GNUCash Setup

[Plutocrat]

thecat wrote on Thursday, 30 July, 2015 08:05 PM:
> Can anyone suggest someone to help migrate my books from MYOB Business
> Basics (Windows XP) to GNUCash (Mavericks 10.9.5)? I'm an Australian based
> small business.

I'm not sure that there is an obvious migration path, but when I moved my small business from Quicken, I basically entered the previous year's worth of data into GnuCash by hand. It was laborious, but it took me a couple of days max, and I learnt a lot about GnuCash as I went. (Hint: you'll make lots of mistakes, so get used to rolling back to the last good backup). 

After I had data in both systems for the previous financial year, I ran reports to satisfy myself that they both agreed. After that I entered all transactions into both systems for a month or two, before leaving Quicken in an XP Virtual Machine for future reference, and moving full time onto GnuCash. 

I don't think there is a quick way of doing it, but for me the journey is part of the learning process.

P.