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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 – grouping invoices for each contract separately


Let us say you want to set up a contract as a separate job for a customer, so that you can see reports for that contract alone separately. This is done in GnuCash with a Customer Job.

  1. From the menu, select Business | Customer | New Job…. The New Job dialog will open. Enter the Job Number and Job Name. In the Customer field, select the customer from the list of customers. Also enter a Billing ID, as shown in the next screenshot. Click OK.

  2. Now that you have created the job, go ahead and create a couple of invoices. In the New Invoice dialog, you must first select a Customer. As soon as you do that, you will find that the Job field becomes enabled. Select the job to which that invoice belongs.

  3. Now you are ready to create job level reports. From the menu, select Reports | Business | Job Report. Open the Report Options dialog and in the General tab, click the Select button next to the Job field. The Find Job dialog will open.

  4. In the...

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