Simple Small Busines Accounting App

[keith smith]

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 at 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 at 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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