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 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.
Click on Ledger	You can view the Ledger with or without narration by selecting an account name and the 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.
Point to Reports Click on Trial Balance (Extended Trial Balance)	Under Trial Balance, you can select one amongst the three Trial Balances i.e Net, Gross and 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.
Point to Reports Click Project Statement	In Project Statement, you can see cash inflow and outflow for individual projects.
Point to 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) and Sources and application of funds(vertical balance sheet)
Point to 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.
Point to Administration Menu	In administration menu you can create a new user even change the password of that existing user.
Point to 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.
Slide 10 Download GNUKhata	Let us now see how to install GNUKhata on Linux machines. For installing GNUKhata on your machines, download the latest version of GNUKhata from http://www.gnukhata.org/public
/* 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’
Open Terminal Type sudo apt-get update	Type the command sudo apt-get update
	Now, through the terminal, go inside the installer folder like this. 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: Open the Firefox browser. Type http://localhost in the address bar. You will be able to run GNUKhata. If you cannot run GNUKhata with this url, please type http://localhost:8080
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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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.

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