[GNC] Tutorial and Concepts

[R Losey]

I highly concur with you, Liz, about learning incrementally. I learn one
part, and when I have it down, I branch out and learn something new. Of
course, it's very true that people learn in different ways.

I started out just using GnuCash to register my expenses... I kind of
ignored deferred income situations and I wasn't closing out income &
expense categories at the end of the year until I saw the sense and benefit
of doing it from this list. Even so, I was confused about some things, and
am grateful for the help I received here... but even then, I seem to recall
some answers about "you don't understand accounting" -- well, that may be
true, but what I really didn't understand was how such transactions should
be entered. If I had been using accounting regularly, I probably would have
known, but having people in the list take pity on me and help me is
wonderful.

So, this is also a big "thank you" to every who contributes to the list -
not only the answers, but the questions as well.



On Sat, Nov 23, 2024 at 5:33 PM Liz <edodd at billiau.net> wrote:

> 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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