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 <
mhgraham@crow202.org> 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/<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.
>
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