Re: [SLUG] revisiting a hot topic (accounting systems)

[Howard Lowndes <lannet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 01:50, Dave wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I use sql-ledger as well. http://www.sql-ledger.com/
> 
> It does GST and PST for Canada eh! But probably can be used for
> Australian GST without too much trouble.
> 
> It should be able to apply on the same invoice taxable and non-taxable
> items/services. Each part or service you setup you can specify if it is
> taxable.

I'm getting ready to move over to sql-ledger at the end of the finyear,
but there are a couple of small issues that I have taken up with the
author, esp in the development thread, which is what I am looking to
use.

> 
> -- 
> Dave Peters
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, May 09, 2004 at 05:06:52PM +1000, David wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On Sun, 9 May 2004, Hugh Madden wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi all,
> > > I realise this thread was done to death a few years back.
> > >
> > > Anyway, perhaps the situation has improved.
> > >
> > > I resent having to purchase myob or quicken and vmware simply to keep
> > > track of my finances.
> > >
> > > I'm wondering how to go about:
> > > BAS/STS/depreciating assets
> > >
> > > GNU Cash looks pretty awful in respect to GST.
> > 
> > I've been using SQL-Ledger now for two years (two tax returns). It does
> > the basic double entry accounting perfectly. It's a very active open
> > source project with new releases coming all the time.
> > 
> > It does GST very well - albeit with some problems relating to single
> > invoices with mixed taxable/non-taxable items. I get around that without
> > too much hassle, and in any case it's not all that common a situation.
> > 
> > It doesn't do depreciation. That's something your accountant does (or
> > yourself if you are smart enough).
> > 
> > I highly recommend it. It's not perfect, but it's very good, bug-free and
> > improving constantly. It's better than MYOB (which i used previously) and
> > even if you pay for the support it's cheaper. It's written in
> > Perl/Postgres. I believe you can even run it on Windows, so you can keep
> > you vmware going if you wish ;-)
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > >
> > > Is there any good open office spreadsheets floating around, or have any
> > > of the open source projects started to support australia tax?
> > >
> > > There must be a couple of hundred thousand home rolled systems around
> > > australia, why aren't any of them open source and shared?
> > >
> > > cheers,
> > > Hugh
> > >
> > >
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