OT: GnuCash

Ferguson, Michael ferguson at BRVMLAW.COM
Fri Sep 23 18:35:29 UTC 2005


It is not too difficult.
OK.
If you get monies - donations or fund raising it goes into a bank
account...so you need to create an account in the general ledger chart
of accounts that says something like Checking A/C - Peoples Bank and
another that is Savings A/C - Peoples Bank.
 
So when you Credit Income you must Debit Cash in Bank, either savings or
checking.
 
On the other side of the coin when you spend monies for postage, donuts,
gas etc, you will DEBIT the expense account and CREDIT the Cash in Bank
account.
 
Let me know if you need additional help.
 
Cheers

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Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 2:30 PM
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Subject: Re: OT: GnuCash



I am struggling with the same thing myself.  From what I can tell, the
double entry thing means that for EACH transaction you have to make sure
you do two things.  Like if you take money out of an ATM machine that is


1 reducing ATM savings or whatever it came from
2. crediting 'loose cash' or whatever you wanna call it.

I think I am going to have to really work to do this right, but it makes
a lot of sense in the bigger picture, as long as it isn't too hard to
work with.  It forces you to think like an accountant about it in terms
of where to put money and where it came from (ie what to reduce or
increase).  My guess is that you need to add something to whatever
balances out your Donations entry.  IOW the 100 bucks didn't come out of
the sky or grow on trees, you have to account not only for balances but
where the money comes from.   Sounds to me like you need something along
the lines of a 'Donations Source' account. Maybe you can create that
account, use it for balancing purposes only, and basically ignore it
otherwise.  


Cheers
Marc




On 9/23/05, Robert Bell <robert at thebellfamily.com> wrote: 

	OK, I just don't get gnucash. I want to track a simple cash
account for
	my group of Cub Scouts. I am only used to Quicken so I haven't
done any
	double entry accounting before. My understanding is that I need
an
	income and and an expense account? I really have two sources of
income 
	donations and fund raising. I created 3 accounts Donations, Fund
raising
	and Expenses. Is this the correct way? So I added an entry to
Donations,
	$100 for example and it tells me the transaction is not
balanced. What 
	does that mean, there has to be someplace I can record income
without
	requiring that it come from another account right? I'm sure I'm
missing
	some basic idea here.
	
	Thanks
	
	robert
	
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