On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 09:58 -0500, Lloyd Kvam wrote:
On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 09:06 -0400, Bruce Dawson wrote:
Hmmm. Maybe its time to have a presentation on GNUCash? Seems there
have been lots of changes since I last looked at it!
Are there any volunteers?
I'll attempt the conversion
virgins...@vfemail.net writes:
Ah. I thought, by ledger, you were referring to part of Gnucash.
ledger is the name of one of Gnucash's components (the part in which
the transactions are entered). It seems ledger is also a the name
of an altogether different accounting package...
Indeed.
From: Paul Lussier p.luss...@comcast.net
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:54:44 -0500
Cc: gnhlug-disc...@gnhlug.org
Bruce Dawson j...@codemeta.com writes:
OK. I'll ask the obvious next question - where did this 'ledger' command
come from?
Err, apt-get install ledger ?
Though I tend to
Bill McGonigle b...@bfccomputing.com writes:
On 02/24/2009 02:55 PM, Paul Lussier wrote:
My goal is to track the gasoline usage, not the cost of the gasoline I
use. The former doesn't vary much, whereas the latter varies
drastically.
Can you just enter gallons as dollars?
No, because I
Paul Lussier wrote:
Bill McGonigle b...@bfccomputing.com writes:
On 02/24/2009 02:55 PM, Paul Lussier wrote:
My goal is to track the gasoline usage, not the cost of the gasoline I
use. The former doesn't vary much, whereas the latter varies
drastically.
Can you just enter
Bruce Dawson j...@codemeta.com writes:
OK. I'll ask the obvious next question - where did this 'ledger' command
come from?
Err, apt-get install ledger ?
Though I tend to compile from source. It's a John Wiegley production,
so it should be available from his website, www.newartisans.com.
--
On 02/24/2009 02:55 PM, Paul Lussier wrote:
My goal is to track the gasoline usage, not the cost of the gasoline I
use. The former doesn't vary much, whereas the latter varies
drastically.
Can you just enter gallons as dollars?
-Bill
--
Bill McGonigle, Owner Work: 603.448.4440
Paul Lussier p.luss...@comcast.net writes:
virgins...@vfemail.net writes:
There's a GTK-based (gnome-based glade-based guile-based...)
accounting package called Gnucash (www.gnucash.org).
My latest current complaint with GnuCash is the lack of support for
commodities purchased outside of a
virgins...@vfemail.net writes:
There's a GTK-based (gnome-based glade-based guile-based...)
accounting package called Gnucash (www.gnucash.org).
My latest current complaint with GnuCash is the lack of support for
commodities purchased outside of a commodity exchange.
What I want to do is
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 8:39 PM, Dan Jenkins d...@rastech.com wrote:
I used to be amazed that no-one had developed a common
framework that everyone could simply incorporate in
their products.
They have; it's called ADP, Inc.. ;-)
-- Ben
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Derek Atkins wrote:
Lloyd Kvam pyt...@venix.com writes:
NOTE-- The payroll documentation says:
GnuCash does not have an integrated payroll system. While you can track
payroll expenses in GnuCash, the calculation of taxes and deductions has
to be done outside of GnuCash.
That's the
On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 08:41:25 -0500
Derek Atkins warl...@mit.edu wrote:
I can't speak to Ubuntu, but www.gnucash.org says:
GnuCash is personal and small-business financial-accounting
software,
I have used GnuCash for several years and have been pleased with it as
a means of budgeting and
Lloyd Kvam lk...@venix.com writes:
Also the package description blurbs focus on Quicken and QIF support so
it's not obvious that Gnucash is meant for general business use.
The Ubuntu package info says:
A personal finance tracking program
This is not meant to justify my ignorance,
Hmmm. Maybe its time to have a presentation on GNUCash? Seems there have
been lots of changes since I last looked at it!
Are there any volunteers?
--Bruce
virgins...@vfemail.net wrote:
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 19:49:38 -0400
From: Bruce Dawson j...@codemeta.com
CC:
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 09:06:03 -0400
From: Bruce Dawson j...@codemeta.com
Hmmm. Maybe its time to have a presentation on GNUCash? Seems there have
been lots of changes since I last looked at it!
I seem to remember Rob Anderson doing a presentation on Gnucash at one
of the SLUG meetings a
On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 17:31 -0500, Lloyd Kvam wrote:
On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 21:42 +, virgins...@vfemail.net wrote:
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 08:45:25 -0500
From: Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org
GNUCash is not really an accounting system. Others have listed several.=20
Oh, really?!
On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 09:06 -0400, Bruce Dawson wrote:
Hmmm. Maybe its time to have a presentation on GNUCash? Seems there
have
been lots of changes since I last looked at it!
Are there any volunteers?
I'll attempt the conversion of my books to Gnucash and keep notes. I'll
still need to
Hi,
Lloyd Kvam pyt...@venix.com writes:
I've been using accounting software on my old winNT computer, which is
just about dead. I was able to close out the year by moving the
software to my Linux laptop and using crossover office. However, there
are too many glitches to stick with this for
virgins...@vfemail.net writes:
That is, except for the crashes. For reasons only my CPU may ever
know, Gnucash decided to crash every ten or so transactions I entered
into it. My workaround was to save early and often, but it eventually
got to be so annoying that I stopped using Gnucash all
Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org writes:
GNUCash is not really an accounting system. Others have listed
Why do you say this? What makes something an accounting system?
-derek
--
Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board
virgins...@vfemail.net writes:
When I used Gnucash, I made most of my entries with the ledger in
general journal mode. It wasn't immediately obvious how to do it, but
there were ways to make it look like/behave real books. Much of the
code that I contributed (the PL report among it) was
Lloyd Kvam pyt...@venix.com writes:
NOTE-- The payroll documentation says:
GnuCash does not have an integrated payroll system. While you can track
payroll expenses in GnuCash, the calculation of taxes and deductions has
to be done outside of GnuCash.
That's the last piece a small business
Lloyd Kvam wrote:
On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 09:06 -0400, Bruce Dawson wrote:
Hmmm. Maybe its time to have a presentation on GNUCash? Seems there
have
been lots of changes since I last looked at it!
Are there any volunteers?
I'll attempt the conversion of my books to Gnucash and keep
On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 08:18 -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote:
In summary this is what I would do:
1. If you find a native accounting package that suits your needs, then
use it
GnuCash does not appear to be adequate for business use. I will check
further.
2. If you can run your accounting package
On 02/16/2009 08:04 AM, Lloyd Kvam wrote:
On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 08:18 -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote:
. Use a workstation VMM (like VMWare Workstation, Virtualbox,
KVM/QEMU, Xen). Most can run Windows NT or Windows Vista. And
remember, performance is very much a factor of memory.
On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 08:45 -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote:
But, one option is to try to run your legacy system under WINE or
Crossover Office. Moving from one accounting package to another is
always a pain.
I managed to close out the year using Crossover Office, but there were
too many glitches
On 02/16/2009 09:12 AM, Lloyd Kvam wrote:
On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 08:45 -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote:
But, one option is to try to run your legacy system under WINE or
Crossover Office. Moving from one accounting package to another is
always a pain.
I managed to close out the year using
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 08:45:25 -0500
From: Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org
GNUCash is not really an accounting system. Others have listed several.=20
Oh, really?! Now that you mention it, you're right. It's funy how
I've contributed code to Gnucash and never noticed that it wasn't an
accounting
On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 21:42 +, virgins...@vfemail.net wrote:
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 08:45:25 -0500
From: Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org
GNUCash is not really an accounting system. Others have listed several.=20
Oh, really?! Now that you mention it, you're right. It's funy how
I've
virgins...@vfemail.net wrote:
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 08:45:25 -0500
From: Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org
GNUCash is not really an accounting system. Others have listed several.=20
Oh, really?! Now that you mention it, you're right. It's funy how
I've contributed code to
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 19:49:38 -0400
From: Bruce Dawson j...@codemeta.com
CC: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org
How is Gnucash not an accounting system?
GNUCash is/was more of a bookkeeping system than an accounting system.
Accounting systems usually have something akin to a
On 02/13/2009 06:29 PM, Lloyd Kvam wrote:
I could not find any adequate business accounting packages for Linux.
I'm going to be trying out Postbooks once I get my current set of
billing out (currently on LedgerSMB, a fork of SQLLedger).
-Bill
--
Bill McGonigle, Owner Work:
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Bill McGonigle b...@bfccomputing.com wrote:
On 02/13/2009 06:29 PM, Lloyd Kvam wrote:
I could not find any adequate business accounting packages for Linux.
I'm going to be trying out Postbooks once I get my current set of
billing out (currently on LedgerSMB, a
I've been using accounting software on my old winNT computer, which is
just about dead. I was able to close out the year by moving the
software to my Linux laptop and using crossover office. However, there
are too many glitches to stick with this for the long term.
I could not find any adequate
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Lloyd Kvam pyt...@venix.com wrote:
I could not find any adequate business accounting packages for Linux.
In the past, I examined Quasar Accounting from Linux Canada
http://www.linuxcanada.com/. The core is GPL. True client/server.
Runs on Linux and Windows.
Lloyd Kvam wrote:
I could not find any adequate business accounting packages for Linux.
It's been a couple of years since I evaluated them, but here's a few
packages I checked out back then which looked reasonable.
Without knowing what depth purpose of accounting software you need, it
is
From: Lloyd Kvam pyt...@venix.com
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:29:27 -0500
I could not find any adequate business accounting packages for Linux.
IIRC, this has been discussed previously on this list. Have you tried
searching the list archives?
I haven't. And I don't remember if I've babbled
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 8:13 PM, virgins...@vfemail.net wrote:
From: Lloyd Kvam pyt...@venix.com
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:29:27 -0500
I could not find any adequate business accounting packages for Linux.
There's a GTK-based (gnome-based glade-based guile-based...)
accounting package
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