[plug] Accounting Software

[Craig Ringer]

Tim White wrote:
> I am looking for platform independent or cross platform (Linux & Windows 
> XP) accounting software It needs to be able to perform the following 
 > tasks (which I have an ugly spreadsheet currently failing to perform)
> 
>    * Manage pay slips (ingoing,) this includes all the extra debits and
>      credits for unions and other things - Primary Income
>    * Manage secondary income (minor self employed work)
>    * Manage regular payments that are based on Primary Income (i.e.
>      Center link)
>    * Manage board/rent based on Primary Income
>    * Manage virtual accounts. (i.e. my bank account is the account but
>      I want to be able to have virtual sub accounts. e.g. Savings and
>      spending, so a percentage of my income goes into my savings and I
>      can manage transacts straight from savings which will
>      automatically remove that amount from the bank account)
>    * Manage transactions. (Spending/Expenditures)
>    * Can give reports (Balance, transactions, income, expenditures ...)
> 
> If anybody knows of a good system that is OpenSource and has most of 
> these features then suggest that as well.

The only thing that comes to mind is SQL Ledger. I don't know if it'll 
do what you want though, I've never used it.

Gnumeric seems almost made to order, but fails on your requirement for 
cross-platform (it'll work on any *nix but that's about it AFAIK).

> p.p.s sorry about the HTML mail

MimeDefang is a wonderful thing :-)