First, I highly recommend you read the GnuCash documentation. The
Tutorial and Guide are very useful in explaining the concepts, and the
Help is useful at explaining what the buttons do.
Having said that, there are two ways to enter a transaction like a Check.
The first is to open the Transfer Dialog (Ctrl-T) and enter the date,
amount, source (e.g. Assets:Checking) and destination (e.g.
Expenses:Rent).
The second is to open the account register of the checking account and
from there you can create a transaction for the expense.
OR, in the second case, you could open the account for the expense and
do it there. With gnucash, entering a transaction affecting just two
accounts you can do it form the ledger account of either. But please
note IF AN EXPENSE. When you write a check, this will be a credit to the
checking account. The debit side of the transaction will usually be an
account under expense BUT NOT NECESSARILY SO. For some examples:
1) check to pay brother back for a loan he gave you last week (debit
would be a liability account)
2) check to transfer money to a savings account (debit would be the
account of that savings account)
3) check to buy 100 widgets you plan to sell at a profit (debit would be
an inventory account -- becomes an expense for :cost of goods sold only
when you manage to sell them.
If you want to print a check, you need to do that from the register.
Strictly speaking, not part of accounting for the check. Checks can be
hand written on pre-printed forms (aka"checks") or printed off on a
computer printer* or be an electronic transfer. A pure accounting system
is just recording the transaction regardless of how the "check" is
produced. An accounting "package" might or might not ALSO have
provisions for producing a check as well as entering it as an "added
feature". Which means that the best way to ask this question about an
accounting application is "can it write checks?" before asking "how".
Michael D Novack
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