What "evil" app are you referring to? The one from Tucson?
JT Moree <
moreejt@pcxperience.com> wrote: George Toft wrote:
> Let me chime in my $0.02 (and stir the pot) . . .
>
> I used GNUCash for my previous business - worked very well, so I
> thought. When it came time to have an accountant evaluate the records
> in a court case, I found out that the software was incompatible with
> what accountants deal with, and now I get to pay to rebuild 4 years of
> accounting data in a form that the accountant can analyze.
>
> At this point, using Free Software has now cost me $1200 (estimated) in
> data entry costs, and I'm wishing I used one of those eeeevil commercial
> programs that is "standard" in the small business accounting industry.
> It would have been less expensive.
It might be cheaper to export the data from gnucash to a spreadsheet or
database.
http://edseek.com/archives/2005/08/18/gnucash-export-to-gnumeric-and-csv/
http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2006/03/12/gnucash-to-mysql-export-script/
These pages might help. The court should be happy with spreadsheets.
If you wanted to spend your money on something re-usable you could fund
an export feature for GNUCash. I notice that you're not the only person
who could use it.
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JT Morée
PC Xperience, Inc.
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