Re: Home finance programs

2009-12-06 Thread John Carter
On Fri, 4 Dec 2009, Nick Rout wrote: Add money somewhere and you have to subtract it from somewhere else. No exceptions. God it even creates an account for the money in your wallet. Of course, it suffers from exactly the same loophole that all and every accounting scheme does... The deviou

Re: Home finance programs

2009-12-03 Thread Nick Rout
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 1:12 PM, John Carter wrote: > On Wed, 2 Dec 2009, Tom Munro Glass wrote: > >> I've used GnuCash for years and find it excellent. > > Took me a bit fiddling to finally grok gnucash is deadly serious about > double entry bookkeeping. > > Money is a strictly conserved quantity

Re: Home finance programs

2009-12-03 Thread John Carter
On Wed, 2 Dec 2009, Tom Munro Glass wrote: I've used GnuCash for years and find it excellent. Took me a bit fiddling to finally grok gnucash is deadly serious about double entry bookkeeping. Money is a strictly conserved quantity in Gnucash, nothing appears or disappears out of or to nowhere.

Re: Home finance programs

2009-12-02 Thread Nick Rout
Interesting to see in the changelog: bugfix: 380550 import problem with QIF from National Bank - NZ So some kiwis must be using it :) On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 1:20 AM, Solor Vox wrote: > Homebank works well for me.  Had to have something that the wife could > use, and gnucash was a bit much. It w

Re: Home finance programs

2009-12-02 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Andrew Errington wrote: > On Thu, December 3, 2009 08:27, Euan Clark wrote: >> What's the GST handling like on these? >> > > I assert that that is irrelevant.  When handling GST you should split any > transaction into net and GST portions, perhaps even GST_recd and

Re: Home finance programs

2009-12-02 Thread Andrew Errington
On Thu, December 3, 2009 08:27, Euan Clark wrote: > What's the GST handling like on these? > I assert that that is irrelevant. When handling GST you should split any transaction into net and GST portions, perhaps even GST_recd and GST_paid, then just treat the GST portion as a reportable category

Re: Home finance programs

2009-12-02 Thread Euan Clark
What's the GST handling like on these?

Re: Home finance programs

2009-12-02 Thread Solor Vox
Homebank works well for me. Had to have something that the wife could use, and gnucash was a bit much. It works with qif exports from our bank as well. http://homebank.free.fr/ It's already in most distro's as well. sV On 12/2/09, Robert Fisher wrote: > Nick Rout wrote: >> MS Money, Quicken e

Re: Home finance programs

2009-12-01 Thread Robert Fisher
Nick Rout wrote: MS Money, Quicken etc Whats the best linux alternative? I know KMyMoney and GnuCash exist, but what do people recommend/use? I have tried both Gnucash and Kmymoney and prefer the latter. -- Regards, Robert -- Robe

Re: Home finance programs

2009-12-01 Thread Philip Charles
On Wed, 02 Dec 2009, Nick Rout wrote: > On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Nick Rout wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Tom Munro Glass wrote: > >> On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:24:13 Nick Rout wrote: > >>> MS Money, Quicken etc > >>> > >>> Whats the best linux alternative? I know KMyMoney and Gnu

Re: Home finance programs

2009-12-01 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Nick Rout wrote: > On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Tom Munro Glass wrote: >> On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:24:13 Nick Rout wrote: >>> MS Money, Quicken etc >>> >>> Whats the best linux alternative? I know KMyMoney and GnuCash exist, >>> but what do people recommend/use? >

Re: Home finance programs

2009-12-01 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Tom Munro Glass wrote: > On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:24:13 Nick Rout wrote: >> MS Money, Quicken etc >> >> Whats the best linux alternative? I know KMyMoney and GnuCash exist, >> but what do people recommend/use? >> > > I've used GnuCash for years and find it excellent.

Re: Home finance programs

2009-12-01 Thread Andrew Packer
On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 16:24 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: > MS Money, Quicken etc > > Whats the best linux alternative? I know KMyMoney and GnuCash exist, > but what do people recommend/use? Moneydance. Written in Java (on a Mac, I understand), runs nicely in Linux. The same data files can be used ac

Re: Home finance programs

2009-12-01 Thread Hadley Rich
On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 16:24 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: > Whats the best linux alternative? I know KMyMoney and GnuCash exist, > but what do people recommend/use? KMyMoney the best that I've found. hads -- http://nicegear.co.nz New Zealand's Open Source Hardware Supplier

Home finance programs

2009-12-01 Thread Nick Rout
MS Money, Quicken etc Whats the best linux alternative? I know KMyMoney and GnuCash exist, but what do people recommend/use?