Richard Smedley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 09:47 +0000, MJ Ray wrote: > > Are there free software accounting packages which can handle > > restricted funds well? > > Before the MOST project had the plug pulled, we commissioned [...] > I am in Birmingham next week, and will try and track down > the developer for more info.
Any luck? Max Hertzberg of Seeds for Change (a non-profit training co-op, www.seedsforchange.org.uk) sent me this summary: > Gnucash has advanced considerably recently, and now has the features you'd > expect such as double entry bookkeeping, regular transactions and the ability > to have several 'accounts', even sub-accounts within accounts. This could > work well where you need to ring-fence restricted funds and show them > seperately in a financial report/accounts since each 'account' can be shown > seperately on the report/accounts sheet. > > Kmymoney http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/ - running under KDE - has come > from > virtually nowhere and also has an impressive list of features. In this > software you can have categories within accounts - so that not just reserved > funds, but all the budget posts can be listed easily. This seems a much more > intuitive way of dealing with reserved funds. > > SQL ledger http://www.sql-ledger.org is interesting because it runs from any > SQL database with a web front end, so isnt'd tied to any particular machine > or operating system. It's not too advanced, but again you could have reserved > funds in a seperate account. Also, Software in the Public Interest (SPI, http://www.spi-inc.org/ ) is supporting development of LedgerNPO, which is based on LedgerSMB, which is based on SQL ledger. It's not ready yet, but one to watch. Regards, -- MJ Ray - see/vidu http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Somerset, England. Work/Laborejo: http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ IRC/Jabber/SIP: on request/peteble. _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
