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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

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.

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.

• 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.

• Soon to be available in various Indian languages,
• This is Linux based software
• Will soon be available for Windows.

It will serve as a tool for remote banking

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

• 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 which is of immense help, for the visually impaired.

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 the organization name and dates for the financial year.

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

Under ‘Master’ menu, you can see options like Account Creation/Find/Edit, Edit Organisation details, Add More Projects and Bank Reconciliation.

In account creation, you have twelve group names.

You can choose an appropriate Group.

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.

Here, you can edit the organisation details.

For a large organisation,

GNUKhata provides an option for maintaining accounts Projectwise.

You can add one or more projects and view the reports projectwise.

Click on Bank Reconciliation

A Bank reconciliation is a process that explains the difference between the bank balance shown in an organization's bank statement, as supplied by the bank, and the corresponding amount shown in the organization's own accounting records at a particular point in time.

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

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

Under ‘Reports’ we can view financial reports in the form of Ledger, Trial Balance, Project Statement, Cash flow , Balance Sheet and

Profit and Loss account, in case of a Profit Making

But if the organization is NGO, we will have Income and Expenditure report instead of Profit and Loss.