Howto make full use of GnuCash

I have in the recent years been looking for a personal accounting software that can support the need for simplicity as well as advanced usage. I need to be able to hack into the program while at the same time my wife is adding the daily transactions (without wondering how to do it). By first glance GnuCash is overkill. You need to make sure receipts are kept for accounting purposes and that numbers add up to what you really own in your bank. That means regularly checking the banks online services. I have now solved the problem concerning how to know if the numbers are correct: By exporting accounting history in my banks online services to xls, opening this file in OpenOffice and by using the calc2qif macro, I can easily export and import my accounting history into GnuCash with almost perfect precision. The only thing left is to split up the newly imported transactions based on what we bought and what we withdrew to cash.