I have used gnucash for years for both personal and business. It is excellent. Mark On Aug 15, 2013 8:26 PM, "George Toft" wrote: > The accountant could read common formats - like whatever QuickBooks uses. > Also, this was back in 2007 > > Regards, > > George Toft > > On 8/12/2013 12:57 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. >> >> > ------------------------------**--------------------- > 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 >