Newby question.

[jack van de sande]

On Tuesday 09 September 2003 10:15, Anton Broenink wrote:

>
> Can anyone help in pointing towards a manual that explains how to set up a
> giro-account in GnuCash ?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Kind regards
> Anton broenink
>

Anton,

I started some months ago with gnucash after for years having used a home 
brewed cashbook based on ms access and excell. 
I was not real acquainted with double entry book keeping, and I am not 
acquainted at all with US methods of payments (check books ant that kind of 
stuff), but, after a period of trial and error the whole is now getting a 
shape that is useful for me, and I start to like it.

Also in my case most of my payments are made via my giro account, be it via a 
pin payment or be it via a money transfer (overschrijving).
I created an account named "giro" of the type "Bank" under Assets -> Current 
Assets.
Furthermore I have a number of other accounts like Expenses, Income and 
Spaarrekeningen (This one also under Assets -> Current Assets), all these 
accounts with a number of subaccounts.
At regular intervals I download all transactions from my real giro account via 
girotel as a csv file. I convert this file with a perl script to a qif file 
and import this file in gnucash.
Each transaction is then registered in the giro account and in another account 
determined by the perl script and the text in the cvs file for that 
transaction.
So for example: a payment for my energy bill is double booked as well in my 
giro account ("opname", "withdrawal") as well in the account Expenses -> Nuts 
-> Electricity.
So all the transactions of my giro account, which makes up the greater part of 
all transactions, are entered automatically. The others I enter manually.


regards,

Jack van de Sande

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