[GNC] Australian Initial Setup Q's

[Doug]

I have been a long-term non-professional Gnucash user in Australia. I guess, I am like you in that I felt the cost of the Quicken products was a bit excessive. I changed to Gnucash possibly 12 years ago. The only issue I would like to see is an ability to track Business GST, but this is no longer an issue for me because I have retired.

 My suggestion for tracking a 'Home inventory' would be either to set up an asset for each one, or if low value, congregate them in one asset class. You can put some information in the description so you can search for items. You could also export the account details to a Spreadsheet, & attach photos, etc there.

 I think you should find all the accounts should move over fairly easily from Quicken. If you need to aggregate accounts, the trick is to set up the main account, then shift the other accounts in as sub-accounts. Then each transaction can be moved fairly easily (At least that is the way I do it!)

I run Gnucash under Linux: I love PCLinuxOS! which I have used for many years.

regards, Doug


On Sat, 24 Nov 2018 00:34:33 +1030
Xboxboy Mageia <xboxboy.mageia at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all: Great to see how active the mailing list is.
> I'm in the process of getting all my finances into gnucash.
> Up until know I've been using a spreadsheet to track all my shares/stocks,
> fund and interest income.
> I've read and continue to read the guide and principles, and I run my
> business through MYOB, which is also a double entry system.
> But, I still have plenty of questions as I get settled in.
> The first is, I've got an old edition of Quicken Personal plus, which I've
> read the manual, and a really handy feature I seen was what they call "home
> inventory". This is used to keep track of items of value that aren't
> traditional stocks/bonds etc. This is particularly useful for insurance
> purposes, which I currently have a scrappy spreadsheet for also. Can anyone
> advise how to set this up, or if I'm missing something, and this function
> is already set to go?
> Many thanks
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Doug <lemans4 at internode.on.net>