Unofficial GnuCash Forum

[Dave H]

Have you read the Gnucash Tutorial and Concepts Guide at
http://www.gnucash.org/viewdoc.phtml?doc=guide ? It has a section on splits
and how to enter them ? Also section 6.4 of the Help Guide has a detailed
step by step explanation of how to enter splits - same url as before.

One thing you need to keep in mind when entering split transactions is not
to hit the Enter key until you are done setting up everything, use the Tab
key (I think from memory Shift/Tab works to go backwards) to move around
the split transaction line entries.

Cheers Dave H...

On 25/01/2015 6:46 AM, "Max Scholefield" <maxinvan.ms at gmail.com> wrote:

> It seems to me that gnucash is the only free, fully functioning accounting
> system available anywhere in the world, I am sure millions of people would
> want to use it. However as a non accountant I find that getting
> understandable information out of this mailing list is like pulling teeth
> (very difficult). I would like to be able to to understand even simple
> concepts (to you) such as splitting transactions, however hard I try I
> cannot even make that work. A forum would give me a proper thread to follow
> where the answers go straight to my problem,  instead of trying to find a
> needle in a haysack answer in a convoluted mail form. However you do very
> good work and should be congratulated, gnucash is a wonderful program and I
> will continue to use it albeit in it's simplest form. Max
>
> On 24 January 2015 at 23:19, Bob Brush <bobbrush3 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Love it!   Liz, is there a place that teaches how?  I tried to figure out
> > I think it was latex one time but couldn't, is it the same?
> >
> >
> >
> > > On Jan 24, 2015, at 6:21 AM, Liz <edodd at billiau.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sat, 24 Jan 2015 08:29:07 +0000
> > > Wm <wm+gnc at tarrcity.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > >
> > >> [1] given that we don't have the population for a system like that to
> > >> make sense and having thought about what Liz said upthread I'm
> > >> wondering if this isn't just a case of the wiki / FAQ having been
> > >> neglected ? (it isn't even in Liz's diagram).
> > >>
> > >> Or are wikis also not of interest to people that favour forums ?
> > >>
> > >> --
> > > quick alteration to the map
> > >
> > > If anyone else wants a go, it's written in tex
> > >
> > > ============================
> > > \usetikzlibrary{mindmap,backgrounds}
> > > \begin{tikzpicture}
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > \begin{scope}[mindmap, concept color=purple, text=white]
> > >    \node [concept] {Gnucash Users}[clockwise from=180]
> > >      child {node [concept] (his) {Usenet}}
> > >      child {node [concept] (ppr) {IRC}}
> > >      child {node [concept] (exm) {Mailing List}}
> > >      child {node [concept] (com) {Forum}}
> > >    ;
> > >  \end{scope}
> > >
> > > \begin{scope}[mindmap, concept color=green]
> > >
> > >
> > >    \node [concept, text=black] (pos) at (-2,16)
> > >      {Gnucash Resources}
> > >      [clockwise from=0]
> > >
> > >      child [concept color=green!50,]
> > >        {node [concept] (wik) {Wiki}}
> > >          child [concept color=green!50] {node [concept] (faq)
> > > {FAQ}} child [concept color=green!50] {node [concept] (mla) {Mailing
> > > List Archives}} ;
> > >  \end{scope}
> > >
> > >
> > > \begin{scope}[mindmap, concept color=blue]
> > >
> > >
> > >    \node [concept, text=white] (pos) at (8,12)
> > >      (pph) {People Providing Gnucash Help}
> > >      [clockwise from=-60]
> > >
> > >      child [concept color=blue!50, level distance=250]
> > >        {node [concept] (ppq) {Accounting help}}
> > >          child [concept color=blue!50] {node [concept] (obs)
> > > {Program Help}} child [concept color=blue!50] {node [concept] (mec)
> > > {Development}} ;
> > >  \end{scope}
> > >
> > >
> > >  \begin{pgfonlayer}{background}
> > >    \draw [circle connection bar]
> > >      (ppr) edge (mec)
> > >      (mec) edge (exm)
> > >      (ppr) edge (obs)
> > >      (exm) edge (obs)
> > >      (com) edge (obs)
> > >      (exm) edge (ppq)
> > >      (com) edge (ppq)
> > >      (exm) edge (mla)
> > >    (pph) edge (wik)
> > >    (pph) edge (faq)
> > > ;
> > >
> > >  \end{pgfonlayer}
> > >
> > >
> > > \end{tikzpicture}
> > > ==============================
> > > <gnucash_tree_1.pdf>
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