David P James wrote:
On Sun 8 August 2004 03:24, William Ballard wrote:On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 12:08:29AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote:Debian packages: SQL-ledger and KMyMoney2. Anyone have experience or comments on the these packages as replacements for GnuCash?GnuCash is the best of the lot, but that isn't saying very much.I don't find GnuCash terribly usable for personal finances. The double-entry bookeeping that GnuCash uses doesn't work very well with personal finances. In the main window you end up with expense and income accounts piling up in a rather meaningless way. I took a few business accounting courses in university and I really don't think that double entry is appropriate for personal finance since categories of expense/consumption become accounts with cash flowing in, which makes absolutely no sense in the context of personal finance. GnuCash may well be useful for businesses (
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