On Tuesday 02 September 2003 12:17 pm, Gonzalo Servat wrote: > On 2/09/2003 9:53 AM +0800, Adam Hewitt wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > After cracking the shits that my mother-in-law is forever telling her > > friends that I work with computers and ending up coming home every night > > to fix someone elses computer problems, I have decided to get myself and > > ABN and start charging for the privilege (and as I found out 4 weeks ago > > that I am having my first baby the money will come in very handy too). > > Congratulations! :) > > > Now I guess most of this will only come in useful when/if I get Debian > > running fully under my ibook, but is anyone running their business > > finances under linux? I am not registered for GST as this will only be a > > part time thing, but is there any GST software under linux? > > Not me. I use Quickbooks on Windows. It would make my day if there was > something for Linux that does what Quickbooks can do (in its user friendly > manner, preferably) but afaik there is none. You could run Quickbooks under > WINE, I guess. > > > I would be very interested in finding out how/if people are doing this, > > to what extent it works for them, any problems or advise about using > > this software under linux and what software they are using? > > There was a mention of SQL Ledger. I had a good look at the online demo and > unfortunately it doesn't seem to suit my needs. There are some key features > that I need for billing my clients (such as recurring billing, reminders of > overdue invoices, etc) which are not in said program. > > I'm no Quickbooks fan, but of all the accounting software out there > Quickbooks is the most affordable (imho) and has the bare essential > features needed to bill clients and produce the right information for the > tax return && BAS. > > HTH. > > Regards, > Gonzalo
All this & more in Gnucash! (reputedly better than Q....books!) regards Doug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug