[Hudlug] Is GNUcash like MS Money? (was Re: Gnopernicus, ... )

[Anne Wilson]

On Monday 06 March 2006 12:14, Ben Fowler wrote:
> On 2/27/06, MICHAEL WEAVER <michaelweaver1 at btinternet.com> wrote:
> > [ snip ]
> > I presume that Gnucash is a bit like MS Money. I know some people use
> > Spreadsheets for financial records but I have never got figures to quite
> > add up when using say Excel but then Spreadsheets was never really my
> > thing at College.
>
> Do mean that you have working knowledge of MS Money and you want to
> transfer this skill? You may want to check with Anne, but I suspect the
> GNUcash is quite different.
>
I've never used MS Money, so it's difficult to comment.  I think I may have a 
copy of it somewhere, and if I can get time today I'll try to find it - the 
laptop is dual-boot.

GnuCash is more like QuickBooks, from the comments I have read on the GC list.  
It imports files from QuickBooks and Quicken, I understand.  If you are not 
prepared to get into the whys and wherefores of dual-entry book-keeping, I 
don't think you'd be happy with this.

> Michael, unless that was some kind of sly humour, lets be fair to the fine
> folk at Redmond: Excel is a pretty good program. It may have grown a little
> middle-aged spread after adding 'workbooks' and it may do other things
> such as databases, pivot tables and text lists, but I am guessing that
> adding up figures correctly is a given!
>
Getting the figures to 'add up' properly depends on fully understanding 
formulae.  If that's the only problem it should be easy enough to set up an 
skeleton spreadsheet that would give Michael the information he needs.  He 
could then simply delete all the test entries to use it, or, better still, 
keep that as a page 1 and create his own by copying onto page 2 - so that the 
example formulae are preserved.

Awaiting comment from Michael.

Anne
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