Newby question.

[Bill Wisse]

Hi Anton

On Monday 08 September 2003 21:15, Anton Broenink wrote:
> Please, let me introduce myself. I am Anton broenink from Rotterdam
> Holland. M.Sc in  aerospace engineering, currently on long term sickness
> leave. Due to my sickness my main financial issue is that my income is
> steadily decreasing. I need much better budgeting instruments than MS Money
> offers. So I decided to give GnuCash a try and spend 15 hours on getting
> used to it.
>
> In real life 99% of my income and expense goes through one special
> bankaccount, the giro (a sort Dutch of bank, unfortunatley  not specially
> supported by Gnu-cash or other non-dutch software)
>
> So I started with setting up a giro account, and after 5 more hours I
> returned to MSMoney...............
> MS Money at least gives me the total amount of euros I have on the account
> after each payment.
>
> Can anyone help in pointing towards a manual that explains how to set up a
> giro-account in GnuCash ?

A giro account is no difference than a bankaccount . In fact it is a bank 
account with deposits and withdrawals.
The manual is the same as for a bankaccount and gnucash gives you the balance 
of your account after each transaction.
Downloading the info from your bank (Giro) to gnucash depends on what your 
bank ( giro) supports.
My bank supports quicken, myob and something else. I just download it in qif 
and Gnucash imports it.

HTH

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/bill at 169 west , 19 south.  

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