jGnash is a personal finance manager with many of the same features as commercially-available software.
It was created to make tracking personal finances painless, but also to provide the functionality required by advanced users.
The software is a double entry accounting system, but single entry transactions can be entered to support easy entry of adjustments to account balances. jGnash uses Accounts instead of Categories for double entry.
Key Features
- Accurate calculations, no loss of precision or rounding errors.
- Double Entry Transactions.
- Single Entry Transactions.
- Split Transactions.
- Basic support for Investment Accounts and Transactions.
- Investment transactions support multiple fee entries and account assignment for European users.
- Nested Accounts.
- Multiple Currencies (Default and Custom), Securities, and custom Commodities.
- QIF import.
- QIF import from on-line banking sources.
- OFX import from on-line banking sources.
- Auto-Completion.
- Multiple look and feels.
- Sortable account registers.
- Reconciliation support.
- Reporting:
- Printable reports.
- Printable charts.
- PDF export.
- Scripting support (BeanShell and JavaScript).
- Memorized transactions.
- Update stock prices and currency exchange rates online.
- Maintain historical stock prices and currency exchange rate information.
- Evaluation of mathematical expressions inside decimal input fields.
- Time-stamp backup files on exit.
- Client / Server functionality for remote or multiple users Networking Architecture.
Website: ccavanaugh.github.io/jgnash
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Craig Cavanaugh
License: GNU General Public License v3.0

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