[PLUG] Accounting Software -- anyone doing their books with Linux?

[Patrick J. Timlick]

I thought I made a pretty valiant effort to do my company books with
gnucash.  I also looked in to the ledgersmb family too.  In the end, a
couple of years ago, I decided that the bank integration of those packages
was so relatively onerous that I gave up and went online.  I'm not
convinced either that the explicit double entry accounting in either of
those is worth it to me.  I got by just fine with Quickbooks.

I went to workingpoint.com which is good enough for me.  I've had some
problems, but I bug them, and they fix them.  According to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems, there is
about a 60% chance they run workingpoint on linux.




On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 10:52 AM, David Bridges <dbridges at austin.rr.com>wrote:

> I've used/implemented gnucash http://www.gnucash.org/ for small
> businesses and it works fairly well as long as the people using it have
> a good understanding of how accounting is supposed to work.  It is
> overkill for personal finances.
>
> For personal use I think that you can't beat KMyMoney.  It does have a
> lot of kde dependencies but it works well under any environment and is
> quite polished.
>
> --
> David
>
> On Thu, 2014-05-01 at 09:37 -0700, Tim Wescott wrote:
> > To date, I've been doing my accounting in Peachtree, on Windows XP, in
> > Virtual Box, under Linux.
> >
> > Windows XP is going out of maintenance, and I'm thinking this is a
> > sterling opportunity to purge that windows-ism from my office.
> >
> > Does anyone use an accounting program under Linux, with or without Wine?
> > My preference is for a program that comes set up for a small business;
> > something that's native-Linux is better, but something that's worked
> > well with Wine is acceptable.
> >
> > I am NOT looking for a suggestion on the lines of "oh, use a spreadsheet
> > (data base, paper ledger, whatever)".  Accounting programs get sold for
> > a reason.  If that's your input, thanks in advance and please hold it
> > in.
> >
>
>
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