[SLUG] finance under linux

[doug foskey]

On Tuesday 02 September 2003 12:17 pm, Gonzalo Servat wrote:
> On 2/09/2003 9:53 AM +0800, Adam Hewitt wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > After cracking the shits that my mother-in-law is forever telling her
> > friends that I work with computers and ending up coming home every night
> > to fix someone elses computer problems, I have decided to get myself and
> > ABN and start charging for the privilege (and as I found out 4 weeks ago
> > that I am having my first baby the money will come in very handy too).
>
> Congratulations! :)
>
> > Now I guess most of this will only come in useful when/if I get Debian
> > running fully under my ibook, but is anyone running their business
> > finances under linux? I am not registered for GST as this will only be a
> > part time thing, but is there any GST software under linux?
>
> Not me. I use Quickbooks on Windows. It would make my day if there was
> something for Linux that does what Quickbooks can do (in its user friendly
> manner, preferably) but afaik there is none. You could run Quickbooks under
> WINE, I guess.
>
> > I would be very interested in finding out how/if people are doing this,
> > to what extent it works for them, any problems or advise about using
> > this software under linux and what software they are using?
>
> There was a mention of SQL Ledger. I had a good look at the online demo and
> unfortunately it doesn't seem to suit my needs. There are some key features
> that I need for billing my clients (such as recurring billing, reminders of
> overdue invoices, etc) which are not in said program.
>
> I'm no Quickbooks fan, but of all the accounting software out there
> Quickbooks is the most affordable (imho) and has the bare essential
> features needed to bill clients and produce the right information for the
> tax return && BAS.
>
> HTH.
>
> Regards,
> Gonzalo

All this & more in Gnucash! (reputedly better than Q....books!)

regards Doug


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