Entering A Simple Transaction in GnuCash

Gnucash Tutorial 5.0: How to Enter Cash Transactions

There are couple of ways to manually enter GnuCash transactions, Simple and Split transactions. In this tutorial we will enter a simple transaction, what makes it a simple transaction is that it will only involve two accounts in chart accounts. We will begin with entering the the equity opening balance account since that should be the first transaction you enter into the chart of accounting.