Non-Profits (501C)3 support

[james]

On 12/04/2016 08:55 PM, Mark Phillips wrote:
> I have used gnucash for several non-profits. Just change the chart of
> accounts to match the needs for your non-profit. There are lots of
> non-profit chart of accounts examples online - google is your friend.
> Finally, I took a 1 minute look at ledger, and it seems to be CLI
> only....gnucash is well ahead of that, unless you do everything from the CL.
>
> Mark
>
> On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 5:28 PM, Buddha Buck <blaisepascal at gmail.com
> <mailto:blaisepascal at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     At its heart, anything you can do with a pen-and-paper system Double
>     Entry
>     Accounting system, you can also do with GnuCash. This includes keeping
>     books for a 501(c)(3). Several of us do so.
>
>     There are a few things you might want to customize: the "Profit/Loss"
>     report is misnamed for a non-profit organization, for instance, and the
>     standard business chart of accounts does not match the categories
>     that the
>     IRS wants things to be in for the annual tax filing. But those are
>     all easy
>     to change.
>
>
>
>     On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 6:18 PM james <garftd at verizon.net
>     <mailto:garftd at verizon.net>> wrote:
>
>     > Hello gnucash users.
>     >
>     >
>     > I use gnucash for my small business, for years and I'm quite happy
>     with
>     > it. Recently, I was ask if Gnucash has as good of support for 501(c)3
>     > non-profits as does ledger (www.ledger-cli.org
>     <http://www.ledger-cli.org>)?
>     >
>     >
>     > Any and all comments are warmly received.
>     >
>     >
>     > James
>     >
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Thanks for the responses. I've forwarded your comments to the person 
running the 501(c)(3), encouraging him to join the gnucash-user list.

Here are a few links he provided::

[1] http://www.ledger-cli.org/
[2] http://www.accountingcoach.com/nonprofit-accounting/explanation/1
[3] https://sfconservancy.org/npoacct/