On Sun, 9 May 2004, Hugh Madden wrote:
> Hi all, > I realise this thread was done to death a few years back. > > Anyway, perhaps the situation has improved. > > I resent having to purchase myob or quicken and vmware simply to keep > track of my finances. > > I'm wondering how to go about: > BAS/STS/depreciating assets > > GNU Cash looks pretty awful in respect to GST. I've been using SQL-Ledger now for two years (two tax returns). It does the basic double entry accounting perfectly. It's a very active open source project with new releases coming all the time. It does GST very well - albeit with some problems relating to single invoices with mixed taxable/non-taxable items. I get around that without too much hassle, and in any case it's not all that common a situation. It doesn't do depreciation. That's something your accountant does (or yourself if you are smart enough). I highly recommend it. It's not perfect, but it's very good, bug-free and improving constantly. It's better than MYOB (which i used previously) and even if you pay for the support it's cheaper. It's written in Perl/Postgres. I believe you can even run it on Windows, so you can keep you vmware going if you wish ;-) > > Is there any good open office spreadsheets floating around, or have any > of the open source projects started to support australia tax? > > There must be a couple of hundred thousand home rolled systems around > australia, why aren't any of them open source and shared? > > cheers, > Hugh > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
