GnuCash quick start

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Ed Willink <ed at willink.me.uk> writes:

[snip]
> I obviously didn't want to read-the-manual or follow a mega/paid
> tutorial. What defeated me when I pursued a trial-and-error approach
> was that Create-Transaction is so important that it is built-in and so
> has no menu entry. Even though I got past the "New-Project" hurdle
> quite quickly, I couldn't create any transactions. Eventually a 15
> minute YouTube video showed me the missing trick.

Actions -> Transfer

> You could solve this very easily by ensuring that a Welcome-screen /
> first-Hint-of-the-day enables a very simple example set of accounts to
> be created so that an up and running system is ready to play with
> almost instantly. You might even provide a short list of challenges,
> guiding the user through the most important "Add-Transaction", Jump,
> Duplicate, BalanceSheet etc facilities. Perhaps New->Example could
> have more than one canned example to play with.

There is a Tip-of-the-day popup, but of course what it displays is
somewhat random.

There is a "Basic Accounts" setup that includes literally 5 accounts:
Equity, Asset, Liability, Income, Expense, that can be used for
testing/playing around.

>     Regards
>
>         Ed Willink

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-derek

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