On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 16:01, Trevor Lauder wrote: > I'm trying to find some open source accounting/tax software. The problem > I have is that I don't know much about the subject yet so I don't know how > to tell from the "feature lists" of the software I found if it can do what > I am looking for. :) Before I go and install every single open source > tax/accounting package known to man, I thought I would ask any of you guys > that might run your own business. > > It's nothing big, no business license, I'm not incorporated, I'll just be > registering a trademark. I charge clients a per hour rate but I need to > set some of the income aside so I make sure I have enough to pay my income > tax at the end of the year, however since the income tax rate is dependent > on what tax bracket you are in, I don't know how to go about doing that > and I'm not willing to pay an accountant (I don't make enough money to > warrant it yet :)
Try SQL-Ledger at http://www.sql-ledger.com/. It works alright for me when I get around to doing the accounting ;-). > > Does anyone know of any OSS software that can do that? My preferences > would be: > > 1) Something web-based, PHP or Perl with MySQL or PostgreSQL backend > 2) Something QT/KDE based if there isn't anything web-based out there > 3) Something GTK/Gnome based if there isn't anything QT/KDE based out there Sql-Ledger is perl/postgres/apache based, and is reasonably easy to setup. Just follow the install instructions. -- Neil Jolly (with Yoda-like voice) "Confrontation leads to anger... Anger leads to fear... Fear leads to using Windows NT in mission-critical combat systems... And this is how the ancients fell...
