Re: [Fsfe-uk] FLOSS accounting package

[Jason Clifford]

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Chris Croughton wrote:

> At last year's AGM there was a guy (sorry I've forgotten his name) who
> was writing a FLOSS accounting package.  With the recent news that
> Quicken is going to be killed off, this seems like a good time to push
> such a thing and possibly to put some of the AFFS sponsorship money into
> it.

You should note that PayThyme, the software referred to at the AGM, is not 
an accounting package but rather a payroll management system.

For an accounting package you are probably looking at either SQL Ledger or 
GNUCash. The latter is probably more akin to quicken (assuming you are not 
referring to Quickbooks).

I think accounting packages are still an area where Free Software isn't so 
brilliant. Reality is that these do need a lot of localisation to reflect 
varying legislative and other requirements for each locale. I've still not 
managed to find anything that really does a good job for my needs although 
SQL Ledger is probably the closest at the moment - it would be better if 
someone contributed a good chart of accounts aimed at UK businesses.

Jason Clifford
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