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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 – printing checks


Let us look at two examples of printing checks. For testing purposes, we are going to print them on plain paper or, preferably, on a copy of your check sheet. When printing real checks though, you will be using pre-printed 3-to-a-page checks or Voucher checks, which have one check and a voucher in one page. In the first test, we will print a single check with address. In the second, we will print three checks in one go.

  1. Prerequisite: Please make sure that you have entered the transactions for which you want to print the check in the account register first.

  2. Open the account register that you want to print from. In this case, open the Checking Account register. Make sure the transaction for which you want to print the check is selected. The cursor should be on that transaction and that line should be highlighted.

  3. Select from the menu File | Print Checks…. The Print Check dialog will open. Select Quicken/QuickBooks (tm) US-Letter in the Check Format dropdown list...