# Introduction

## What is &kmymoney;?

Put simply, &kmymoney; is a personal finance manager by &kde;. It enables users of open source operating systems and applications to keep careful track of their personal finances by providing a broad array of financial features and tools.

The principal goals of the project are:

- ## Feature Parity

  &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.

- ## Ease of Use

  &kmymoney; strives to be the easiest open source personal finance manager to use, especially for the non-technical user.

- ## Correctness

  Based on tried and tested double entry accounting principles &kmymoney; ensures that your finances are kept in correct order.

## What &kmymoney; is not

As a personal finance manager, &kmymoney; is not intended to scale to the needs of an average business. A small business might find sufficient functionality to use &kmymoney;, but features such as accounts-receivable and accounts-payable are not directly supported. However, it would be possible to create client, supplier, document, or other features through plugins.

&kmymoney; is not simply a clone 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.