[GNC] Using GnuCash for cash-basis charity/fund accounting?

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Hello,

I'm not a professional or accounting, But i wondering that Why you don't use
Gnucash and Spreadsheet at the same time ? Like me.

Create a spreadsheet with name, date, amount, where they are sending money
to, example :
January, Peter, 3000$, paypal ..
It's can be whatever you want.
Using it for record the information and using Gnucash to Track your money in
the real world.
If i have multiple things to do with my money (funds), But my money stored
only in 1 Bank, i will not trying to create sub-accounts for that bank
account. I will create a spreadsheet, and update balance at the end of every
day. Example : your total money are 1000$, there are multi funds, and "A
fund" is 200$, you already wrote this in spreadsheet to alert you DO NOT USE
OVER THAT MONEY. So, tomorrow, just pay whatever want with "A fund" without
updating your balance in spreadsheet, because in GnuCash, use "tag" for your
expense, and use "transaction report" with filter, and you will know the
amount you spent ( i hope you didn't spend over 200$). At the end of the
day, write this into spreadsheet to update your "A fund" balance.

That it, you can't use only GnuCash for everything, Let talk about Report,
GnuCash reports have a bad view, anyways, you will use spreadsheet to fix it
or modify it before do something with that reports. So why don't use
spreadsheet for have more information? Make your GnuCash control and look
"real" instead create some "Virtual"?

Of course, You can follow the ways that make GnuCash does the jobs for you.

If i'm wrong, please tell me know. Thank you.
Regards.



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