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* GNUKhata

** About the GNUKhata

GNUKhata is a free and open source software for accounting that
supports a wide range of applications in every field of economic
activity, including factory or farm-based production, point of sales
accounting & inventory and work in the service sector.  While it
serves such traditional accounting requirements, its special feature
is that it can support emerging sectors of the economy who are being
required to keep audited accounts, such as self-help groups, craft
producers and micro-finance groups. GNUKhata is highly customisable,
given its open source nature. It can be easily transformed into Indian
languages, largely unreached by existing software solutions. GNUKhata
is soon to be extended to include a payroll section. We hope to take
it to a stage where it can become a tool for remote banking.

*** Advantages of GNUKhata
    - It is lightweight and scales up with large volumes of data 
    - It is robust and can be used on a wide variety of data categories 
    - It is modular, thus facilitating addition of extensions for different tasks 
    - The user interface is designed to be intuitive and friendly even for beginners 
    - The reports are in the form of spreadsheets in ODS format 
    - The soon to be released web application will run through a web browser
    - Deployment will find the implementation easy to achieve
    - GNUKhata is a free software, sometimes referred to as free and open source software or FOSS 

*** Features of GNUkhata
    - Maintaining books of accounts 
    - Vouchers, bills, invoices and other documents needed in day-to-day accounting 
    - Ledgers, journals and other reports related to books of accounts 
    - Inventory-related tasks at any point of sales 
    - Sales data through a variety of report formats 
    - Use over the Internet to link points-of-sales units or collection points (for milk, savings etc) with each other and to a central server 
    - Managing micro-finance units 

** List of Courses/Subjects/Areas where GNUkhata can be used
   - Financial Accounting
   - Inventory Systems
   - Micro-Finance Companies
   - Banking
   - Insurance

** Learning Resources for GNUkhata
   - GNUKhata Manual - http://gnukhata.gnulinux.in/wiki/GNUKhata%20Manual
   - Developer Documentations - http://gnukhata.gnulinux.in/wiki/Developer%20documentation
   - Web based GNUKhata - http://gnukhata.gnulinux.in/wiki/web%20based%20GNUKhata