complete beginner

[Gregory Forster]

Hi Janet,

     I used to run Peachtree Complete Accounting 2008 for both 
businesses. As with your version of Quickbooks, Peachtree 2008 was also 
incompatible with Windows 7, (except for Professional with a Virtual 
Environment).  I was tired of having to spend hundreds of dollars every 
time I had to upgrade.   I pondered using GNUcash and finally was 
determined to actually use it, no matter.  Nothing in Peachtree was able 
to be directly imported into GNUcash.  So I had an old Windows XP 
machine and printed out COAs, General Ledgers, Balance Sheets, Income 
Statements, etc. from Peachtree and used those printouts to start from 
scratch, GNUcash.  I used Quicken for my personal finances.  Quicken 
will export QIF files that GNUcash can import.  I heard that Quicken was 
totally incompatible with Quickbooks, so you may have to do what I did.  
It was a real pain at first, but I love it now.  I have GNUcash 2.4.13  
on a Windows 7 64bit Home  Premium laptop and GNUcash 2.4.13 on a 
Windows 7 64bit Professional on my desktop.  Unfortunatelly GNUcash does 
not do the calculations for Payroll, or Depreciation.  However all the 
Assets, Contra Asset, Expense and Liability accounts can be set up in 
GNUcash.  I use LibreOffice 4.2.2.1 "CALC" Spreadsheet to do the actual 
calculations for both Payroll and Depreciation.  LibreOffice is also 
open source software.  The newer versions of LibreOffice and GNUcash I 
have installed on my wife's Windows 8.1 touch screen 64bit laptop.

Greg

On 4/6/2015 5:11 PM, Janet Tweedy wrote:
> Sorry if this is too simple but ...
>
> Is there anywhere on this list where I could ask some really simple 
> questions? We used to use Quickbooks until our version wouldn't move 
> to windows 7, since then we've been sort of lost :) Installed Gnu-cash 
> but can't seem to input separate items on invoices either from us or 
> to us. Is this something that is not possible in the program?
>
> I run a very small printing business but also would like to run a home 
> account, but need to input a breakdown of invoices and not simply 
> enter the total amounts.
> No vat needed, running on a pc and laptop under windows 7, just need 
> to keep a tally of what I paid for separate items.
>
> Janet
>
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