<blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">Now, the only app she's running that requires windows is our business accounting software. We're using MYOB (precursor to Quickbooks). It seems like it may be a fortuitous time time move that over to linux as well. I may end up running wine or virtualbox to get myob running on linux - </blockquote>
<div><br>I think this is the safest way at least for a while. So, she is not jolted out of her area of comfort for everything.<br><br>First the desktop, then the app.<br> <br></div><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">
but has anyone run decent linux accounting software lately? Something comparable to quickbooks? Something that will handle a small business realistically, with lots of invoicing, bank statements, payroll, multiple currencies, and so on? Last I looked a couple of years ago everything seemed to have substantial flaws.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>Not sure if anything compares to Quickbooks.<br><br>You use KDE, so give kmymoney2 a shot. It is Qt based, and hence not Gnomish. It is in Kubuntu's repositories.<br><br>From your list it can:<br>
- Download bank statements<br>- Does multiple currencies<br></div><div><br>It does not do invoicing (we use Freshbooks for that), nor payroll (an accountant calculates it for us once a year and we do it via bank transfer).<br>
</div><br clear="all">An integrated solution would be nice, but so far I don't know of one for Linux.<br>-- <br>Khalid M. Baheyeldin<br><a href="http://2bits.com">2bits.com</a>, Inc.<br><a href="http://2bits.com">http://2bits.com</a><br>
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