The Skrooge Handbook

The Skrooge Handbook

Guillaume DE BURE (guillaume.debure gmail.com)

Developer: Stephane MANKOWSKI

Revision 0.6.0 (20/12/2009)

Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2009 Stéphane MANKOWSKI, Guillaume DE BURE

This document is a handbook for using Skrooge, a personal finances manager application.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

What Skrooge Is
What Skrooge Is Not

Terminology

Document
Account
Operation
Category
Unit

2. Using Skrooge

User Interface

The main area
Docks
Status Bar
Context Chooser
Multiple Tabs
Edition Panels
Tables
Save Customized Content
Undo / Redo
Mass Update
Property Editor
Search as you type

Import Files

Supported File Formats
CSV Specificities
Importing Operations
Merge operations after import

Export all your data in one file
Export a specific table
Export Graph

Bank & Accounts

Account properties
Accounts list
Create an Account
Modify an Account
Delete Accounts

Operation Properties
Operations list
Create an operation
Split Operation
Transfer
Shares
Schedule Operations
Fast Edition
Reconciliation
Template Operations

Scheduled Operations
Scheduled Templates

Close Tracker

Set up report
Graph Types
Zoom on graph
Report Examples
Going Deeper

Monthly Report

Edit Units
Unit Types

Search & Process

Define search criteria
View search results
Define Processing
Define Alarm

3. Credits and License

A. Installation

How to obtain Skrooge

Requirements

Installing Skrooge

Prerequisites
Compilation and Installation

B. Real Case Study

C. Deep analysis exercise: Holidays expenses

Analysis Context
Data Organisation
Finding the holidays total cost
Expenses Distribution
Conclusion

List of Tables

2.1.
2.2.
2.3.
2.4.
2.5.
2.6.
B.1.
B.2.

Introduction