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Almost everything can be modified later if/as necessary. So don't try to make it perfect out of the box instead, make it useful.

Something I learned just this last week (and which I will write about in the future): it's possible to re-run just a portion of the new account hierarchy wizard to 'fill in the gaps' well into a book's creation or life. Additionally, I'd definitely recommend using the various account hierarchy wizards and setup features over creating your own, especially if you're unfamiliar (read: not an accountant) with the practice of double entry accounting. As I'd mentioned in the previous post, having a grasp of what you intend to track and detail in advance can be super helpful in getting started.

While that might seem just fine and dandy out of the gate, you definitely don't want this to go on for long as it totally circumvents the entire value of the application.Īt the end of the day, double entry means being deliberate with your accounts, categories, and hierarchies. You could let it go, but anything that doesn't balance winds up being caught in one of two 'naughty' accounts for imbalance and orphaned transactions. Double entry means everything must balance out, with no exceptions. With GnuCash, this is decidedly not the case. Everything I'd used previous was loosely-typed, as it were. This was ultimately my largest initial stumbling block. Each graph, chart, and report is quite customizable, especially so if you dig into the self-created stylesheet preferences. I wanted a quick way to visually see some things, and it seemed as though GnuCash could do what I needed more or less right out of the box. One of the things I most liked about Money was its simple graphs and charts. It has Graphs and Charts and Reports.and.!

At least at face value, it seemed the obvious choice. In having looked around a bit at the time, the GnuCash interface made the most visual sense to me in its entry interface, with quick ability to enter splits, clear or reconcile transactions, and a 'muscle memory' (auto-complete of repeat-like transactions). There's not much too flashy about the GnuCash interface, specifically the checkbook-style register/ledger however, it was that style I needed to have.

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At some point during a computer upgrade cycle in the mid-aughts the program I no longer had a version of the application available, and with its forthcoming sunset and a changing personal finance situation it was time to look for something different. I liked that it was an easily understandable 'hybrid' of something as powerful as the de-facto Quicken, but more useful than something as simple as a set of spreadsheets/workbook. Way back in the day I used Microsoft Money as my primary 'bookkeeping' mechanism for personal finance.

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I wasn't exactly 'sold' on it from the start, but it was a free and open-source solution that seemed robust enough to handle pretty much anything I could throw at it, from managing business finances and whatnot to a whole mess of personal accounts.

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As I wrote about a couple months back, GnuCash is my accounting software of choice since ~2010.