[TriLUG] GnuCash

[Ken MacKenzie]

After years of working with accounting software these days whenever I have
to do small business books and family books in the end I just use Google
docs-spreadsheet.  In the end a well done spreadsheet and smart pivot
tables can accomplish a lot.  I mean granted this is not a substitute for
quickbooks, but it is also easier to sell LibreOffice Calc and google
spreadsheeets as replacements for Excel than it is to sell gnucash as a
substitute for quickbooks.

Also just googling around there is this:

http://www.appgen.com/site/mybooks_professional.htm

Not sure if that will be an easier sell the gnucash.

Ken


On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 8:49 AM, Bill Farrow <bill at arrowsreach.com> wrote:

> I used GnuCash for tracking all family expenses for a year. I think
> there would be a nice side business providing support and training,
> and perhaps selling a "GnuCash for Dummies" book.
>
> The biggest problem I had when I started using it, was the lack of a
> template or wizard to get you started. You basically had to know what
> double book account was and what accounts you should set up for
> yourself.
>
> Stemming from this was the lack of reporting templates. I could never
> work out how to get a pretty report out of it with graphs and stuff.
> Bling is important.
>
> Anyone want to give a talk to Trilug on GnuCash later this year ? We
> could follow it up with a workshop...
>
> Bill
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