[Hidden-tech] QuickBooks help needed

[Robert Heller]

At Fri, 10 Nov 2006 14:49:11 -0500 mattl at florenceit.net wrote:

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> 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!

Not going to happen -- Intuit is only going to produce their software
for MS-Windows and will continue to charge you an yearly (more or less)
fee to use their software (Intuit has no choise -- it is the only way
they can fund their business).  QuickBooks will *only* be interoperable
under MS-Windows and nowhere else, ever.

I believe GnuCash will do everything you need to do and I believe
QuickBooks can be told to export to QIF, which GnuCash can import (and
export).  With the release of 2.0.x of GnuCash, it becomes possible to
port to MS-Windows, meaning *GnuCash* WILL relize your dream of
universal interoperability (GnuCash already runs under Linux and
MacOSX). 

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> Mark Bucciarelli wrote:
> >    ** Be a Good Dobee and help the group, you must be counted to post .
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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:
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> >     - assign invoice line items to a projects
> >
> >     - assign purchase order line items to a project
> >
> >     - associate labor (time cards) to projects
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> >     - 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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