GNUKhata/C2/Welcome-to-GNUKhata/English

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

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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 Run GNUKhata on your machines Register an organisation for a financial year Set Preferences for the Organisation Create Accounts in GNUKhata Login into GNUKhata
Show Slide System Requirements	To record this tutorial, I am using Ubuntu 12.04 Operating System GNUKhata version 1.1 Firefox version .............
Show Slide System Requirements	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.
GNUKhata Official Website	For more information about GNUKhata, please visit our website http://gnukhata.org.
Download GNUKhata	So let us now see how to install GNUKhata on Linux machines. For this, download the latest version of GNUKhata from http://www.gnukhata.org/public
Point to the installer named GNUKhata-installer_1.1.tar.gz Installation of GNUKhata	The installer is named GNUKhata-installer_1.1.tar.gz
Right-click on the installer >> select Extract here Installation of GNUKhata	Right-click on the installer and select Extract here.
Press Ctrl+Alt+T Installation of GNUKhata	Open a terminal by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T
Type sudo apt-get update	Type the command sudo apt-get update
Type cd installer_1.1	Now, through the terminal, go inside the installer folder by typing cd installer_1.1
Type chmod +x ./gkinstall.sh	Once inside the installer directory, execute the following command: chmod +x ./gkinstall.sh With this command, we are giving the executable permission
Type sudo ./gkinstall.sh	Now, type sudo ./gkinstall.sh With sudo command, we are giving root user privilege. This installation takes some time.
Type sudo startgk	When the prompt returns without any error, type the command sudo startgk
Open Firefox browser	To run GNUKhata on your machine, open the Firefox browser.
Type http://localhost in the address bar	Type http://localhost in the address bar. You will be able to run GNUKhata.
Type http://localhost:8080 in the address bar	If you cannot run GNUKhata with this url, please type http://localhost:8080
GNUKhata's 1st screen	This is the Welcome screen of GNUKhata.
Point to buttons Select Existing Organisation Create New Organisation	Here you see two buttons: The first one is Selecting Existing Organisation And the second is Create a New Organisation.
Click on Create New Organisation button	Since we have just installed GNUKhata, we will have to create a new organisation. For this, click on Create New Organisation button.
Point to the four options Organisation Name, Organisation Type, Financial year From date and To date	Note the four most important options of GNUKhata: The first is Organisation Name. The second is the Organisation Type. The third is the Financial year start-date i.e From Date and finally The Financial end-date i.e To date
In Organisation Name textbox, type Free Accounting Foundation	Here in the textbox for Organisation Name: Let us type a name of a company, in the Organisation Name: textbox. Say, Free Accounting Foundation.
Choose NGO from the dropdown of Organisation Type.	Next, we have to choose between an NGO or a Profit Making organisation. Let me select NGO as my option.
In From Date field, type 01-04-2011 and To Date field, type 31-03-2012	Now we have to specify From Date and To Date for the financial year. I will type 01-04-2011 and 31-03-2012 respectively.
Click on Next	Now, press the Next button.
Chosen details appears now on the top of the screen	The name of the organisation and the chosen financial year appears at the top.
	This is how you have to write the script. This procedure has been mentioned in the Checklist. You are required to adhere to all the criteria in the Checklist, at all stages of Creation. I have completed upto this point. Please do likewise for the rest of the script. After you have done so, I will get this script validated by a novice (an MCom post-graduate). You may need to revise the script based on the feedback received.
Organisation details	You can enter information such as the address, contact details etc. For now, I will choose not to enter any of these details as they are optional.
Click on Save button	If you choose to fill details here, then click the Save button.
Click on Skip button	However, since we are not entering any details, let's press the Skip button.
Page Load	Note, we have to wait for some time, because the database is being created. We have to go through this process only once while creating a new organisation.
Next page: Two preferences option	Here you have to choose your Preferences for your organisation. There are two checkboxes.
1st check box	The first one is Projectwise Accounting. This is to be used if you have different ongoing projects If you wish to keep Project wise records for your organisation. If you want project wise accounting only then check this box.
Check 1st checkbox	See what happens when this checkbox is checked
2 Textboxes appear	Two new textboxes appear below You have to enter the name of the project in one textbox. Enter sanctioned amount for that project in another textbox Let me enter spoken tutorial as my project name. 800 as sanctioned amount.
Add more projects option	For adding more than one project name click Add More Projects option. I won't do it now since it will be a repetitive task. .
2nd check box	Next is for Manual Account codes. If you check this check-box: The account code however will be auto-generated while creating accounts. You can optionally give account codes manually while creating accounts.
Check 2nd checkbox	Many organisations or individuals choose to maintain account code manually So I will check this checkbox.
Press Save button	After stating your preference, press Save button. You will get a message at the top saying Your preferences have been saved. Having given preferences now, we have to create new accounts.
Press Quit button	At this point if you want to quit the program you can press the quit button. For now I will choose to create accounts. So let me create a few accounts.
Screen 4 Creating Account	Note, every account falls under a group and optionally a subgroup. Of the main groups some will have opening balances Incomes and expenses will not have opening balance, as per standard accounting practice.
Click on dropdown of Group Name	The first is Group Name. Click on dropdown to see all Group names provided by the software.
Choose Current Asset	Select a group name. Here I choose Current Asset as Group name. Assets represent everything which a business owns and has money value.
Point to Loans(Asset)	Loans(Asset) means loans given to the creditors. It is long-term loan, usually given to outsiders.
Point to Loans (Liability)	Loans (Liability) taken from others will be mentioned in this group.
Point to sub group Click on the dropdown of sub groups	After selecting Group name you have to select subgroup name as required. These subgroups are also provided by the software.
	There are Groups like Capital, Current Liability, Loans(Liability), These accounts will have credit opening balance. There are groups like Current Assets, Fixed Assets and loans (Assets), These accounts will normally have Debit opening balance. You can create additional subgroups which we will see in the tutorial titled Account Management.
Click on Bank	But for now, I shall choose Bank as a subgroup name.
Point to Account Name	Next field is Account name Here I enter the name of the Account as SBI.
Point to Account Code	We had preferred to create account codes manually So,we see a field for account code. GNUKhata suggests an account code as you can see. We can edit the suggested code or leave it as it is.
Point to Debit opening balance textbox	Let's enter the debit opening balance. The default value as you can see is 0.00 You can accept this or enter any positive or negative value.
Enter 5000	I will enter 5000 as debit opening balance.
Point to Total Debit Opening Balance	It gives you the total of all Debit Opening Balances so far entered.
	Right now it is 0 because we have not yet saved the account with debit opening balance.
Point to Total Credit Opening Balance	It gives you the total of all Credit Opening Balances so far entered.
	Right now it is 0 because no account with credit opening balnce has been saved.
Point to Difference in Opening Balance	It gives difference between debit and credit opening balances.
Save button	After filling all the necessary data, I will press the Save button.
Successfully created account message	Here you are.Message appears at the top which tells tells you have successfully created the desired account.
Point to total debit opening balance	Note that the amounts in the total debit have been updated. Total Debit and Credit opening balance depends on what type of opening balance you have entered. Note that, the fields Total debit opening balance, Total credit opening balance and Difference in opening balance are read only They get updated after saving a new account.
Select Finish option.	If you do not wish to create any more accounts, click Finish button.
	Congratulations! You have now created the books for the organisation Free Accounting Foundation .
Next page Username and password.	Next, a new screen appears which asks for the username and password.
Logout	For demo, the username and the password is admin. You can change it later if you want. Lets click Login button. If you ever wish to logout, you can click on Logout at the top right of the screen
When Login button is clicked.	Note, a new page appears with the name of the organisation It even has financial year and the menu bar at the top.
To Stop GNUkhata	To stop GNUkhata, type on the terminal sudo stopgk
	In the next few tutorials, we will learn about all the features that are available in GNUKhata’s Menu.
Show Slide Summary	So in this tutorial we have seen : How to install GNUKhata How to create: New organisation Set preferences Add an account and finally log into GNUKhata.
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Thanks for joining	That’s it for this tutorial. Thank you for watching.

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