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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

About the Reviewers

Fabrice Estiévenart is addicted to web and open-source technologies with a specific focus on web frameworks (Symfony, Pylons, Ruby on Rails), search engines (Lucene, Sphinx, Nutch, Solr), and database modelisation/abstraction (Doctrine, SQLAlchemy, Active Record). His favorite programming languages are PHP, Python, and Ruby.

He has initiated or contributed to several open-source projects such as SimPic (a lightweight PHP photo gallery), DocAlchemy (a 'Doctrine to SQLAlchemy' converter), DocRails (a 'Doctrine to Active Record' converter), CatCash (a rule-based transaction classifier in GnuCash) and Retroweb (a visual web-wrapping application).

Besides these initiatives, he is the developer and webmaster of several different web sites ranging from musical news portals (http://www.guitareacoustique.com) to personal blogs (http://www.destinationlibre.org, http://www.fabrisss.com).

Christian Stimming lives in Hamburg, Germany, working with SICK AG on research and C++ software development of real-time signal processing for industrial and automotive sensor applications. He learnt the benefits of Open Source software during his studies in Electrical Engineering at Hamburg University in the 1990s, started to contribute to the GnuCash project in 2000, and has been working with the GnuCash developer team since that time. Recently, he started a consulting business for users of GnuCash, successfully offering customization and training for small and home-office business customers in Germany. While reviewing this remarkably helpful book, his third child was born and Christian is happy to report all is well with his family and the new-born daughter in Hamburg.