Simple Small Busines Accounting App

[George Toft]

Based on my experience, gnuCash is fine - probably more than you need.  
I do about as much business (checks/payments) as you and use an 
OpenOffice spreadsheet.  I used gnuCash with my consulting company, but 
when it collapsed in a series of lawsuits, I had to pay an accountant 
$1200 to manually transfer all the gnuCash entries to QuickBooks for the 
previous four years ($300/year).  It would have been much less expensive 
to use QuickBooks in the first place.  Assuming you have no business 
partners and will never need to have your accounting records reviewed by 
an accountant or lawyers, OpenOffice should work fine.  Simply put each 
item from Schedule C as column headers, include date, description and 
mileage, and as you enter the expenses/receipts put them in the right 
column and come tax time it will take you about 5 minutes to fill out 
Schedule C as a copy&paste exercise.

For example:

	2011 Blah Blah Business
	Mileage 	$0.51 	$0.56 	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	

	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	

	
	
	Income 	
	
	
	Cost of Goods Sold 	
	
	Expenses 	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	

	
	
	Income -- Products
Sold Wholesale 	Income --
Services 	Income --
Interest 	Income -- Products
Sold Retail 	Cost of Labor 	Materials and
Supplies 	Other Costs 	Advertising 	Car and
Truck Expenses 	Commissions
And Fees 	Contract Labor 	Insurance 	Interest -- other 	Legal and
Professional Services 	Communication 	Office Expenses 	Rent/Lease --
Machinery 	Rent/Lease --
Other 	Repairs and
Maintenance 	Supplies --
Other 	Taxes and
Licenses 	Travel, meals,
And entertainment 	Utilities 	Other Expenses

	Totals 	970 	$0.00 	$0.00 	$0.00 	$0.00 	$0.00 	$0.00 	$0.00 	$0.00 
$0.00 	$0.00 	$0.00 	$0.00 	$0.00 	$0.00 	$0.00 	$0.00 	$0.00 	$0.00 
$0.00 	$0.00 	$0.00 	$0.00 	$0.00 	$0.00
Date 	Description 	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	


Except for 2003-2007, I've been using a spreadsheet for the last 25 years.

It's better than a shoebox and you don't have to learn double-entry 
accounting to use it.

Cheers!

George

On 8/9/2013 4:58 PM, sean ritzler wrote:
> I have not used it myself, but I've heard good things about GnuCash.
>
> On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 4:55 PM, keith smith <klsmith2020 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am looking for a very simple accounting system.
>>
>> I receive 2 or 3 payments a month and I might write 4 or 5 checks a month.
>>
>> I was using quickbooks home and business, however they want me to renew it
>> every 3 ears or some of the features are turned off.
>>
>> I use M$ 7 for my work station, however that is subject to change so a M$ /
>> Linux app would be nice.
>>
>> Any ideas.  I'm looking for simple.  Also If I can import the data from my
>> bank that would be a big plus.
>>
>> Thanks!!
>>
>> Keith
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------
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