Simple Small Busines Accounting App

[Mark Phillips]

I have used gnucash for years for both personal and business. It is
excellent.

Mark
On Aug 15, 2013 8:26 PM, "George Toft" <george at georgetoft.com> wrote:

> 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/<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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