When I had my business I used Quasar. Unless you connect a POS (Point of Sale) terminal to it... its free. And it is far cleaner than GnuCash. Take a look at: http://www.linuxcanada.com/quasar.shtml On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 1:57 PM, Matt Graham wrote: > 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. > > -- > Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress > There is no Darkness in Eternity > But only Light too dim for us to see. > > ------------------------------**--------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.**org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/**mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >