[GNC] new user woes

[Jamie Tolbert]

Its been a number of years, but I did take a few accounting classes in 
college......so I have an idea of WHAT I want to do, but unclear on HOW 
to do it in gnucash.....I will continue to fumble my way thru it, the 
tutorial is rather cumbersome to read thru, for example, a search for 
opening balances turn up several pages with OPEN and several with a 
variation of BALANCEs, but not the account thats labeled OPENING 
BALANCES.......if that is read only, how do I edit it to put my opening 
balance in ?!?!?!



------ Original Message ------
>From "Stan Brown" <the_stan_brown at fastmail.fm>
To gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Date 3/11/2023 2:40:23 PM
Subject Re: [GNC] new user woes

>On 2023-03-11 10:23, Jamie Tolbert wrote:
>>  Originally , I thought I would just pay each bill, and credit owner
>>  equity and debit the bill, but that seems very cumbersome and confusing,
>
>I mean no disrespect -- every one of us GnuCash users had to learn these
>things at some point, if we didn't already know them before coming to
>GnuCash.
>
>Unless you just made a "thinko", writing the above shows that your first
>step is not to get help with using GnuCash, but rather to learn about
>double-entry bookkeeping. There are a zillion books, and one is as good
>as another for teaching the basics, which is all you need. (But this is
>section 2.1 of the Tutorial and Concepts Guide.
><https://code.gnucash.org/docs/C/gnucash-guide/chapter_basics.html>
>Did you skip over that section?)
>
>GnuCash is very much the old pen-and-ink double-entry bookkeeping,
>transferred to the computer. (This is different from most other
>accounting programs, which seem to think they know a way to do
>bookkeeping than the one that has survived for upwards of eight
>centuries.) It's not hard to master the general concepts of double-entry
>bookkeeping, but it _is_ absolutely essential. Otherwise you won't have
>a prayer of getting your bookkeeping right in GnuCash.
>
>Stan Brown
>Tehachapi, CA, USA
>https://BrownMath.com
>
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