GnuCash is personal and small-business financial-accounting software, freely licensed under the GNU GPL and available for GNU/Linux, BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows.
Designed to be easy to use, yet powerful and flexible, GnuCash allows you to track bank accounts, stocks, income and expenses. As quick and intuitive to use as a checkbook register, it is based on professional accounting principles to ensure balanced books and accurate reports.
GnuCash Highlight Features
* Many Account Type available in Categories including Simple Checkbook, Business Account, Car Loan, Childcare Expense, CD and Money Market, Common Account, Education Loan, Fixed Asset, Home Mortgage Loan, Investment Account, Render Expense, Retirement Account and so on.
* Tools such as Online Banking Setup, Price Editor, Security Editor, Financial Calculator, General Ledger.
* Track Income, Expense, Assets, Liabilities, Equity, Investment.
* Import and Export from other financial program such as Quicken or Microsoft Money.
* Business features including manage Customer, Employee, Vendor, Tax Table Editor, Billing Term Editor, and Billing Due Editor.
* Report features which allow user to make report of assets and liability, income and expense, business, account summary, tax report, transaction report as well.
Installing GnuCash
Type the command:
$ yum install gnucash
or
$ sudo apt-get install gnucash
There is the Help Tutorials for all users, i suggest you try to have a look first. So you can have a big picture about gnucash.
Pros
* Free
* Runs on Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems
* Supports multiple currencies and languages
* Useful for small business as well as personal accounts
Cons
* Not as user-friendly as some
* May be too complex for novices
GnuCash Conclusion
GnuCash is free, so that’s nice. However, GnuCash is functionally powerful, but it’s very weak when it comes to user-friendliness. It can handle complex accounting tasks, including those required to run a small business. Users can set up a variety of account types, including cash, banks and other financial institutions, credit cards, mutual funds, stocks and accounts payable and receivable.
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