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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 – searching for a transaction


You are looking for a transaction during the month of August for Acme for which you issued a check which has not cleared yet. Let us see how you can find this one transaction among the thousands you may have in your books.

  1. From the menu select Edit | Find. The Find Transaction dialog opens. Description contains is the default. Enter Acme in the value field.

  2. Now you want only transactions in August. Click the Add button. Another line will be added to the Search Criteria pane. Select Date Posted is on or after and 08/01/2010. Click Add again. Select Date Posted is before or on and 08/31/2010 as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. Click Find. You will now get a Search Results window showing all the transactions with Acme in the Description field during the month of August.

  4. However, we need only the transactions that have not cleared. With the Search Results window open, go ahead and select Edit | Find again from the menu. Now you will find that Refine...