Free Software Accountant

[George Toft]

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.

IMHO, use whatever package your accountant tells you to use.

George Toft, CISSP




der.hans wrote:
> moin moin,
> 
> I need an accountant for personal and small business use. I might also
> need one for a non-profit. I realize I'm unlikely to find someone who does
> all 3 types of accounting, so I might need more than one accountant.
> 
> I want to use Free Software. I don't want to host the data at a 3rd party
> software vendor's site. It's my data, the software company doesn't need a
> copy.
> 
> Anybody have someone to recommend?
> 
> Using Free Software is more important to me than using someone local.
> 
> Dennis, do you know how the FSF handles the books?
> 
> ciao,
> 
> der.hans