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Chuck Harris
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Sun May 08, 2005 1:44 pm
Ok, I finally have had some time to investigate GNUCash. It appears to be a
functional clone of Quicken, QuickBooks, and MSMoney.
It handles simple tasks like checkbooks, mortgages, bank accounts, paychecks...
It also handles business tasks like payroll, inventories, accounts payable,and
receivable, depreciation, taxes, ...
It appears to be a full, simple accounting system for home finance, and small
business finance. I am going to give it a whirl on replacing my business book
keeping tasks.
If you want to know more about it, there is a full blown help system available
on the web, just google gnucash help.
Joel Kolstad wrote:
Quote:
"Chuck Harris" <cf-NO-SPAM-harris_at_erols.com> wrote in message
news:JuKdnTdLTPtOZurfRVn-tA_at_rcn.net...
Well, let's see, Quickbooks should be able to run under wine, and there is
certainly an equivalent package to Quickbooks, perhaps gnucash?
Does it read Quicken files?
It reads QIF files, which are available from MSMoney, Quicken, and QuickBooks.
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A BIG reason people resist changing to Linux -- even when the tools are
arguably 'good enough' or even as good as the PC versions -- is that they have
hundreds or thousands or hours invested in creating their data and they don't
want to re-enter it all.
That doesn't apply here, as GNUCash already has that avenue of migration covered.
-Chuck
Chuck Harris
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Sun May 08, 2005 1:56 pm
Mike Rocket J. Squirrel Elliott wrote:
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On 5/3/2005 7:31 PM Chuck Harris wrote:
Joel Kolstad wrote:
"Chuck Harris" <cf-NO-SPAM-harris_at_erols.com> wrote in message
news:JuKdnTdLTPtOZurfRVn-tA_at_rcn.net...
Well, let's see, Quickbooks should be able to run under wine, and
there is
certainly an equivalent package to Quickbooks, perhaps gnucash?
Does it read Quicken files?
It imports Quicken Interchange Format (QIF), Open Financial Exchange (OFX),
and Home Banking Computer Interface (HBCI).
Quote:
I don't know, but I think gnucash was meant as a replacement for Money.
I haven't had time to investigate it fully. There is also something
called
abicash, IIRC. The target is there, it will be hit.
Quicken (personal finance) and Quickbook (business finance). Very
different files. QB has inventory, etc., what you need for running a
small manufacturing concern.
GnuCash is designed to do what Quicken, QuickBooks, and MSMoney do, and more.
It handles inventories, payroll, accounts payable and receivable, ...
And best of all, it is a true double entry accounting system. Unlike our
friends with the "Q".
It has many different forms of reports and graphs (of course)
I am going to convert my manually controlled books over to GnuCash this
year.
GNUCash is yet another reason to leave the windoze monarchy.
-Chuck
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