Chapter 1. Quickstart

Table of Contents

Installing FreeCoins
FreeCoins and double entry accounting
Why you work
Tracking your money
What is a double entry accounting program?
About double entry accounting
Example business, RocketScience LLC

This chapter contains installation and usage guide for FreeCoins, together with a brief introduction to the accounting concepts behind FreeCoins. Please refer to the full manual (Chapter 2) for detailed usage instructions.

Installing FreeCoins

For information on how to install FreeCoins from source refer to Chapter 4.

There are several FreeCoins binaries, for different languages. Pick the binary with the right language code for you (for example FreeCoins-en.prc for the English language) to your Palm/emulator in the usual way. You are now ready to use the program. Note that you have to either install the currency database sample_currencies.pdb and select a default currency or start FreeCoins and create a currency yourself and select it as default. This is needed for proper operation of FreeCoins.

Warning

if you have been using a previous version you will have to delete the old version before installing the new one (because the format in which data is saved changed since the last release).