noob questions - drowning here

[Derek Atkins]

>> 2 - how do you enter income?? I tried to enter it in my salary account,
>> but
>> I guess the double booking system didn't like that I wasn't sending it
>> somewhere. If I enter salary in one of my asset accounts as comming from
>> an
>> income account, it seems to like that better, but I'm confused. Can
>> someone
>> say step by step where I enter my pay! I'll get it in the end.
>
> GnuCash works best when you do all your data entry from your Asset or
> Liability accounts.  So for Salary you should open up your Checking
> account and enter your salary as a transfer from Income:Salary.  If you
> want to be more pedantic you can make it a Split transaction to split out
> your gross income into the various withholding expense accounts, and then
> only the net proceeds get put into your checking account.

Just a follow-up, here is the link to the docs on this:

http://code.gnucash.org/docs/guide/txns-registers1.html#txns-registers-multiaccount2

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-derek

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