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Revision as of 16:50, 14 March 2013

Visual cue Narration
Display desktop Welcome to this series of spoken tutorials on GNUKhata version 1.1
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Learning Objectives

At the end of this tutorial, you will be able to:

  • Install GNUKhata on your local machine
  • Use GNUKhata software
  • Explore the interface of GNUKhata
  • Explore features of GNUKhata


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System Requirements

  • Ubuntu 12.04 Operating System
  • GNUKhata works well on all versions of Ubuntu
  • Starting from 11.04 and above.
  • It has also been tested on Debian Distro of GNU/Linux.

To open GNUKhata interface, we use:

  • It is recommended that users use Mozilla Firefox version 3.6 or above.
  • GNUKhata can also run smoothly on other browsers like Chromium and Opera.


What is GNUKhata?

GNUKhata is a Free and Open Source (FOSS) Accounting Software. It can be deployed by:

  • Both profit making and Non-profit making organisations
  • NGOs.

It provides a Free and Open Source(FOSS) solution for basic book keeping.


It provides a free and open source solution for basic book keeping. It includes all reports needed by accountants such as:

  • Ledgers
  • Trial Balance
  • Balance Sheet
  • This project was initiated by Mr. Krishnakant Mane from IIT-Bombay
  • He is the Team Leader of this Project.


FOSS
  • Here Free means not just free of cost
  • It is the freedom to modify the software
  • Re-distribute several copies of it.

Please read the GNU General Public License(GPL) version 3 under which GNUKhata is released.


GNUKhata supports a wide range of economic activity applications including:

  • Factories,
  • Farm-based productions,
  • Sales accounting &

Very soon will support Inventory.


Multi-Lingual and Multi-Platform Support
  • Soon to be available in various Indian languages,
  • This is Linux based software
  • Will soon be available for Windows.


Future Prospects

It will serve as a tool for remote banking


GNUKhata Official Website

For more information about GNUKhata, please visit our website http://gnukhata.org.

Why GNUKhata?
  • It is light weight
  • Robust
  • Modular
  • Simple to use by the end user.
  • It can be used on wide variety of data categories
  • It scales up with large volumes of data
  • Perfect for both small scale and large scale organisation.

You can

  • Create accounts
  • Add transactions
  • View reports.


  • Unique feature like Extended Trial Balance has been included.
  • Stands out to be a class apart from the other existing accounting software.


  • This software is also compatible with a screen reader Orca
  • Orca is of immense help, for the visually impaired.


/* switch to GNUKhata web page */

GNUKhata Demo

Let us see the demo of all the features available in GNUKhata.

  • This is the Main screen of GNUKhata.

On the top you can see:

  • Organization name
  • Dates for the financial year.


  • There are various menus listed one next to each other.
  • Let us quickly go through each of them.
Point to Master menu

Under Master menu, you can see options like :

  • Account Creation/Find/Edit
  • Edit Organisation details
  • Add More Projects
  • Bank Reconciliation.


Click on Account Creation/Find/Edit.

In account creation, you have twelve group names.

Click on drop down of Group name.

You can choose an appropriate Group.

Click on drop down of Sub- Group name
  • You can choose the respective Sub-group.
  • You can enter the new account in account name field and
  • Opening balance in the box labeled Opening balance.


Point to Editing Organisation Details

Here, you can edit the organisation details.


Adding Projects
  • For a large organisation,
  • GNUKhata provides an option for maintaining accounts Projectwise.
  • You can add one or more projects and view the reports projectwise.


Bank Reconciliation

A Bank reconciliation is a process which:

  • Explains the difference between the bank balance
  • It is shown in an organization's bank statement as supplied by the bank,
  • The corresponding amount is shown in the organization's own accounting records at a particular point in time.

In Bank Reconciliation, you can reconcile transactions at frequent intervals.


Transaction menu
  • Under Transaction option, we have 10 different transactions
  • We can add, edit or delete the transaction under this menu.


Reports menu

Under Reports we can view financial reports in the form of:

  • Ledger
  • Trial Balance
  • Project Statement
  • Cash flow
  • Balance Sheet


  • Profit and Loss account, in case of a Profit Making
  • For NGO, we will have Income and Expenditure report

instead of Profit and Loss.


Reports:Click on Ledger

You can view the Ledger with or without narration by:

  • selecting an account name
  • Entering the date range
  • These dates must fall in between the start and end of financial year.
  • You can view ledger even for individual projects.
Reports:Click on Trial Balance (Extended Trial Balance)

Under Trial Balance, you can select one amongst the three Trial Balances i.e

  • Net Trial Balance
  • Gross Trial Balance
  • Extended Trial Balance
  • Let us see the Extended Trial Balance and click on View.
  • Similarly, we can select Gross and Extended Trial Balance.
  • Extended Trial Balance is one of the unique additions in GNUKhata.
Reports:Click Project Statement
  • In Project Statement, you have:
  • cash inflow
  • outflow for individual projects.
Reports:Go to Balance Sheet

You can view Balance Sheet for the selected period within the financial year in two formats. i.e

  • Conventional Balance Sheet(horizontal balance sheet)
  • Sources and application of funds(vertical balance sheet)


Reports:Click Profit and Loss (or Income and Expenditure)

In Profit and Loss account you will be able to see:

  • The report for Profit and Loss account
  • For a period within the financial year of an Profit Making.
  • For a NGO organisation, this report will be Income and Expenditure.
Administration Menu

In Administration menu you can:

  • Create a new user
  • Even change the password of that existing user.


Help Menu

Under Help menu:

  • You can see list of Shortcut keys for all the activities.
  • You can see list of authors in the Authors option,
  • The full license text in License option.
  • The Manual option will have the complete manual which is under construction.


Download GNUKhata


/* switch to demo */

Installation of GNUKhata

  • The installer is named GNUKhata-installer_1.1.tar.gz
  • Right click on the installer and select Extract here.
  • Open a terminal by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T


Update applications in your machine

Type the command sudo apt-get update

Now, through the terminal, go inside the installer folder by typing: cd installer_1.1


Once inside the installer directory, execute the following two commands:

  • chmod +x ./gkinstall.sh
  • With this command, we are giving the executable permission


  • sudo ./gkinstall.sh
  • With sudo command, we are giving root user privilege.
  • This installation takes some time.
Open Terminal

Type sudo ./gkstart

When the prompt returns without any error. Type the command

sudo startgk


Opening GNUKhata

To run GNUKhata on your machine:


Stop GNUkhata

To stop GNUkhata type on the terminal

sudo stopgk


Summary

So in this tutorial we have seen:

  • How GNUKhata can be used for Accounting purposes.
  • We have also seen how to install GNUKhata.
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  • Conducts workshops using spoken tutorials
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  • For more details, please write to contact@spoken-tutorial.org
Acknowledgement
  • Spoken Tutorial Project is a part of the Talk to a Teacher project
  • It is supported by the National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Government of India
  • More information on this Mission is available at: http://spoken-tutorial.org\NMEICT-Intro


Thank You!
  • That’s it for this tutorial.
  • In the upcoming tutorials, we shall learn more about GNUKhata.
  • Thank you for watching.
  • This is Trupti signing off, Good Bye.

Contributors and Content Editors

Nancyvarkey, Trupti