Re: [GNC] Using GnuCash as an Accounting Tutor

2023-09-10 Thread Adrien Monteleone
It was renamed at some point. Indeed, saving the filter change now works as expected. Thanks! Regards, Adrien On 9/10/23 12:35 PM, Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) wrote: On 2023-09-10 09:01, Adrien Monteleone wrote: there is Tools > General Journal. (by default I think only the last 30 days, but

Re: [GNC] Using GnuCash as an Accounting Tutor

2023-09-10 Thread Stan Brown (using GC 4.14)
On 2023-09-10 09:01, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > there is Tools > General Journal. (by default I think only the last 30 > days, but you can change that with 'View > Filter by...' Sadly, there is > no way to turn off the filter by default, and it has to be reset each > time the General Journal is

Re: [GNC] Using GnuCash as an Accounting Tutor

2023-09-10 Thread Christopher Lam
Addendum to excellent advice given already. If you're offering a pedagogic approach to accounting principles, it's very likely that you'll have valuable and useful feedback about the usability of the software for learners, the correctness of its tools and reports. The software has improved a lot

Re: [GNC] Using GnuCash as an Accounting Tutor

2023-09-10 Thread Adrien Monteleone
+1. Those two preferences will most closely resemble pen & paper and should greatly assist them learning accounting. Also turning on View > Notes, doesn't hurt as my own accounting text uses explanatory notes on some journal entries. Finally, if you prefer they enter transactions in a

Re: [GNC] Using GnuCash as an Accounting Tutor

2023-09-10 Thread Santhosh Paul
I had zero knowledge of accounting when I came across GnuCash. (I used to note down transactions and balances in a notebook.) I was skeptical about whether I could use a double-entry software package like GnuCash. I then came across a document titled "GnuCash Tutorial and Concepts Guide". I found

Re: [GNC] Using GnuCash as an Accounting Tutor

2023-09-10 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
I currently use examples built in Excel but am exploring the possibility of moving to GnuCash, which allows its users to think in terms of double-entry accounting using debits and credits, and to make entries using these terms. It allows students to create different types of accounts

Re: [GNC] Using GnuCash as an Accounting Tutor

2023-09-10 Thread David Cousens
Thomas, I started using GnuCash while I was doing a Masters's degree in Accounting (coursework with minor thesis) somewhere around 2007 when I needed to be able to do exercises in the basic financial accounting subjects to prepare basic balance sheets, income statments for specific case studies.

[GNC] Using GnuCash as an Accounting Tutor

2023-09-09 Thread flywire
The first two sections of the GnuCash Guide https://www.gnucash.org/viewdoc.phtml?doc=guide are a tutorial to introduce accounting and the application respectively. The whole concept of reconciling a cheque account is very dated in a time when countries move to abandon cash, but it covers the

Re: [GNC] Using GnuCash as an Accounting Tutor

2023-09-09 Thread john
The only book I know about is https://www.packtpub.com/product/gnucash-24-small-business-accounting-beginners-guide/9781849513869. The GnuCash version is obviously a bit old but the general operation of GnuCash hasn't changed. Regards, John Ralls > On Sep 9, 2023, at 19:44, wrote: > >

[GNC] Using GnuCash as an Accounting Tutor

2023-09-09 Thread tkpmep
Dear all, I teach a course in Corporate Valuation Theory that is taken by students from a variety of disciplines. Many of them have not studied accounting, and while I devote two lectures and two homework assignments to the subject, it is impossible to convey the depth of this vast subject and