The Kmymoney Handbook
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The KMyMoney Handbook for KMyMoney version 5.0 Michael T. Edwardes Thomas Baumgart Ace Jones Tony Bloomfield Robert Wadley Darin Strait Roger Lum Jack H. Ostroff Dawid Wróbel The KMyMoney Handbook 2 Contents 1 Introduction 14 1.1 What is KMyMoney? . 14 1.2 What KMyMoney is not . 14 2 What’s new in this release 15 2.1 Bug fixes and enhancements to functionality . 15 2.2 Updates to this Handbook . 15 3 Making the most of KMyMoney 17 3.1 Basic Accounting . 17 3.1.1 Defining the accounts (personal records) . 18 3.1.2 Defining the accounts (business records) . 18 3.2 Mapping your finances to KMyMoney . 18 3.2.1 Accounts . 18 3.2.1.1 Accounts - Asset . 18 3.2.1.2 Accounts - Liability . 19 3.2.2 Institutions . 19 3.2.3 Categories . 19 3.2.4 Sub-Categories . 19 3.2.5 Tags . 19 3.2.6 Payees . 19 3.2.7 Scheduled transactions . 20 3.3 Useful Tips . 20 4 Using KMyMoney for the first time 21 4.1 Running KMyMoney for the first time . 21 4.2 The main window . 22 4.3 Creating a new file . 23 4.4 Creating accounts . 28 4.5 Schedules . 28 4.6 Categories . 28 4.7 Tags.............................................. 29 The KMyMoney Handbook 4.8 Payees . 29 4.9 Quicken Interchange Format (QIF) Import . 29 4.10 Searching for transactions . 29 4.11 Reconciliation . 29 4.12 Backing up . 30 4.13 Launching KMyMoney . 30 4.14 How to move KMyMoney to a new computer . 30 4.14.1 Moving your data . 30 4.14.2 Moving your settings . 31 4.14.2.1 Moving plugin settings . 31 4.15 Contacting the Developers / Reporting Bugs . 31 4.15.1 Contacting the developers . 31 4.15.2 Reporting bugs . 31 4.15.2.1 Writing High Quality Bug Reports . 32 5 Institutions 33 5.1 Institution Options . 34 5.1.1 New Institution . 35 5.2 Account Options . 35 6 Accounts 37 6.1 The Accounts View . 37 6.2 Creating an Account . 38 6.2.1 The Institution (Bank) name . 39 6.2.2 Account . 40 6.2.3 Credit Card Accounts . 41 6.2.4 Investment Accounts . 41 6.2.5 Loan Accounts . 42 6.2.6 Parent Account . 47 6.2.7 Review and save the account details . 48 6.3 Opening / viewing accounts . 48 6.4 Editing Account Information . 48 6.5 Deleting accounts . 49 7 Categories 51 7.1 Creating a category . 51 7.2 Editing a Category . 52 7.3 VAT Support . 52 7.4 Deleting a category . 53 7.5 Open ledger for a category . 53 4 The KMyMoney Handbook 8 Tags 54 8.1 Tags List . 54 8.1.1 Adding a Tag . 55 8.1.2 Renaming a Tag . 55 8.1.3 Deleting a Tag . 55 8.2 Tagged transactions and Tag details . 55 8.2.1 Tagged transactions . 56 8.2.2 Tag details . 56 9 Payees 57 9.1 Payees List . 58 9.1.1 Adding a Payee or Payer . 58 9.1.2 Renaming a Payee or Payer . 58 9.1.3 Deleting a Payee or Payer . 58 9.2 Additional Payee Details . 58 9.2.1 Personal Information . 58 9.2.2 Transaction Matching Settings . 59 9.2.2.1 Overview . 59 9.2.2.2 Setting up . 60 9.2.2.3 Importing Transactions . 60 9.3 Viewing Transaction History . 61 10 Schedules 62 10.1 Introduction . 62 10.2 Types of schedules . 62 10.2.1 Deposit . 63 10.2.2 Bills/Withdrawals . 63 10.2.3 Transfer . 63 10.2.4 Loans . 63 10.3 The Schedules View . 63 10.4 The New Schedule dialog . 64 10.4.1 Filling in the Schedule name, Frequency, and Payment information. 64 10.4.2 Modifying the Schedule Options section . 65 10.5 Editing schedules . 65 10.6 Deleting schedules . 65 10.7 Duplicating schedules . 65 10.8 Entering scheduled transactions . 65 10.8.1 Manually entering scheduled transactions . 66 10.8.2 Confirming the transaction to enter . 66 10.8.3 Letting KMyMoney enter the scheduled transaction(s) for you . 67 5 The KMyMoney Handbook 11 Ledgers 68.