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Title of script: Account Management

Author: Trupti Kini

Keywords: video tutorial


Visual cue Narration
Display desktop

/* Slide 1 */

Welcome to this tutorial on Account Management in GNUKhata.
Show Slide

Learning Objectives /*Slide 2 */

After watching this tutorial, you will be able to:

  • Create Accounts
  • Edit Accounts


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/*Slide 3 */ System Requirements

To record this tutorial, I am using

  • GNUKhata version 1.2
  • Ubuntu 12.04 Operating System and
  • Firefox version 17.0
  • For GNUKhata, we recommend the use of Firefox version 3.6 or above.
  • It works well with other browsers, too.

Eg-Chromium and Opera.


Prerequisites

/*Slide 4*/

I assume that you already know the principles of book keeping.

I also assume that you know to

  • Run GNUKhata on your machines and
  • Create New Organization in GNUKhata

If not, for relevant tutorials please visit http://spoken-tutorial.org

To run GNUKhata, we need to start the server on our machine.

Open Terminal by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T

First, we will open the terminal by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T keys simultaneously.

Execute sudo startgk on terminal

Then we will type sudo startgk and press Enter.


Open Firefox >> in the address bar, type

http://localhost:8080

To run GNUKhata, we will open the Firefox browser.

Then we will type http://localhost:8080 in the address bar.

GNUKhata's Welcome screen

You will see the Welcome Screen of GNUKhata on the browser.

Click on Select Existing Organization button

We will choose the Select Existing Organization option.

Select Free Accounting Foundation from Organization drop down

We had already created an organization called Free Accounting Foundation earlier.


We will now select it from the drop-down list.

Point to the Financial year dates

The financial year that we had set, is displayed here.

Click Proceed button

Now, we shall click on Proceed button and go to the login screen.

Click on Login button

The default username and password provided, is admin.


We will learn to create more users in future tutorials.


For now, let us click on the Login button.

Screen 3

We see the Main screen of GNUKhata now.

You will see the organization name and financial year at the top.

You will also see the Main menu.

Go to Master menu and select

Account Creation/Find/Edit option.

Under Master menu, choose Account Creation/Find/Edit option.

You will see the page for Creating Accounts.

Click on the drop-down of Group Name.

You can see that there are 13 Group names here.

To create an account, we have to first select a Group name.

Point to the Corpus

Organization Free Accounting Foundation is of the type NGO


So we see Corpus as the Group name.

If our organization type was Profit Making, we would see Capital instead of Corpus.

Now let's understand what is Corpus and Capital.

Switch to slides

/*Slide 5*/

  • Corpus is the principal amount of an NGO or a trust.
  • Capital is the amount invested in the business by the owner.
/* Interface */ Click on dropdown of Group Name

Point to Current Liability

  • Liabilities denote the amounts which a business owes to a person or another firm.
  • They are given as credit balances.
Point to Direct Expense
  • These four groups
    • Direct Income
    • Direct Expenses
    • Indirect Income
    • Indirect Expense
      have similar features.
  • They have no opening balance.

I will explain the minor difference between them.

/*Slide 6*/

Direct Expense

Direct expenses are expenses related to production and purchasing of goods.

Direct Income

Direct Income is earned from the business or for the services provided.


Indirect Expense

Indirect Expenses are expenses incurred after the manufacturing process is over.


Indirect Income

Indirect income is one that is earned by way of non-business activities.

Eg. sale of old newspaper, sale of cartons.

/*Interface*/

Select Fixed Assets

Now we will learn about Fixed Assets.

Switch to slides

/*Slide 7*/

  • Fixed Assets represent everything which a business owns and has monetary value.
  • Any asset used in business, for more than one year, is considered as a fixed asset.
  • They are always shown as debit balance.


/*Interface*/

Click on Sub-groups Select Fixed assets

  • Under Fixed Assets, let us select a sub-group name.
  • We can either select a sub-group name from the list or create a new one.
  • For now, let us select Furniture from the list.
Type Office Furniture in Account Name. In the Account Name, type Office Furniture.
Point to Account Code.

You can see that Account code is automatically generated.

Type 2000 in Debit Opening Balance.

Type 2000 in Debit Opening Balance.

Click Save

Click on Save.

Point to the message

A message is displayed which shows that our account is created successfully.

Let us create one more account.

Choose Direct Expense from the drop down of Groups

Let's choose the group Direct Expense


Point there are no sub-groups
  • Notice that the drop-down list for sub-group does not have any sub-groups by default.
  • If you do not wish to have a sub-group, you can select No Sub-group option.
Click on Create New Sub-group under Sub group drop-down

But for this entry, let us choose the Create New Subgroup option.

Point to New sub-group name text-box

As soon as we do this, a new text box appears.

Here, we can type the name of the subgroup we wish to create.

Type Salary in the New sub-group text-box

Let us type Salary in the text-box.

Point to Account Name textbox

Type Salary for employees

I will type Salary for employees as the account name and press Enter.

Point to No Opening Balance Option
  • Also note an important point here.
  • There is no provision to enter an opening balance for this account.
  • This is because, an account under the group Direct Expense cannot have an opening balance.
Point to Account Code

Notice that the Account Code is automatically generated.

You can change this account code if you wish.

I will leave it as it is, for now.
Click Save Now, click on Save
Point to Confirmation Message at the top

Once again, the message confirms that the account was created successfully.

This is how accounts are created in GNUKhata.
More features – Editing Accounts

Now what if we typed the name incorrectly? What do we do?

Well, don't worry at all! We can edit the accounts.

Click on Find / Edit tab
  • For editing, we will click on Find / Edit Accounts tab.
  • Note that, you can also press alt + 2 to go to this page.
  • And alt + 1 to come back to the Add Account page.
Point to Search Account By drop-down
  • Now you can see a drop-down menu - Search Account By
  • The account can be searched by either Account Name or Account Code.
Select Account Name from the dropdown

Let us search the account by Account Name.

Select Office Furniture from Account Name dropdown

From the Account Name drop-down, let us select Salary For Employees

Click on Search button

Once Account Name is selected, click on the Search button.

Point to the Search result

Here, the details for Salary For Employees is displayed.

Click on Edit button
  • To edit the details of this account, let us click on Edit button. *This will make the account editable.
Change Salary For Employees to Salary for Staffs
  • Salary For Employees is under the Group Direct Expense.
  • Hence, we can only edit the account name and not the opening balance
  • Let us modify the account name to Salary For Staffs.


Click on Confirm

To save the changes made, click on Confirm button.

Point to Confirmation Message
  • On doing so, the confirmation message is displayed at the top.
  • This message shows that you have successfully edited your account.
  • Similarly, you can edit the Account details by searching with Account Code.


/*Slide 8*/

Summary

In this tutorial we have learnt about:

  • Groups and Sub-groups
  • To create an account
  • And also to edit an account in GNUKhata.
/*Slide 9*/

Assignment

  • Create account with Group name - Current Asset, Sub Group name - Bank and Account Name - SBI.
  • Create a second account under the Group name - Current Asset and Sub-group name - Cash.
  • The second account should have the name Cash On Hand.
  • The third account should be under the Group name - Current Asset and Sub-group name - Cash

It should be named Cash.

/*Slide 10*/
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Acknowledgement

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Thanks for joining
  • That’s it for this tutorial. This is Trupti Kini from the GNUKhata project, IIT Bombay.
  • Thank you for watching.




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