Firrst time user of gnucash needing help

[Tommy Trussell]

On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 10:21 AM, Richard Borley <richardborley at yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:

> Having downloaded thegnucash program from snipca.com 15625, I then bought
> the suggested manual, Gnucash 2.4 Small Business Accounting, although it is
> for an earlier version, as the gnucash help files do not seem very helpful
> for the computer ignorant.
> Having followed the early steps in the manual to test the program
> (pages14....)  I find I cannot get the initial test of a Banking entry for
> $2000 to show up in the way the screen shot on pages 16 and 17 indicates.
> It seems best to get this apparently simple entry solved before proceeding
> to anything more complicated.
> What am I doing wrong and can anyone help?Thanks for any help you can
> provide.RegardsRichard Borley
>

Greetings! Welcome to the GnuCash User list!

I can't answer your question, but I wanted to point out a couple of things
--

1) You can (and probably should) download the latest version of GnuCash by
following the links at http://gnucash.org  -- I haven't tried to find that
snipca.com link, but whatever it is, following a link from anywhere else
might lead you astray. In fact, you might check to be sure the GnuCash you
installed shows the latest version number, and if not, download a fresh
copy directly from the official links (and check your computer for malware,
just in case).

2) You can use the basic GnuCash documentation for free from
http://gnucash.org (click on documentation and then Tutorial and Concepts
Guide). If you ask a question referring to that, anyone on this list is
more likely to be able to follow along with your questions. Although I am
sure the book is very good, many folks on this list may not own it, so it's
hard to know where your difficulty understanding it may lie.



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