Simple Small Busines Accounting App

[George Toft]

The accountant  could read common formats - like whatever QuickBooks 
uses.  Also, this was back in 2007

Regards,

George Toft

On 8/12/2013 12:57 PM, Matt Graham 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/ 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.
>