[Hidden-tech] QuickBooks help needed

[Matt Lampiasi]

Mark,
Sounds cool, unfortunately for me, (and you know I'm an open source 
zealot) QB is one of those killer apps that keeps me windows based. QB's 
can do pretty good exporting if you (ka-ching) upgrade to the (ka-ching) 
higher level versions with more (ka-ching) features. I'm no expert at it 
by any means (accountant gets a lot of emails), but in fact, the reason 
I chose it was because of the interoperability factor: every account in 
the world has quickbooks. They need to get a linux version out !! With 
the same company file so you can access the same data from windows and 
linux, like thunderbird, etc.. the cats meow. Open source some of the 
interface or even the data structure of the company file.. whoa nelly. 
That probably doesn't have much ka-ching appeal to them. I wonder what 
we'll see though.. lot's of market pressure!


Mark Bucciarelli wrote:
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> On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 12:30:57PM -0500, Christian Lagier wrote:
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>> Can any of you help me with a QuickBooks challenge, or, do you
>> know somebody else that might fit the bill?
>>
>> I'm looking for somebody that can help me set up QuickBooks Pro
>> for accrual accounting and project costing. The latter includes
>> finding a way of reflecting timesheets in QuickBooks. This is
>> for a contractor business, so any such experience would be a
>> plus.
>>
>> If you have experience using QuickBooks for project costing, or
>> know somebody that does, I'd appreciate hearing from you.
>>     
>
> Are wed to QuickBooks?
>
> I can help do what you want with Sql-Ledger [1].  I've been using
> it for all my accounting for years.
>
> Sql-Ledger let's you:
>
>     - assign invoice line items to a projects
>
>     - assign purchase order line items to a project
>
>     - associate labor (time cards) to projects
>
>     - generate sales orders from time cards
>
>     - generate invoices from sales orders
>
>     - run income statement by project
>
>     - run consolidated income statement across all projects
>
> Probably more than you need, but giving you a flavor of the level
> of functionality.
>
> Sql-Ledger uses a SQL database to store your records which is
> another advantage because you will always be able to export your
> financial data.  From what I understand, QuickBooks makes it
> difficult to export your transaction data.
>
> m
>
> [1] http://www.sql-ledger.org.
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