I was looking for the same thing around this time last year. I wasn't
keen on gnome stuff but GNUCash wound up being the winner, Quasar lost
because of incredible budgetary constraints. I only had to do one year
worth of crunching and 5 year-ends with it (in 15 days) and found it to
be much better than my other option (paper). This is only because I
could take it everywhere with me and it's free.
Here's a few tips too:
-keep eye drops close (they'll get dry)
-keep coffee closer (even if you don't drink it, you'll want it)
-start before your deadline (I didn't have this luxury as I was hired 5
years after the first deadline).
Good luck and I hope you never have to do it again.
Katrina
On Jun 4, 2005, at 01.01, Shawn wrote:
I'm looking for some tips on tools and methods for doing the
accounting/book-keeping for my business.
I've looked at GNUCash, and it seems to be rather complete, and more
or less
bug free. However it requires dome Gnome libraries, and I'm trying to
avoid
this if possible (though I have no objections to installing the gnome
packages if I must).
I've looked at a couple of other packages but haven't found one yet
that has
the polish of GNUCash. SQL-Ledger looks promising in terms of
functionality
though.
TUX Magazine 3 has an article on Quasar from LinuxCanada (a Calgary
company).
http://www.linuxcanada.com/download2.shtml
I'm toying with the idea of trying this out, but they don't seem to
have a
Gentoo ebuild (yet). So I guess I'll have to compile from source...
Anyone
have any experiences with this package?
Other than trying to find a decent accounting package, I'll have to
admit my
lack of knowledge with regards to accounting. Any suggestions on how
best to
set up my accounts and do the data entry?
I'm prompted to this by some troubles I've been having in contacting
the
bookkeeper I thought I had hired... So I may as well bite the bullet
and do
this myself.
Thank you for any tips/suggestions.
Shawn
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