--- product_id: 2187008 title: "Gnucash 2.4 Small Business Accounting: Beginner's Guide" price: "RM421" currency: MYR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.com.my/products/2187008-gnucash-2-4-small-business-accounting-beginners-guide store_origin: MY region: Malaysia --- # Gnucash 2.4 Small Business Accounting: Beginner's Guide **Price:** RM421 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Gnucash 2.4 Small Business Accounting: Beginner's Guide - **How much does it cost?** RM421 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.com.my](https://www.desertcart.com.my/products/2187008-gnucash-2-4-small-business-accounting-beginners-guide) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description This book is a comprehensive beginner's guide that teaches you to use GnuCash from scratch with jargon-free step-by-step tutorials packed with tips. There are multiple choice questions to make learning more interesting and additional challenges thrown at the more adventurous user for a deep grasp of the topic. This book is written for you – the self-employed, the owner, partner or leader of micro-enterprises, home businesses, Small Office/Home Office (SOHO), and other small businesses – to help you maintain your books of accounts using GnuCash. This book is also for you – office-bearers of non-profits and students who want to learn accounting hands-on. If you are using a spreadsheet to maintain your business books and are wasting time, or you are handing over a shoe box of receipts to your high-priced accountant or are using another accounting application that is overkill for small business, get this book and download GnuCash. Review: Excellent book for new small businesses - We have a farm which is generating revenue from egg sales ("eggs from free-range, pasture-fed, spoiled rotten hens"), and we hope to sell other agricultural products as well. I wanted to move beyond the cash envelope and receipt shoe box in order to work towards profitability. Gnucash seemed like the way to go because it's free, open source and easy to use. It's also designed to fit US IRS tax forms. "Gnucash 2.4 Small Business Accounting" is just what I needed. The author assumes no knowledge of bookkeeping and teaches the concepts while teaching how to use Gnucash. Given the subject matter, the book is surprisingly readable. I read the entire book before downloading the software, and was able to follow the book quite easily without hands-on experience. I wanted to be sure that Gnucash was right software for us, and have a good sense for which accounts to choose when setting up the bookkeeping system. Of course it's generally easy to make changes later, but I wanted to be able to envision how the system would meet our needs. The author is very good about covering how to recover from errors, including rare problems that the software doesn't facilitate. He answers questions you might have like, "Why not skip entering transactions and just import them from an electronic bank statement?" or "Why create budgets in Gnucash if I'm going to have to export them to a spreadsheet to do certain types of analysis?" The author also points out the reports that a tax accountant will want to see, the reports a bank considering a loan will want to see, and even how to go from a budget to a business plan. The only topic of interest to me that was missing is a concept I'm calling "petty owner investment". In the author's defense, no one else seems to talk about the issue. (This is really a suggestion for a second edition.) Our business is too small to justify a checking account or credit card. We buy things for the business out of our own accounts. If I buy things for the business and don't expect to be reimbursed, I must have to show contributions to owners equity to balance the expenses. Monthly credits to the equity account totaling all the stuff we bought? As someone who's new to accounting, I'm not too comfortable inventing concepts. All in all, an excellent, readable introduction to small business accounting as well as Gnucash. Review: Enjoyable and well-written - I was looking at using GnuCash for our church's finances and this book has a chapter on non-profits so I thought I would check it out. The book explains concepts well and is very engaging for a technical book, which I appreciate. Much of this information is available for free with the GnuCash manual and the documentation there is pretty good but also fairly boring. This book gives some good examples and does it in a way which is NOT boring, so that's a definite benefit. It didn't spell out exactly the information I was looking for but gave me enough to formulate my own plan for our church finance structure. My only real complaint is the cost and part of it is because I believe ebooks should be significantly cheaper than printed books. Granted he isn't self-publishing so there are still publisher costs but $20 is too much (I paid $14 when it was on sale). Then again, the market for GnuCash books is probably insignificant anyway. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #2,456,573 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #146 in Personal Finance Software (Books) #167 in Business Accounting Software Computer | | Customer Reviews | 4.1 out of 5 stars 32 Reviews | ## Images ![Gnucash 2.4 Small Business Accounting: Beginner's Guide - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71PUXlqDR2L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent book for new small businesses *by M***R on March 6, 2011* We have a farm which is generating revenue from egg sales ("eggs from free-range, pasture-fed, spoiled rotten hens"), and we hope to sell other agricultural products as well. I wanted to move beyond the cash envelope and receipt shoe box in order to work towards profitability. Gnucash seemed like the way to go because it's free, open source and easy to use. It's also designed to fit US IRS tax forms. "Gnucash 2.4 Small Business Accounting" is just what I needed. The author assumes no knowledge of bookkeeping and teaches the concepts while teaching how to use Gnucash. Given the subject matter, the book is surprisingly readable. I read the entire book before downloading the software, and was able to follow the book quite easily without hands-on experience. I wanted to be sure that Gnucash was right software for us, and have a good sense for which accounts to choose when setting up the bookkeeping system. Of course it's generally easy to make changes later, but I wanted to be able to envision how the system would meet our needs. The author is very good about covering how to recover from errors, including rare problems that the software doesn't facilitate. He answers questions you might have like, "Why not skip entering transactions and just import them from an electronic bank statement?" or "Why create budgets in Gnucash if I'm going to have to export them to a spreadsheet to do certain types of analysis?" The author also points out the reports that a tax accountant will want to see, the reports a bank considering a loan will want to see, and even how to go from a budget to a business plan. The only topic of interest to me that was missing is a concept I'm calling "petty owner investment". In the author's defense, no one else seems to talk about the issue. (This is really a suggestion for a second edition.) Our business is too small to justify a checking account or credit card. We buy things for the business out of our own accounts. If I buy things for the business and don't expect to be reimbursed, I must have to show contributions to owners equity to balance the expenses. Monthly credits to the equity account totaling all the stuff we bought? As someone who's new to accounting, I'm not too comfortable inventing concepts. All in all, an excellent, readable introduction to small business accounting as well as Gnucash. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Enjoyable and well-written *by L***N on December 11, 2012* I was looking at using GnuCash for our church's finances and this book has a chapter on non-profits so I thought I would check it out. The book explains concepts well and is very engaging for a technical book, which I appreciate. Much of this information is available for free with the GnuCash manual and the documentation there is pretty good but also fairly boring. This book gives some good examples and does it in a way which is NOT boring, so that's a definite benefit. It didn't spell out exactly the information I was looking for but gave me enough to formulate my own plan for our church finance structure. My only real complaint is the cost and part of it is because I believe ebooks should be significantly cheaper than printed books. Granted he isn't self-publishing so there are still publisher costs but $20 is too much (I paid $14 when it was on sale). Then again, the market for GnuCash books is probably insignificant anyway. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Extremely helpful -- even in 2020 with GnuCash 3.8 *by D***S on February 16, 2020* Quick summary: It has the info a small business owner needs, well-organized into clear tutorials with helpful tips, and I haven't noticed anything significantly outdated about it as of Feb 2020. I'm extremely happy with my decision to go with GnuCash to set up the books for my small sole proprietorship. But I needed help, and unless you're an accountant, you will too. Mr. Ramachandran knows exactly what you need. I was worried the book would be too outdated to be helpful, given that it was published in 2011 and refers to GnuCash 2.4 in the title. Well, I have yet to find anything significantly outdated in it. For my needs, it's the perfect combination of software how-to-do-that and bookkeeping what-to-do. If you already know that you want to use GnuCash for your business, then it really is worth the relatively high list price, even in 2020. In my case, there's one more book I needed along with this one for my self-imposed crash course in business-financial literacy, and that was Accounting for Non-Accountants by Wayne Label. I read that first, and then set up my books using the tutorials in this book. I would recommend that to anyone who doesn't know a balance sheet from an income statement, or an expense from a liability. 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