GnuCash Income - How to manage?

[Mike or Penny Novack]

pick the proper income account. Once you enter the transactions, the 
deposit will show in your checking, but also you can see it in the 
income account you picked.

Gnucash is set by default to use (supposedly) more user friendly titles 
for the columns. But different people have different learning styles, so 
if new to double entry bookkeeping and you are having trouble "getting 
it" when presented this way you can tell gnucash to use the old 
fashioned "debit" and "credit", left side of ledger vs right side of 
ledger, and see if that makes it easier for you to learn. In the course 
of that you learn which sorts of accounts normally have a debit balance 
and which a credit balance (a ledger account is said to be on that side 
of the ledger that matches its normal balance).

For ANY transaction, the net debits must total the net credits (the 
fundamental principle of double entry bookkeeping).

Michael