advice on software

[Mike or Penny Novack]

On 8/11/2017 7:31 PM, Chris Tsuji wrote:
>     Hi
>     Hopefully, I did this correct.
>     I am a treasurer of a not profit orgnization and need to decide on
>     using quickbooks or gnucash.
>     The currently use quickbooks but has be be redone.
>     What is your advice?
>     thanks in advance.
>     Chris tsuji
> _
QuickBooks Pro for Non-profits did not contain any of the special things 
accounting for non-profits calls for. In other words, you still have to 
set that up manually. It is why after a 2006 fire, I chose not to 
replace Quickbooks. Since some of the organizations for which I am not 
treasurer but do serve on the finance committee use QuickBooks Pro for 
Non-profits I can tell you that as of 2017 it STILL has none of the 
special non-profit features.

Michael D Novack

just a few examples ---- a non-profit might need the usual "business" 
categories of "vendor" and "customer" but it also would have the 
category "donor". Pledges are receivables but only according to the 
terms of the pledge << a pledge of $1000/year for the next ten years is 
NOT an immediate receivable of $10,000 >>  Membership dues (if any) are 
NOT a receivable while pledges are, but members usually want some sort 
of unified statement.

PLEASE -- I am NOT saying that gnucash has these features, just that you 
will have to improvises just as much using QuickBooks so why pay.