On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 09:58 -0500, Lloyd Kvam wrote: > On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 09:06 -0400, Bruce Dawson wrote: > > Hmmm. Maybe its time to have a presentation on GNUCash? Seems there > > have been lots of changes since I last looked at it! > > > > Are there any volunteers? > > I'll attempt the conversion of my books to Gnucash and keep notes. I'll > still need to setup a Win/IE platform for payroll, but Gnucash should > handle the rest. The migration notes seem to be more focused on moving > from Quicken, but I assume I'll figure out a reasonable approach. > > I'll report back and if folks are interested I'll writeup the details.
(Better late than never) I got my accounting converted to GnuCash in early October. I settled for setting up the same chart of accounts with the proper balances. That means my books are split for this year and I'll need to build a spreadsheet to consolidate the transactions for the year or figure out how to turn my old data into an importable format (e.g. QIF). Invoices, Payments, and Payables all work very well. They are managed under a Business menu heading for Customer, Vendor, Employee. The employee (me) handling is adequate for a small business when supplemented with some kind of payroll support. The Customer and Vendor handling is good. I really like the grid layout for managing transactions. It is extremely easy to handle reconciliations and the data entry shortcuts are intuitive. The personal finance features are not getting used, but look to be pretty complete and useful. The documentation is good and did a nice job of getting me started. The menus list a number of file acronyms for import. Those are not documented, but can probably be looked up from other sources. The data can be exported into an XML file. The documentation hints that XSL Transformations should enable fairly easy conversions to other formats. Creating a spreadsheets for transactions and account balances would be pretty nice. I suppose it's time to improve my XML skills... (Actually Google found a french site with XSLT for generating Gnumeric spreadsheets.) -- Lloyd Kvam Venix Corp. 1 Court Street, Suite 378 Lebanon, NH 03766-1358 voice: 603-653-8139 fax: 320-210-3409 _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
