[lug] Financial SW & email lists?

[Dhruva B. Reddy]

I use gnucash to manage my company's books and, well, it's not ideal.  I
could really use the hand-holding offered by QuickBooks (the extent of my
accounting experience is this class that I took in high school).  I often
find myself wishing that Intuit had not abandoned non-Windows platforms.
Also, IIRC it doesn't do invoicing very well (or at all).

It works nicely for home finances, though.  Between the reporting it
does and the way I have it set up, I can tell at a glance how much I
spend on junk food, how much I owe my parents :-(, etc.

I was impressed with the way it imports QIF files.  It does a pretty
good job of guessing which accounts are affected by each transaction.

-d

On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 at 16:18 -0600, Dan Ferris soliloquized thusly:
> gnucash, it is a gtk based linux version of Quicken.
> 
> Last time I looked (about 2 years ago) it had enough features to allow 
> you to manage your checkbook, mortgage, savings, and basic investments 
> without a lot of trouble.
> 
> http://www.gnucash.org/
> 
> David Morris wrote:
> >One On-topic and one off-topic question:
> >
> >Anyone have any software they can recommend for various
> >areas of finance?  Linux-based, of course. ;)
> >
> >I'm looking for software on any specific area, just to find
> >out generally what people can recommend (such as in
> >financial calculators, accounting packages, budgeting,
> >planning, investment tracking, etc.)
> >
> >On a slightly off-topic but related to the above, anyone
> >know of any good email discussion lists (or news groups,
> >etc.) on the topic of investing?
> >
> >--David
> >
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