I've been using Quicken since the late 80's or early 90's. It does everything I need to do including getting prices for Canadian mutual funds.
I'd like to use Linux (currently RH Valhalla 7.3) for my personal accounting. I'm not in a heated rush to switch to Linux but if there is a rock-solid app that I can use I'd be willing to run dual finance apps until I am confident with the Linux app. I am even willing to use a web app for finances if there is such a (solid and reliable) thing.
Any comments, suggestions or personal experience would be appreciated.
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On Sat, 18 May 2002 17:42:04 -0700 (PDT) Mel Seder melseder@yahoo.com wrote:
I've been using Quicken since the late 80's or early 90's. It does everything I need to do including getting prices for Canadian mutual funds.
Any comments, suggestions or personal experience would be appreciated.
Quite a few people like gnuCash, it is somewhat Quicken-like. There is also a commercial application from The Kompany that is supposed to be quite good as well - I can't remember the name but you will find it at http://www.thekompany.com.
Dan
On May 18, 2002 07:42 pm, Mel Seder wrote:
I've been using Quicken since the late 80's or early 90's. It does everything I need to do including getting prices for Canadian mutual funds.
I've used GnuCash (http://www.gnucash.org) for household finances for a few years. I'm using the most recent stable version, 1.6.6, compiled for Red Hat 7.2 from the source RPM. It's based on double-entry bookkeeping principles, so terminology and operation may be more strict than you are used to from Quicken. You set up accounts, and every transaction moves money from source accounts to destination accounts: "salary" to "bank", "bank" to "MUUG fees"... As a chequebook balancer, it's overkill. You can set up accounts for stocks and mutual funds. GnuCash can retrieve prices for stocks, through an interface to Perl's Finance::Quote module, but the interface is inflexible. I tried to retrieve Canadian mutual fund prices, and failed. Currency conversion is awkward in the stable version: every conversion has to move through a currency conversion account. I've avoided it so far. The only import format supported is QIF, which is hit-or-miss because of the incredible inventiveness that financial institutions have shown when generating screwed-up QIF. The first import will probably set things up so that the second import will go smoothly. The unstable 1.7.x series features support for storing data in Postgres databases, in addition to the current XML format.
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