Export | Export Report. The Save HTML To File dialog will open.

  3. Select the folder where you want to save this exported report. Give it a file name with the extension .html and click Export:

  4. OpenOffice.org Calc spreadsheet: Click on the A1 cell in the top-left hand corner of the spreadsheet. From the menu, select Insert | Link to External Data. Click on the ellipsis next to the URL of the external data source field and select the HTML file from the folder where you saved it. In the Available tables/ranges, select HTML_all and click on OK. The report will appear in the spreadsheet.

  5. Microsoft Excel: Select File | Open and select the HTML file from the folder where you saved it. This is the same Transaction Report that you will see in GnuCash. It lists...