Re: Farmer Question

2018-01-10 Thread jeffrey black
On 1/9/2018 5:14 PM, James Meade wrote: > I've used Quicken for years and am considering switching to gnucash > mainly because Quicken is going to a subscription pay model and I > don't want to be held hostage by it or by an operating system (I > always have in the back of my mind to swithc from

Farmer Question

2018-01-10 Thread Paddy Walker
I made a similar decision about ten years ago and migated from Quickbooks for almost identical reasons. I do my own books to trial balance where an accountant presents them for taxation. I did it for a similar reason and dispensed with Microsoft. HMRC.'s Paye Tools have a Linux version which w

Re: Farmer Question

2018-01-09 Thread R. Victor Klassen
I’ve used GnuCash for farm accounting for several years now. It is quite normal for farm expenses to get interspersed with personal. As with Quicken, you assign different categories/accounts to different lines in a purchase if some are farm/business and some are personal. With GnuCash they’re

Re: Farmer Question

2018-01-09 Thread Rachel Gibb
Hi Jim, I wanted you to know that I have been using gnucash for our farm business going on 3 years now. I love it. I started with the program on a linux machine, now I use on my windows machine. I have all our accounts set up in the one system and pull out the ones to send to the accountant

Re: Farmer Question

2018-01-09 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Jim, I’ll post answers in-line: Regards, Adrien > On Jan 9, 2018, at 5:14 PM, James Meade wrote: > > I've used Quicken for years and am considering switching to gnucash mainly > because Quicken is going to a subscription pay model and I don't want to be > held hostage by it or by an operatin

Re: Farmer Question

2018-01-09 Thread David Carlson
Jim, I am "sorry" to report that in my humble opinion GnuCash is an ideal program for your needs. The downside is that it does require some TLC to set up your books and it will probably consume more of your free time than you would like. That said, it works nicely with many bank accounts simulta

Re: Farmer Question

2018-01-09 Thread Robert Heller
At Tue, 09 Jan 2018 17:14:00 -0600 "James Meade" wrote: > > I've used Quicken for years and am considering switching to gnucash mainly > because Quicken is going to a subscription pay model and I don't want to > be held hostage by it or by an operating system (I always have in the back > o

Farmer Question

2018-01-09 Thread James Meade
I've used Quicken for years and am considering switching to gnucash mainly because Quicken is going to a subscription pay model and I don't want to be held hostage by it or by an operating system (I always have in the back of my mind to swithc from Windows to Linux). I know little of accou