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Quickbooks equivalent?
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riptides
Super Member
I am a fan of the Microsoft bloatware called Excel.
Using pivot tables, it allows you to do charts, reports, etc. etc.
Using a simple formula you can create a wonderful debit/ credit spreadsheet.
Do you have that available?
-Mike Z. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Using pivot tables, it allows you to do charts, reports, etc. etc.
Using a simple formula you can create a wonderful debit/ credit spreadsheet.
Do you have that available?
-Mike Z. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
When it comes to MS Windows software, free software USUALLY means one of the following 2 things: either it is horribly bad, or it is filled with spyware/adware tag along programs.
With that in mind, here is a free financials package that I am aware of: Ace Money Lite
I do not know which of the 2 categories above that one will fall in. Let me know. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
If you are adventurous there is a VERY VERY good freeware/opensource money management package called GNUCash. It has to either be run on Linux, or on Windows with the help of the CygWin environment (kinda sorta a linux emulated environment for windows).
You wouldn't be saving any money this way, but you could also run GNUCash on Linux from a VMWare emulation session.
Hope I didn't confuse the issue even more.
With that in mind, here is a free financials package that I am aware of: Ace Money Lite
I do not know which of the 2 categories above that one will fall in. Let me know. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
If you are adventurous there is a VERY VERY good freeware/opensource money management package called GNUCash. It has to either be run on Linux, or on Windows with the help of the CygWin environment (kinda sorta a linux emulated environment for windows).
You wouldn't be saving any money this way, but you could also run GNUCash on Linux from a VMWare emulation session.
Hope I didn't confuse the issue even more.
</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I am a fan of the Microsoft bloatware called Excel.
Using pivot tables, it allows you to do charts, reports, etc. etc.
Using a simple formula you can create a wonderful debit/ credit spreadsheet.
Do you have that available?
-Mike Z. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif )</font>
Thanks, I don't see excel on here anywhere.
Using pivot tables, it allows you to do charts, reports, etc. etc.
Using a simple formula you can create a wonderful debit/ credit spreadsheet.
Do you have that available?
-Mike Z. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif )</font>
Thanks, I don't see excel on here anywhere.
</font><font color="blue" class="small">( When it comes to MS Windows software, free software USUALLY means one of the following 2 things: either it is horribly bad, or it is filled with spyware/adware tag along programs.
With that in mind, here is a free financials package that I am aware of: Ace Money Lite
I do not know which of the 2 categories above that one will fall in. Let me know. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
If you are adventurous there is a VERY VERY good freeware/opensource money management package called GNUCash. It has to either be run on Linux, or on Windows with the help of the CygWin environment (kinda sorta a linux emulated environment for windows).
You wouldn't be saving any money this way, but you could also run GNUCash on Linux from a VMWare emulation session.
Hope I didn't confuse the issue even more. )</font>
Thanks, i downloaded the program and will see if it does what i want it to do.
With that in mind, here is a free financials package that I am aware of: Ace Money Lite
I do not know which of the 2 categories above that one will fall in. Let me know. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
If you are adventurous there is a VERY VERY good freeware/opensource money management package called GNUCash. It has to either be run on Linux, or on Windows with the help of the CygWin environment (kinda sorta a linux emulated environment for windows).
You wouldn't be saving any money this way, but you could also run GNUCash on Linux from a VMWare emulation session.
Hope I didn't confuse the issue even more. )</font>
Thanks, i downloaded the program and will see if it does what i want it to do.
Wingnut
Veteran Member
you'd know if you paid for it ... Microsoft prices it's products as though they're actually useful. Of course, since I bought Quickbook 10 years ago, Intuit certainly has decided it's a cash cow!!
I've never found a "free" or "shareware" product that's really good at business expenses ... after all, that's a niche market that has to be done right or the IRS sends burly guys to knock on your door.
Quickbooks is #1, while Great Plains and Peachtree are the "big dogs".
An alternative to MS-Excel, which is a LOT cheaper but has at least as much functionality is Corel's Office - Quattro Pro. I've been using it (as well as Excel) for over 15 years. Botrh are very easy to learn and build all sorts of macros to simply repetitive tasks ... as well as fairly decent analysis. In addition, the "page" layout makes it simple to keep track of income and "outgo" separately, yet use together for net worth calculations and tax calculations. There's also a huge resource out on the 'Net ... folks who are happy to help with macros, functions and others th9ings you need to make spreadsheets "useful"
hope that wasn't overkill and headspinning ... /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif
I've never found a "free" or "shareware" product that's really good at business expenses ... after all, that's a niche market that has to be done right or the IRS sends burly guys to knock on your door.
Quickbooks is #1, while Great Plains and Peachtree are the "big dogs".
An alternative to MS-Excel, which is a LOT cheaper but has at least as much functionality is Corel's Office - Quattro Pro. I've been using it (as well as Excel) for over 15 years. Botrh are very easy to learn and build all sorts of macros to simply repetitive tasks ... as well as fairly decent analysis. In addition, the "page" layout makes it simple to keep track of income and "outgo" separately, yet use together for net worth calculations and tax calculations. There's also a huge resource out on the 'Net ... folks who are happy to help with macros, functions and others th9ings you need to make spreadsheets "useful"
hope that wasn't overkill and headspinning ... /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif
Alan L.
Elite Member
Excel is a wonderful program, but quite possibly the most horrible tool devised for accounting. Thats OK, it was never designed to be a general ledger. Don't waste time. Get QB, or better still Peachtree. Why worry about $300 or less when it comes to doing the job right, and with the least amount of time and headaches.
There are other decent low end accounting packages too, all of which would be are far sight better than trying to make Excel do the accounting.
There are other decent low end accounting packages too, all of which would be are far sight better than trying to make Excel do the accounting.
chili
Bronze Member
The problem that I have found with Quickbooks is that you have to go to classes that various people give to learn how to use it. Their commercials make it sound so easy when in fact
it is not. Quickbooks may be to much to keep up with something simple.
it is not. Quickbooks may be to much to keep up with something simple.