[HLUG] Gnucash

[Rodney]

I have done complicated domestic accounts for years using Gnucash; the 
file has now reached 1MB, with hundreds of accounts/sunaccounts.

Export is a nightmare; in HTM format the accounts list is 5889 lines and 
each item is bracketed <> so is not easily processed.  I have converted 
into Excel/OOcalc format once but it took ages and I can not remember 
how I did it.  I think that the lack of a csv export is the single real 
failing in Gnucash.  Unless there is an easy workaround that I have not 
found I can not see how it can be used to supply off-paper data to 
accountants, HMRC etc

Rod

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> Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2010 14:40:09 +0100
> From: Sarah Chard <sarah at streetentertainers.co.uk>
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> 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