Remove old English html docs.

git-svn-id: svn+ssh://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/trunk@2816 57a11ea4-9604-0410-9ed3-97b8803252fd
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Dave Peticolas
2000-09-09 10:48:53 +00:00
parent f6a5568b70
commit 47ce2a636e
86 changed files with 7 additions and 7659 deletions

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@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@ SUBDIRS = examples html sgml
doc_DATA = \
README.francais \
README.german \
guile-hackers.txt
guile-hackers.txt \
projects.html
man_MANS = \
gnc-prices.1 \
@@ -17,6 +18,7 @@ EXTRA_DIST = \
${doc_DATA} \
Configure-osr5 \
Configure-uw7 \
RAW-NOTES \
README.build-system \
README.francais \
README.german \

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CONFIG_HEADER = ../config.h

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta name="generator" content="HTML Tidy, see www.w3.org">
<title>Importing MYM Files</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Managing Your Money --&gt; GnuCash</h1>
Ken Yamaguchi has kindly made available a Perl script that allows
Managing Your Money 2.x data to be converted into QIF format, which
can then be imported into GnuCash. It has been tested with 1.3.99 and
works well. The script is available
from:</P>
<p><a href=
"http://www-cad.eecs.berkeley.edu/~gooch/mymdump.html">
http://www-cad.eecs.berkeley.edu/~gooch/mymdump.html</a></p>
<h1>Duplicate Transactions</h1>
Ken has also written a script that removes duplicate
transactions at the QIF level. GnuCash
is very strict about duplicates, and this script is useful for
successfully importing a succession of QIF files provided by a bank for
overlapping time periods, for instance.
This script is available from:
<p><a href=
"http://www-cad.eecs.berkeley.edu/~gooch/qifuniq.html">
"http://www-cad.eecs.berkeley.edu/~gooch/qifuniq.html</a></p>
</body>
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<html>
<head>
<meta name="generator" content="HTML Tidy, see www.w3.org">
<link rel="stylesheet" title="normal" type="text/css" href=
"gnucash.css">
<title>About GnuCash</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>About GnuCash</h1>
<p>GnuCash is a program to keep track of your finances. Its
features include:</p>
<ul>
<li><b>Multiple accounts,</b> which can be open at the same
time. Create an GnuCash account for each of your bank
accounts.</li>
<li>Each account maintains both a running balance and a
reconciled balance, so you can keep track of the checks that
have cleared your account.</li>
<li>
<b>A simple user interface.</b>
<p>If you can use the register in the back of your
checkbook, you can use <tt>GnuCash.</tt></p>
</li>
<li>
<b><a href="xacc-recnwin.html">Automated Tools for
Reconciling Accounts.</a></b>
<p>At the end of the month, open up the <b>reconcile</b>
window, enter the ending balance from your bank statement,
and check off the transactions that appear in the bank
statement. This agrees what you have recorded in GnuCash
with what your bank has reported, and makes it easier to
track down any discrepancies.</p>
</li>
<li>
<b>QuickFill.</b>
<p>If you begin typing in the description field, and the
text matches a previous transaction, hitting <tt>TAB</tt>
will copy in that previous transaction. This is a handy
time saver if you regularly create similar
transactions.</p>
</li>
<li>
<b>Stock/Mutual Fund Portfolios.</b>
<p>Track stocks individually (one per account) or in
portfolio of accounts (a group of accounts that can be
displayed together).</p>
<p>There are tools to <a href="xacc-ticker.html">
automatically collect stock quotes.</a></p>
</li>
<li>
Support for <b><a href="xacc-currency.html">multiple
currencies</a></b> and <b>currency trading accounts.</b>
(partial, still broken).
<p>Bank accounts may be established in different
currencies, and trades at varying exchange rates may be
made, in much the same way stocks trade at varying
prices.</p>
</li>
<li>
<b><a href="xacc-qif-import.html#QIF">Quicken File
Import</a>.</b>
<p>Imports Quicken-style QIF files.</p>
</li>
<li><b><a href="xacc-reports.html">Reports</a>.</b> Display
or output as HTML Balance, Transaction, and Profit/Loss
reports, as well as graphical account balance tracking
(requires gnuplot).</li>
</ul>
<h2>Advanced Features</h2>
<p>GnuCash offers some features not found in simpler accounting
programs.</p>
<ul>
<li>
<b><a href="xacc-groups.html">Account Hierarchy</a></b>
<p>A master account can have a hierarchy of more detailed
accounts arranged underneath it. This allows related
account types (<em>e.g.</em> - Cash, Bank, Stock) to be
grouped under one master account ( <em>e.g.</em> -
Assets).</p>
</li>
<li>
<b><a href="xacc-double.html">Double Entry</a></b>
<p>Every transaction involves two accounts, and <em>each
transaction</em> is required to balance. This provides
assurance that the overall set of books will add up
correctly, and prevents out-of-balance errors
altogether.</p>
</li>
<li>
<b><a href="xacc-expense.html">Income/Expense Account
Types</a></b>
<p>Intuit's <a href="xacc-quicken.html">Quicken</a> product
has what they call "categories" that are used to track
incomes and expenses. These may be used to create
Profit/Loss reports.</p>
</li>
<li>
<b>General Ledger</b>
<p>Multiple accounts may be displayed in one register
window at the same time. This can make it easier to track
down data errors. It also provides a convenient way of
viewing a portfolio of many stocks, by showing all
transactions in that portfolio.</p>
</li>
<li><b>Handling of <a href="xacc-currency.html">multiple
currencies</a></b></li>
</ul>
<h2>Versioning</h2>
<p>The versioning scheme for GnuCash parallels that of the
Linux kernel, where "even" sub-versions indicate versions that
are intended to be stable, only seeing maintenance to fix bugs,
and "odd" sub-versions indicate an "experimental" stream that
seeks to add enhancement.</p>
<p>The present "experimental" stream is gnucash-1.5.x, which is
somewhat unstable.</p>
<p>The latest stable release is 1.4.x; if you don't intend to
do development work, you should be using either this version,
or an older stable version. These versions are fairly stable,
with all currently known bugs fixed.</p>
<p>Once the 1.5.x series stabilizes, the next stable series
will be 1.6.x.</p>
<p>If you wish to "hack" on the experimental version, you
should first start by reading through the <a href=
"projects.html">GnuCash Project Goals</a> document in order to
get some perspective on the overall design.</p>
<h2>Lead Developers</h2>
<dl>
<dt><a href="mailto:rclark@hmc.edu">Robin Clark</a></dt>
<dd>wrote the original X-Accountant in Motif as a school
project, taking it to version 0.9 by October 1997.</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:linas@linas.org">Linas Vepstas</a></dt>
<dd>liked what he saw: the GUI was slick, the code was
documented and well structured, and it was all GPL'ed. And so
he re-wrote it: adding cell-widgets to XbaeMatrix, so that
the combobox and arrows would make an even slicker GUI,
rewrote the X-Accountant internals to add double-entry, an
account hierarchy, split out a transaction mini-engine, add
support for stocks, and spiff up the help menus. This was
version 1.0 as of January 1998. Since then, for version 1.1,
the engine was expanded and refined, and the register window
code completely redesigned and made mostly Motif-(and
GUI-)independent. Did some prototype OFX work.</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:jcollins@gnucash.org">Jeremy
Collins</a></dt>
<dd>publicized the GnoMoney project widely and broadly, and
then changed its name to GnuCash. Jeremy created the
gnucash.org web site, registered the domain, got the initial
GTK/gnome code working.</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:rlb@cs.utexas.edu">Rob Browning</a></dt>
<dd>abused everyone for not using perl, and then after we
added perl support, dumped perl in favor of guile/scheme
support. Rob maintains the build infrastructure, is handling
the whole guile/perl extension language thing, and is dealing
with configuration and configurability.</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:dave@krondo.com">Dave Peticolas</a></dt>
<dd>hacks obsessively on GnuCash. But he can stop anytime he
wants to. Really.</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:grib@billgribble.com">Bill
Gribble</a></dt>
<dd>works magic. If your checks print wrong, blame him. If
you don't like the amount printed on your checks, blame him.
If you don't like your your bank balances, your bank, or your
life, blame him too.</dd>
</dl>
<h2>Fixers and Patchers</h2>
<p>The <em>cast of thousands</em> includes:</p>
<dl>
<dt><a href="mailto:arensb@cfar.umd.edu">Andrew
Arensburger</a></dt>
<dd>for FreeBSD and other patches</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:matt_armstrong@bigfoot.com">Matt
Armstrong</a></dt>
<dd>for misc fixes</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:fred@moremagic.com">Fred Baube</a></dt>
<dd>for attempted Java port/MoneyDance</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:dennisb@cs.chalmers.se">Dennis
Bj&ouml;rklund</a></dt>
<dd>Swedish translation</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:bojsen@worldnet.att.net">Per
Bojsen</a></dt>
<dd>several core dump fixes</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:tboldt@attglobal.net">Terry Boldt</a></dt>
<dd>financial calculator and expression parser</dd>
<dt><a href="simon.britnell@peace.com">Simon
Britnell</a></dt>
<dd>patch to RPM spec</dd>
<dt><a href="http://www.hex.net/~cbbrowne">Christopher B.
Browne</a></dt>
<dd>for perl stock scripts, Guile-based QIF import code, lots
of changes to English documentation, and lots of guile
code</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:wwc@wwcnet.nu">Bill Carlson</a></dt>
<dd>performance improvements</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:grahamc@zeta.org.au">Graham
Chapman</a></dt>
<dd>for the xacc-rpts addon package</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:georgec@sco.com">George Chen</a></dt>
<dd>for MS-Money QIF support</dd>
<dt><a href="mailtochina@thewrittenword.com">Albert
Chin-A-Young</a></dt>
<dd>configure.in patch</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:jcollins@gnucash.org">Jeremey
Collins</a></dt>
<dd>for GnoMoney and GTK port</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:mcondell@bbn.com">Matthew
Condell</a></dt>
<dd>FreeBSD patch</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:pcondon@rackspace.com">Patrick
Condron</a></dt>
<dd>for webserver and T1 connection.</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:Ciaran.Deignan@bull.net">Ciaran
Deignan</a></dt>
<dd>for AIX binary version</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:gjditchfield@acm.org">Glen
Ditchfield</a></dt>
<dd>updated documentation</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:tyson@tyse.net">Tyson Dowd</a></dt>
<dd>for config/make patches and debian maintenance</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:ripley@xs4all.nl">Koen D'Hondt</a></dt>
<dd>for Solaris patches to XmHTML</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:bob@mostly.com">Bob Drzyzgula</a></dt>
<dd>for budgeting design notes</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:pjf@schools.net.au">Paul Fenwick</a></dt>
<dd>ASX support</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:hfiguiere@teaser.fr">Hubert
Figuiere</a></dt>
<dd>patch to gnc-prices</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:frob@df.ru">Valek Filippov</a></dt>
<dd>Russian translation</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:ju_finck@mail.netwave.de">Jan-Uwe
Finck</a></dt>
<dd>for German message translation</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:kevinfinn@mediaone.net">Kevin Finn</a></dt>
<dd>auto-decimal point patch</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:rjf@aracnet.com">Ron Forrester</a></dt>
<dd>for gnome patches</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:DFreese@osc.uscg.mil">Dave
Freese</a></dt>
<dd>for leap-year fix</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:jgoerzen@complete.org">John Goerzen</a></dt>
<dd>file i/o fix for 64-bit architectures</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:grib@billgribble.com">Bill
Gribble</a></dt>
<dd>QIF import code, check printing, transaction find dialog</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:otto@bug.redhat.com">Otto
Hammersmith</a></dt>
<dd>for RedHat RPM packaging</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:offby1@blarg.net">Eric Hanchrow</a></dt>
<dd>updated currency documentation</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:haral@codec.ro">Alexandru
Harsanyi</a></dt>
<dd>for fixing miscellaneous core dumps and lockups.</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:john@dhh.gt.org">John Hasler</a></dt>
<dd>engine patch</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:hellan@acm.org">Jon K&aring;re
Hellan</a></dt>
<dd>for fixing miscellaneous core dumps and lockups.</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:PrakashK@bigfoot.com">Prakash
Kailasa</a></dt>
<dd>for gnome build fixes</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:tkludy@csd.sgi.com">Tom Kludy</a></dt>
<dd>for SGI Irix port</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:sk@xgm.de">Sven Kuenzler</a></dt>
<dd>for SuSE README file</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:blarsen@ada-works.com">Bryan
Larsen</a></dt>
<dd>guile budget report</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:mellon@andare.fugue.com">Ted
Lemon</a></dt>
<dd>for NetBSD port</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:y-le-ny@ifrance.com">Yannick Le
Ny</a></dt>
<dd>pour la traduction en Fran&ccedil;ais</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:glikely@nortelnetworks.com">Grant
Likely</a></dt>
<dd>gnome and engine patches</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:martinh@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu">Heath
Martin</a></dt>
<dd>major work on the gnome register</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:mgmartin@abacusnet.net">Matt
Martin</a></dt>
<dd>guile error handling code</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:rgmerk@mira.net">Robert Graham
Merkel</a></dt>
<dd>reporting, gnome, and configuration patches.</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:molnarc@mandrakesoft.com">Christopher
Molnar</a></dt>
<dd>build system patch</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu">Tim
Mooney</a></dt>
<dd>port to alpha-dec-osf4.0f</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:gam3@ann.softgams.com">G. Allen Morris
III</a></dt>
<dd>for QIF core dump fix</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:sjmurdoch@linuxfan.com">Steven Murdoch</a></dt>
<dd>gnc-prices fix for London exchange</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:brent@baton.phys.lsu.edu">Brent
Neal</a></dt>
<dd>TIAA-CREF support.</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:spacey@inch.com">Peter Norton</a></dt>
<dd>for a valiant attempt at a GTK port</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:webmaster@obsidian.uia.net">
OmNiBuS</a></dt>
<dd>web site graphics and content</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:gordo@pincoya.com">Gordon Oliver</a></dt>
<dd>multiple currency status line patch</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:mopyr@IPM.Lviv.UA">Myroslav Opyr</a></dt>
<dd>for misc patches</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:laurent.pelecq@wanadoo.fr">Laurent
P&eacute;lecq</a></dt>
<dd>i18n patches with gettext</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:Alain.Peyrat@nmu.alcatel.fr">Alain
Peyrat</a></dt>
<dd>for <tt>configure.in</tt> patches</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:peter@wuzel.m.isar.de">Peter
Pointner</a></dt>
<dd>motif and configuration patches</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:maufk@csv.warwick.ac.uk">Gavin
Porter</a></dt>
<dd>for euro style dates</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:tpo@spin.ch">Tomas Pospisek</a></dt>
<dd>debian patches</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:rr@sco.com">Ron Record</a></dt>
<dd>for SCO Unixware and OpenServer binaries</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:Keith.Refson@earth.ox.ac.uk">Keith
Refson</a></dt>
<dd>Solaris fixes</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:schoenberger@signsoft.com">Dirk
Schoenberger</a></dt>
<dd>began the Qt/KDE port</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:jan.schrage@urz.uni-heidelberg.de">Jan
Schrage</a></dt>
<dd>documentation patches</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:cls@seawood.org">Christopher
Seawood</a></dt>
<dd>for XbaeMatrix core dump</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:aleseveso@tiscalinet.it">Alessandro
Seveso</a></dt>
<dd>Italian translations</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:msimons@fsimons01.erols.com">Mike
Simons</a></dt>
<dd>misc <tt>configure.in</tt> patches</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:rich@brake.demon.co.uk">Richard
Skelton</a></dt>
<dd>for Solaris cleanup</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:spruth@bigfoot.com">Henning
Spruth</a></dt>
<dd>for German text and euro date rework</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:robby.stephenson@usa.net">Robby
Stephenson</a></dt>
<dd>register &amp; file history patches</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:tma@iis.fhg.de">Herbert Thoma</a></dt>
<dd>gnome register &amp; euro support patches</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:detrout@earthlink.net">Diane
Trout</a></dt>
<dd>scheme qif import patch</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:rkw@dataplex.net">Richard
Wackerbarth</a></dt>
<dd>patch to gnc-prices, qif import fixes</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:rob@valinux.com">Rob Walker</a></dt>
<dd>guile and register patches</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:dwmw2@infradead.org">David
Woodhouse</a></dt>
<dd>Great Britain translations</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:gooch@ic.EECS.Berkeley.EDU">Ken
Yamaguchi</a></dt>
<dd>QIF import fixes; MYM import</dd>
<dt><a href="mailto:shimpei@gol.com">Shimpei
Yamashita</a></dt>
<dd>Japanese translation</dd>
</dl>
<h2>Supported Operating Systems</h2>
gnucash-1.0.18 (xacc-1.0.18) is known to work on the following
systems:
<ul>
<li>Linux 2.0.x -- Intel w/ RedHat Motif</li>
<li>Linux 2.0.x -- Intel w/ Lesstif v0.81</li>
<li>Linux Debian -- Intel w/ Lesstif v0.81</li>
<li>SGI IRIX -- MIPS</li>
<li>IBM AIX 4.1.5 -- RS/6000</li>
<li>SCO Unixware 7 -- Intel</li>
<li>SCO OpenServer 5.0.4 -- Intel</li>
<li>NetBSD -- Intel</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="http://www.gnucash.org/"><img src=
"logo-linux.gif"></a> <a href="http://www.sco.com/skunkware">
<img src="logo-skunkware.gif"></a> <a href=
"http://www.bull.de/pub/"><img src="logo-bullogogross.gif"> <a
href="http://www.ibm.com"><img src="logo-ibm.gif"></a> <a
href="http://www.sgi.com"><img src="logo-sgi.gif"></a> <a
href="http://www.debian.org"><img src="logo-debian.jpg"></a>
<a href="http://www.netbsd.org"><img src=
"logo-NetBSD-banner.gif"></a></a></p>
<h2>History</h2>
The table below shows some historical lines-of-code and
number-of-files counts for the X-Accountant/GnuCash development
project <br>
<table border="1">
<caption>
Historical Development Stats
</caption>
<tr align="center">
<th>Version</th>
<th>engine</th>
<th>register</th>
<th>ledger</th>
<th>motif</th>
<th>gnome</th>
<th>scheme</th>
<th>docs</th>
<th>txt</th>
<th>Total</th>
</tr>
<tr align="center">
<td>xacc-0.9<br>
Sept 97</td>
<td>-</td>
<td>-</td>
<td>-</td>
<td>34 files<br>
(7.5+0.9)</td>
<td>-</td>
<td>-</td>
<td>5 files<br>
(0.4)</td>
<td>1 file<br>
(0.1)</td>
<td>40 files<br>
(8.8)</td>
</tr>
<tr align="center">
<td>xacc-0.9w<br>
Dec 97</td>
<td>-</td>
<td>-</td>
<td>-</td>
<td>51 files<br>
(13.8+1.5)</td>
<td>-</td>
<td>-</td>
<td>9 files<br>
(0.8)</td>
<td>1 file<br>
(0.1)</td>
<td>61 files<br>
(16.2)</td>
</tr>
<tr align="center">
<td>xacc-1.0.17<br>
Feb 98</td>
<td>-</td>
<td>-</td>
<td>-</td>
<td>52 files<br>
(14.8+1.8)</td>
<td>-</td>
<td>-</td>
<td>12 files<br>
(1.4)</td>
<td>4 files<br>
(0.3)</td>
<td>68 files<br>
(18.3)</td>
</tr>
<tr align="center">
<td>gnucash-1.1.15<br>
Aug 98</td>
<td>24 files<br>
(6.2+1.5)</td>
<td>31 files<br>
(6.1+1.7)</td>
<td>5 files<br>
(1.4+0.4)</td>
<td>30 files<br>
(7.4+0.7)</td>
<td>17 files<br>
(3.4+0.5)</td>
<td>3 files<br>
(0.3)</td>
<td>16 files<br>
(1.9)</td>
<td>17 files<br>
(1.8)</td>
<td>159 files<br>
(34.7)</td>
</tr>
<tr align="center">
<td>gnucash-1.2.2<br>
Aug 99</td>
<td>41 files<br>
(10.2+3.6)</td>
<td>28 files<br>
(5.5+1.7)</td>
<td>14 files<br>
(2.4+0.6)</td>
<td>26 files<br>
(8.7+0.5)</td>
<td>-</td>
<td>14 files<br>
(1.4)</td>
<td>30 files<br>
(2.6)</td>
<td>15 files<br>
(1.8)</td>
<td>168 files<br>
(39.0)</td>
</tr>
<tr align="center">
<td>gnucash-1.3.6<br>
April 2000</td>
<td>41 files<br>
(12.9+4.0)</td>
<td>32 files<br>
(6.8+2.1)</td>
<td>19 files<br>
(4.0+0.8)</td>
<td>-</td>
<td>78 files<br>
(32.2+3.0)</td>
<td>74 files<br>
(17.0)</td>
<td>33 files<br>
(7.8)</td>
<td>25 files<br>
(4.5)</td>
<td>302 files<br>
(95.1)</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p>Each cell displays the following:<br>
<br>
number of *c and *.h files<br>
(KLOCS in *.c + KLOCS in *.h)</p>
(unless its the scheme directories, in which case its *scm
files, etc)
<p>where KLOC == kilo-lines-of-code, as reported by <tt>
wc</tt>.</p>
<ul>
<li>engine -- contents of the src/engine and the include
directories</li>
<li>register -- contents of the register directory</li>
<li>ledger -- *.c, *.h files in the src directory only</li>
<li>motif -- contents of src/motif directory</li>
<li>gnome -- src/gnome plus src/register/gnome</li>
<li>scheme -- scheme and guile code -- src/scm plus
src/guile</li>
<li>docs -- english-only html docs (user documentation)</li>
<li>txt -- internal README and *.txt documentation files in
all subdirs</li>
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<h1>Editing Account Parameters</h1>
<p>The "Edit Account" dialog box lets you change the properties
of an account. You can access this via the "edit" button of the
main window toolbar, the "Accounts" menu, or via the keyboard
shortcuts. For a description of the uses of the various
properties, see the information about <a href=
"xacc-accwin.html">new accounts</a>.</p>
<p><b>Account information</b> can be changed by typing in the
appropriate field. The account type cannot be changed.</p>
<p>A new <b>Parent Account</b> can be selected. Only those
accounts that can legally become the parent of the present
account are shown.</p>
<p>The source for <b>Stock Quotes</b> can be selected. See <a
href="xacc-ticker.html">the ticker</a> for more
information.</p>
<p><b>Notes</b> about the account can be edited.</p>
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<h1>Account Types</h1>
<P> GnuCash supports a number of different account types. You should
always choose the type that is appropriate for what you want to
record. If you're not sure, the explanations below should help you
decide.
<dl>
<dt><b>Cash</b></dt>
<dd>The <b>cash</b> account type is used to denote the cash
that you store in your wallet, shoebox, piggybank, or
mattress.</dd>
<dt><b>Bank</b></dt>
<dd>The <b>Bank</b> account type denotes a savings or
checking account held at a bank or other financial
institution.
<dd> Such accounts sometimes bear interest.
<dt><b>Credit</b></dt>
<dd>The <b> Credit</b> card account is used to denote credit
card accounts, whether involving floating lines of credit as
with VISA, MasterCard, or Discover, as well as others like
American Express that do <em> not</em> permit you to maintain
continuing balances.</dd>
<dd>The introduction of <a href=
"http://www.visa.com/pd/debit/checkcard.html"> Check
Cards</a> where payments are withdrawn directly from a
checking account makes the selection less clear; it is
probably more appropriate to treat a "Check Card" as a <b>
Bank</b> account, as it does withdraw amounts directly from
such an account, not really involving any granting of
credit.</dd>
<DD> Note the ambiguity of AMEX and Check Cards. This shows that
deciding where to put accounts is not an exact science.
<dt><b>Asset, Liability</b></dt>
<dd><b>Asset</b> and <b>Liability</b> accounts are used for
tracking things that are of value, but that are not so
directly translated into <em> cash</em> .</dd>
<dd>For instance, you might collect the costs of purchasing a
house into an asset account entitled <b> My House,</b> or the
cost of a car into <b> My Car,</b> or collect together the
value of your <b> Computer Equipment.</b></dd>
<dd>And the home mortgage or car loan would be represented by
liability accounts, <b> Home Mortgage</b> and <b> Car
Loan</b>, to be drawn down as payments are made on these
loans.</dd>
<dd>If you hold assets for business purposes, their decline
in value over time might be treated as a deduction for tax
purposes, that deduction being called <a href=
"xacc-apprdepr.html#depr">Depreciation.</a></dd>
<dd>On the other hand, if you own assets that <em>
appreciate</em> in value over time, such as real estate,
collectibles like paintings, and investments like shares in
companies, you may see them appreciate in value, and have to
recognize, for tax purposes, what are called <a href=
"xacc-apprdepr.html#appr"> Capital Gains.</a></dd>
<dt><a name="stockacct"></a><b>Stock, Mutual Fund</b></dt>
<dd>Securities that you invest in are a form of asset that
are normally acquired with the express purpose of receiving
income either in the form of dividends, interest, or <a href=
"xacc-apprdepr.html#appr"> Capital Gains.</a> There are a
multitude of securities markets around the world, and
securities that are widely enough traded can have pretty
concrete values that may be analyzed on a day-to-day
basis.</dd>
<dd>
Stock and Mutual Fund accounts are typically tracked in
registers having three main columns:
<ul>
<li>Price</li>
<li>Number of shares</li>
<li>Cost</li>
</ul>
</dd>
<dd>
In order to get <em> useful</em> information out of the
register, it is necessary to have multiple "views" on the
data so that you may assess such things as:
<ul>
<li>Total Values by security</li>
<li>Gains/Losses by security</li>
<li>Return On Investment rates by security</li>
</ul>
</dd>
<dd>More details may be found in the <a href=
"xacc-ticker.html">Stock Ticker</a> section.</dd>
<dt><b><a href="xacc-expense.html"> Income,
Expense</a></b></dt>
<dd><b> Income</b> and <b>Expense</b> account types are used to
record income and expenses.
<DD> For example, if you deposit a paycheck in your bank account, you
should mark it as a transfer from an 'income' account type.
<dd> Marking income in this way helps balance the books: the change in your
net worth in the course of a few ekks, a few months, or a year, should
exactly equal your income (minus expenses) for the same period.
<DD> The value stored in the bank account contributes to your 'net worth';
whereas the income contributes to your 'profits'.
</dd>
<dt><b>Equity</b></dt>
<dd><b>Equity</b> accounts are used to
store the opening balances when you first start using GnuCash
(or start a new accounting period).
<dd>Assuming that you've had a bank
account far longer than you've been using GnuCash, and assuming you
don't want to type in old transactions, you will want to type in a
non-zero <b> opening balance </b> into your bank account. This opening balance
should be marked as a transfer from an account of type 'equity'.
<DD> Alternately, if you close and reopen all your books at the end of every
quarter/year, the 'equity' will be your net-worth at the begining of the
period: it equal all assets minus all liabilities.
<DD> As time goes by,
you will have both income and expenses.
<DD At the end of the year, your net
worth will be the equity at the begining of the year, plus all income
minus all expense. This value will become, of course, the equity for
the next accounting period.
</dd>
<dt><a href="xacc-currency.html"> <b>Currency</b></a></dt>
<dd><b> Currency Accounts</b> are used for trading
currencies.</dd>
<dd>In most ways, they behave like stocks, except that the
only way that "income" may be gotten from them is from
fluctuations in the relative values of currencies. Note that
transfers cannot be made directly between two accounts
denominated in different currencies. Such transfers may only
be made into currency trading accounts.</dd>
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<h1>New Account Window</h1>
<p>This is what a new account window looks like:</p>
<p><img src="newaccwin-code.gif"></p>
<p>Pick an <a href="xacc-acctypes.html"><b>Account
Type</b></a>.</p>
<p>The <b>Currency</b> field should typically be a <a href=
"xacc-currency.html#ISOCURR">three-letter ISO currency code</a>
(<em>e.g.</em> - <tt>USD</tt> for U.S. Dollars). The <b>Account
Code</b> is a number that determines the <a href=
"xacc-groups.html#SORTORDER">sort order</a> of the account when
it appears in a report or in the <a href="xacc-groups.html"><b>
Chart of Accounts</b></a>.</p>
<p>The picture below shows an example for a stock or currency
trading account. Note that the Security field is not grayed
out, and that you can enter a value. That value is typically a
<a href="xacc-ticker.html">stock-ticker</a> symbol, or a <a
href="xacc-currency.html#ISOCURR">three-letter ISO currency
code.</a></p>
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<h1>Adjust Balance Window</h1>
Adjust Balance window. Use this to adjust the balance. Enter a
dollar amount, and a register entry will be created that sets
the balance to the new balance.
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<h1>Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable</h1>
<p>A/R (Accounts Receivable) and A/P (Accounts Payable) are
advanced concepts that are used by businesses to record sales
for which they are not paid right away, or to record bills that
they have received, but might not pay until a little while
later.</p>
<p>These types of accounts are used primarily when you've got a
lot of bills and receipts flowing in and out, and don't want to
lose track of them just because you don't pay/get paid right
away.</p>
<p>For almost all home users, A/R and A/P are too complicated
and confusing to be worth the effort.</p>
<h1>Accounts Receivable</h1>
<p>First, let us examine A/R. After all, we really shouldn't
really <em>need</em> to relate to A/P because we always pay
<em>our</em> bills on time, don't we ? :-)</p>
<p>As a first approximation, let us assume we don't require
customers to pay <em>instantly,</em> in cash, but rather issue
them an invoice, and give them 30 days to pay the bills. (After
30 days, we can start charging interest and sending out
harassing letters :-)).</p>
<p>When we make a sale, the two accounts affected are <b>
Sales</b> (an income account) and <b>Accounts Receivable.</b>
Accounts Receivable is an asset, but it's not "liquid," as you
can't readily sell it, and it's certainly not cash.</p>
<p>Then when they come by to pay their bill, dropping off a
large sack of twenty-dollar bills (or, more likely, a
check/cheque), we transfer the amount from A/R to Cash.</p>
<p>The reason we do this in two steps is that we have decided
we need to do our accounting on an accrual basis and not on a
cash basis, because most of our transactions are not solely
based on cash changing hands, but rather based on <em>
establishing obligations.</em></p>
<p>In more sophisticated operations, there may be a much more
complex sequence of documents generated and tracked:</p>
<ul>
<li>A customer sends in a <b>Purchase Order</b>, thus
authorizing a purchase.</li>
<li>We set up a <b>Work Order</b> to schedule production of
whatever the customer is buying</li>
<li>We issue a <b>Shipping Notice</b>, to ship to goods to
the customer</li>
<li>Once shipped, we issue an <b>Invoice</b>, representing
the <em>request to pay</em></li>
</ul>
<p>The fact of there being four documents leads to there being
considerable wads of paper, and having these and other such
processes explains why large organizations tend to have hefty
bureaucracies.</p>
<p>We report sales in our sales figures as soon as we make
them. Unfortunately, we may wind up selling some product to
no-good shady operators that we didn't know were shady, and
thus may get stuck with some "bad debts."</p>
<p>In order to determine which parts of Accounts Receivable
appear to be most at risk, it is typical to arrange AR based on
the "ages" of the debts, commonly segmenting it into several
aging periods, of payments outstanding 0-30 days, those that
outstanding 31-60 days, 61-90 days, and then those that are
<em>way overdue.</em></p>
<p>At some point, it may become clear that a customer is never
going to pay what they owe, and we have to write it off as a
<b>Bad Debt.</b></p>
<p>At that point, it is typical to record an entry thus:</p>
<table summary="BADDEBT">
<tr>
<th>Account</th>
<th>DR</th>
<th>CR</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Bad Debt Expense</td>
<td>$10,000</td>
<td>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Accounts Receivable</td>
<td>
</td>
<td>$10,000</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p>We could have reduced <b>Sales Income</b> instead, but
companies tend to prefer to specifically track the amount that
they're losing to bad customers.</p>
<p><em>Warning: <b>Advanced Accounting Concept.</b> Bad Debt is
an example of a "contra-account." That doesn't refer to <b>
amounts paid to Nicaraguan rebels,</b> but rather the notion
that the account is an income account that is expected to hold
a balance opposite to what is normally expected, to be
counteract the balance in another income account. <a href=
"xacc-apprdepr.html#depr">Accumulated Depreciation,</a> used to
diminish the value of an asset over time, is another example of
a contra-account.</em></p>
<h1>Accounts Payable</h1>
<p>The scenario for Accounts Receivable, reversed, reflects how
Accounts Payables work; just switch customer with supplier, and
watch the roles reverse.</p>
<ul>
<li>If we buy materials "on account," accrual accounting
requires that we record that we incur the expense
immediately, and rather than reducing cash, we put the
"credit" into the <b>Accounts Payable</b> account.</li>
<li>Three weeks later, the invoice comes in, and we issue a
payment, and so <em>Debit AP, Credit Cash.</em><br>
<br>
</li>
</ul>
<h1>Prepaid Expenses</h1>
<p>Analogous techniques are also used for expenses that are
pre-paid.</p>
<p>If you have to pay out down six months of rent in advance,
that is treated as an "accrued asset."</p>
<ul>
<li>
At the time of payment, you <em>Debit</em> <b>Prepaid
Rent</b> for the amount paid that is a <em>Credit</em> to
<b>Cash.</b>
<p>While this puts an unfortunate dent in the Cash account,
it <em>does</em> show on the books as an asset, and there
are no more payments to make for the next six months.</p>
</li>
<li>Each month, the balance in <b>Prepaid Rent</b> would be
down via <em>Debit</em> <b>Rent Expense</b>, <em>Credit</em>
<b>Prepaid Rent</b>.</li>
</ul>
<p>Similarly, companies collect payroll taxes on behalf of
employees, and keep them in a special bank account.</p>
<ul>
<li><em>That</em> money is not the company's, so there is a
<em>Debit</em> to the <b>Cash</b> account on one side, and a
<em>Credit</em> to an Accrued Liability, namely, <b>Payroll
Taxes Payable</b>, on the other side.</li>
<li>When the quarterly check to the Government so that they
can make <em>their</em> payroll, <b>Payroll Taxes Payable</b>
drops as does the balance in the <b>Checking Account</b>.<br>
<br>
</li>
</ul>
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<h1>Depreciation and Capital Gains</h1>
<p>This section provides a treatment of the handling of
depreciation and appreciation of assets in GnuCash.</p>
<p>It also provides a brief introduction to the related tax
issues.</p>
<p><b>Warning:</b> <em>Be aware that different countries can
have <b>substantially</b> different tax policies for handling
these things; all that this document can really provide is some
of the underlying ideas to help you apply your "favorite"
tax/depreciation policies.</em></p>
<p>Note that appreciation and depreciation of assets tend to be
treated somewhat differently:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="#depr">Depreciation</a> is <em>usually</em>
recognized (the technical term is <b>accrued</b>) as an
expense on an ongoing basis, gradually reducing the value
of an asset towards zero.
<p>Depreciation tends to only get calculated on assets that
are used for professional or business purposes, because
governments don't generally allow you to claim depreciation
deductions on personal assets, and it's pointless to bother
with the procedure if it's not deductible.</p>
</li>
<li>
In contrast, <a href="#appr">Capital Gains,</a> which could
be called <em>asset value appreciation,</em> are typically
<em>not</em> recognized until some time down the road when
the asset is sold, and at that <em>instant,</em> the entire
gain becomes income.
<p>Unlike depreciation, governments tend to be <em>quite
interested</em> in taxing capital gains in one manner or
another.</p>
<p>(As always, there are exceptions. If you hold a bond
that pays all of its interest at maturity, tax authorities
will often require that you recognize interest each year,
and refuse this to be treated as a capital gain. The
phrases <em>accrued interest,</em> or <em>imputed
interest</em> are often there to scare those that are
sensitive to such things...)</p>
</li>
</ul>
<h1>Capital Gains - Asset Appreciation</h1>
<a name="appr"></a>
<p>Appreciation of assets is, in general, a fairly tricky
matter to deal with. This is so because, for some sorts of
assets, it is difficult to correctly estimate an increase in
value <em>until you actually sell the asset.</em></p>
<p>If you invest in <a href="xacc-ticker.html">securities</a>
that are traded on a daily basis on open markets such as stock
exchanges, prices may be quite exact, and selling the asset at
market prices may be as simple as calling a broker and issuing
a <b>Market Order.</b></p>
<p>On the other hand, homes in your neighborhood are sold
somewhat less often, such sales tend to involve expending
considerable effort, and involve negotiations, which means that
estimates are likely to be less precise. Similarly, selling a
used automobile involves a negotiation process that makes
pricing a bit less predictable.</p>
<p>Harder to estimate are values of collectible objects such as
jewelry, works of art, baseball cards, and "Beanie Babies." The
markets for such objects are somewhat less open than the
securities markets.</p>
<p>Worse still are one-of-a-kind assets. Factories often
contain presses and dies customized to build a very specific
product that cost tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars;
this equipment may be <em>worthless</em> outside of that very
specific context. In such cases, there several conflicting
values might be attached to the asset, <em>none</em> of them
unambiguously correct.</p>
<p>Let's suppose you buy an asset expected to increase in
value, say a Degas painting, and want to track this. (The
insurance company will care about this, even if nobody else
does.)</p>
<p>Properly tracking the continually-increasing value of the
Degas will require at least three, quite possibly the following
four accounts (plus a bank or cash account where the money for
the purchase comes from):</p>
<ul>
<li>An <em>Asset Cost</em> asset account to track the
original cost of the painting,</li>
<li>An <em>Accrued Unrealized Gains on Asset</em> asset
account to keep track of increases in value, and</li>
<li>An <em>Accrued Gain On Asset Income</em> income account
in which to record the income side of the annual gains in
your riches, and</li>
<li>A <em>Realized Gain On Asset Income</em> income account
in which to record the realized income when you sell the
asset.</li>
</ul>
<p>The <em>accrued gains</em> likely won't affect your taxable
income for <em>income</em> tax purposes, although it could have
some effect on <em>property</em> taxes.</p>
<h2>The handling of capital gains in GnuCash</h2>
<h3>The Acquisition</h3>
<p>The first thing you have to do is to create the <em>asset
cost account</em>, then transfer the sum you paid for this
painting from your bank account to this asset account to record
the purchase.</p>
<p>A month later, you have reason to suspect that the value of
your painting has increased by $1200. In order to record this
you transfer $1200 from your <em>accrued gains on asset</em>
income account to your asset account.</p>
<p>Your main window will resemble this:</p>
<img src="appr-main1.gif" alt=
"Main window after purchase and appreciation">
<p>and your asset account will resemble this:</p>
<img src="appr-asset1.gif" alt=
"Asset account after purchase and appreciation">
<h3>While You Hold the Asset</h3>
<p>Asset appreciation is a sort of income but it is <em>
not</em> cash in hand.</p>
<p>The people that got "rich" in 1999 from IPOs of
Linux-related companies like Red Hat Software and VA Linux
Systems could verify this. They hold options or stock that are
<em>theoretically</em> valued at millions of dollars USD.</p>
<p>That doesn't mean that they are actually millionaires; the
principal participants have to hold their stock for at least
six months before selling <em>any</em> of it. The fact that
they <em>can't</em> sell it means that while it may in theory
be worth millions of dollars on paper, there is, as of late
1999, no way for them to legally <em>get</em> those
millions.</p>
<h3>Selling the Asset</h3>
<p>Let&acute;s say another month later prices for Degas
paintings have gone up some more, in your case about $2500, you
estimate. You duly record these $2500 as an income like above,
then decide to sell the painting.</p>
<p>Now there arise three possibilities:</p>
<ol>
<li>
Your optimistic estimate of the painting&acute;s value was
correct.
<p>The income account is left alone (or perhaps gets
transferred from an <em>Accrued Gain</em> income to a <em>
Realized Gain</em> income account), and the recording is
rather like:</p>
<table summary="BIGGAIN">
<tr>
<th>Account</th>
<th>Amount</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Cash</td>
<td>$16055</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Painting</td>
<td>-$11000</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Realized Gain Income</td>
<td>-$5055</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p>And if any amounts had been accrued as <em>Accrued
Gains,</em> the asset amount should be closed out, offset
by a <em>negative</em> value for <em>Accrued Gain</em>
income. If the total that had been accrued was $5000, then
the transaction might look like the following:</p>
<table summary="BIGGAINACCRUEDTOO">
<tr>
<th>Account</th>
<th>Amount</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Cash</td>
<td>$16055</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Painting</td>
<td>-$11000</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Accrued Gain Asset</td>
<td>-$5000</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Realized Gain Income</td>
<td>-$5055</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Accrued Gain Income</td>
<td>$5000</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p>Note that the two income accounts offset one another so
that the <em>current</em> income resulting from the
transaction is only $55. The remaining $5000 had previously
been recognized as <em>Accrued Gain Income.</em></p>
</li>
<li>
You were over-optimistic about the value of the painting.
<p>Instead of the $16055 you thought the painting was worth
are only offered $15000. But you still decide to sell,
because you value $15000 more than you value the
painting.</p>
<p>The numbers change a little bit, but not too
dramatically.</p>
<table summary="SMALLGAINACCRUEDTOO">
<tr>
<th>Account</th>
<th>Amount</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Cash</td>
<td>$15000</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Painting</td>
<td>-$11000</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Accrued Gain Asset</td>
<td>-$5000</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Realized Gain Income</td>
<td>-$4000</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Accrued Gain Income</td>
<td>$5000</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p>Note that the two income accounts offset one another so
that the <em>current</em> income resulting from the
transaction turns out to be a <em>loss</em> of $1000.
That's fine, as you had previously recognized $5000 in
income.</p>
</li>
<li>
You manage to sell your painting for more than you thought
in your wildest dreams.
<p>The extra value is, again, recorded as a gain, <em>
i.e.</em> an income.</p>
<table summary="HUGEGAIN">
<tr>
<th>Account</th>
<th>Amount</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Cash</td>
<td>$50000</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Painting</td>
<td>-$11000</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Accrued Gain Asset</td>
<td>-$5000</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Realized Gain Income</td>
<td>-$39000</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Accrued Gain Income</td>
<td>$5000</td>
</tr>
</table>
</li>
</ol>
<p>In practice, it truly is important to keep the <em>Accrued
Gain Income</em> separate from the <em>Realized Gain
Income,</em> as the former is likely to be ignored by your tax
authorities, who will only care to charge you on the <em>
Realized Gain.</em></p>
<p>Below, we show the second case discussed.</p>
<img src="appr-main2.gif" alt="Main window after sale"><br
clear="ALL">
<img src="appr-asset2.gif" alt="Asset account after sale">
<h2>Caution about Valuation</h2>
<p>As we see in this example, for non-financial assets, it may
be difficult to correctly estimate the ``true'' value of an
asset.</p>
<p>It is quite easy to count yourself rich based on
questionable estimates that do not reflect "money in the
bank."</p>
<p>Thus, when dealing with appreciation of assets,</p>
<ol>
<li>
Be careful with your estimation of values.
<p>Do not indulge in wishful thinking.</p>
</li>
<li>
Never, ever, count on money you do not have in your bank or
as cash.
<p>Until you have actually sold your asset and got the
money, any numbers on paper (or magnetic patterns on your
hard disk) are merely that.</p>
<p>If you could realistically convince a banker to lend you
money, using the assets as collateral, that is a pretty
reasonable evidence that the assets have value, as lenders
are professionally suspicious of dubious overestimations of
value.</p>
<p>Be aware: all too many companies that appear
"profitable" on paper go out of business as a result of
running out of <em>cash,</em> precisely because "valuable
assets" were not the same thing as cash.</p>
</li>
</ol>
<h2>Taxation of Capital Gains</h2>
<p>Taxation policies vary considerably between countries, so it
is virtually impossible to say anything that will be
universally useful.</p>
<p>However, it is <em>common</em> for income generated by
capital gains to not be subject to taxation until the date that
the asset is actually sold, and sometimes not even then.</p>
<p>North American home owners <em>usually</em> find that when
they sell personal residences, capital gains that occur are
exempt from taxation. It appears that other countries treat
sale of homes differently, taxing people on such gains. German
authorities, for example, tax those gains only if you owned the
property for less than ten years.</p>
<p><a href="mailto:cbbrowne@hex.net">I have</a> one story from
my professional tax preparation days where a family sold a
farm, and expected a <em>considerable</em> tax bill that turned
out to be virtually nil due to having owned the property before
1971 (wherein lies a critical "Valuation Day" date in Canada)
and due to it being a <em>dairy</em> farm, with some <em>really
peculiar</em> resulting deductions.</p>
<p>In short, this presentation is fairly simple, but taxation
often gets terribly complicated...</p>
<h1>Depreciation of assets</h1>
<a name="depr"></a>
<p>Compared to the often uncertain estimates one has to do
where appreciation of assets is concerned, we are on somewhat
firmer ground here.</p>
<ul>
<li>Governments tend to set up precise rules as to how you
are required to calculate depreciation for tax purposes.</li>
<li>It is easy to look up in references such as "Blue Books"
estimates of what an automobile should be worth after 3 years
of use.</li>
</ul>
<p>Since depreciation of assets is very often driven by tax
policies, the discussion of depreciation will focus in that
direction, on some of the more common depreciation calculation
schemes.</p>
<p>While there has been some discussion about how to accomplish
automated calculation and creation of transactions to handle
things like depreciation, there is not yet any working code, so
for now, you will have to do calculations by hand.</p>
<h2>Depreciation schemes</h2>
<h3>Linear depreciation</h3>
<p>Linear depreciation diminishes the value of an asset by a
fixed amount each period until the net value is zero. This is
the <em>simplest</em> calculation, as you estimate a useful
lifetime, and simply divide the cost equally across that
lifetime.</p>
<p><b>Example:</b> You have bought a computer for $1500 and
wish to depreciate it over a period of 5 years. Each year the
amount of depreciation is $300, leading to the following
calculations:<br clear="ALL">
</p>
<table summary="Example 1">
<tr>
<th>Year</th>
<th>Depreciation</th>
<th>Remaining Value</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>1</td>
<td>300</td>
<td>1200</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2</td>
<td>300</td>
<td>900</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>3</td>
<td>300</td>
<td>600</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>4</td>
<td>300</td>
<td>300</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>5</td>
<td>300</td>
<td>0</td>
</tr>
</table>
<h3>Geometric Depreciation</h3>
<p>Each period the asset is depreciated by a fixed percentage
of its value in the previous period. In this scheme the rest
value of an asset decreases exponentially leaving a value at
the end that is larger than zero ( <em>i.e.</em> - a resale
value).</p>
<p><em>Beware: Tax authorities may require (or allow) a larger
percentage in the first period.</em> On the other hand, in
Canada, this is reversed, as they permit only a <em>half</em>
share of "Capital Cost Allowance" in the first year.</p>
<p>The result of this approach is that asset value decreases
more rapidly at the beginning than at the end which is <em>
probably</em> more realistic for most assets than a linear
scheme. This is certainly true for automobiles.</p>
<p><strong>Example:</strong> We take the same example as above,
with an annual depreciation of 30%.</p>
<table summary="Example 2">
<tr>
<th>Year</th>
<th>Depreciation</th>
<th>Remaining Value</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>1</td>
<td>450</td>
<td>1050</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2</td>
<td>315</td>
<td>735</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>3</td>
<td>220.50</td>
<td>514.50</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>4</td>
<td>154.35</td>
<td>360.15</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>5</td>
<td>108.05</td>
<td>252.10</td>
</tr>
</table>
<h3>Sum of digits</h3>
<p>A third method most often employed in Anglo/Saxon countries
is the "sum of digits" method. Here is an illustration:</p>
<p><strong>Example:</strong> First you divide the asset value
by the sum of the years of use, <em>e.g.</em> for our example
from above with an asset worth $1500 that is used over a period
of five years you get 1500/(1+2+3+4+5)=100. Depreciation and
asset value are then calculated as follows:</p>
<table summary="Example 3">
<tr>
<th>Year</th>
<th>Depreciation</th>
<th>Remaining Value</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>1</td>
<td>100*5=500</td>
<td>1000</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2</td>
<td>100*4=400</td>
<td>600</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>3</td>
<td>100*3=300</td>
<td>300</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>4</td>
<td>100*2=200</td>
<td>100</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>5</td>
<td>100*1=100</td>
<td>0</td>
</tr>
</table>
<h2>The handling of depreciation in gnucash</h2>
<p>In order to keep track of the depreciation of an asset, you
need :</p>
<ul>
<li>An <em>Asset Cost</em> asset account to keep track of the
original value;</li>
<li>An <em>Accumulated Depreciation</em> asset account in
which to collect the sum of all of the years' depreciation
amounts;</li>
<li>A <em>Depreciation Expense</em> expense account in which
to record periodic depreciation expenses.</li>
</ul>
<p>The first step, again, is to record the purchase of your
asset by transferring the money from bank bank account to the
<em>asset cost</em> account. Afterwards, in each accounting
period you record the depreciation as an expense in the
appropriate account.</p>
<p>The two windows below show your asset account and the main
window after the third year of depreciation using a "sum of
digits" scheme for the example above.</p>
<img src="depr-asset.gif" alt=
"Asset account after depreciation"><br clear="ALL">
<img src="depr-main.gif" alt="Main window after depreciation">
<h2>A word of caution</h2>
<p>Since depreciation and tax issues are closely related, you
may not always be free in choosing your preferred method.
Fixing wrong calculations will cost a whole lot more time and
trouble than getting the calculations right the first time, so
if you plan to depreciate assets, it is wise to make sure of
the schemes you will be permitted <em>or required</em> to
use.</p>
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<h1>Balance Tracking Report</h1>
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<p>This report allows you to track the balance of an account over time.
If you have gnuplot installed, it can even produce graphical output:</p>
<img src="bal-graph.gif">
<p>Parameters for this report include:</p>
<ul><li>The start and end dates of the accounting period.</li>
<li>The length of each "step", or interval in the account period.</li>
<li>The accounts for which the report is to be produced. If more
than one account is selected, the sum of all balances of accounts
selected is used <em>NB: Could somebody make sure this is right?</em>
<li>Which aspect of the report is to be graphed.
There are three graphs available:
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<li>Net Gain/Loss over interval</li>
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<h1>Balance Sheet</h1>
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<p>This report summarizes your assets, liabilities, and
equity.</p>
<p>You can select the date for which the balance sheet
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The date cell handles the following accelerator keys:
<ul>
<li><tt>+, =</tt> increment day</li>
<li><tt>_ , -</tt> decrement day</li>
<li><tt>} , ]</tt> increment month</li>
<li><tt>{ , [</tt> decrement month</li>
<li><tt>M , m</tt> beginning of month</li>
<li><tt>H , h</tt> end of month</li>
<li><tt>Y , y</tt> beginning of year</li>
<li><tt>R , r</tt> end of year</li>
<li><tt>T , t</tt> today </li>
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<p>GnuCash can be configured to use a variety of date input formats
by <a href="xacc-globalprefs.html">setting a preference</a>.</p>
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<h1>Why Use Double Entry Accounting?</h1>
<p>If you are a novice to accounting, you <em>need</em> double
entry accounting to help you keep your accounts straight. It
will keep you from creating an unverifiable mess. It will make
your life easier, and it will make this software easier to
understand and to use.</p>
<p>And if you are an experienced accountant, you would likely
feel <em>ill</em> at the thought of life without it.</p>
<h1>What is Double Entry Accounting?</h1>
<p>Double entry bookkeeping is an accounting methodology
introduced in the 13th century to to make sure that each
accounts and indeed <em>each transaction</em> is properly
balanced.</p>
<p>When these are all required to balance, the likelihood of
data-entry errors is greatly reduced. For large, complex sets
of accounts with many transactions, it is distressingly easy to
make errors that may go undetected for a long time, and be
appallingly difficult to track down, even when double-entry
bookkeeping is used.</p>
<p>A double-entry transaction is a transaction that contains
entries for two (or more) accounts that balance against one
another. One account is <em>debited</em> by an amount exactly
equal to what the other is <em>credited.</em> By ensuring that
each transaction balances, a balanced set of accounts is
guaranteed. This doesn't prevent you from having errors, but
certainly eliminates the large class of <b>I forgot to enter
that part of the transaction</b> errors.</p>
<p>Double-entry may be introduced in a more intuitive way via
the notion of a transfer from one bank account to another,
where an amount is taken out of one bank account and deposited
in the other. This is effectively the "rule" of double entry
accounting; if you add something in to one account, you <em>
have</em> to have another component to that transaction to
balance it.</p>
<p><b>Not-quite-an-aside:</b> If you look at your bank
statements, they are typically written up from the <b>
bank's</b> perspective, which is exactly <em>opposite</em> to
yours. For instance, when you put money in, establishing a
deposit, this establishes a <b>DEBT</b> on their part.</p>
As a result, "newcomers to accounting," who only see the terms
"Debit" and "Credit" on statements from their bank seem to get
fairly confused about this.
<p>The perhaps less obvious extension is the notion that double
entry can be used to represent income and expenses as well as
bank transfers. See the <a href="xacc-expense.html">
Income/Expense</a> page for a more detailed discussion of
that.</p>
<p><a name="IDENTITY">In a traditional system that records
debits and credits separately, the identity that all
transactions are required to satisfy is that <tt>Total of
Debits = Total of Credits.</tt></a></p>
<p>The fact that the identity requires merely that the <em>
total</em> balances means that it is a little bit misleading to
call this <em>double</em>-entry bookkeeping; it would be
somewhat more accurate to call it <em>multiple-</em>entry
bookkeeping. Unfortunately, there's 700 years of history of use
of the term, which sufficiently discourages changing it. (To
think some newcomers to UNIX think that it has some crufty old
bits of oddness. Hah! We've got UNIX beat by the better part of
a millennium!)</p>
<p>GnuCash treats "Debits" as positive values, and "Credits" as
negative values, so that this identity simplifies to <tt>
value<sub>1</sub> + value<sub>2</sub> + value<sub>3</sub> + ...
= 0</tt></p>
<h1>Using Double Entry</h1>
<h2>Creating Transactions</h2>
<p>To create a double-entry transaction:</p>
<ul>
<li>
Click on a box in the column marked <tt>Transfer From</tt>
on the left-hand side of the register.
<p>A menu will drop down, listing all of the accounts from
which a transfer may be made.</p>
</li>
<li>
Select one.
<p>When you record the transaction, the double-entry will
automatically be made, and the transaction automatically
appear in all windows showing the transferred-from and the
transferred-to accounts.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>Changing Transactions</h2>
<p>To <em>change</em> a double-entry transaction:</p>
<p>Simply edit the transaction in any window in which it
appears.</p>
<p>Any changes made will be automatically reflected in both
accounts and all windows displaying the transaction.</p>
<p>Similarly, when a double-entry transaction is deleted, the
"splits" will be deleted from both accounts, and balances will
automatically be recalculated for <em>both</em> accounts.</p>
<p>To change the transfer account, simply select a new account
from the pull-down menu. When you record the transaction, it
will automatically be selected from the old account, and
inserted into the new account.</p>
<h1>Scrubbing Clean</h1>
<p>GnuCash may be configured to be strict about double entry,
or you may configure it to be "loose."</p>
<p>In "loose" mode, you can create <em>unbalanced
transactions,</em> that is, transactions where the "splits"
don't balance to zero. That discards the validation that comes
from using the more strict double entry scheme, which is
probably not a really wise move. In effect:</p>
<ul>
<li>If you aren't sure of what you're doing, you likely do
not want to discard the validation of <b>double entry,</b> as
this helps you keep your accounts balanced even when you're
not perfectly clear on this.</li>
<li>If you are an <em>accounting whiz,</em> you'll know that
it's <em>really important</em> to keep things in balance, and
again will prefer <b>double entry.</b></li>
</ul>
<p>But if you decide to "outsmart the system," and have a
number of unbalanced transactions, you'll probably want to
clean this up at some point. To clean up these unbalanced
transactions, you <b>Scrub</b> the account clean by choosing
<tt>Scrub</tt> from the window menu.</p>
<p>The process will examine each transaction; if the
transaction doesn't balance, a split entry will be created and
placed into an account named <b>Unbalanced.</b> You may then
review these splits and move them to their proper accounts.</p>
<p><b>Warning: Functionality Changing...</b></p>
<p>At present, control over whether GnuCash is "strict" or
"loose" is established at compile time, and defaults to <b>
strict.</b></p>
<p>In the future, there will be no option of "looseness."</p>
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<h1>GnuCash and the EURO</h1>
<h2>Introduction</h2>
<p>On January 1, 1999, eleven European Union countries formed
an economic and monetary union (EMU) and started using a single
currency - the euro. These countries locked the exchange rates
of their national currencies to the euro and are sharing the
new currency.</p>
<p>However, euro notes and coins will not be available until
January 1, 2001. Until then, the old national currency notes
and coins (French francs, Deutschmarks etc) will continue to
circulate. But in law they are part of the euro. Their value in
euro is completely fixed. All kinds of cashless monetary
transactions like cheques or wire transfers are possible in
euro</p>
<p>You can find more information about the euro at: <a href=
"http://europa.eu.int/euro">http://europa.eu.int/euro</a> .</p>
<h2>EMU Member Countries and Exchange Rates</h2>
<a name="euro_iso_curr"></a>
<p>The following table shows the EMU member countries and the
respective exchange rates of the euro to the old national
currencies. More countries are expected to join the EMU
later.</p>
<table border="1">
<tr>
<th>Country</th>
<th>ISO Code</th>
<th>Full Description</th>
<th>Exchange Rate</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Austria</td>
<td>ATS</td>
<td>Austrian Schilling</td>
<td>1 euro = 13.7603 S</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Belgium</td>
<td>BEF</td>
<td>Belgian Franc</td>
<td>1 euro = 40.3399 bfrs</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Finland</td>
<td>FIM</td>
<td>Finnish Mark</td>
<td>1 euro = 5.94573 Fmk</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>France</td>
<td>FRF</td>
<td>French Franc</td>
<td>1 euro = 6.55957 FF</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Germany</td>
<td>DEM</td>
<td>German Mark</td>
<td>1 euro = 1.95583 DM</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Ireland</td>
<td>IEP</td>
<td>Irish Pound</td>
<td>1 euro = 0.787564 Ir. &pound;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Italy</td>
<td>ITL</td>
<td>Italian Lira</td>
<td>1 euro = 1936.27 Lit</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Luxembourg</td>
<td>LUF</td>
<td>Luxembourgian Franc</td>
<td>1 euro = 40.3399 lfrs</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Netherlands</td>
<td>NLG</td>
<td>Dutch Guilder</td>
<td>1 euro = 2.20371 hfl</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Portugal</td>
<td>PTE</td>
<td>Portuguese Escudo</td>
<td>1 euro = 200.482 Esc</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Spain</td>
<td>ESP</td>
<td>Spanish Peseta</td>
<td>1 euro = 166.386 Ptas</td>
</tr>
</table>
<h2>EURO support in GnuCash</h2>
<p>You can enable euro support in GnuCash in the international
category of the <a href="xacc-globalprefs.html">preferences</a>
dialog box. If your system locale specifies one of the <a href=
"#euro_iso_curr">EMU member currencies</a>, euro support is
enabled by default.</p>
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<h1>What are Incomes and Expenses?</h1>
<p>The words "Income" and "Expense" are beguilingly simple;
everyone <em>thinks</em> they know what they mean; this <em>
usually</em> is that <b>When I spend something, this is an
expense, and when I get money, this is an income.</b></p>
<p>This oversimplifies things somewhat; it is often a <em>
good-enough</em> approximation when doing personal accounting,
but when running a business, incomes and expenses often have be
recognized as having occurred when some "critical event" takes
place that may not perfectly correspond to "when cash comes in
or goes out."</p>
<p>For instance, companies usually have to recognize income
<em>when the sale occurs.</em> That may mean that I have to
recognize a $100,000 sale <em>at the moment I and the customer
shake hands on the deal.</em></p>
<p>Since the money hasn't come in, the sale has to be estimated
in other way; the way this is done is to <b>accrue</b> a sale
at that time, and in making the transaction balance, rather
than adding something in to cash, I'd add the $100,000 sale to
<b>Accounts Receivable.</b></p>
<p>In a double entry system, two kinds of accounts must be
created: some of type "Income" and others of type "Expense."
(There tend to be a lot more different kinds of expenses than
there are of incomes.)</p>
<p>Income such as salary, wages, bank interest and stock
dividends are then recorded as transfers from an income account
to a bank (or, in general, some asset) account. Similarly,
expenses are recorded as transfers from a credit card account
(or, in general, a liability account).</p>
<p>Another way of describing the requirement for "double entry"
is that when you receive an income, two things happen:</p>
<ul>
<li>You receive a sum of <em>money,</em> and must record that
effect on your bank account.</li>
<li>You have received an income, and must record that effect
on an income account.</li>
</ul>
<p>When, for instance, salary is deposited in a bank account,
the bank account is credited, and the income account is
debited, thus:</p>
<table>
<tr>
<th>Account</th>
<th>Debit</th>
<th>Credit</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Chequing Account</td>
<td>1,600.00</td>
<td>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Salary</td>
<td>
</td>
<td>1,600.00</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p>This may be readily extended to a greater number of "split"
items thus:</p>
<table>
<tr>
<th>Account</th>
<th>Debit</th>
<th>Credit</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Chequing Account</td>
<td>1,300.00</td>
<td>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Income Taxes</td>
<td>200.00</td>
<td>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Health Plan</td>
<td>100.00</td>
<td>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Salary</td>
<td>
</td>
<td>1,600.00</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p>There may be a whole lot more than two entries in the
transaction, but the total sum of the Debits, $1,600.00, still
equals the total sum of the credits, $1,600.00.</p>
<p>If, as with <b>GnuCash,</b> everything is forced onto one
column, so that <b>debits</b> are represented by positive
values, and <b>credits</b> are represented by negative values,
the income/expense accounts do a slightly non-intuitive thing
and you see incomes as <em>negative</em> values. That <em>
appears</em> contrary to intuition, but is nonetheless
necessary in order for the <a href="xacc-double.html#IDENTITY">
double-entry bookkeeping identity to hold true.</a></p>
<p>Another way in which income and expense accounts are special
is that their account totals do not directly appear on a
balance sheet. A balance sheet shows "Net Worth": the sum of
all assets minus all liabilities.</p>
<p>Income and expenses are neither assets nor liabilities, and
so do not appear on the balance sheet. What appears on the
balance sheet is their effects on <b>equity.</b></p>
<p>There is a separate report, a "Profit and Loss" (P&amp;L)
report, to analyze income and expenses. The total profit (or
loss) is calculated as total income less total expenses. In a
nicely symmetrical fashion, since assets and liabilities are
neither income or expenses, <em>they</em> correspondingly do
not appear on a P&amp;L statement.</p>
<p>Even though these accounts may be somewhat "special", you do
not need to do anything particularly special to use income and
expense accounts. GnuCash handles the values automatically, so
that if you record properly the effects of the transactions on
your bank account or credit card, the income/expense side of
the transaction should also be handled correctly.</p>
<p>The time when things get "peculiar," and when you need to
more deeply understand this, is when amounts are transferred
between income/expense accounts. (The <i>causes</i> for such
transfers tend to be somewhat peculiar, so it's pretty fair for
this to be a pretty odd situation.)</p>
<h1>Using Income/Expense Accounts</h1>
<p>To use an income/expense account, simply create one from the
"New Account" dialogue window, and then be sure to transfer
income/expenses to it as you record paychecks, interest,
etc.</p>
<p>You will doubtless wish to create quite a number of income
and expense accounts; it may be worth looking at the <a href=
"xacc-groups.html#SAMPLECHART">Sample Chart of Accounts</a> for
ideas.</p>
<p>This partitioning of incomes and expenses is likely to prove
particularly useful for North Americans when <i>income tax
time</i> rolls around.</p>
<h1>Use of Terminology In Other Software</h1>
<p>If you have used other personal finance software, be aware
that <a href="xacc-quicken.html#QUICKENCATS">Quicken calls them
"Categories."</a></p>
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<h1>Locating transactions with the "Find Transactions" dialog</h1>
<h3>Bill Gribble &ltgrib@billgribble.com&gt</h3>
<a name="toc"><h2>Table of Contents</h2></a>
<ul>
<li> <a href="#overview">Overview
<li> <a href="#how-to">How to use the Find Transactions dialog</a>
<li> <a href="#setup">Setting up a search</a>
<ul>
<li> <a href="#accounts">Account searches</a>
<li> <a href="#date">Date searches</a>
<li> <a href="#amount">Amount searches</a>
<li> <a href="#string">String searches</a>
</ul>
<li> <a href="#modify">Modifying your search</a>
<li> <a href="#hints">Hints</a>
<ul>
</ul>
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<a name="overview"><h2>Overview</h2></a>
<p>The Find Transactions dialog allows you to search for
transactions which match criteria that you specify, including:
<ul>
<li> Account(s) affected by the transaction,
<li> Value of the transaction,
<li> Date
<li> Memo field
<li> Transaction description
<ul>
etc.
<P> You may bring up the <b> Find Transactions </b> dialog by clicking
on the "Find" button in the main GnuCash window or any register
display window.
<P> The results of your search will be shown in a register display
similar to the ones used to display your accounts, with the window
title "Search Results".
<p>Clicking the "Find" button again within a Search Results
register window allows you to add additional terms to the query whose
results are displayed in that window. <P> By combining multiple searches,
you may construct rather sophisticated queries to display exactly the
subset of your transactions that you want to see.
<a href="#toc">Table of Contents</a>
<a name="how-to"><h2>How to use the Find Transactions dialog</h2></a>
<p>The Find Transactions dialog has two main parts.
<ul>
<li> The upper
part of the dialog is a Notebook with tabs that allow you to specify
the conditions of your search. <p> See <a href="#setup">Setting up a
search</a> for details on each search type.
<li>The lower part of the
dialog is a selector which allows you to specify how the results of
the search are to be combined with any previous search.
</uL>
<p>If you get the Find Transactions dialog by clicking the Find
button in the main GnuCash window or any normal account display
register, the only option available will be "New Search". If you
select Find from within a Search Results register the other options
will be available; see <a href="#modify">Modifying your search</a> for
details.
<p>Most simple queries can be directly handled by a single
invocation of the Find Transactions dialog. The dialog has nine tabs,
each of which represents a particular field of the transaction (or
split) that you can search on. If you specify conditions on multiple
fields (for example, selecting one or more accounts in the Accounts
tab and also entering a date range in the Date tab), a transaction
must match all the conditions you specify in order to be displayed.
<p>If simple searches are not specific enough, you can combine
them by clicking the Find button in a search results window and
selecting any "Type of Search" except "New search".
<a href="#toc">Table of Contents</a>
<a name="setup"><h2>Setting up a search</h2></a>
<p>You can find transactions by any or all of the following
criteria. Each one has a tab in the dialog where you may enter
the match value(s) and comparison method.
<ul>
<li> Accounts affected by the transaction
<li> Date the transaction took place
<li> The string in the Description field
<li> The string in the Number field
<li> Amount of the transaction's splits
<li> The string in the Memo field
<li> Number of shares in a stock transaction
<li> Share price in a stock transaction
<li> The string in the Action field
</ul>
<p>If you specify multiple criteria in the search, all of the
criteria must be true for the transaction to be displayed.
<a name="accounts"><h3>Account searches</a></h3>
<p>In the Account tab, select any accounts of interest and then
choose whether transactions affecting Any, All, or None of these
accounts is to be displayed.
<p>If you select "All" accounts from the picker at the top of the
tab, the only transactions that will be show are those which affect
all the selected accounts. <P> For example, if you select <b>My
Checking Account<b> and <b> My VISA Account</b> and then choose <B>
All</b>, only transfers from Checking to Visa will be shown.
<p>If you select "Any" from the picker, transactions affecting any
selected amount will be shown. For example, if you select "My
Checking Account" and "My VISA Account" and then choose "Any", your
entire checking account and your entire Visa account will be shown
together in the Search Results window.
<a name="accounts"><h3>Date searches</a></h3>
<p>In the Date tab, you can specify a date range for the
transactions you wish to find. The year, month, and day fields are in
the order you specify in <tt> Preferences:International:Date Format</tt>.
<p>If you want to locate any transaction before a certain date,
specify your date in the second date entry and put a distant date in
the past in the first date entry. The default date is January 1,
1900, which should be distant enough for most peoples' purposes. <P>
Similarly, if you want to find any transaction after a certain date,
put the date in the first date entry and put a date after your last
transaction in the second entry.
<a name="amount"><h3>Amount searches</a></h3>
<p>The searches in the Amount, Shares, and Price tabs allow you to
search for particular quantities in various transaction fields. You
need to enter both the amount (in the entry box) and the type of
comparison (with the option menu to the left of the entry box). The
amount in the entry box is always positive.
<p>For the Amount tab, you need to indicate whether you are
interested in debits, credits, or both.
<a name="string"><h3>String searches</a></h3>
<p>In the Description, Number, Memo, and Action tabs, you can
specify a string which is matched against the respective fields of
splits and transactions. <ul><li> By default, the match used is a
case-insensitive substring match. <li> If you select the "Case sensitive"
toggle button, the search is a case-sensitive substring match. <li>If the
"Regular expression" button is selected, the match interprets the
string you enter as a POSIX extended regular expression; case
sensitivity is still determined by the "Case sensitive" button.</ul>
<a href="#toc">Table of Contents</a>
<a name="modify"><h2>Modifying your search</h2></a>
<p>Clicking the "Find" button within a Search Results window allows
you to modify or replace the search criteria used within that window.
The search functionality is the same, but you have new options for
how to use the results of the search.
<ul>
<li><b>New Search.</b> If you select "New Search", the current
search will be replaced with the one you specify, and the results will
be shown in the existing Search Results window.
<p>If you
<a href="#toc">Table of Contents</a>
<a name="hints"><h2>Hints</h2></a>
<a href="#toc">Table of Contents</a>
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<h1>Preferences</h1>
<p>You can customize the behavior of GnuCash by changing the
settings in this dialog box.All settings are automatically
saved so changes are preserved for future sessions.</p>
<p>To change settings, simply click to select the appropriate
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changes, then closes the properties dialog box. them. The
"Close" button simply closes the dialog box without applying
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<p>You can customize the behavior of GnuCash by changing the
settings in this dialog box.All settings are automatically
saved so changes are preserved for future sessions.</p>
<p>To change settings, simply click to select the appropriate
page, then make appropriate changes, and click the "Apply"
button to see your changes take effect. Clicking "OK" applies
changes, then closes the properties dialog box. them. The
"Close" button simply closes the dialog box without applying
the latest changes.</p>
<p>The settings are grouped into the following categories:</p>
<ul>
<li><b>Account Fields:</b> sets which fields are displayed in
the account list of the main window.</li>
<li><b>Account Types:</b> sets which account types are
displayed in the main window.</li>
<li><b>General:</b> anything that doesn't fit anywhere
else.</li>
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display formats.</li>
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<h1>Chart of Accounts</h1>
<p>Typically accounts are arranged as a tree, in hierarchical
form.</p>
<p>The main branches represent entire categories or groups,
while the leaves of the tree denote individual bank accounts or
expense categories.</p>
<p>When a summary report is requested, typically only the main
branches are shown in the report, rather than the individual
accounts. For example, a chart of accounts might look like the
following:</p>
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300 Expenses
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<p>Note that accounts not only have names; they have <b>
codes,</b> in order to provide <em>order.</em> When a report is
generated, the <a name="SORTORDER">sort order is determined by
the numbering.</a></p>
<p>A sensible hierarchy generally will have the "leaf" accounts
end in non-zero digits, whilst parent nodes have increasing
numbers of zeros. For instance, "cash" accounts might logically
be arranged thus:</p>
<ul>
<li>
Overall Assets: <tt>100</tt>
<ul>
<li>
Overall Cash: <tt>110</tt>
<ul>
<li>Cash in Wallet: <tt>111</tt></li>
<li>Cash in Sock in Closet: <tt>112</tt></li>
<li>Cash in Mattress: <tt>113</tt></li>
<li>Petty Cash Box: <tt>114</tt></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Overall Banking Assets <tt>120</tt>
<ul>
<li>Checking Account <tt>121</tt></li>
<li>Savings Account <tt>122</tt></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p>When you <a href="xacc-accwin.html">create a new
account</a>, GnuCash offers a guess at what an appropriate
account code might be; you are free to change this. GnuCash
does not prevent duplicate numbering, although we would
encourage you to avoid this. Account codes are treated as
numbers in base-36, thus, if you run out of numbers, you
can use the letters, <tt>a</tt> through <tt>z</tt>.</p>
<h1>A Sample Chart of Accounts</h1>
<a name="SAMPLECHART"></a>
<p>A "typical" chart of accounts is shown below. Each
account is of a given <a href="xacc-acctypes.html">account
type</a>. This example is a combination of some typical
business and personal accounts.</p>
<ul>
<li>
Assets
<ul>
<li>
Cash On Hand
<ul>
<li>Checking account</li>
<li>Money Market Account</li>
<li>Certificate of Deposit</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Fixed Assets
<ul>
<li>Furniture</li>
<li>Computers</li>
<li>Jewelry, Collectibles</li>
<li>Tools, Machinery</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Investments
<ul>
<li>Stocks</li>
<li>Bonds</li>
<li>Mutual Funds</li>
<li>Real Estate</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Liabilities
<ul>
<li>
Taxes
<ul>
<li>Federal Income Tax</li>
<li>Social Security</li>
<li>Medicare</li>
<li>FUTA</li>
<li>State Income Tax</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Accounts Payable
<ul>
<li>MasterCard</li>
<li>Visa</li>
<li>American Express</li>
<li>Diner's Club</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Loans
<ul>
<li>Debentures</li>
<li>School Loan</li>
<li>Uncle Harry's Tide-me-over</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Equity
<ul>
<li>Retained Earnings</li>
<li>Current Year Earnings</li>
<li>Historical Adjustments</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Income
<ul>
<li>
Interest Income
<ul>
<li>Bank Account Interest</li>
<li>Certificate of Deposit</li>
<li>Bond Interest</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Dividends
<ul>
<li>Stock</li>
<li>Mutual Fund</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Consulting
<ul>
<li>ABC Design</li>
<li>PQR Infomatics</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Salary
<ul>
<li>My Day Job</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Commissions
<ul>
<li>Royalties</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Expenses
<ul>
<li>
Rent and Utilities
<ul>
<li>Rent</li>
<li>Rent Late Fees</li>
<li>Electricity</li>
<li>Gas</li>
<li>Phone</li>
<li>Internet</li>
<li>Cable TV</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Office Expenses
<ul>
<li>Accounting</li>
<li>Legal</li>
<li>Software</li>
<li>Postage</li>
<li>Bank Charges</li>
<li>Credit Card Charges</li>
<li>Toner, Paper, Paper Clips</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Auto Expenses
<ul>
<li>Gas</li>
<li>Insurance</li>
<li>Repair</li>
<li>Rental</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Taxes
<ul>
<li>Social Security</li>
<li>Unemployment</li>
<li>IRS penalties</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Wages and Salaries
<ul>
<li>Consulting</li>
<li>Wages</li>
<li>Health Insurance</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Travel
<ul>
<li>Air</li>
<li>Hotel</li>
<li>Meals</li>
<li>Auto</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Marketing
<ul>
<li>Advertising</li>
<li>Trade Shows</li>
<li>Give Aways</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
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<h1>User Documentation Overview</h1>
For help on a specific topic:
<ul>
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<li><a href="xacc-acctypes.html">Account Types</a></li>
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<li><a href="bofa-mym.html">Importing MYM (Managing Your
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Quicken(TM)</a></li>
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<a href="xacc-gpl.html">License - GPL</a>
<ul>
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</ul>
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<li><a href="xacc-mainwin.html">The Main Window</a></li>
<li><a href="xacc-recnwin.html">The Reconcile Window</a></li>
<li><a href="xacc-regwin.html">The Register Window</a></li>
<li><a href="xacc-ticker.html">Stock Ticker</a></li>
<li><a href="xacc-double.html">Using Double Entry</a></li>
<li><a href="xacc-expense.html">Using Income/Expense
Accounts</a></li>
<li><a href="xacc-globalprefs.html">Personalising Gnucash</a></li>
<li><a href="xacc-accountedit.html">Changing Account
Properties</a></li>
<li> <a href="xacc-y2k.html">Y2K Considerations</a></li>
<li>
<a href="xacc-reports.html">Reports</a></li>
</ul>
</ul>
<h1>Extended Help/System Documentation</h1>
<p>The following documentation is about the <em>
implementation</em> of GnuCash as opposed to being <em>user
documentation</em> on how to <em>use</em> it.</p>
<p>Some of it represents preliminary documentation for
subsystems that are not yet sufficiently functional for use by
end users.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="projects.html">GnuCash Project Goals</a></li>
<li><a href="xacc-print.html">Printing</a></li>
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<h1>Main GnuCash Window</h1>
<p>This is the main account window. You control your set of
accounts from here.</p>
<p>Below is a picture of the main window, with only the main
accounts shown. Note how <b>Business Expenses</b> has been
selected by highlighting. The box with a cross in it,
immediately to its left, shows that it has one or more detail
accounts that are not shown at present. To show them, click on
this box.</p>
<p><img src="contract.gif"><br>
</p>
<p>Here is the main window, with the detail accounts
showing.</p>
<p><br>
<img src="expand.gif"><br>
</p>
<hr>
<p>The <tt>Open Subaccounts</tt> menu item is interesting only
if you choose an account with sub-accounts (detail accounts).
Accounts with sub-accounts will always have a box on thier
left. By choosing the <tt>Open Subaccounts</tt> menu item, a
general ledger window is opened, which displays all
transactions for the lead and the detail accounts. Note that
the general ledger window is more complicated and harder to use
than the individual account registers. The general ledger
window allows a more comprehensive overview of accounts in a
smaller space. Because of its increased complexity, it use is
recommended only for accounting experts.</p>
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<h1>Profit and Loss Statement</h1>
<img src="report-pnl.gif">
<p>This report summarizes your sources of income and
expenditure.</p>
<p>You can specify the accounting period for the report using
the "parameters" toolbar button.</p>
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<h1>Stock Portfolio Report</h1>
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<p>This report summarizes the value of the stocks in your current
portfolio.</p>
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<h1>Printing Checks</h1>
<p>You may print a GnuCash transaction as a check by selecting
"Print Check" from the Transaction menu in a register display
window.</p>
<p>In the Print Check dialog, select the style of check form
that you wish to use, the position of the check on the page,
and the format for printing the date on the check. Clicking
<tt>OK</tt> will take you to the <a href="xacc-print.html">
GnuCash Printing</a> dialog, which will allow you to preview
the check, select a printer and paper size, and start the print
job.</p>
<h2>Check format</h2>
<p>In order to print a check, it is necessary to know where the
pre-printed lines and boxes are on the check form. There are
two widely-used standard check formats: Quicken/QuickBooks (tm)
compatible, and Microsoft Money (tm) compatible.</p>
<p>By default, the check format is <tt>Quicken/QuickBooks</tt>,
which prints to any Quicken-compatible check forms.</p>
<h2>Custom Check Format</h2>
<p>If you wish to print to a type of check form that is not in
the <tt>Check Format</tt> option menu, select <tt>Custom</tt>
in the format menu and enter the positions of the various check
fields in the entry boxes below.</p>
<p>Positions in the Custom Check Format entry area are
specified with x = 0 at the left edge of the check with x
increasing to the right, and y = 0 at the bottom edge of the
check with y increasing as you travel up. Numbers may be
entered as integer or floating point values. The length units
specified in the <tt>Units</tt> option menu are used to
interpret all values entered in the custom check format
area.</p>
<p>If you arrive at a working set of Custom Check Format
parameters for a commercially-available printable check form,
please submit them to <tt>gnucash-devel@gnucash.org</tt> so we
can include them as standard in a future release.</p>
<h2>Check position</h2>
<p>Printable check forms are available in several styles. In
general, each printable sheet is divided into three sections,
and each section can be either a check or a stub. The Check
Position option menu allows you to select which section of the
page contains the check you wish to print to. <tt>Top</tt>,
<tt>Middle</tt>, and <tt>Bottom</tt> should be defined
correctly for check forms using the paper size that you select
in the printing dialog.</p>
<h2>Custom check position</h2>
<p>If the preset check positions do not work correctly for your
check forms, you may choose <tt>Custom</tt> from the Check
Position option menu and enter a position for the check in the
<tt>Check Position</tt> entry. Enter the distance along the
left edge of the paper from the lower left-hand corner of the
page to the lower left-hand corner of the check. The units of
this measurement are those selected in the "Units" option
menu.</p>
<h2>Date format</h2>
<p>Select your preferred date format from the picker. The
picker shows examples using the date of <tt>December 31,
2000</tt> for all formats, but your date will be substituted
when printing.</p>
<p>The <tt>MM/DD/YY</tt> and <tt>DD/MM/YY</tt> formats are
available, but they are strongly discouraged since they cannot
always be distinguished from each other. Please use a format
with a full or abbreviated month name instead of a number.</p>
<h2>Custom date format</h2>
<p>If you wish to use another date format besides those
available in the picker, select <tt>Custom</tt> and enter a
date-formatting string in the <tt>Date Format</tt> entry in the
custom settings area. If custom date format is selected, this
string is passed to <tt>strftime(3)</tt> as a format
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<h1>Printing</h1>
<p>At present, the only type of printing directly supported by
GnuCash is <a href="xacc-print-check.html">check printing</a>.
Other types of printing will be added in version 1.5.</p>
<p><a href="xacc-reports.html">Reports</a> can also be <a href=
"xacc-reports.html#export">exported as HTML</a>.</p>
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<h3>Bill Gribble &ltgrib@billgribble.com&gt</h3>
<a name="toc"><h2>Table of Contents</h2></a>
<ul>
<li> <a href="#overview">Overview
<li> <a href="#intro">Introduction to the QIF file</a>
<li> <a href="#how-to">How to use the Import QIF dialog</a>
<li> <a href="#dialog-files">The "Files" tab</a>
<li> <a href="#dialog-accounts">The "Accounts" and "Categories" tabs</a>
<li> <a href="#dialog-picker">The Account Picker dialog</a>
<li> <a href="#ok-button">The "OK" button
<li> <a href="#hints">Hints</a>
<ul><li> <a href="#opening-balance">Opening balances</a>
<li> <a href="#empty-category">Empty category</a>
<li> <a href="#dividend-category">Dividend category</a>
<li> <a href="#fund-families">Fund families</a>
<li> <a href="#brokerage-accounts">Brokerage accounts</a>
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<a name="overview"><h2>Overview</h2></a>
<p>Quicken is one of the best-selling programs in the history of
the Universe. Pretty much everyone that has owned a PC or Mac since
the late 80's has had a copy of it lying around somewhere, and lots of
people actually use it to keep track of their finances. Why? Because
it works pretty well and Intuit has (to their credit) done a good job
of keeping up with what people want the program to do.
<p>They've done such a good job, in fact, that lots of Linux folks
keep a Windows partition on their machine just so they can run Quicken
and the latest shoot-em-up games. So of course we want to give you a
way to suck all your Quicken data into GnuCash and remove one more
barrier to putting a nice <tt> ext2 </tt> filesystem on that Windows
partition.
<p>The problem is that GnuCash is a real double-entry accounting
system and Quicken has a pretty simplistic view about what an account
is, what a transaction is, and, most critically, is severely flawed in its datamodel, that is, <em> what it saves in
data files.</em>
<P> Briefly, QIF files just don't contain enough information to
completely and accurately reconstruct your Quicken account hierarchy
in the GnuCash double entry system without some educated guessing by
the import code as well as some guidance, provided by you.
<ul>
<li> QIF files omit small things that may be fairly accurately inferred by
examining the data.
<P> For instance, are numbers in decimal-radix [1,000.00 ==
1000] form or European comma-radix form [1.000,00 == 1000]?
<P> Or are
dates <tt> m/d/y </tt> or <tt> y/m/d</tt>?
<Ll> More problematic are major things where there is little way of
guessing.
<P> For instance, determining the currency the file is denominated in.
<P> Or what <em> account </em> the file describes.
<p> GnuCash's QIF importer does a remarkably good job of guessing what
it can, but you <em> do </em> have to keep an eye on it. Fortunately,
the system is designed so that you can correct problems <em> before
</em> you changes are dropped into your GnuCash accounts. Nothing is
done to your GnuCash accounts until you click the final "OK" button.
<p>In the next section, I'll give an overview of the QIF file and
its "features". This may seem unnecessarily technical, but if you at
least glance through it you will be much better able to understand
what's going on if you are having to jump through hoops to make make a
problematic file work right, and how you might be able to jump right
in and edit the QIF file to fix really tough problems.
<p>There are two major "paths" for using the GnuCash QIF importer.
<ul>
<li> One is the "I am a Quicken user just migrating to GnuCash" path.
<li> The other is the "I am downloading some updates from my bank as a
QIF file" path.
</uL>
<P> This document mainly focuses on the former case, since new users
are likely to need the most help and you really can't get started
using GnuCash until you can get your old records in. Fortunately,
once you learn to do the former, the latter should be a piece of cake.
<p><a href="#toc">Table of Contents</a>
<a name="intro"><h2>Introduction to the QIF file</h2></a>
<p>QIF files are plain text files formatted as "tag-value" pairs.
At the beginning of each line there is a single character "tag"
followed immediately by the "value", which extends to the end of the
line.
<P> Don't be afraid to pop up a QIF file using <tt> less </tt>
or the text editor of your choice if you are having problems getting
some Quicken data imported correctly; chances are a simple
search-and-replace can fix just about any problem you might have with
a QIF file. And a regexp search-and-replace will get the rest.
<p>Collections of tag-value pairs form records of various types.
There are records to store the names and descriptions of your accounts
and of expense and income categories that you have defined in Quicken.
There are records to define Quicken "classes" (sort of like
sub-accounts, sort of like categories, but not exactly like either).
And there are records to describe transactions.
<p>Here's a typical Quicken transaction record:
<pre>
!Type:Bank
D6/20/97
T-500
N1012
C*
M
P
L[Visa]
^
</pre>
<p>The ! tag denotes the start of a section of records of a
certain type. In this case, Bank transactions. Type:Cat means
a section of Category descriptions, Account means account
descriptions, and so on.
<p>The D tag denotes the date. Note y2k compliance "issue".
Here's a lovely "feature" of some version of Quicken and dates in
2000:
<pre>
D1/ 1' 0
T-640.00
CX
N511
PJoe Bob
LRent:Apartment
^
</pre>
<p>Ouch! Fortunately the GnuCash QIF importer can handle all of
the wacky date formats that the gnucash-devel list can find.
<p>The T field is the "Total" amount of the transaction. If there
are splits, the sum of all the split amounts is in a T field. Money
going out of the account is negative.
<p>The N field is a "Number", which is usually a check number or
some other identifying number for the transaction.
<p>The C field represents the clearing/reconciliation state of the
transaction. An x or X in this field means the transaction is
"Cleared", a * means the transaction is Reconciled.
<p>The M field is the transaction memo.
<p>The P field is the Payee.
<p>The L field is the Category/Account line. If the value in this
field is enclosed in square brackets, like [Visa], this transaction is
a transfer to the Quicken account named Visa. If there are no square
brackets, the transaction is in the named Category (like
Rent:Apartment).
<p>The ^ tag means End of Record.
<p>Quicken users taking advantage of Classes will see a slash (/)
character followed by the class name appended on the Category line
(like [Visa]/Project)
<p>If a transaction has "splits", meaning that it is a single
transaction with "this" account but is "split" into multiple
source/destination accounts, the splits are described with S fields
for the category/account/class of each split, an $ field for the
amount of the split, and an E field for a per-split memo. The total
of all the $ fields in a transaction record should equal the T field.
<p>Note that nowhere in the transaction record, nor anywhere
else in the file, does Quicken store the name of the account that the
file describes. Don't ask me why not, I don't know either. Microsoft
Money (which also can save QIF files) uses a "trick" to get the
information in the file. If the very first Bank transaction in the
file has a payee of "Opening Balance", the L line contains the name of
the account that the file describes:
<pre>
!Type:Bank
D12/03/95
T4,706.57
CX
POpening Balance
L[New Bank]
^
</pre>
<p>Opening Balance records are handled specially, since they don't
mean what the data appear to indicate (if you interpret the record
literally, as a transfer of $4706.57 from [New Bank] to [New Bank],
your new balance is a whopping $0.00). In the <a
href="#dialog-accounts">Accounts Tab</a> section there's a discussion
of what we do with them.
<h3>Multi-account Quicken exports</h3>
<p>Quicken and some other programs who use QIF as an export format
know how to put the history of multiple accounts into a single QIF
file. They do this by prepending an "!Account" record before the set
of transactions to/from that account.
<p>The QIF Importer should be able to handle these files fine. You
may notice that the "Default QIF Account" seems somewhat arbitrary;
for multiple-account exports, the guessed account is the first one
with an Opening Balance record. However, since Quicken explicitly
lists the account for every transaction in multi-account exports, you
aren't likely to get any transactions in the default account other
than those that are supposed to be there.
<p><a href="#toc">Table of Contents</a>
<a name="how-to"><h2>How to use the QIF Import dialog</h2></a>
<p>The "Quick Start" guide: To load your files, click the "Select ..."
button in the Files tab to find the file, then click the "Load File"
button at the bottom of the Files tab to actually load it.
<P>Repeat this until all your files are loaded (read the explanation
below to see why you should load all your files at the same time).
Check the Accounts and Categories dialogs and make corrections if
necessary. Then click the big OK button.
<p>Why you need to load all your files at the same time:
<p>There are two different types of QIF files: those that describe
single accounts and those that describe multiple accounts. Both kinds
to try to be "complete" in representing all the transactions involving
each account that they represent. What this means is that if you have
multiple Quicken accounts, with transfers between them, transactions
will show up in multiple accounts. This means that if you aren't
smart about catching duplicate transactions you will end up with wrong
balances in GnuCash. Definitely a bad thing.
<p>In order to get the best possible replication of your Quicken
account tree, export everything you can from Quicken and then import
it all in one session, either as a single QIF file representing all
your accounts together or as a single file for each account. The
importer's <a href="#dialog-files">Files tab</a> will allow you to
load as many QIF files as you want, and to make sure that the
currency, Quicken account name, and so on are right for each one. The
importer can do a really good job of catching cross-references (which
and marking them.
<p>The importer is written mostly in Guile, and it can be a little
slow on large QIF files. Load File takes 5-6 seconds for a QIF file
with 1000 or so transactions on my machine.
<p>Once you have loaded all the files into the importer, go to the
<a href="#dialog-accounts">Accounts tab</a>, and then to the <a
href="#dialog-categories">Categories tab</a>, and check that the
importer is going to put your Quicken transactions in the right place.
You can click to pop up a dialog and change the GnuCash destination
account name/type for any QIF account. Don't be afraid to change
these destination accounts; they are merely guesses by the importer
based on the name and type of the QIF account. Mappings of Quicken
account to GnuCash account are written to a preferences file when you
click "OK", so if you import other Quicken files describing these same
accounts you won't have to correct the importer again.
<p>Make sure (especially in the Accounts tab) that the QIF account
names and transaction counts make sense to you. If you see that one
QIF account is mentioned by two different names, make sure that the
"QIF Account" for every file in the Files tab is what you meant it to
be. If the QIF Account for a file is wrong, the importer won't be
able to match up transfers correctly and your balances will be wrong.
If a QIF Account for a file is wrong, select the file in the Files tab,
unmark the "Auto" checkbox, and edit the text box to contain the right
name, then click "Load File" again. You will be asked to confirm a
reload of the file and then it will be done. Flip back to the
Accounts tab, see if that fixed the problem, repeat as necessary.
<p>When you are happy with the account mappings (double check
them, and make sure to save your GnuCash session first just to be
sure), then and only then click OK. If you click Cancel at any time,
your accounts will not be touched.
<p>Again, the importer is written mostly in Guile, and it can be a
little slow on large QIF files. It takes 3-4 seconds to stuff 1000
transactions into GnuCash on a Celeron 433, proportionately longer on
slower CPUs. You only have to do a large import like that a few
times, fortunately, so I'm not too worried about it.
<p><a href="#toc">Table of Contents</a>
<a name=dialog-files><h2>The "Files" Tab</h2>
<p>The first thing to do is load all your files. Click "Select
File", pick your file, then set the account, currency, radix, and date
fields, then click "Load File". The Currency field defaults to the
GnuCash default currency (set in the International tab of the
Preferences dialog). Try autodetecting radix, date format, and
account name first. The radix and date formats will stay on
"Autodetect" if the autodetector is not 100 percent sure of the right
answer; in that case, you will have to make a manual selection. You
probably know what the correct radix format is; if you're in the US or
the UK, it's definitely "decimal". Almost every QIF file I have seen
in the US is m/d/y for the date format, so try that if auto-detect
doesn't work.
<p>To go back to a file that you have previously loaded, select
its name in the file list on the left. If you change settings for a
previously-loaded file, click "Load File" again to reload it with new
settings. Don't forget to turn off "Auto" on the QIF Account entry if
you manually enter it.
<p>If there's no Opening Balance record in the file, the account
name is guessed from the file name: any .qif extension is removed, and
all dashes and underscores are changed to spaces. If you want to save
yourself manually re-entering the name, save the file with a name that
will get guessed correctly (i.e. save the account "My Bank Account" as
My-Bank-Account.qif or My_Bank_Account.qif).
<a name=dialog-accounts><h2>The "Accounts" and "Categories" Tabs</h2>
<p>Each line in the Accounts tab display represents a mapping from
a Quicken account to a GnuCash account. Similarly, the Categories tab
display shows mappings from Quicken categories to GnuCash
accounts. Only QIF accounts referenced by one or more transaction
records are displayed. The name of the GnuCash account is displayed
in "full name" format, including the names of all parent accounts
separated by your default separator character (generally ":").
<p>The first thing to check is the column of Quicken account
names. Make sure there are no duplicates with slightly-different
names. If a QIF transaction makes a transfer to [My Checking], and
you imported a file called my-checking.qif, you might have one account
entry for "my checking" and one for "My Checking". If these are the
same account, you need to go back to the Files tab and reload
my-checking.qif with the correct Quicken account name, My Checking.
<p>Once you have all the Quicken accounts making sense, check the
GnuCash account column. The default GnuCash account for a given
Quicken account is determined by a fallback procedure which makes the
best guess it can given the available information. The guesses that
are tried are (in order of preference):
<ul>
<li>Saved mappings from previous import sessions. Each time you
click "OK" in the import dialog, the mappings that you have selected
are saved for the next time you import files. At the moment, the file
is always called ~/.gnucash/qif-accounts-map. If you get some weird
default mappings (for instance, if you change an account name and the
importer wants to keep creating a new account with the old name) just
delete this file. It's on my wishlist to make this work a little
more smoothly.
<li>Similar accounts from your existing GnuCash account tree.
"Similar" means that the account types are compatible and the names
could reasonably be assumed to refer to the same thing. Full-path
exact name matches are preferred most, followed by case-insensitive
matches, followed by matches with prepended account parents (i.e.
QIF account Visa matches GnuCash account Credit Cards:Visa), followed
by various substring matches. If you think of a good heuristic
for this, let me know.
<li>New account. The name of the new account is currently just
the same as the name of the Quicken account; again, if you think of a
good heuristic to make this better let me know. I've thought about
making it look for subtrees to insert into (if all existing credit
card accounts are children of an account, make the new account a child
of that account, etc). On the wishlist.
</ul>
<p>Check both the name of the GnuCash account for each QIF account
and the type. If you are unhappy with either, click on the row in the
display containing the offensive mapping. You will see the
<a href="#dialog-picker">Account Picker</a> dialog which will allow you
to change it.
<p><a href="#toc">Table of Contents</a>
<a name=dialog-picker><h2>The Account Picker</h2>
<p>This account picker is sort of broken. The idea is that you
can select an existing account from the tree display, or enter
information for a new account in the boxes below. However, right now
it's possible to do Very Bad things like specify a subaccount of an
existing account with a type that's not compatible with the parent.
As soon as I figure out how I want this dialog to work I'll fix it. I
have tested out the worst things that you can do and nothing terrible
happens, except your account tree might be in a state that you could
never have created through the GUI (a Credit Card account as a child
of a Bank account, for example). Don't do that. I'll fix it Real
Soon.
<p><a href="#toc">Table of Contents</a>
<a name=ok-button><h2>The "OK" Button</h2></a>
<p>Everything really happens when you hit the "OK" button, so it
gets a section to itself.
<ul>
<li>First we do a "mark and sweep" to eliminate the duplicated
halves of transfers in the loaded Quicken transactions.
<li>A GnuCash account tree is created which mirrors
your existing tree and includes any new accounts added by your
Accounts and Categories mappings.
<li>All the QIF transactions are converted into GnuCash splits and
stuffed into the new account tree.
<li>Finally, the GnuCash engine is asked to merge the old account
tree with the new account tree.
</ul>
<p><a href="#toc">Table of Contents</a>
<a name="hints"><h2>A few hints</h2></a>
<a name="opening-balance"><h3>Opening Balance</h3></a>
<p>If your Quicken files have "Opening Balance" records, you will
see an account called "Opening Balance" in the Accounts tab.
Accounting for the source of opening balances is sort of a hassle,
when you think about it, because they come from accounts that are
outside the scope of the GnuCash universe. The suggestion I've seen
on the gnucash-devel list is to make Opening Balances point to a
GnuCash account called "Retained Earnings", of type Equity. I don't
exactly understand this but it seems reasonable, and it's the default
for accounts called "Opening Balance".
<a name="empty-category"><h3>Empty category</h3></a>
<p>In the Categories display, you may notice a blank QIF Category
entry. Quicken transactions are not required to have a Category, but
GnuCash transactions are required to have a source and a destination.
The blank category lets you select which GnuCash account all
uncategorized transactions go to. This will generally be
miscellaneous checks you have written, cash withdrawals, and so on, so
you probably want to put these in a "Misc Expenses" account or
something similar. It may make sense to put this in an equity
account; let me know if there's a good explanation for how it should
be.
<a name="dividend-category"><h3>Dividend category</h3></a>
<p>Quicken stock transactions have a recognizable pattern for
dividend payments. If the importer can definitely tell that a
transaction is a transfer from dividends then it will default to
creating a "Dividend" income account. This category is usually not
present in the Quicken file, so it's being manufactured out of
nowhere.
<a name="fund-families"><h3>Fund families</h3></a>
<p>Quicken has the abstraction of a single account representing a
"fund family" for the purpose of allowing smooth transfers between the
various accounts administered within the family. The GnuCash Importer
will ALWAYS get this wrong the first time, because Quicken explicitly
puts the wrong information in the file. The "blanket" account
representing the fund family as a whole should probably be a Bank
account, since the transfers to and from it in the Quicken file are
denominated in currency, not shares. The balance of such an account
is supposed to always be 0 since you just use it as an intermediary
between two accounts in the family. Hopefully I'll fix this at some
point if someone tells me how it's supposed to work.
<a name="brokerage-accounts"><h3>Brokerage accounts</h3></a>
<p>Brokerage accounts are really confusing to me. Basically, my
thinking is that the brokerage account itself should probably be a
Bank account. The only weirdness is in stuff like dividends paid from
securities to the brokerage account. If you're using a Dividend
account, you can lose the information about where the dividend came
from. The importer tries to save this information by putting the
security name in the Payee slot (which shows up in the GnuCash
Description field for the transaction). If you have a better idea,
let me know.
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<h1>Quicken (TM) User's Guide</h1>
<p>Not all accounting systems use the same words to describe
the same concepts. The following are some notes that may be
helpful to users accustomed to Intuit's products.</p>
<h1>Quicken Categories</h1>
<a name="QUICKENCATS"></a>
<p>What Quicken calls <tt>Categories</tt> are really just <a
href="xacc-expense.html">Income/Expense accounts</a>. Thus, if
you are used to specifying a category in Quicken, just create
an income/expense account of the same name in GnuCash, and use
that as the name of the account.</p>
<h1>Quicken QIF File Import</h1>
<a name="QIF"></a> GnuCash supports the import of Quicken
Import Files (QIF). (Note: Only Quicken Version 3.0 QIF has
been formally tested so far.)
<p>Note that the QIF format is representative of a somewhat
peculiar data model that is not as expressive as one might
wish; it requires dumping out a separate data file for each
account, rather than permitting you to have one file that
represents <em>all</em> of the accounts you might have had in
Quicken.</p>
<p>Furthermore, while there are plans to do so in the future,
there is not, at this point, a way of mapping the account or
category names used in Quicken to a <em>different</em> set of
account names that you might be using in GnuCash.</p>
<p>As a result, please read this section carefully. You may be
somewhat disappointed with the results of a QIF import; this
will at least give you some more accurate expectations as to
what will happen.</p>
<h2>Creating QIF Files</h2>
<p>To create a set of Quicken <tt>QIF</tt> files, perform the
following procedure:</p>
<ul>
<li>
Start Quicken.
<p>It works on <a href="http://www.winehq.com/">Wine,</a>
Caldera's Wabi, and doubtless on VMWare, so this may not
forcibly require that you run Windows.</p>
</li>
<li>
Select the account that you wish to export.
<p>Quicken can only export one account to each data file,
which means that if you have many accounts, this may prove
to be a somewhat tedious process. (On the other hand, it
should be a whole lot <em>less</em> tedious than entering
the data from scratch.)</p>
</li>
<li>
Choose the menu <tt>File</tt> and select the <tt>
Export...</tt> menu entry.
<p>This will provide a dialog that requests a filename,
effective dates, as well as a series of checkboxes,
including <tt>Transactions</tt>, <tt>Accounts List</tt>,
<tt>Category List</tt>, and so forth.</p>
<p>For best results, you should make sure that those three
are checked.</p>
<p>If you do <em>not</em> check the <tt>Accounts List</tt>
box, then the name of your account will likely be lost, and
that will cause problems when you try to import the data
into GnuCash later.</p>
</li>
</ul>
Now you have a set of <tt>.QIF</tt> files, and should run
GnuCash.
<h2>Loading QIF files into GnuCash</h2>
<ul>
<li>To import a Quicken QIF file, choose the menu <tt>
File</tt> and select the entry <tt>Import QIF</tt>.</li>
<li>The imported file will be merged with whatever other data
you currently have in GnuCash. The merge allows multiple
Quicken accounts to be imported and merged into one account
group.<br>
<br>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>Things To Note About QIF Import</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<b>Duplicate Entry Scanning</b>
<p>Note that during merge, a scan is made for duplicate
transactions, and duplicates are removed. A duplicate
transaction is one where the date, description (payee),
memo, quantity, share price, and debited/credited accounts
or categories match <em>exactly.</em> Thus, the merge <em>
should</em> be safe unless you have multiple transactions
on the same date, to the same account, for the same amount,
with the same description and memo.</p>
<p>This unfortunately <em>can</em> occur, the typical
scenario involving where you make multiple withdrawals of
identical amounts from ATM machines on the same day.</p>
</li>
<li>
<b>Empty Accounts</b>
<p>Note that when the <tt>Accounts List</tt> and <tt>
Category List</tt> is exported from Quicken, <b>all</b>
accounts and categories will be exported, even if they are
empty and contain no transactions. When these are imported,
they will appear as accounts with a balance of zero. If you
do not plan to use such accounts, feel free to delete them.
Future enhancements may allow you to delete them "en
masse," or to make them invisible without deleting
them.</p>
</li>
<li>
<b>QIF Mark II</b> An ongoing project is to build an
alternative import utility in Guile that will be more
flexible, and which, by virtue of being stored as a set of
Scheme scripts, may be modified without needing to
recompile the whole application.
<p>At this point, it successfully parses <tt>QIF</tt>
files; what remains is the (rather complex task) of
determine appropriate correspondences between the Quicken
<b>Categories</b> and the GnuCash equivalents. That is one
of the most significant weaknesses with the present QIF
import scheme.</p>
</li>
<li>
<b>More about QIF</b>
<p>Further details about the QIF Interchange Format may be
found <a href=
"http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/financeformats.html#QIF">
here.</a></p>
</li>
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<h1>Reconciliation Window</h1>
<p>The Reconciliation window is used to reconcile your GnuCash accounts
with statements that banks or other institutions send you.</p>
<p>For example, when you write a check for something, you
should enter the transaction into GnuCash. The reconciliation (R)
field of the transaction will initially contain 'n' (not reconciled).
Later, if you think that the check has been cashed, you might click on
the transaction's R field to change it to 'c' (cleared, but not
reconciled).</p>
<p>At the end of the month, you receive your bank statement,
perhaps including canceled checks. At <em>that</em> point, you
should "reconcile" the account, that is, match your personal
records with the documentation provided by the bank.</p>
<ul>
<li><p>Open the reconcile window by selecting 'Reconcile...' from the
'Accounts' menu of the account's <a href="xacc-regwin.html">Register
window</a>. GnuCash will prompt you for some information from the
statement:</p>
<p><img src="recninfo.gif"></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Enter the date of the end of the period that the statement covers,
and the final balance from the statement, and press 'OK'.</p>
<p>The Reconcile window will pop-up. The reconcile window looks
like this:</p>
<p>
<img src="recnwin.gif">
</p>
<p>The 'Funds In' and 'Funds Out' groups lists all the unreconciled
transactions. The '?' columns show whether the transactions have
been cleared or reconciled.</p>
</li>
<li>
Now, examine each item on the statement.
<p>Look for the matching item in the Reconcile window. If you
cannot find one, then perhaps you forgot to enter a transaction, or
did not know that the transaction had happened. You can use the
'New' button on the tool bar, or the 'New' menu item in the
'Transaction' menu, to open a register window and enter the missing
transaction. The new item will appear in the Reconcile window when
you press 'enter' after entering the transaction.</p>
<p>When you find the item in the Reconcile window, compare the
amount to the amount on the statement. If they disagree, you may
have made an error when you entered the transaction in GnuCash.
You can use the 'Edit' button on the tool bar, or the 'Edit' menu
item in the 'Transaction' menu, to open a register window and
correct the transaction.</p>
<p>If the amounts agree, click on the item in the Reconcile
window. The '?' column will change to 'y' (reconciled) from 'n' or
'c'.</p>
<p>You then repeat this for each item that appears on the
bank statement, verifying that the amounts match with the
amounts in GnuCash, and marking off transactions in GnuCash
as they are reconciled.</p>
</li>
<li>At the bottom of the window is a difference field, which
should be 0 when you are done reconciling. If it isn't,
then you have either missed transactions, or some amounts may
be incorrect in GnuCash. (Or, probably rather less likely,
the bank may have made an error.)
</li>
<li>When you have completed marking off all the items on the
bank statement, and when the difference is 0, you
may press the Finish button on the tool bar, or select the 'Finish'
item from the 'Reconcile' menu. The Reconcile window will close. In
the Register window, the R field of the reconciled transactions will
change to 'y'.
</li>
</ul>
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<h1>Register Window</h1>
<img src="regwin-single.gif">
<p>This is the "Register" or the "Ledger" window. Transactions
are entered here.</p>
<p>To enter a new transaction, just type into the last blank
transaction. As well as just typing them in, ou can use can use
the <a href="xacc-date.html">Date Accelerator keys</a> to quickly
enter dates. Use the mouse or the <a
href="xacc-regwin_kbd.html">Register Keyboard Shortcuts</a>to move
between fields, and hit the Enter key or click record to record
the transaction:</p> <img src="regwin-single2.gif">
<p>Notice how a the transaction has been recorded and a new,
blank transaction has been created.</p>
<p>You can edit existing transactions in a similar manner.
GnuCash will prompt you to confirm any changes you make.</p>
<p>After you have entered a few transactions, GnuCash will try to
guess some or all of the remaining details of a transaction when
you type into the "Description" field. If GnuCash has guessed wrong,
simply type over or delete the incorrect information and replace it
with the correct information.</p>
<h1>Manipulating transactions</h1>
<p>You can manipulate transactions with the toolbar or the
"Transaction" menu:</p>
<ul>
<li><b>Delete:</b> you can delete a transaction or an
individual split.</li>
<li><b>Cancel:</b> this reverts any changes you have made to
the transaction you are currently entering/changing</li>
<li><b>New:</b> this moves the cursor to the last line of the
register where new transactions are entered</li>
<li><b>Jump:</b> When placed over an existing transaction, it
takes you to the corresponding register entry in the other
register entry that this transaction appears in</li>
<li><b>Transfer:</b>This is an alternative way to enter a
transaction. You can do a transfer between any two accounts
without opening up other registers.</li>
<li><b>Close:</b>Closes this register</li>
</ul>
<h1>Viewing Transactions</h1>
<p>The register can show transactions in a variety of different
ways, controlled by entries on the "Register" menu.</p>
<p>The register can display transactions in several different
styles:</p>
<ul>
<li><b>single-line mode:</b> transactions are displayed on a
single line.</li>
<li><b>double-line mode:</b> transactions are displayed over
two lines, with more information about each transaction
shown.</li>
<li><b>multi-line mode:</b> transactions are displayed over
multiple lines, allowing the display of multiple entries.
This allows you to enter multi-split transactions (for
instance, when you pay multiple bills with one check).</li>
<li><b>auto-single and auto-double modes</b> are like single
and double-line modes, except that the currently-edited
transaction is displayed in multi-line form. This is a very
convenient way of entering multi-account transactions.</li>
</ul>
<p>To change the display style, to go the "Register" menu and
select "style".</p>
<p>Existing transactions are normally displayed in date order,
but this can also be changed with "Sort Order". You can also
select a date rate from which transactions will be displayed
with "Date Range".</p>
<h1>Reconciliation</h1>
<p>Transactions are typically checked against bank statements -
a process known as "reconciliation". GnuCash keeps track of the
reconciliation status of each transaction.</p>
<p>The reconciliation status of a transaction is shown by the
reconciliation (R) field: 'y' indicates that a transaction has
been reconciled, 'n' indicates that it has not, and 'c' indicates that
it has been cleared, but not reconciled. You can change
the reconciliation status by clicking on a the 'r' field of the
transaction.</p>
<p>At the bottom of the account window, there are two running
balances, the "cleared and reconciled" balance, and the "total"
balance... the "cleared and reconciled" balance should
correspond to how much money the bank thinks you have in your
account, and the "total" balance includes outstanding
transactions.</p>
<p>Reconciliation can be done in the <a href=
"xacc-recnwin.html">Reconcile Window</a></p>
<h1>Stock Portfolios</h1>
<p>You can do stock transactions either from a single-stock
window, or from a portfolio-view window, shown below.</p>
<p><img src="foliowin.gif"><br>
<img src="foliowin-single.gif"></p>
<p>The portfolio ledger can seem a bit daunting at first
sight.</p>
<p>If you have trouble understanding it, then you may wish to
create an account for each stock you wish to track.</p>
<p>Some important points to remember about the portfolio
window:</p>
<ul>
<li>
It shows <em>all</em> stocks in your portfolio, not just
one.
<p>The share amounts shown are for each particular
stock.</p>
</li>
<li>
Note that it uses a two line display.
<p>Debited accounts and debited amounts are on the upper
line, and credited amounts and accounts are on the lower
line.</p>
</li>
<li>If you buy or sell a stock with money from the brokerage
account, the total balance will not change, since the value
of the stock equals the amount of money exchanged.</li>
<li>If you buy or sell a stock with money from the brokerage
account, the value of the transaction will appear twice, once
in red, and once in black. If shares are purchased, the
amount of money debited from the brokerage account will be in
red, and the value of the shares in black. If shares are
sold, then value of the shares is in red, and the money
credited to the brokerage account in black.</li>
<li>If you are having trouble indicating a share
purchase/sale in the portfolio ledger, then make sure that
<b>Transfer From</b> and <b>Transfer To</b> accounts are in
the right order. A transfer from a stock account is always
interpreted as a sale, even if you entered the data as a
purchase. The vice-versa is also true.</li>
<li>Eventually, an alternative simpler portfolio ledger
window may be provided.</li>
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<h1>Register Keyboard Shortcuts</h1>
The following keys can be used to move around in the register:
<em>Please check that I didn't miss any</em>
<ul>
<li><tt>Right Arrow, Left Arrow</tt>move left and right within one
field</li>
<li><tt>Home</tt> move to the left of the field</li>
<li><tt>End</tt> move to the right of the field</li>
<li><tt>TAB</tt> move to the next field</li>
<li><tt>Shift + TAB</TT> move to the previous field</li>
<li><tt>Enter, Down Arrow</tt> move to the next transaction (if
necessary, a new blank transaction will be created)</li>
<li><tt>Up Arrow</tt> move to the previous transaction</li>
<li><tt>Page Up</tt> move up one screenful</li>
<li><tt>Page Down</tt> move down one screenful</li>
<li><tt>Shift + Page Up</tt>Go to the first transaction</li>
<li><tt>Shift + Page Down</tt>Go to the blank (last) transaction</li></ul>
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<h1>Reports</h1>
<p>A variety of financial reports can be selected on the
"Reports" menu":</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="xacc-balsheet.html">Balance Sheet:</a>shows
Assets, Liabilities and Equity.</li>
<li><a href="xacc-pnl.html">Profit And Loss State:</a>shows
Income and expenses over a selectable period.</li>
<li><a href="xacc-trans_report.html">Transaction
Report</a>shows transactions in an account, presented in a
variety of ways.</li>
<li><a href="xacc-portfolio_report.html">Stock Portfolio</a>
provides a quick summary of your stocks, their current value,
and profits made.</li>
<li><a href="xacc-bal_tracker.html">Balance Tracker</a>
tracks the balance of one or more accounts over time, and
supports graphical output (if you have gnuplot
installed).</li>
</ul>
<h1>The Report Window</h1>
Once you select a report, a report window will appear:
<p><img src="reportwin.gif"></p>
<p>The report is displayed in a resizable, scrollable window.
To control the report, you can use the toolbar buttons at the
top of the window:</p>
<ul>
<li><b>Back</b> and <b>Forward</b> allow you to view the
previous contents of the window, just like a web browser</li>
<li>
<b>Parameters</b> pops up a dialog box allowing you to
change the information presented in the report:
<p><img src="report-option.gif"></p>
<p>See the help for the individual reports for details of
options available.</p>
</li>
<li><a name="export"><b>Export</b> allows you to export the contents of the
report as a HTML file for later viewing or printing.</li>
<li><b>Close</b> closes the report window.</li>
</ul>
<h1>Constructing custom reports</h1>
It is possible to write your own reports to meet your own
needs, if you can program a little. You will need to know
Scheme (a LISP-like programming language), and it is an
excellent idea to have a copy of the Gnucash source code
available.
<p>The reporting interface is presently undocumented, but you
can get a good idea of how it works by examining the file
src/scm/report/hello-world.scm in the GnuCash source
distribution.</p>
<p>You will also need to access data from the "engine" to get
information for your report. This is performed by a set of
Scheme wrapper functions that are documented in the file
src/g-wrap/gnc.html. You may wish to examine some of the other
reports in src/scm/report for an indication of how they are
used.</p>
<p>At present, reports are produced by internally creating HTML
and rendering this with a HTML widget. (Future versions of
GnuCash will hopefully support a more flexible system).</p>
<p>If you need more information, or have developed a new report
that may be of use to others, please contact the GnuCash
development mailing list at <a href=
"mailto:gnucash-devel@gnucash.org">
gnucash-devel@gnucash.org</a>.</p>
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<h1>Stock Pricing and Ticker Symbols</h1>
GnuCash provides a somewhat rudimentary automated stock quote
gathering system.
<p>If a GnuCash <a href="xacc-acctypes.html#stockacct">stock
account</a> is suitably configured, and the host computer is
connected to the Internet, the program <tt>gnc-prices</tt> may
be used to load stock and mutual fund price quotes from various
web sites directly into GnuCash.</p>
<p>To make use of this facility, the following must be
done:</p>
<ul>
<li>Create an account and mark it as being of type "Mutual
Fund" or "Stock".</li>
<li>Enter a valid ticker symbol in the box marked
"Security:"</li>
<li>Select a quote source from the pull-down menu. Currently
supported quote sources include <b>Yahoo</b>, <b>Yahoo
Europe</b>, <b>Fidelity Investments</b>, <b>T. Rowe
Price</b>, the <b>Vanguard Group</b>, <b>the Australian Stock
Exchange</b> (ASX) and <b>TIAA-CREF</b>. Note that Yahoo will
provide price quotes for many mutual funds <i>including</i>
Fidelity, T.Rowe Price and Vanguard, and that the quoted
prices at Yahoo <i>should</i> be identical to those that may
be found at the source sites (otherwise, somebody's reporting
wrong information!). If you choose Yahoo Europe, you should
append the market code for the security, such as PA for
Paris, BE for Berlin, etc. Example: 12150.PA (a Peugeot
security in the Paris market).</li>
<li>
Ensure that the currency of the account matches the source
of the stock you have selected. This means:
<ul>
<li>Quotes from the <b>Australian Stock Exchange</b>
(ASX) should be in Australian dollars (AUD).</li>
<li>Quotes from <b>Yahoo Europe</b> should be in Euros
(ECU)</li>
<li>Quotes from <b>Yahoo</b>, <b>Fidelity
Investments</b>, <b>T. Rowe Price</b> and the <b>Vanguard
Group</b> should be in US Dollars (USD).</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<table>
<caption>
Code list for European markets
</caption>
<tr>
<th>Code</th>
<th>Market</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>PA</td>
<td>Paris</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>BC</td>
<td>Barcelona</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>BE</td>
<td>Berlin</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>BI</td>
<td>Bilbao</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>BR</td>
<td>Br&ecirc;me</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>CO</td>
<td>Copenhagen</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>D</td>
<td>Dusseldorf</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>F</td>
<td>Frankfurt</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>H</td>
<td>Hamburg</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>HA</td>
<td>Hanover</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>L</td>
<td>London</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MA</td>
<td>Madrid</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MC</td>
<td>Madrid (M.C.)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MI</td>
<td>Milan</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MU</td>
<td>Munich</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>O</td>
<td>Oslo</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>ST</td>
<td>Stockholm</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>SG</td>
<td>Stuttgart</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>VA</td>
<td>Valence</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>FX</td>
<td>Xetra</td>
</tr>
</table>
<table>
<caption>
Pseudo-symbols that can be used for TIAA-CREF quotes.
</caption>
<tr>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Pseudo-symbol</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Stock</td>
<td>CREFstok</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Money Market</td>
<td>CREFmony</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Equity Index</td>
<td>CREFequi</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Inflation-Linked Bond</td>
<td>CREFinfb</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Bond Market</td>
<td>CREFbond</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>TIAA Real Estate</td>
<td>TIAAreal</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Social Choice</td>
<td>CREFsoci</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Teachers PA Stock Index</td>
<td>TIAAsndx</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Global Equities</td>
<td>CREFglob</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Teachers PA Select Stock</td>
<td>TIAAsele</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Growth</td>
<td>CREFgrow</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p>A sample image is shown below:<br>
<img src="ticker-a.gif" alt="Sample Diagram"></p>
<p>To update the prices stored in a gnucash account file, run
the command line command <tt>gnc-price</tt>, specifying the
filename; for example:</p>
<pre>
gnc-prices myaccts.xac
</pre>
<p>Running this command will print various diagnostic messages
to the screen while it loads data. It will work only when the
host computer is attached to the Internet. It can function in
conjunction with masquerading-style firewalls and proxy
servers.</p>
<p>The command can be run many times in one day; however, it
will update the accounts at most once with the most recent
trading days price data.</p>
<p>Thus, if <tt>gnc-prices</tt> is run on Friday, Saturday,
Sunday and Monday, only two price entries will be made: one
containing Friday's data, and one containing Monday's data,
since the Saturday and Sunday runs will only retrieve the
Friday closing price.</p>
<p>To keep <tt>gnc-prices</tt> from updating one account, while
allowing it to update another account, merely mark the data
source for that account as <tt>(none)</tt>. You can do this
from the <tt>Edit Account</tt> window.</p>
<p>After running <tt>gnc-prices</tt> for a few days, your
accounts will begin to resemble the following:<br>
<img src="ticker-b.gif" alt="Later Ticker Listing"></p>
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<h1>Transaction Report</h1>
<p>Transaction reports list details for transactions in a
specified account over a specified period, in a convenient
format for viewing and exporting.</p>
<p>Options specifiable for this report include:<br></p>
<ul>
<li><b>Display:</b>Select fields to display in the report.
The choices include:
<ul><li><b>Date</b></li>
<li><b>Number</b></li>
<li><b>Description</b></li>
<li><b>Memo</b></li>
<li><b>Account</b></li>
<li><b>Other Account</b></li>
<li><b>Amount</b> - note that you can choose a single-column or
two-column amount display. Two column displays credits and
debits in separate columns.</li>
<li><b>Column Headers</b> - labels naming the fields</li>
<li><b>Totals</b> - numeric fields will be totalled.</li>
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<li><b>Report Options:</b> This is for general report options, including:
<ul>
<li><b>Date To and Date From:</b> the date range for the
report to cover.</li>
<li><b>Account:</b> the account(s) to do the report on.</li>
<li><b>Style:</b> Choose from either single-line (in which
all transactions will be displayed on a single line), or
multi-line (on which each split of a transaction is displayed
on a separate line).</li>
</ul></li>
<li><b>Sorting:</b><ul>
<li><b>Primary Sort Key:</b> the field to sort on first.</li>
<li><b>Primary Sort Order:</b> the order in which to sort.
"Ascending" specifies smallest/largest, alphabetical
ordering, earliest-&gt;latest, or smallest amounts first.
Descending produces the opposite effects.</li>
<li><b>Secondary Sort Key:</b> the field to sort on if the
primary sort keys are equal</li>
<li><b>Secondary Sort Order:</b> the ordering on which to
sort the secondary key.</li>
</li>
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<h1>GnuCash Y2K Readiness</h1>
<p>GnuCash versions 1.1.25 and later store all dates as seconds
and nanoseconds, where the seconds are stored in a 64-bit
signed integer. This should suffice to store dates into both
the distant past as well as the distant future, so long as they
fall not <em>too</em> many orders of magnitude outside
cosmologists' estimations of the age of the universe.</p>
<p>The file format for version 1.1.25 and later stores dates in
the above-described fashion.</p>
<p>Some internal routines use the <tt>time_t</tt> type to
express seconds. Note that on most OSes, this is a 32-bit
quantity, and is thus limited to the Unix epoch, roughly
December 1901 thru Jan 2038. It is reasonable to expect that
<tt>time_t</tt> will migrate to the use of 64 bit values by
that time.</p>
<p>Backup and log files are time-stamped using the standard
Unix <tt>ctime()</tt> routine, which takes a <tt>time_t</tt>
argument. Thus, the backup and log mechanism may experience
trouble in 2038, assuming your present Unix continues to be in
service at that time without any remediation.</p>
<p>Note that GnuCash also correctly recognizes February 29th,
2000 as a "leap day," another of the "critical Y2K dates."</p>
<p>This is all highly suggestive that GnuCash should cope
reasonably well with the transition to the new millennium,
whether that take place in 2000 or in 2001...</p>
<p>Y2K issues are described in more detail at <a href=
"http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/linuxy2k.html">Linux and Year
2000.</a></p>
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docdir = ${GNC_SHAREDIR}/html
SUBDIRS = C fr
SUBDIRS = fr
doc_DATA = \
gnucash.css \

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docdir = ${GNC_SHAREDIR}/html
SUBDIRS = C fr
SUBDIRS = fr
doc_DATA = gnucash.css index.html

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<body>
<h1> GnuCash Help </h1>
<ul>
<li> For help in <a href="C/xacc-main.html">English</a>.</li>
<li> Pour l'aide en <a href="fr/xacc-main.html">Fran&ccedil;ais</a>.
</li>
</ul>