[GNC] Questions about setting up new accounts from brand new user

R Losey rlosey at gmail.com
Mon Jan 23 22:07:35 EST 2023


I agree.  I let GnuCash create a chart of accounts and then modify it to
meet my needs.

On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 12:21 PM David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Maf showed you how to start to create a single account.
>
> If you want to create an entire chart of accounts click File > New and
> select the option to create New Account Hierarchy Setup
> You might want to try this more than once because it will then give you a
> lot of choices for different applications and you may be a little
> overwhelmed the first time around.
>
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 11:29 AM Maf. King <maf at chilwell.net> wrote:
>
> > On Monday, 23 January 2023 17:10:51 GMT Ann Bowes wrote:
> > > Hi folks,
> > >
> > > I'm trying to set up a simple manual checking account for a small farm
> > > business.  I've down-loaded the gnucash program to my laptop (linux
> > > zorin OS), and have tried to open new accounts, but am completely
> > > stumped as to how to do this.  I've read through the tutorial (at
> > > https://gnucash-docs-rst.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html), but I'm
> > > still stumped  Can anyone give me some pointers?
> > >
> >
> > Hi Ann,
> >
> > you mean you need to create an account in your Gnucash books?
> >
> > see the attached image for a pointer...
> >
> > HTH,
> > Maf.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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