[ale] software for service industry

[Paul Cartwright]

On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:48:43 -0400
Paul Cartwright <paul at pcartwright.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:26:21 -0400
> "James Sumners" <james.sumners at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Ugh! My father did everything by hand, too. But that means he didn't
> > do _anything_. So I'm paying the price for that one.
> > 
> > I use Gnucash[1] to keep track of the accounting. I don't have to
> > issue any receipts or anything, so I don't know if it can do that,
> > or what package to suggest. The big thing about Gnucash is that you
> > have to have a least a basic understanding of accounting. If you
> > don't, things like transaction splits will be very confusing. But
> > it is a wonderful accounting package.
> > 
> > [1] -- http://www.gnucash.org/
> > 
>  
 I might even look at it myself.. I currently use Quickbooks  on my
 ( cough) dual-boot laptop..
 with my up-to-date Debian Lenny system, I just tried aptitued install
 gnucash, and it told me I needed 31 packages!!!
 The following NEW packages will be installed:
   aqbanking-tools{a} gnucash gnucash-common{a} gnucash-docs{a}
 guile-1.6{a} guile-1.6-libs{a} guile-1.6-slib{a} libaqbanking-data{a} 
   libaqbanking-plugins-libgwenhywfar47{a} libaqbanking20{a} 
   libaqbanking20-plugins{a} libaqbanking20-plugins-qt{a}
 libaqhbci13{a} libaqofxconnect4{a} libchipcard-ctapi0{a}
 libchipcard-data{a} libchipcard-libgwenhywfar47-plugins{a}
 libchipcard-tools{a} libchipcardc2{a} libchipcardd0{a}
 libfinance-quote-perl{a} libgoffice-0-4{a} libgoffice-0-common{a}
 libgsf-gnome-1-114{a} libguile-ltdl-1{a} libgwenhywfar47{a}
 libhtml-tableextract-perl{a} libktoblzcheck1c2a{a} libqbanking5{a}
 libqthreads-12{a} slib{a} 0 packages upgraded, 31 newly installed, 0
 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
 
-- 
Paul Cartwright