Re: Any suggestions on how to improve this?

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Author: Vaughn Treude
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: Any suggestions on how to improve this?
On Wednesday 23 June 2004 15:17, you wrote:
> Vaughn Treude wrote:
> >I've had a similar problem. My books are still in Quick Books, so I've
> > kept an old Windows box around to run it. I've looked at GnuCash, and it
> > didn't seem to do what I needed yet. If I can ever make the time I want
> > to get in on the GnuCash project so I can create the missing features
> > that will enable it to be a Quick Books replacement.
> >
> >It's not just keeping the Windows box that's the problem, I'd have to keep
> > it around anyway for various client-related reasons. But I've gotten
> > really sick of how aggressively Intuit pushes the upgrades, especially
> > the tax table updates. If you don't buy your table updates, QB will
> > refuse to calculate withholding taxes any more, even though the changes
> > are usually minor from year to year. (Of course, they'd probably get
> > sued if they did let you do that.) I ended up re-implementing the
> > withholding stuff in a spreadsheet, with the calculations based on the
> > Employer's Tax Guide from the IRS. Pretty easy to do, actually.
> >
> >Vaughn
>
> I successfully switched a client to the web version of Quick Books. I'm
> still weird about having my company books on Intuits servers but it
> worked for the client and they were able to switch to linux because of
> it. (Quickbooks' web version supports mozilla). I think more and more
> apps are going to do this, switch to web applications and when they do
> it will be easier to get them to linux.


Sorry, I'm (more than) a tad uneasy about doing that. And for reasons I
stated earlier, I'm about as fond of Intuit as I am of Microsoft. But more
choice is good, even if it's not a choice I'd make.

Vaughn

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