| Jeff Abrahamson on 16 Feb 2004 23:21:02 -0000 |
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On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 02:45:19PM -0500, Anthony F. Mazza wrote: > [52 lines, 301 words, 1957 characters] Top characters: eotanris > > i am the bookeeper at a small upstart non-profit. i have been using > gnucash for about six months now. we are using an accountant for the > first time. she had heard about an open source accounting program, but > had never seen it before. when she visited our office recently, she gave > the program 'the once over'. > > a few 'basic' question came up that we had a hard time figuring out on our > own. i checked out the help manual and concepts guide, but couldn't find > the answers to our questions. they are: > > 1)how do you make the organization name and information appear at the top > of reports? on screen, and when you print? > > 2)how do you enter fiscal year, so reports will be on a fiscal year basis? > > 3)how do you change date options for reports? > > 4)how do you print out a bank reconciliation report? > > 5)how do you print out a chart of accounts, or account tree? > > 6)how do you do journal entries? > > also, i've posed this question here before, but i thought i'd ask again: > > are there any gnucash user group meetings in the philadelphia area? the > help list is great, but it would be very helpful to have a face to face > skill share for local users. especially to those of us that aren't as > technically savvy as what i assume to be the average linux user. Hi, Anthony. I'll second the recommendation to subscribe to gnucash-users. The developers are a bit overworked, it being such a big project, so replies are sometimes terse, but it's pretty good. What version of gnucash are you using? I've been pretty happy with it, although reporting is one of its weak points. Supposedly with the recent versions you can write custom reports, although supposedly you have to do it in guile (a lisp dialect). Lisp may be good for the soul, but I think it's odd that they don't have at least a quicken level of report customization available in the gui. I also sometimes wish the program understood how to interact with non-accountants. I recently sold some property and had the hardest time figuring out what to do with the other side of the transaction. Things like this come up. I just want to know how much money I have and why. OK, I'll step off my soap box now. It's a good program, despite its flaws. -- Jeff Jeff Abrahamson <http://www.purple.com/jeff/> GPG fingerprint: 1A1A BA95 D082 A558 A276 63C6 16BF 8C4C 0D1D AE4B Attachment:
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