Re: Simple Small Busines Accounting App

I've used a spreadsheet in the past and that is a great solution.  I'm looking for a little more.

Thanks!!


 
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Keith Smith


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From: George Toft <george@georgetoft.com>
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Subject: Re: Simple Small Busines Accounting App



Based on my experience, gnuCash is fine - probably more than you need.  I do about as much business (checks/payments) as you and use an OpenOffice spreadsheet.  I used gnuCash with my consulting company, but when it collapsed in a series of lawsuits, 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.  Assuming you have no business partners and 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.

For example:


2011 Blah Blah Business
Mileage $0.51 $0.56




















































Income


Cost of Goods Sold

Expenses



















Income – Products
Sold Wholesale Income –
Services Income –
Interest Income – Products
Sold Retail Cost of Labor Materials and
Supplies Other Costs Advertising Car and
Truck Expenses Commissions
And Fees Contract Labor Insurance Interest – other Legal and
Professional Services Communication Office Expenses Rent/Lease –
Machinery Rent/Lease –
Other Repairs and
Maintenance Supplies –
Other Taxes and
Licenses Travel, meals,
And entertainment Utilities Other Expenses

Totals 970 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00
Date Description

Except for 2003-2007, I've been using a spreadsheet for the last
      25 years.

It's better than a shoebox and you don't have to learn
      double-entry accounting to use it.

Cheers!

George

On 8/9/2013 4:58 PM, sean ritzler wrote:

I have not used it myself, but I've heard good things about GnuCash. On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 4:55 PM, keith smith <klsmith2020@yahoo.com> wrote:
>Hi, I am looking for a very simple accounting system. I receive 2 or 3 payments a month and I might write 4 or 5 checks a month. I was using quickbooks home and business, however they want me to renew it
every 3 ears or some of the features are turned off. I use M$ 7 for my work station, however that is subject to change so a M$ /
Linux app would be nice. Any ideas. I'm looking for simple. Also If I can import the data from my
bank that would be a big plus. Thanks!! Keith ------------------------
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