Old farts and new Linux

[Jeff Vian]

Steve Searle wrote:

>Around 10:36pm on Tuesday, May 04, 2004 (UK time), Charles R. Dennett scrawled:
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>>Thank for the suggestion for gnucash.  I had looked at that once and got
>>confused with it. Maybe it's time to revisit it and see if I can
>>transfer data over from Money to gnucash.
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>If changing from Quicken to gnucash, the main thing to appreciate, but
>then NOT worry about, is each financial category is a different account.
>So if you write a cheque for food, you will create a transaction in you
>current (I think Americans call it a checking) account and a
>corresponding transaction will be created in your grocery expence
>account.  I just ignored these to begin with, and eventually it all made
>sense (IANAA - I am not an accountant :-)
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>Steve
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Yep, it does double entry accounting.

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