Using gnucash

[Dr. Md. Aminul Islam Khan]

On Fri, 2011-01-07 at 09:28 -0500, Anthony Dardis wrote:
> On Fri, 07 Jan 2011 04:15:43 -0500, Md. Aminul Islam Khan  
> <aikhanlab at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I had been using gnucash irregularly. Possibly due to lack of  
> > understanding.
> > Want to use it regularly.
> > Should I:
> > 1. Use the old file and continue from the present date (stopped using  
> > them
> > some few months ago and difficult to update all the transactions).
> > 2. Export Accounts and use that as start
> > 3. Create new file and start new.
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> > aikhan
> 
> The answer will depend on what you want.
> 
> If you don't care very much whether your file has old data, then just  
> starting from new and learning as you put in your real transactions might  
> be the best way to go (and the beginning of January is a great time).
> 
> If you want or need your file to have older data in it, it will have to  
> get in there somehow. 

Thanks for your guidance. I want to retain some of the data from before
(started using gnucash in 2008). Is that possible without updating all
the transactions? 

aikhan

> If the question is, should I use the old file and  
> enter last year's transactions, vs., should I start a new file, but export  
> the contents of the old one from Gnucash and import them back into the new  
> file, I don't see any advantage to the latter choice, and it seems like a  
> headache. If the question is, should I export from some other program  
> (Quicken, for example), that actually works pretty well.
> 
> I would recommend spending a couple of days working your way through the  
> Concepts guide, creating the transactions, seeing what happens. It also  
> helps think about importing from another program, since it makes the idea  
> of GnuCash, and the ideas of double-entry bookkeeping, clearer.
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