Any suggestions for UK businesses - program seems quite American

[Mark Phillips]

Dave,

A short comment about creating reports using GnuCash. I manage a US trust
for my deceased parents, and the legal reporting requirements for quarterly
and annual accounting reports (receipts, disbursements, gains and losses)
is very different than the business reports (income statement, balances
sheet) provided by Gnucash. My trust attorney could not make heads or tails
of the income sheet/balance sheet! However, I can export ***transaction
reports*** for any set of accounts, import into LibreOffice Calc, and
create a pretty report in just the right format without a lot of issues. My
trust attorney is very happy with these reports.

Once you get the format of reports for your accountant set up correctly,
you can try your hand at some guile programming to make the reports print
at the touch of a button! I haven't tried this part of the exercise because
I have become quite adept at the GnuCash to Calc process, but it is on my
to do list.

Mark

On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 6:23 AM, Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd) <
drkirkby at kirkbymicrowave.co.uk> wrote:

> On 26 November 2016 at 13:11, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
>
> At Sat, 26 Nov 2016 01:37:05 +0000 drkirkby at kirkbymicrowave.co.uk wrote:
> >
> >
> > You just to talk to your accountant about your account *structure*, not
> > about
> > the software to implement it.  GnuCash can implement any account
> structure
> > you
> > like.
> >
>
> OK, I will do that. I will tell him however that I intend using GnuCash,
> and my reasons. Perhaps I can encourage him to start recommending it for
> small businesses.
>
> I know when I was looking for an accountant, I contacted several. I
> eventually chose one who lives in my village, on the basis it might be
> easier to deal with someone local. But I can see that an accountant that
> says
>
> "I will recommend you use GnuCash, as its free, and will remain free, and
> does not have your confidential data stored on a remote computer that can
> be hacked. "
>
> would be of some comfort. Of course, it relies on someone backing their own
> computer up, but I'm pretty IT literate myself.
>
> Dave
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