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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 – triggering scheduled transactions


Whenever you launch GnuCash the Since Last Run process will run automatically and look for any transactions to be created or reminded about since the last time you started GnuCash. The Since Last Run dialog will pop up showing them. If, by chance, you cancelled it at that time because you were in a rush to get to something else, you can also launch it manually whenever you want it.

  1. Run the Since Last Run process using the Actions | Scheduled Transactions | Since Last Run…menu.

  2. The Since Last Run… window will pop up showing any scheduled transactions that are to be created or reminded about, as shown in the following screenshot:

    Note

    If there are no scheduled transactions in the system to be created or reminded about, all you will see is a message saying, There are no Scheduled Transactions to be entered at this time. If that happens, you may have to go back and do the previous tutorial to set up at least one scheduled transaction.

  3. Click on the...