gnucash vs Quickbooks

[Kevin Brown]

Siri Amrit Kaur wrote:
> On Sunday 26 February 2006 07:49 pm, Carl Parrish kindly wrote:
>> Siri Amrit Kaur wrote:
>>> I've never used either, but need to learn Quickbooks for a side-job. I
>>> don't have a Windows partition, but I can get gnucash. If I learned how
>>> to do the basics in gnucash, do y'all think I could find may way around
>>> Quickbooks?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Siri Amrit
>> Not really. The accounting princples are pretty much the same but
>> gnucash is double entry, quickbooks is some weird hybrid. I'm using
>> quickbooks online now, used gnucash for about 4 years. Other than the
>> fact that they both enter finacial info and the name of the reports are
>> generally the same they are very differnt tools. You can get quickbook
>> running on Linux with CrossOver (proably with Wine as well). My personal
>> .02 cents , if you know what you're doing gnucash is *way* faster
>> (meaning you can get what you need done faster) but if you don't know
>> something quickbooks is a lot more forgiving (and has *tons* of online
>> help etc...).
> 
> 
> Thank you, Carl, that's very helpful. I just need to get familiar with 
> Quickbooks. How do you use it online? Do you need windows to do so? Is there 
> a way to use an online tutorial? 

http://quickbooks.intuit.com/commerce/catalog/fragments/quickbooks/2006/products/compchart_qb.jhtml

> I don't know how to use Wine or Crossover, and if I go that route I'll have to 
> buy the Quickbooks software, too. All this for a job I don't even know if I 
> want.