I’m already on my workstation for doing work and GnuCash is only 1 mouse click away. For example if I grab some milk, I just drop the $1.99 in under the Food account shortly after I get home. Of course, with the above said, that means you’ll be responsible for entering in the details all of your transactions manually. Doing Your Due Diligence Makes Filing Taxes Easy In the above case, Netflix is an expense (an Entertainment expense to be specific since you can nest accounts) which is why I put down the amount under Expense. The idea is, you have “assets” and your expenses and income accounts are associated to it. It keeps a running total for you, and it’s really easy to filter by date too.
This is where you’ll be entering in the details of each transaction. Prying into the Details of a Specific Account I also bring my trusty Linux powered Chromebook with me in case he needs to pry into the details of a specific account.
I don’t know what your tax situation is like, but that along with some investment related paperwork is all my accountant needs to help me file taxes. That means you can drill down with as much or as little detail as you want and you can get totals for each parent account automatically.Īll you have to do is goto reports, create expense / income report, pick a date range you want to create a report on, and GnuCash will print out a single piece of paper that breaks down everything for you.Īt a glance you can see your business expenses, medical expenses, general expenses and how your income is broken up over the year. It’s also worth pointing out that you can have sub-accounts (see the triangles in the above screenshot). It’s really easy to go in and see how much I spent this month on food or whatever I want to know about. For example under Expenses I have a bunch of accounts. An account is GnuCash terms for a category. It takes about 5 seconds to add, edit or delete an account. Easily Break down Your Expenses and Income It’s important to track every penny and to be able to figure out what affects taxable income. I’m just a sole proprietor living in a country with one of the most complicated tax systems on planet Earth (the US). There’s course sales, affiliate commissions from Amazon, a bunch of freelance clients with various payment methods and a few investments.Īlso, while I do occasionally pay for contract work and various services, I don’t have any employees on a pay roll. I happen to have income that comes in from a number of places.
I fit into this category as a freelancer who also creates online training courses. Honestly, it’s good for everyone but it’s especially nice for people who run their own small business. That’s because GnuCash creates a single database file that can be easily backed up and sync’d across devices. I don’t do this, but I’ve heard of others doing this without issues. You can even get it to work well across devices if you use tools like Drop Box. If all you want to do is track transactions and create reports, it’s a really great tool. I am pretty decent with Excel but I found it easier to use GnuCash for creating meaningful reports and keeping things organized. You also won’t have to worry about a company harvesting your financial information because GnuCash runs natively on your OS of choice and it works offline. Unlike and other online services, you won’t be asked to hook up your bank account to it. The TL DR is it’s an open source accounting tool for all major operating systems.
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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. This is how GnuCash describes themselves: What Is GnuCash and What Makes It Worth Using? Luckily I have no debt but I’ve seen a number of people turn around their whole financial situations just by starting to keep a ledger of all of their transactions. This is a great habit to do even if you don’t have any problems keeping a positive balance – and I would say it’s essential to do if you struggle with debt. It’s really the only way you’ll know what’s coming in and what’s going out. I don’t own a credit card (by choice), so keeping a close eye on my finances is really important, but I think whether or not you have a credit card, it’s a good idea to track all of your financial transactions. Quick Jump: What Is GnuCash and What Makes It Worth Using? | What Makes GnuCash Good for Freelancers? | Why Do Accountants like GnuCash? Updated on April 17th, 2018 in #dev-business Using GnuCash as a Freelancer to Track Finances and Prepare Taxes GnuCash makes it easy to keep track of your money and it creates reports that will make your accountant happy.
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