Gnucash newbie questions
Theo. Sean Schulze
tschulze@teamfinders.org
Mon, 23 Dec 2002 17:54:03 +0100
Hello and Season's Greetings!
Over the next year I would like to get a better handle on my family's finances, and I plan to use gnucash to help with that goal. I have taken a look at some of the online resources, and I have read through David Gilbert's gnucash manual. But, some questions remain.
Most important, how can I set gnucash up so that both my wife and I can enter transactions from our individual login accounts on my machine? I was thinking I could set up a group "family", make the gnucash files group rwx, and save them to a separate directory, /home/family or /home/gnucash. Would this work? What is the best way to do this? Is there a document that I have missed that describes how to do this?
I also need to keep track of accounts in different currencies. My wife is paid in Euro, and she has a German bank account into which her salary is deposited. I am paid in dollars into an account in the States, and at least once a week, I make a withdrawal in Euros using an ATM. I think my transactions need to be processed through a currency account. If she uses her German account in Euro exclusively to pay for things in Euro, does those transactions need some special currency processing?
TIA,
Sean
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Theo. Sean Schulze
tschulze@teamfinders.org