Simple Small Busines Accounting App

[Matt Graham]

On 2013-08-10 12:22, George Toft wrote:
> Based on my experience, gnuCash is fine - probably more than you
> need.

Double-entry bookkeeping is useful in a number of ways--mostly because 
you have to classify everything when you enter it.  GNUcash can also 
generate reports, which might be useful.  I'm not sure if libreoffice 
does "print checks", either, while GNUcash can do that.  Make sure to 
check the detailed docs at 
http://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.4/C/gnucash-guide/ for how to use the 
program.

I may be biased though, since I've been using GNUcash to keep track of 
my personal finances since 2000.  It works pretty well for that.

> 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.

This seems odd.  Was a lawyer or accountant unable to use GNUcash to 
read your files?  GNUcash files are just gzipped XML and can be 
transformed into other formats using XSLT, but doing that can take some 
time/effort since XSLT is not really very widely used and is kind of a 
pain to write.  (Appendix A5 of the documentation briefly describes 
this.)

> 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.

This has the advantage of not requiring you to learn much, which can be 
useful.

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