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Questions tagged [gnucash]

For questions related to the GnuCash personal and small-business financial-accounting software freely licensed under the GNU GPL. As this is a personal finance site, questions about usage of the software are preferred over technology-related questions.

GnuCash has good documentation which can help answer many questions about its usage.

Furthermore there are:

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What headaches will I have switching from Quicken to GnuCash?

I'm interested in switching to an open source checkbook program. I currently use Quicken and I'm interested in switching to GnuCash but I have usability concerns. Does GnuCash have all the features I'm used to in Quicken? Any noticeable…
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Starting with GnuCash. How to eliminate automatic entries ending up in the "unbalanced" account?

I just started using GnuCash and there is something I do not quite get how to get rid of (and whether I should try to get rid of). When I start importing transactions, I have expenses, income, etc. As this this as "double method" system, for…
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What should I do when the reality of money present and the amounts in GnuCash differ?

I started doing double entry bookkeeping with GnuCash to keep track of my personal finances, down to the penny. I think I am familiar with most of the basics of double entry bookkeeping, I took a course in it many years ago and read the GnuCash…
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In double entry accounting, how does income become equity?

Using GNUCash, help, putting it all together, I'm accounting for a lottery income transaction. I was able to get the example shown with 2 transactions. 1. Dr. Savings 750,000 Cr. Income:Lottery 750,000 2. Dr. Income:Lottery…
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What's the difference between 'cleared' and 'reconciled' in my financial accounting software?

Been using GNUCash for the past four years, and I'm slowly learning the more advanced features over time. Until now I've never needed to bother with future dated transactions, but recent large unanticipated expenses in a short timespan are…
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improve gnucash OFX transaction matching

I wrote a script that cleans up OFX transaction files downloaded from banks so that the name and memo fields are more readable once imported into gnucash. This works great, I now get very clean records that include only the information I need for…
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Double-entry accounting: how to keep track of mortgage installments as expenses?

Context: I am new to double-entry accounting, I use GnuCash for my personal family bookkeeping. At the moment, the main goal for me is to keep track of incomes/expenses of our family over time. For this, I am sorting the flow of cash from income…
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Why is GnuCash now tracking share prices in fractions?

Prior to the update to version 3 (ie, the 2.6 branch), all my funds were tracked with decimal values. Now, they're all fractions... and odd ones, at that. Do I really care that shares went from trading at 45 + 5/6, then went down to 44 + 47/117, and…
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How to delete multiple transactions at once in GnuCash?

How can I delete multiple transactions in a batch in GnuCash? My specific use-case is that I am treating each year as a standalone gnucash file. I start with a copy of the previous year and import the current year transactions into it in order to…
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What is the best cross-platform GPL personal finance tool available?

If I want desktop, web and mobile (preferably Android) access to all my accounts and assets, in a personal finance tool, what would you recommend I look at? Until Wesabe cancelled their web dashboard it was a pretty good online tool. I use GNUCash…
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How to fix Finance::Quote to pull quotes in GnuCash

I made the jump from Jumsoft's Money app to GnuCash a while back. It appealed to all my OCD tendencies. I don't know how to use Perl, or stuff of the sort, but with detailed instructions I manage to get things done... when I can find them. I set up…
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Good way to record currency conversion transactions in personal accounting software?

I have deep personal financial connections to two countries, with different currencies. (They happen to be Canada/CAD and USA/USD, but I don't think that's material.) I have multiple bank and investment and credit card accounts in each currency. I…
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Is it possible to add your own currencies or other "countable entities" in GnuCash?

I'm trying to track the income and expenses of an essence that is not listed as any pre-defined GnuCash currency (say, bubble gum stickers, number of calories or air temperature). Is it possible to add new entity type and do accounting of that…
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Gnucash: Tags/ Multi-category

This is a question about if a certain feature exists of how other users "do it": Can I attribute different or multiple cost centers to a transaction? Example: I went on holidays and paid a flight. I book the flight at the "mobility" expenses because…
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How to account for months lapse in tracking finances

I have been tracking my finances with GnuCash since the beginning of this year. All was good until summer hit and I spent more than two months traveling, but I'd like to get back to it without the time it would take to categorize and reconcile ten…
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