GNUKhata/C2/Welcome-to-GNUKhata/English

Visual cue	Narration
Display desktop	Welcome to this series of spoken tutorials on GNUKhata version 1.1
Show Slide 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
Show Slide 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 which 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 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.
Point to Master menu	Under ‘Master’ menu, you can see options like Account Creation/Find/Edit, Edit Organisation details, Add More Projects and 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.

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