[lug] Financial SW & email lists?

[Bill Thoen]

I just heard of SQL-Ledger (http://www.sql-ledger.com/) which looks much 
better than gnucasah for business.

On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, Dhruva B. Reddy wrote:

> 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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