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

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Help small businesses maintain their books of accounts using feature-packed, easy-to-use GnuCash
Written by an author who has "been there, done that": who ran two small businesses, understands the needs of small businesses, and guides you to effectively use GnuCash
Instead of simply describing the features of the software, this book focuses on how to use this software to plan, get the right numbers, and make the decisions to reach your business goals
While beginners can get started quickly, advanced users will find lots of features such as migrating transaction data and integration with other applications that they didn't know existed or could be used that way
Written without accounting jargon and with lots of hands-on tutorials, multiple choice questions to check your understanding, and additional challenges thrown at the more adventurous user, in an easy-to-read style

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Attention, small business owners! Stop tax-day stress. Stop procrastinating with a shoebox full of receipts. Stop reinventing the wheel with a spreadsheet. Stop making decisions simply on a hunch. Stop wasting money on software that is overkill. Start by downloading GnuCash and getting your accounts in order. Designed to be easy to use, yet powerful and flexible, GnuCash allows you to track bank accounts, income, and expenses. As quick and intuitive to use as a checkbook register, it is based on professional accounting principles to ensure balanced books and accurate reports. You can do it and Gnucash 2.4 Small Business Accounting Beginner's Guide will help you get up and running with maintaining your accounts. Gnucash 2.4 Small Business Accounting Beginner's Guide speaks business language, not accountant-speak, because it is written by a former small business owner. It guides you to use GnuCash from scratch with step-by-step tutorials without jargon, pointing out the gotchas to avoid with lots of tips. It will teach you to work on routine business transactions while migrating transaction data from other applications gradually. You will be able to keep on top of transactions and run reports after reading just three chapters! Beyond Chapter 3, it is up to you how far you want to go. Reconcile with your bank and credit card statements. Charge and pay sales tax. Do invoicing. Track payments due. Set up reminders for bills. Avoid stress at tax time. Print checks. Capture expenses using your mobile phone. Gnucash 2.4 Small Business Accounting Beginner's Guide gives you the power. Know your numbers. Make decisions with confidence. Drive your business to its full potential.

Who is this book for?

This book is written for you – the self-employed, the owner, partner or leader of micro-enterprises, home businesses, Small Office/Home Office (SOHO), and other small businesses – to help you maintain your books of accounts using GnuCash. This book is also for you – office-bearers of non-profits and students who want to learn accounting hands-on. If you are using a spreadsheet to maintain your business books and are wasting time, or you are handing over a shoe box of receipts to your high-priced accountant or are using another accounting application that is overkill for small business, get this book and download GnuCash.

What you will learn

Handle routine transactions with ease, such as creating and processing customer invoices, vendor bills, and employee expense vouchers
Use your bank and credit card statements to double-check your accounts by doing smart reconciliation
Set up scheduled transactions to automate repetitive work and let GnuCash remind you when bills and payments are due
Create a Trip Planner to reach your business goals using GnuCash budgets so that you can drive your business purposefully
Make tax times less stressful by mapping GnuCash accounts to your income tax schedules
Charge state, county, and local sales tax and print statements to send with payments
Print regular and voucher checks, also with memos, to ensure proper credit as well as for professional appearance
Extend the features of GnuCash to meet the special needs of non-profits
Use your mobile phone to capture expenses on the go
Migrate transaction data from other accounting applications
Integrate with other applications to avoid redundant data entry causing frustration and errors
Use canned reports, customize them, or create your own reports and charts using popular spreadsheet software

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Bookbag Jul 02, 2014

Gnucash is a great accounts package but I have no experience of accounting so I got a "Bookkeeping for Dummies" book which was awful and confused me no end. This book, which I bought just to help with the package, actually taught me so much more about accounting than the so-called bookkeeping book did. Yes it's designed for American businesses and banking (the software and this book) but I have found it to be very easy to adapt - even with my very low level of expertise - and because of it's simple, easy-to-follow, step-by-step approach I am now pretty confident in my bookkeeping abilities. I have been using it for a year now and the numbers in my Gnucash do match the numbers in my bank account / credit card / PayPal statements, so all is well. I would strongly recommend this software (which is free) but the book is an invaluable addition to it, totally worth the price.

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Ditsy Chick Apr 23, 2013

I had previously purchased QuickBooks Pro to handle my small business accounting and found it totally OTT (over the top)--too complicated and unwieldy for my basic small business needs. In an online search for something better, I stumbled upon Gnucash software which is free, downloadable from the web, and easy to learn (if you've used other business software); however, the 'help' provided isn't very good. When I had questions ('how do I...?'), I couldn't find the answers and, when I signed up to the Gnucash forum with postings sent to my inbox, I was deluged with incomprehensible questions/answers at MIT-level expertise, so I quickly unsubscribed. I'm just a simple girl who really likes Gnucash, so I was DELIGHTED to discover this book on Amazon. i don't know if it answers everything, but it's easy to read and I'm well pleased with it so far. It was expensive (I purchased the Kindle version, cheaper than the book), yet far less costly than buying more small business software that didn't work for me. Highly recommended.

Mike B. Sep 16, 2014

Very helpful! I had figured out about 90% of this stuff on my own, but that extra 10% is well worth the price of the book. It doesn't hurt that the book is written in a far more approachable style than most books of this kind.

Oscar J. Shearer Feb 10, 2014

Started with nothing more than a need for bookkeeping and invoicing for my consulting. Book walked me through setting it up start to finish.

hippielife Dec 12, 2013

Really Awesome! I knew nothing about accounting even knew less about gnucash. In a few days I had everything done!

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