Re: [ubuntu-uk] What accounting software to recommend

2010-10-25 Thread pmgazz
On 22/10/10 14:23, Glen Mehn wrote: A quick search has given me some hint that it may be possible to get his sage stuff in to either of these apps so thanks again. I use GNUCash myself, but some of my clients who're used to Quickbooks or Sage swear by this: http://www.accountz.co

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What accounting software to recommend

2010-10-23 Thread Grant Sewell
On Sat, 23 Oct 2010 13:04:27 +0100 Barry Drake wrote: > On Sat, 2010-10-23 at 12:38 +0100, Steve Fisher wrote: > > I am a Management Accountant, I dislike Sage with a vengeance. I > > prefer Opera my self, but I am an xBase programmer :) > > My wife and I rand a business for years until I retire

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What accounting software to recommend

2010-10-23 Thread Alan Pope
On 22 October 2010 22:29, Rob Beard wrote: > Ahh Sage, I still wake up in a cold sweat over it, WHY anyone wants to > use it I don't know, from my experience of Sage Line 50, it came across > as the worst application ever. People say the same about SAP, but every big business uses it ;) >  It ce

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What accounting software to recommend

2010-10-23 Thread Barry Drake
On Sat, 2010-10-23 at 12:38 +0100, Steve Fisher wrote: > I am a Management Accountant, I dislike Sage with a vengeance. I > prefer Opera my self, but I am an xBase programmer :) My wife and I rand a business for years until I retired. Our accountant got us using Sage, and I thought it was dreadf

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What accounting software to recommend

2010-10-23 Thread Steve Fisher
On 23 October 2010 12:15, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: > On 22/10/2010 21:42, Yorvyk wrote: > > > > because their book-keeper had developed a pathological hatred of Sage > for some reason. > > I understand that. Sage is AWFUL! > > > They were very happy with it and when they merged with another

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What accounting software to recommend

2010-10-23 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 22/10/2010 21:42, Yorvyk wrote: > > because their book-keeper had developed a pathological hatred of Sage for > some reason. I understand that. Sage is AWFUL! > They were very happy with it and when they merged with another company they > took to it as well and dropped Sage. Admittedly th

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What accounting software to recommend

2010-10-23 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 22/10/2010 12:45, Alan Lord (News) wrote: > Sage is a "proprietary" business and has > successfully tied in most of the accountancy practices in the UK. ( > Although we are working on that ;-) ) > As a recently-retired Management/Systems Accountant who has worked in all sizes of organmisations

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What accounting software to recommend

2010-10-23 Thread Neville Crook
I have been using Moneydance for my personal finance but I know it works for small businesses. I have installed on Ubuntu and MS Vista and 7, using Dropbox to sync the files. Software was developed for the States but works very well in the UK with a very helpful development team who listen to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What accounting software to recommend

2010-10-22 Thread Will Bickerstaff
Thanks all, I'll spend the weekend looking at some of these. Put a couple on his machine and leave him with it for a few weeks and see what he thinks. Glenn, I'll definitely come back with some feedback from him once he's had time to acclimatise to whatever he settles with. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.u

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What accounting software to recommend

2010-10-22 Thread Rob Beard
On 22/10/10 21:42, Yorvyk wrote: > On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 20:32:33 +0100 > Rob Beard wrote: > >> >> I'm a bit late in posting but a while back I did see a package called >> Accountz. It's from a UK based company, I believe they do a Business >> version for about £100 and a Home version for about £40

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What accounting software to recommend

2010-10-22 Thread Yorvyk
On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 20:32:33 +0100 Rob Beard wrote: > > I'm a bit late in posting but a while back I did see a package called > Accountz. It's from a UK based company, I believe they do a Business > version for about £100 and a Home version for about £40. The thing that > caught my eye was

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What accounting software to recommend

2010-10-22 Thread Colin Law
On 22 October 2010 12:45, Alan Lord (News) wrote: > On 22/10/10 11:42, Will Bickerstaff wrote: > [...] > For single user, very small businesses try GnuCash: http://www.gnucash.org/ +1 for GnuCash for personal use, don't know about business Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubun

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What accounting software to recommend

2010-10-22 Thread Rob Beard
On 22/10/10 13:49, Will Bickerstaff wrote: >> For single user, very small businesses try GnuCash: http://www.gnucash.org/ >> >> For larger organisations I'd go with something like OpenERP: >> http://www.openerp.com/ >> >> Al > > Thanks Alan, I'll have a look at these two and find out which Sage > h

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What accounting software to recommend

2010-10-22 Thread Glen Mehn
There's not a whole lot in the linux world which equates to quickbooks or sage, unfortunately. It's a massive hole. OpenERP is a solid but massive bit of software which is likely to be overkill. I've had complaints from clients that it's really user-unfriendly (and these were accountants, mindy

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What accounting software to recommend

2010-10-22 Thread Will Bickerstaff
> For single user, very small businesses try GnuCash: http://www.gnucash.org/ > > For larger organisations I'd go with something like OpenERP: > http://www.openerp.com/ > > Al Thanks Alan, I'll have a look at these two and find out which Sage he's using, I'll probably give him both and let him dec

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What accounting software to recommend

2010-10-22 Thread Alan Lord (News)
On 22/10/10 11:42, Will Bickerstaff wrote: > > He uses sage a lot, and, not being an accounting type I was wondering > what is the most similar package to use. I know what's available in > the repo's but not their capability / compatibility with sage. Will he > be able to get his sage info into wha

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What accounting software to recommend

2010-10-22 Thread Paul Sutton
On 22/10/10 11:42, Will Bickerstaff wrote: > A colleague of mine has come to me this morning with a laptop on which > his windows install has been bricked by his AV. > > I sort of, politely explained my stance on not wanting to waste time > messing with problem windows installs any more. But I've

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What accounting software to recommend

2010-10-22 Thread K.de Jong
a simple serch pointed me here: http://www.aaxnet.com/design/linuxacct.html 2010/10/22 Will Bickerstaff > A colleague of mine has come to me this morning with a laptop on which > his windows install has been bricked by his AV. > > I sort of, politely

[ubuntu-uk] What accounting software to recommend

2010-10-22 Thread Will Bickerstaff
A colleague of mine has come to me this morning with a laptop on which his windows install has been bricked by his AV. I sort of, politely explained my stance on not wanting to waste time messing with problem windows installs any more. But I've agreed to look and get it working again for him, prov