Considering GNUCash

[John Layman]

The Microsoft Money Plus Sunset version should still work just fine (of
course, online services have been discontinued.)  That said, I converted
from MS Money and began record keeping in GnuCash 01 Jan 2010.  I ran
parallel for 6 months as a safety net.  I converted historical data only for
investment and loan accounts.  Conversion highlighted some problems in Money
data, such that I believe I had to "purify" Money entries a bit.  In other
words, I performed several rounds of conversion before I was satisfied with
the result.  While GnuCash is not free of flaws, it beats Money and Quicken
hands-down, IMO.  So I agree with the recommendation to bite the bullet and
switch to GnuCash. You can't make such a change without paying the price of
climbing a learning curve, but the alternative is to continue using a
product that's dead and gone -- or, worse, converting to any product from
Intuit.

-----Original Message-----
From: gnucash-user-bounces+john.layman=laymanandlayman.com at gnucash.org
[mailto:gnucash-user-bounces+john.layman=laymanandlayman.com at gnucash.org] On
Behalf Of Dustin Henning
Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 12:11 PM
To: plantz at ieee.org; 'Jerry Hall'; gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org
Subject: RE: Considering GNUCash

	If MS Money is old enough to not require activation and you are
still running Windows, I don't see why it wouldn't work there, you might
have to get XP Mode set up, as it may not run on your new OS natively, but
the processor itself shouldn't prevent it from running.  That said, I don't
know if the old MS license was perpetual and/or transferrable, so setting it
up in XP Mode might be illegal.  I switched to GNUCash from MS Money last
year, probably 2005 or 2006, and had experience similar to Bob's (except I
don't use the tax stuff, never have gotten in that deep).  I'd recommend
going to GNUCash if you can.  I say that as an IT person who prefers to
remain legally licensed AND spend less.  However, if you do switch, expect a
learning curve, and maybe review the concept guide before you try to import
your MS Money file
	Dustin

-----Original Message-----
From: gnucash-user-bounces+the00dustin=gmx.net at gnucash.org
[mailto:gnucash-user-bounces+the00dustin=gmx.net at gnucash.org] On Behalf Of
Bob Plantz
Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 11:56
To: 'Jerry Hall'; gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org
Subject: RE: Considering GNUCash

I migrated from Quicken to GNUCash several years ago. I do not use any
online features, preferring to enter all my values by hand. I don't do
anything especially complex: checking accounts; credit cards; mutual funds;
etc.

The migration was a little tedious, but it uncovered some accounting errors
I had made in Quicken. Since GNUCash uses a double entry system, and Quicken
does not (at least, not at that time), I was forced to correct my errors. I
had to learn some new things in order to use GNUCash, but I felt it was
worth it due to the increased accounting accuracy.

I am able to export a txf file from the Tax Schedule Report each year. I
have used that with both TurboTax and H&R Block At Home. Of course I still
have to go through the tax preparation program and correct some entries, but
I had to do that with Quicken.


Overall, I consider GNUCash to be a much better program than what Quicken
was several years ago. Quicken has probably improved since then. I do not
have experience with MS Money.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gnucash-user-bounces+rgplantz=gmail.com at gnucash.org
> [mailto:gnucash-user-bounces+rgplantz=gmail.com at gnucash.org] On Behalf 
> Of Jerry Hall
> Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2012 3:15 PM
> To: gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org
> Subject: Considering GNUCash
> 
> Currently using MS Money on an old machine.  Just got a new i5 and was
told
> that MS Money will not work there.
> 
> All I want is to be able to mimic what MS Money was doing in the "work 
> offline" mode.  That is, no communication with banks or credit unions 
> or credit cards.  Just a check register with a reconciliation feature, 
> and
reporting
> for listing expenditures for tax reporting.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jerry
> jwh.krh at gmail.com
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