Once you’re into a unified tool that handles finance, inventory, etc., that’s called ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) software. IIRC there are one or two open source suites floating around.
For a small operation though, personally I’d just use GNC for the books and Excel or other spreadsheet tool for the inventory. Some good resources/comments in this Hacker News thread for the basic accounting principles: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39988993 (not necessarily the article itself but there are good nuggets in the comments). James > On Apr 20, 2024, at 11:17 PM, Christopher Lam <christopher....@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Welcome to Gnucash userlist. > > GnuCash will happily handle most of your bookkeeping needs. > > IMHO Learning double-entry is an important business skill that you can > acquire via the GnuCash Tutorial & Concepts guide, or > https://www.dwmbeancounter.com/bookkeeping-course.html is another that I've > used. > > Please be aware that the inventory part won't be handled via GnuCash: while > you can record your purchases and sales easily (e.g. buy $1000 worth of raw > materials, sell $2000 worth of products), it's difficult to account for the > raw materials inventory levels and products waiting to be sold, calculating > profit margin etc. Other (expensive) products would likely be more suitable > for your needs. > > HTH > >> On Sun, 21 Apr 2024 at 13:11, Jonathan Drews <jondr...@fastmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi Folks: >> >> I am complete novice to double entry accounting. I have GnuCash >> successfully installed: >> >> $ gnucash --version >> GnuCash 5.5 >> Build ID: 5.5+(2023-12-16) >> >> on: >> >> OpenBSD 7.5 GENERIC.MP#82 amd64 >> >> Can anyone recommend some good books or tutorials on double entry >> acoounting? I searched the arcchives but did not find any posts on >> recommended books. I have ordered this book: >> >> Accounting QuickStart Guide : The Simplified Beginner's Guide by Josh >> Small. >> >> I am opening a fabric store in early May and want to use GnuCash to >> keep track of my sewing fabric sales and inventory. It's pretty >> modest. About 280 individual items. Are there any examples of >> *.gnucash files I can use as a template? >> >> >> -- >> Kind regards, >> Jonathan >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-user mailing list >> gnucash-user@gnucash.org >> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >> ----- >> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. >> > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
