Reluctantly Going Back to QuickBooks

[Jan Steinman]

> From: Jill Terry <jill at babrees.co.uk>
> 
> I am planning on switching my business over to GnuCash from QuickBooks at the beginning of my financial year (1st March). But I won't be even trying to import, I shall just put opening balances in.  If you really want to switch, could you not do that?

Yea, I considered that. But we have a lot of long-term obligations (investment shares) in there that can't really be dealt with via "opening balance."

I considered importing only the long-term obligations (by re-entering, if necessary), but since those funds flowed through the checking account, it would make the opening balance messy.

I agree that QuickBooks is tenuous. I might put all the long-term obligations into MySQL, and use GnuCash only for current accounts. But that gets messy, because some of our share classes (community supported dairy, for example) have a lot of turn-over.

There's no perfect solution, unfortunately. I'll re-evaluate next December.

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