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Gnucash 2.4 Small Business Accounting: Beginner's Guide

You're reading from   Gnucash 2.4 Small Business Accounting: Beginner's Guide Manage your accounts with this desktop financial manager application

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2011
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849513869
Length 324 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Gnucash 2.4 Small Business Accounting
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Getting Started with GnuCash 2. Transactions – the Lifeblood of a Business FREE CHAPTER 3. Fun and Eye-opening Part - Reports and Charts 4. How not to Get Lost in the Transactions Jungle 5. Repetitive Work? Let GnuCash do it 6. Business Mantra: Buy Now, Pay Later 7. Budget: Trip Planner for your Business 8. Making Tax Times Less Stressful 9. Printing Checks and Finding Transactions 10. Adapting GnuCash for Non-profits and Personalizing 11. Data Import/Export: Use your Phone to enter Expenses 12. Application Integration and Other Advanced Topics Pop Quiz Answers Index

Time for action – editing, cancelling, and deleting transactions


We may not be able to get everything right just the first time. So, we need the ability to make changes or even clean up and start over. You can edit a transaction, cancel an edit, or even delete a transaction. Let us see how we can accomplish these:

  1. Editing transactions: Remember the $300 cash withdrawal? You suddenly realized that you actually withdrew $350. We are going to edit the transaction to correct this amount. Open the Cash account register, click on the amount, then make your changes, and click Enter. Check that this change is automatically reflected in both Cash and Checking Account. By the way, you can make this edit from either one of these accounts.

  2. Cancelling edits: In the same transaction, select the Num field and change it to 1595 and Tab out. Let us say, immediately after tabbing out, you realize that you have edited the wrong field, and horrors! You don't seem to have even a wisp of recollection what the number...

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Gnucash 2.4 Small Business Accounting: Beginner's Guide
Published in: Feb 2011
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