[GNC] Ideas and recommendations for community project

Jim DeLaHunt list+gnucash at jdlh.com
Mon Jul 31 01:36:57 EDT 2023


Hello, Sebastian:

Welcome to GnuCash! I hope it works well for you.

On 2023-07-30 22:28, gibelium at gmx.net wrote:
> I have recently started using gnuCash and am trying to figure out if I
> can use gnuCash in a meaningful way to map the cash flows in a community
> project. I think I understand the basic concepts through the tutorial
> and with a test project, but am still looking for ideas and
> recommendations for some specific circumstances. …[details elided]…

How about this as a first thought: do you understand the accounting 
aspect of your questions, separate from how to use GnuCash to perform 
the accounting?  Do you have an idea of which of these things you want 
to track are assets, liabilities, income, or expenses?  Do you have an 
idea of how you would track these if doing bookkeeping on paper sheets 
with lots of columns?

If you do not, then you will probably be greatly helped by learning some 
basic accounting. For instance, you could read this textbook, 
/Principles of Accounting/, Vol 1 
<https://openstax.org/details/books/principles-financial-accounting>, 
which is free to read online. Once you understand the accounting aspect 
of these things you want to track, it will be easier to understand how 
to use GnuCash.

Best regards,
     —Jim DeLaHunt


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