[HLUG] Gnucash

[Paul Stenning]

I am looking for a new accounts program for my self-employed business 
and Gnucash was on my list to check.  I'm a bit concerned abouyt the 
comment on exportying data though as that's the major issue I have with 
my current software (QuickBooks SimpleStart 2008).

All I need to do is record payments and receipts, allocate them to 
categories, and in a few cases split them between categories.  Then my 
accountant wants the full accounts (all transactions) as a spreadsheet 
or CSV file, plus ideally reports by category, profit and loss etc.

Many packages seem over-complicated and confusing with multiple accounts 
and options etc.  I don't understand or care about the details (that's 
what I pay an accountant for), I just want to record the transactions 
with minimal fuss!

Would Gnucash do the job?  Anything else (preferably open source) I 
should look at?  I'm using Windows XP but also have a couple of Linux 
Virtual PCs in VirtualBox.

Paul


On 05/08/2010 16:25, dicegeorge at hotmail dot com wrote:
> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user
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> is a list about gnucash,
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> From: "Sarah Chard" <sarah at streetentertainers.co.uk>
> Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 2:40 PM
> To: "herefordshire" <herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Subject: [HLUG] Gnucash
>
>> we had a brief discussion about gnucash at one of the hlug meetings - I
>> use it for my business but always struggled to pull the figures out for
>> my vat return - spurred on by the plans for ISFD and the knowledge that
>> if someone might ask me to recommend an open source accounts package
>> that works with UK VAT I have found an initial version of a vat report
>> that was posted to the gnucash devel list and managed to install it in
>> the reports folder - I contacted the guy that wrote it who said it
>> probably has some bugs as he has not tested it on a full set of accounts
>> but it seems to work fine and it should save me quite a bit of work. I
>> hope they add it into the next gnucash release as it is a bit fiddly to
>> add it into the reports for those of us who don't usually venture beyond
>> the GUI
>> If anyone needs to know how to add it in here are the links
>>
>> http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/attachments/20100501/36126605/attachment.obj
>>
>>
>> and useful for getting it to work
>>
>> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Custom_Reports
>>
>> I installed it into the report directory
>> --
>> Sarah
>>
>> SFD event - 18 Sept 2010 -
>> http://piratepad.net/n7Tuzn49Is
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>>
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