small starting business - initial sell of shares, capital raised and related questions

[Mike or Penny Novack]

321654 wrote:

>You are correct Dustin, there is a misunderstanding here.
>Someone asks for very specific help and he is basically told to F off.
>If you can not or do not want to help someone, why even bother typing
>that letter you just typed?
>
>If this list is not for answering questions, then what is it for?
>(previous questions are all rhetorical... )
>
>  
>
There is most certainly a misunderstanding.

There are TWO very different meanings to the question "how do I do this 
using gnucash?".

a) I know how to do this part of accounting were I using old fashioned 
pen and ink on paper bookkeeping. But how do I do it in gnucash instead? 
Things like "I need to create an account whose name will be X as a child 
under equity; how do I do that?"
    We CAN help with that.

b) I don't (yet) know how to do this part of accounting using ANYTHING. 
Tell me how to do it using gnucash.
     We CAN'T (or shouldn't) be able to help with that. It's more than 
that the question in this case isn't really about using gnucash. We 
aren't QUALIFIED to give this level of accounting support. In some 
jurisdictions illegal for people lacking the formal qualifications to 
help somebody else with this (although allowed to do your own).

It APPEARED that the person was asking "b", not "a". That still appears 
to be the case in spite of the claim that there is an accountant (but 
one who doesn't know gnucash). When krok.geena said there was an 
accountant STILL seems to be asking about "what accounts do I need and 
where?"

If your accountant has supplied you with the proper "chart of accounts" 
for your business but you don't know how to set that up in gnucash then 
that's an "a" type question and we can help you with that (implement 
THIS chart of accounts in gnucash as opposed to "create the proper chart 
of accounts for me")

Michael D Novack, FLMI    (which title means I am somewhat qualified to 
answer questions about life insurance --- really qualified would be CLU 
----- I do NOT have a title of CPA so not qualified to give accounting 
advice).