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<chapter id="introduction">
<chapterinfo>
  <date>2024-12-01</date>
  <releaseinfo>5.2.0</releaseinfo>
</chapterinfo>
<title>Introduction</title>

<sect1 id="what-is-kmymoney"><title>What is &kmymoney;?</title>
<para>
  &kmymoney; is a personal finance manager by &kde;.  It enables users to keep
  careful track of their personal finances by providing a broad array of financial
  features and tools.
</para>

<para>
  The principal goals of the project are:
</para>

<itemizedlist>
  <listitem>
    <formalpara><title>Feature Parity</title>
      <para>
        &kmymoney; intends to provide all important features found in the
        commercially available personal finance managers.  Although every release
        of &kmymoney; gets closer and closer to that goal, there is still work to
	be done.
      </para>
    </formalpara>
  </listitem>

  <listitem>
    <formalpara><title>Ease of Use</title>
      <para>
        &kmymoney; strives to be the easiest open source personal finance
        manager to use, especially for the non-technical user.
      </para>
    </formalpara>
  </listitem>

  <listitem>
    <formalpara><title>Correctness</title>
      <para>
        Based on tried and tested double entry accounting principles, &kmymoney;
        ensures that your finances are kept in correct order.
      </para>
    </formalpara>
  </listitem>
</itemizedlist>

</sect1>

<sect1 id="what-kmymoney-is-not"><title>What &kmymoney; is not</title>
<para>
  As a personal finance manager, &kmymoney; is not intended to support the needs of a
  business.  A small business might find sufficient functionality to use &kmymoney;,
  but features such as accounts-receivable and accounts-payable are not directly
  supported.  The larger the business, the less likely it is to find &kmymoney; will
  meet its financial management needs.  Most if not all the data needed for a small
  business, such as for reports for audit and taxation purposes is present, but may
  need to be extracted using various reports and then processed and assembled into
  the required formats.  In addition, it would be possible to create client,
  supplier, document, or other features through plugins.
</para>

<para>
  &kmymoney; is not simply a clone of any of the commercially available personal
  finance programs.  Although many of the features present in &kmymoney; can be found
  in other similar applications, &kmymoney; strives to present an individual and
  unique view of your finances.
</para>

</sect1>
</chapter>
