Newbie Transactions entry

[John R. Sowden]

I must really be smokin' somethin.  In the Journal entries, the credits 
and debits should be reversed.




> I have tried several times over the recent years to use gnucash. The 
> big hangup is transaction data entry.  I seems that the data entry 
> user interface was made to be like one of the Intuit products.
> I have seen several help programs discuss this issue, but I was only 
> able to learn "do not press <enter> until the transaction is complete".
> My OS is Ubuntu 13.04
>
> Could someone give me a sequence of keystrokes to execute the below 
> typical transactions.
> Please note: our accounting method is cash accounting, not accrual.
>
> tia,
> John
>
>
> Sample Transactions:
> Pay a Bill:
> 01/01/2013   Check #6454   Local Garbage Company         Memo: Jan - 
> Mar Service
> CR Cash-Local Bank              Account No. 111.0        $   90.00
> DR Utilities                    Account No. 644.0        $   90.00
>
> Pay an employee:
> 01/02/2013    Check #6555     Harry Smith                Memo: Payroll
> CR Cash-Local Bank              Account No. 111.0        $ 1200.00
> DR Salaries-Field Workers       Account No. 601.1        $ 1500.00
> DR Fed Income Tax With.         Account No. 211.0        $  100.00
> DR State Income tax With.       Account No. 212.0        $   50.00
> DR Social Security With.        Account No.: 213.0       $   50.00
> DR Medicare With.               Account No. 214.0        $   50.00
> DR State Disability With.       Account No. 215.0        $   50.00
>
> Journal Entry:
> 03/30/2013    J0004                (no payee name)       Memo: Post 
> Quarter's Vehicle Depreciation
> CR  Depreciation-Vehicles       Account No. 602.3        $  300.00
> DR  Vehicles-Accum Deprec.      Account No. 120.1        $  300.00
> CR Depreciation-Office Eq.      Account No. 602.6        $  125.00
> DR Office Equip-Accum Dep.      Account No. 121.1        $  125.00
>
> Report:
> List all transactions for a vendor (or all vendors)
>
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