Topic: GnuCash is personal and small-business financial-accounting software

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GnuCash is personal and small-business financial-accounting software.

Welcome to GnuCash.org

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.

Feature Highlights

    * QIF/OFX/HBCI Import, Transaction Matching
    * Reports, Graphs
    * Scheduled Transactions
    * Financial Calculations
    * Double-Entry Accounting
    * Stock/Bond/Mutual Fund Accounts
    * Small-Business Accounting
    * Customers, Vendors, Jobs,
      Invoices, A/P, A/R

Features:

Checkbook-Style Register

The checkbook-style register provides a custom, convenient and familiar interface to entering financial transactions. The register supports common checking and credit-card transactions, as well as income, stock and currency transactions.

Double Entry

Every transaction must debit one account and credit others by an equal amount. This ensures that the "books balance": that the difference between income and outflow exactly equals the sum of all assets and equity.

Reports, Graphs

[Graphs] GnuCash has an integrated reporting and graphing module, and comes complete with a full suite of standard and customizeable reports, such as Balance Sheet, Profit & Loss, Portfolio Valuation, and many others.

Income/Expense Account Types

Income/Expense Account Types (Categories) allow you to categorize your cash flow. When used properly with the double-entry feature and equity accounts, these enable you to generate reports, such as Profit & Loss, that plain-vanilla systems cannot handle.

Multiple Currencies

Different accounts can be denominated in different currencies. Currency movements between accounts are fully balanced when double-entry is enabled.

Stock/Mutual Fund Portfolios

Track stocks individually (one per account) or in portfolio of accounts (a group of accounts that can be displayed together).

Small Business Accounting Features

Simplify managing a small business with Customer and Vendor tracking, Invoicing and Bill Payment, and Tax and Billing Terms.

QIF Import

Intuit® Quicken® QIF files can be imported, and are automatically merged to eliminate duplicate transactions.

OFX Import

GnuCash is the first free software application to support the Open Financial Exchange protocol that many banks and financial services are starting to use.

HBCI Support

GnuCash is the first free software application to support the German Home Banking Computer Information protocol, allowing German users to perform statement download and initiate bank transfers and direct debits.

Improved Import Transaction Matching

The development of OFX and HBCI support has also resulted in an improved transaction matching system that more accurately recognizes duplicate transactions during file import.

Statement Reconciliation

A reconcile window with running reconciled and cleared balances makes balancing against bank statements easy.

Localization

Handles internationalized dates and currencies. The Gnucash menus and popups have been translated to 21 languages, including Chinese, Danish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, and British English. Documentation is available in English, French, Portuguese and Spanish.

Transaction Finder

A powerful transaction query dialogue can help you quickly locate a needle in a haystack.

General Ledger

Multiple accounts can be displayed in one register window at the same time. This can ease the trouble of tracking down typing/entry errors. It also provides a convenient way of viewing a portfolio of many stocks, by showing all transactions in that portfolio.

Online Stock & Mutual Fund Quotes

Get Stock & Mutual Fund quotes from various web sites, update portfolio automatically. Additional pricing sources are added regularly.

Check Printing

Checks may be printed in standard formats on common check stocks. A customization GUI allows custom check layouts to be developed.

Scheduled Transactions

You can now create recurring transactions, including automatic reminders when a transaction is due, the ability to postpone a scheduled transaction without canceling it, and the ability to specify only a limited number of transactions.

Mortgage & Loan Repayment Druid

A guided dialogue for setting up loan payments as scheduled transactions.

New User Manual and Help

A new help subsystem that focuses on how to do tasks is now available, in addition to a Tutorial and Concepts guide that gives the user background information on accounting principles and how they are reflected in GnuCash.

http://www.gnucash.org/