step-by-step guide on setting up small business accounting

[Jon Lapham]

Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> I have never used Quicken or QuickBooks.
> 
> My wife and I want to get started with gnucash to do our business
> accounting (and our personal family finances). We choice gnucash last
> month after installing and quickly looking at Xfinans, emma, gnofin, and
> kmymoney2.
> 
> I found a detailed guide on getting started with business finances at
> http://www.ncsysadmin.org/july2001/ncsa-gnucash-talk.html (Mack, Joseph,
> "Gnucash and double entry accounting"). But it appears to be out-of-date
> or not applicable. (I may be mistaken though.)
> 
> Reading through the GnuCash Tutorial and Concepts Guide and other parts of
> the documentation module don't seem to give a good step-by-step guide on
> setting up small business accounting.
> 
> Does anyone have any URLs to other good docs that teach the steps to
> getting started with gnucash for business accounting?

The docs are being written as you type your question.  :)

We've been tackling the first issue, payroll.  Take a look at what we 
have so far (comment welcome):

http://www.jandr.org/temp/gnucashdocs/bus_payroll1.html

The other parts of the business section are not even really ready to be 
looked at for comments.

The other subjects to be tackled in the coming days are "bills and 
vendors (accounts payable)", "invoices (accounts receivable)", 
"customers", "taxes".

So, stay tuned, there will be plenty for you to read, or contribute!

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