Non-Profits (501C)3 support

[Mark Phillips]

I will add one point about reports. The "built-in" reports may not work for
your needs. However, selecting the right transactions and exporting the
data into a spreadsheet is very easy, and then one can use the spreadsheet
to create whatever reports are required.

Mark

On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 7:01 PM, james <garftd at verizon.net> wrote:

> 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/
>