Released version 4.0 of the well-known program for financial accounting
(income, expenses, bank accounts, shares) GnuCash. It has a hierarchical account system, can split one transaction into several parts, directly import account data from the Internet. Based on professional accounting principles. It comes with a set of standard reports and allows you to create your own reports, both new and modified from the supplied ones.
Significant changes include a command line tool to perform a number of functions outside of the GUI, support for accounts payable and receivable, translation improvements, and more.
New features:
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A new standalone executable, gnucash-cli, to perform simple command line operations such as updating book prices. It is also possible to generate reports from the command line.
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The column width used in invoices, invoices, and employee vouchers can now be saved by default for each document type.
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When deleting accounts, it is checked that the target accounts into which the balance is divided are of the same type.
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Added support for localization in the Python API.
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A new transaction association dialog box allows you to set, change, and remove associations.
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You can add associations to invoices. The actual association, when present, is added as a link that appears below the notes.
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Attachment symbol is now displayed on entries in the registry when they have an attachment and the selected font supports the symbol.
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The OFX importer can now import multiple files at the same time. This does not work on MacOS.
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The new Multicolumn report menu contains the old custom multicolumn report and the new Dashboard report containing expense and income reports, income and expense graph, and account summary.
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Added support for UK and Australian value-added taxes to the Income-GST report. Reporting options have been changed from source accounts to source sales and purchase accounts to ensure proper reporting of capital purchases. This is incompatible with previous versions of the report and will require restoring saved configurations.
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An OFX import that has balance information will now prompt for an immediate reconciliation by passing the balance information in the file to the reconciliation information.
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Support for AQBanking version 6. This is required to support the new FinTS protocol from the European Payment Services Directive (PSD2).
Source: linux.org.ru