The KMyMoney Handbook for KMyMoney version 4.6 Michael T. Edwardes, Thomas Baumgart, Ace Jones, Tony Bloomfield, Robert Wadley, Darin Strait, Roger Lum, and Jack H. Ostroff The KMyMoney Handbook 2 Contents 1 Introduction 1 1.1 What is KMyMoney? . .1 1.2 What KMyMoney is not . .1 2 What’s new in this release2 3 Making the most of KMyMoney3 3.1 Basic Accounting . .3 3.1.1 Defining the accounts (personal records) . .4 3.1.2 Defining the accounts (business records) . .4 3.2 Mapping your finances to KMyMoney . .4 3.2.1 Accounts . .4 3.2.1.1 Accounts - Asset . .4 3.2.1.2 Accounts - Liability . .5 3.2.2 Institutions . .5 3.2.3 Categories . .5 3.2.4 Sub-Categories . .5 3.2.5 Payees . .5 3.2.6 Scheduled transactions . .5 3.3 Useful Tips . .5 4 Using KMyMoney for the first time7 4.1 Running KMyMoney for the first time . .7 4.2 The main window . .8 4.3 Creating a new file . .9 4.4 Creating accounts . 15 4.5 Schedules . 16 4.6 Categories . 16 4.7 Payees . 16 4.8 Quicken Interchange Format (QIF) Import . 16 4.9 Searching for transactions . 16 4.10 Reconciliation . 17 The KMyMoney Handbook 4.11 Backing up . 17 4.12 Launching KMyMoney . 17 4.13 Contacting the Developers / Reporting Bugs . 17 4.13.1 Contacting the developers . 17 4.13.2 Reporting bugs . 18 4.13.2.1 Writing High Quality Bug Reports . 18 5 Institutions 19 5.1 Institution Options . 19 5.1.1 New Institution . 20 5.2 Account Options . 20 6 Accounts 22 6.1 The Accounts View . 22 6.2 Creating an Account . 22 6.2.1 The Institution (Bank) name . 23 6.2.2 Account . 24 6.2.3 Credit Card Accounts . 25 6.2.4 Investment Accounts . 25 6.2.5 Loan Accounts . 26 6.2.6 Parent Account . 32 6.2.7 Review and save the account details . 33 6.3 Opening / viewing accounts . 33 6.4 Editing Account Information . 33 6.5 Deleting accounts . 35 7 Categories 36 7.1 Creating categories . 36 7.2 Editing a Category . 37 7.3 VAT Support . 38 7.4 Deleting categories . 38 8 Payees 39 8.1 Payees List . 39 8.1.1 Adding a Payee or Payer . 40 8.1.2 Renaming a Payee or Payer . 40 8.1.3 Deleting a Payee or Payer . 40 8.2 Additional Payee Details . 40 8.2.1 Personal Information . 40 8.2.2 Transaction Matching Settings . 41 8.2.2.1 Overview . 41 8.2.2.2 Setting up . 41 8.2.2.3 Importing Transactions . 42 8.3 Viewing Transaction History . 42 4 The KMyMoney Handbook 9 Schedules 43 9.1 Introduction . 43 9.2 Types of schedules . 43 9.2.1 Bills . 44 9.2.2 Deposits . 44 9.2.3 Loans . 44 9.2.4 Transfers . 44 9.3 The schedule view . 44 9.4 The new schedule dialog . 45 9.4.1 Filling in the fields . 45 9.4.2 Modifying the schedule behavior . 46 9.4.3 Letting KMyMoney enter the transaction into the register . 46 9.4.4 Letting KMyMoney know when the schedule will finish . 46 9.5 Editing schedules . 46 9.6 Deleting schedules . 46 9.7 The calendar view . 46 9.8 Entering scheduled transactions . 48 9.8.1 Manually entering scheduled transactions . 49 9.8.2 Confirming the transaction to enter . 49 9.8.3 Letting KMyMoney enter the scheduled transaction(s) for you . 50 10 Ledgers 51 10.1 The Ledger View . 51 10.1.1 The filter area . 52 10.1.2 The transaction list . 52 10.1.3 The transaction input form . 53 10.2 Entering Transactions . 53 10.3 Using the transaction input form . 53 10.3.1 The fields of a transaction . 54 10.3.1.1 The Payee . 54 10.3.1.2 The Category . 54 10.3.1.3 The Memo . 54 10.3.1.4 The Check Number . 54 10.3.1.5 The Date . 54 10.3.1.6 The Amount . 55 10.4 Directly inputting transactions into the list . 55 10.4.1 Starting the edit . ..