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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
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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 – backing up your data


You are going to make a backup of your accounting data in a removable media from your office computer and store it at your home location. Your goal is to be able to restore your books of accounts, if your business computer is stolen or damaged entirely.

  1. Prerequisites: Please keep a USB flash drive handy to make a backup copy of files and folders.

  2. Find the directory where you created your books of accounts and find the main accounts file. In our case, the file we need is MACS (with the .gnucash extension or without any file name extension). When viewed in Windows Explorer, it will appear as shown in the next screenshot.

  3. Make a copy of this MACS file on your USB flash drive.

  4. Next, find your Documents and Settings folder. Here you will find a folder with your username. Open this folder and you will find folders named .gconf and .gnucash, as shown in the next screenshot.

  5. Copy these two folders also onto the USB flash drive.

  6. Take this USB flash drive with you...

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