SoulSe Posted November 16, 2004 Report Share Posted November 16, 2004 I do not have any experience with software like Quicken or Money or Gnucash, the only book I have ever kept were on spreadsheets (I use gnumeric for that). So I emerged Gnucash last night and tried to learn it. When I tried the tutorial, it crashed the program. I couldn't quite figure it out on my own, and after importing QIF files, etc. it still didn't make much sense. So, is Gnucash my best option? Is there an online tutorial somewhere? Or should I RTFM? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted November 16, 2004 Report Share Posted November 16, 2004 I use Gnucash very happily :) I use Gnucash that way: - I created bank accounts reflecting the accounts that my wife and I have. - I created income accounts for the money I get (salary, reimbursements, social security, and so on...) - I created expense accounts for the money I give, with much detail. For those last two, I took care that no single account could apply to both "essential/day-to-day" and "facultative/exceptionnal" events. That way, I can later make graphs, for analysing how much money I need on a monthly basis, with or without taking exceptionnal things into account. Yves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted November 16, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 16, 2004 Thanks! I'll just have to get it stable then and figure out how everything works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted November 16, 2004 Report Share Posted November 16, 2004 Gnucash is pretty good (I use it myself) However, like theyinyeti says, it uses double entry bookkeeping. Once you come to grip with that it works fine. Before I used gnucash I had quicken working under wine. It's more intuiitive and you can use it to budget so you know how much money you will have in 2 months time. Gnucash won't do that. Last, there are some kde apps http://kde-apps.org/index.php?xcontentmode...992d45df0fd54c0 I tried them all but none is as good as gnucash. Have fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cage47 Posted November 16, 2004 Report Share Posted November 16, 2004 I've been using GNUCash since I converted from Winbloze 95 in 1998 to Mandy 7. Never had a problem. And I use OpenOffice OpenCalc to do budget spreadsheets (I used Quatro in W95). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted November 16, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 16, 2004 I'll mess around with it and get it to stop crashing and then I'll RTFM. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted November 17, 2004 Report Share Posted November 17, 2004 What kind of Mandrake are you running ?? Mandrake RPMs for GnuCash never ever crashed on me! If you want, give some information about how Gnucash is crashing, and maybe someone will be able to help you... On the other hand, you're far from a newbie in my view, so maybe we won't be of much help. IMO, Gnucash is really worth it, especially since it can now do automatic regular transactions. Yves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted November 17, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 17, 2004 I don't run Mandrake. But I stopped it from crashing - re-emerged a few b0rked libs and completed my deep world emerge upgrade. So now it's just a case of learning Gnucash - not easy at all! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramfree17 Posted November 17, 2004 Report Share Posted November 17, 2004 What kind of Mandrake are you running ?? Mandrake RPMs for GnuCash never ever crashed on me! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> always have for me. i dont know if my thread about my crusade on having it run on mandrake still exists. :) how is it now? i dont know. i left the budgeting and auditing to my wife. she does a good job better than me anyway. ciao! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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