[GNC] don't know..

[davidcousens49 at gmail.com]

On Sat, 2022-03-05 at 20:26 +0000, arthur brogard via gnucash-user wrote:
> Not sure if I'm doing this right.  Hitting 'reply' on the email address of a
> poster that I want to respond to and putting a 'cc' in for 
> gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Arthur
If you put gnucash-user at gnucash.org in the To: field, there is no need to
include the specific person you are replying to in the addressing of the
message, Just use their name within your message.
> I see some people's posts seem to have been made to 'list gnucash' or
> something.
> And that advice to 'reply to list' etc. - what's that?  I see no such options
> on my yahoo email.  It's referring to choosing for yourself which email
> address to send to or its an actual menu choice somewhere?
> And when I do 'reply' yahoo want me to give a subject.  Well what? Anything I
> 'should' put there to suit the list?
> Okay. That's that.
> Back to the question.
> Thanks to everyone for their input.  It's got me pretty well fazed.  Look like
> I'm going to have to do a bit of reading and learning on gnucash and
> accounting/book keeping on the one hand and on the other: it looks like
> gnucash might not be what I want for this little problem.
> Overkill or something.

If you need to prepare standard business type reports it won't be. Most other
accounting programs tend to hide the accounting in the bookkeeping from the
user, particularly some of the fundamental relationships. In GnuCash it is up
front and very close to the basics of standard accounting. I started using
GnuCash to prepare assignments, when I was doing a master's degree in accounting
many years ago now.

David

> But I might as well do the reading etc. and get into gnucash anyway so I'll
> have a stab.
> I feel that advice to use the business features might be the way to go so I'll
> stumble along that road if I can find it, for a while.
> And I'll haphazardly throw in some posts of our normal household expenses as
> they come to mind and see how it all works out.
> You won't believe this but I'm supposed to know book-keeping.  I once worked
> as a book-keeper. Used a couple of proprietary packages.  Don't even remember
> their names now.  Was so capable back then I converted the shambolic original
> system for the community onto the new package.
> Hard to believe now, eh?  Perhaps it'll start coming back to me if I do as I
> say and start making postings...
> :) 
> 
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