[plug] Accounting Software

[Brock Woolf]

On Sat, 2004-06-19 at 18:42, 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.
> Thanks
> Tim
> p.s. Server based is ok as long as the server is Linux
> p.p.s sorry about the HTML mail

I forgive you, HTML doesn't bother me, but some others it does.

Anyways, have you tried GNUcash? I've heard it works with Quickbooks
files and MYOB maybe but its not too bad. Check it out

Regards, 
	Brock