On Sun, Apr 21, 2024 at 12:11 AM Jonathan Drews
wrote:
> 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
Johnathon
Do a Google search for textbooks on Financial Accounting. You will
likely get the accounting offerings from the major textbook publishers
relevant to your location. If you can access the book lists/handbooks
of the business schools in local universities for introductory
coursesyou will
On 4/21/2024 7:48 AM, flywire wrote:
A significant limitation for small business is GnuCash will not do cash
accounting *and* automated sales tax.
Worse than that. I do not believe Gnucash can do "automated sale tax" at
all -- not in the sense that a POS system can. Gnucash can do "automated
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,
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
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.
On 2024-04-20 22:10, Jonathan Drews wrote:
> 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
