![]() 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. 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. It’s really the only way you’ll know what’s coming in and what’s going out. 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. 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 how GnuCash describes themselves: What Is GnuCash and What Makes It Worth Using? Descubre qué puede hacer Dropbox por ti: obtén una cuenta gratuita, sin restricciones. Guarda tus archivos en cualquier dispositivo, accede a ellos y compártelos con las personas que quieras. 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. Dropbox centraliza todo archivos tradicionales, contenido en la nube y accesos directos web en un único lugar. The TL DR is it’s an open source accounting tool for all major operating systems. Unlike and other online services, you won’t be asked to hook up your bank account to it. 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. I am pretty decent with Excel but I found it easier to use GnuCash for creating meaningful reports and keeping things organized. ![]() If all you want to do is track transactions and create reports, it’s a really great tool. You can even get it to work well across devices if you use tools like Drop Box. I don’t do this, but I’ve heard of others doing this without issues. That’s because GnuCash creates a single database file that can be easily backed up and sync’d across devices. Honestly, it’s good for everyone but it’s especially nice for people who run their own small business. I fit into this category as a freelancer who also creates online training courses. I happen to have income that comes in from a number of places. 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’m just a sole proprietor living in a country with one of the most complicated tax systems on planet Earth (the US). 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. It takes about 5 seconds to add, edit or delete an account. An account is GnuCash terms for a category. For example under Expenses I have a bunch of accounts. It’s really easy to go in and see how much I spent this month on food or whatever I want to know about. It’s also worth pointing out that you can have sub-accounts (see the triangles in the above screenshot).
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