HowTo: Install HomeBank and Manage Personal & Financial Accounts

If you are looking for an easy way to manage your personal accounts, finances, manual finances analysis, dirty does it financial graphs...then read on.

Introducing HomeBank

HomeBank is the free software you have always

wanted to manage your personal accounts at home. The main concept is to be light, simple and very easy to use. HomeBank brings you many features that allows you to analyze your finances in a detailed way instantly and dynamically with powerful report tools based on filtering and graphical charts.

Let me tell you why HomeBank is different and feature-rich personal accounts management and analysis tool.

HomeBank Features

* transaction import in CSV format (homebank specific format)
* pre-defined transactions, which can be automated
* pre-filling of transactions from a bookmark
* dual pad of cheque and automated cheque number increment
* add transactions by inherit from existing ones
* multiple transactions edit for each columns at once
* easy transfert between accounts, which can be automated
* dynamic transactions filter everywhere
* visual paymode and additional info text field
* visual status of transactions
* transaction remind (kind of 'post-it')
* dynamic minor currency display toggle for Euro countries

HomeBank Analysis features

Dynamic, easy and powerful reports with graphical charts:

* complete filter for every transaction fields
* easy period change with some useful presets
* 'Statictics' is the main report and show results computed by: Payee, Categories, Months, Years
* 'Budget' track the decay from what was normaly planned
* 'Overdrawn' focuses on the balance and point transactions in the 'red zone'
* 'Car cost' analyze your car specific costs and consumption of fuel

And more to see.

Homebank supports includes mailing list, online help, bug tracking, feature request and more. The only installation requirement for HomeBank is an internet connection and GTK+-2.10 package or its upper version. HomeBank is released under the GPL license.

HomeBank Installation

HomeBank is available from Fedora Extra repo and can be installed using yum. Homebank is also available from many different distro like Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, OpenSuse, Windows, MacOS, and more. Check out their dowload link from here. http://homebank.free.fr/index.php?id=20

# yum -y install homebank

Take some time to try HomeBank, you won't regret it.

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