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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

Chapter 9. Printing Checks and Finding Transactions

"…when is the easiest time to get a firm grip on accounting? During the start-up stage! The start-up stage is perfect for learning accounting due to the minimal number of transactions occurring." – from a website about accounting for entrepreneurs.

In every office there is always someone who is handy at finding, fixing, and organizing things. Fax machine toner needs to be replaced? Call Joe. Cannot find the five year old contract? Joe will know where to look. Copy machine jammed? Where is Joe?

What if a handy helper is free? Such as GnuCash. GnuCash can find things, fix things, and organize things. Of course, GnuCash can be handy only with your bookkeeping and accounting things, but then, at least you can be sure that one aspect of running your business is taken care of. That should be a big relief, considering that financial management and control is one of the most important aspects of running a business.

In this chapter we shall learn...