[GNC] Tutorial and Concepts

Liz edodd at billiau.net
Sat Nov 23 18:32:21 EST 2024


On Sat, 23 Nov 2024 13:08:54 -0500
David Warren <david at warren1.net> wrote:

> I understand this answer, and agree that double-entry accounting does
> not need to be 'daunting', but I don't really agree that the typical
> 'basic' personal finance user is mostly going to make simple entries
> that credit a bank account and debit an expense account simply to
> record purchases.  Here are just a few examples of 'basic' personal
> finance transactions for most users and require more thinking about
> how to record debits and credits correctly:

So we learn incrementally... I last paid for Quicken in 2000, and
believe I started with Gnucash about v1.6.

So in over 20 years I have been slowly learning, and it's quite OK to
learn each task as required. (playing educator again)

LIz


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